659: Lose the Ear Lottery

• Pre-show: Eh, that’ll keep…

• M5 iPad Pro (macrumors.com/2025/09/30/ipad-pro-with-m5-chip…)

• FCC leaks (tomsguide.com/computing/vr-ar/massive-apple-le…)

• 🗣️ St. Jude (stjude.org/atp) time is almost done! 🗣️

• Supporting Action for Emergency Response (global.stjude.org/en-us/featured/safer-ukraine….)

• Lebanon case study (sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S147…)

• Global crisis repsonse blueprint (global.stjude.org/en-us/featured/safer-ukraine…)

• 🗣️ New ATP Member (atp.fm/join)’s Special: ATP Dev: Computer Science Curriculum (atp.fm/atp-dev-computer-science-curriculum)

• Follow-up:

• ATP in the wild (via Mark Christian & Richard Earney (toot.community/@methodphoto/115247421044837829))

• iOS 26.0.1 allegedly fixes N1 Wi-Fi/BT issues

• CarlinKit wireless CarPlay dongle (amzn.to/42kealD)

• What does iCloud back up? (support.apple.com/en-us/108770) (via Dayton Lovell)

• iCloud for Messages (support.apple.com/guide/icloud/set-up-messages…)

• A ringing endorsement from Nick

• A potential fix for ∞ GIFs (via Nathan (mastodon.social/@nathanbenzie/115269654018139068))

• iPhone Transfers

• Why not pre-populate them, Kindle-style? (via Winnie Lewis)

• TestFlight is… better now? (via Daniel Nelson)

• Some thoughts from Nick

• Apple’s onboarding enshittification (via Imthaz (mastodon.social/@imthaz/115292915906658497))

• Thought to text & AlterEgo (alterego.io)

• Firefox (1982) (callsheetapp.com/movie/10724)

• Prior MIT project (media.mit.edu/projects/alterego/overview) (via Hannes (mastodon.social/@hannesmnagel/115218162990305448))

• CJ’s thoughts

• Preview video (youtube.com/watch?v=13A5q1RF3k0)

• EMG (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromyography)

• EEG (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroencephalography)

• More first impressions

• TechWoven cases (apple.com/shop/product/MGF34LL/A/iphone-17-pro…)

• Tina’s Bullstrap case (bullstrap.co/products/magsafe-iphone-cases-sou…)

• Bullstrap wallet (bullstrap.co/products/leather-navsafe-wallet-s…)

• Stephen Robles leather iPhone case review (youtube.com/watch?v=QLDrhLQfjLo)

• Nomad Magnetic leather back (nomadgoods.com/products/magnetic-leather-back-…)

• Marco’s video of the flaw (mastodon.social/@marcoarment/115272137396702315)

• iPhone 17 (apple.com/iphone-17)

• AirPods Pro 3 (apple.com/airpods-pro)

• Erin’s Audio Corner (youtube.com/channel/UCW_IqM21u0J-zsKtCq4Gj2w)

• The Headphone Show (youtube.com/watch?v=j-d0H_5lAfQ)

• The Harman Curve (avgadgets.com/should-you-eq-to-the-harman-targ…)

• Ask ATP:

• How do we really know if something is encrypted? (via Joshua Wold)

• What is the point of neural engine cores, anyway? (via Tom Cole (mastodon.london/@Thcole/115063548963573831))

• SIMD (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_instruction,_mult…)

• Evaluating the Apple Silicon M-Series SoCs for HPC Performance & Efficiency (arxiv.org/html/2502.05317v1)

• AMX (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Matrix_Extensions) Units

• Neural Engine

• Does filling a phone SSD slaughter performance? (via Sean Harding (mastodon.social/@sharding/115185977994772745))

• Post-show: Marco’s USB odyssey

• CalDigit Thunderbolt Element 4 (caldigit.com/thunderbolt-4-element-hub)

• BLE caberQu (caberqu.com/home/39-54-ble-caberqu-06118163274…)

• Members-only (atp.fm/join) ATP Overtime: NAS Noodling

• Synology [sorta] says third-party drives will be supported in the future (mariushosting.com/synology-third-party-hard-dr…)

• Synology Solution Day 2025 teaser video (youtube.com/watch?v=p0trQ5Sx0oY)

• Ubiquiti’s new NAS units

• UNAS 2 (store.ui.com/us/en/products/unas-2)

• UNAS 4 (store.ui.com/us/en/products/unas-4)

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