676: A Sternly Worded Instruction

• Pre-show: Snowpocalypse update

• Follow-up:

• atp.fm passkey update

• Google Private AI Compute (blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/google-…)

• Apple 🤝🏻 Google Cloud

• Removing copy/paste crud (via mastodon.social/@rauli/115950114124397803)

• Screen on RAM (v-color.net/blogs/news/gigabyte-and-v-color-co…)

• ASUS improves color accuracy for Mac users (cined.com/asus-expands-macos-integration-on-pr…) (via Oliver Thomas (mastodon.social/@oliversthomas/115943275265835…))

• Modular headphones

• AIAIAI (aiaiai.audio/about) (via Graham Dobie (mastodon.social/@ggdobie/115945429261369404))

• Tyler H’s review (mastodon.social/@Tylerh/115945749288034503) of the Fender Mix (fenderaudio.com/products/mix) and Fairphone Fairbuds (howtogeek.com/fairphone-fairbuds-review)

• Window management in macOS (via Ben (social.treehouse.systems/@ben/115874878987426281))

• github.com/wojciech-kulik/FlashSpace

• AltTab (alt-tab-macos.netlify.app)

• New AirTags (apple.com/newsroom/2026/01/apple-introduces-ne…)

• The chime has changed from F → G (9to5mac.com/2026/01/28/a-brief-note-about-one-…)

• Apple hosting LA event (macrumors.com/2026/01/23/apple-invites-creator…)

• Invite image (instagram.com/p/DTNCKGSjMQ9)

• Jason’s Creator Studio review (sixcolors.com/post/2026/01/hands-on-with-apple…)

• TCL has bought Sony’s TV business (theverge.com/news/864263/sony-tcl-tv-business-…)

• TCL Super Quantum Dot (youtube.com/watch?v=W7hrp7yu4rc)

• TCL X11L (us.tcl.com/products/tcl-x11l-85)

• John Ternus takes over design at Apple (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-22/apple-h…)

• Sebastiaan de With → Apple (bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jlhwy6ypsnydk3v7tigq5…)

• Who makes design decisions at Apple, anyway? (bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-25/insi…)

• Post-show:

• We stand with Minnesotans.

• Apple employee reaction to Tim Cook (theintercept.com/2026/01/27/apple-tim-cook-tru…)

• Tim’s internal memo (theverge.com/news/869155/apple-tim-cook-presid…)

• Tim’s letter after George Floyd (apple.com/speaking-up-on-racism)

• Gruber on Tim’s letter (daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/28/tim-cook-…)

• Gruber on language (daringfireball.net/2026/01/politics_and_the_en…)

• CRDT (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated…)

• John’s new bff (claude.com/product/claude-code)

• XKCD #974: Pass the salt (xkcd.com/974)

• Members-only (atp.fm/join) ATP Overtime: TikTok in the US is under new ownership (nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/tiktok-deal-…)… for real this time

• Congress is unsure if it complies with law (theverge.com/news/866977/tiktok-deal-congress-…)

• Are content moderation changes afoot? (theverge.com/tech/866868/tiktok-usds-new-owner…)

• More data slurping definitely is (wired.com/story/tiktok-new-privacy-policy)

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