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Pre-show: Marco has M6 performance numbers 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️ Podcastathon on Friday October 2 @ noon eastern The Marco Offset™ Follow-up: John’s mouse pad (via Andy) Rounded corners are, bad, maybe? AirPower… desk? 🤨 John’s weird AirPods 5 issues Finding Intel apps in macOS System Settings → General → About → Intel-based Apps Learn more… M5 Ultra Mac Studio GPU scores New Mac mini storage caveats 𝓍OS 27 Screen Time woes (Timestamp link to 8m50s) iOS 27 vs. Pi-hole dazfuller Aaron Vegh GM vs. CarPlay Casey’s blog post Casey’s mea culpa Wait, just kidding Apple Watch is listening……
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Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa · Tech & Science · English
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
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E712 · 8 Oct 2026 · 2 hr 17 min
712: Mildly Technologically Traumatized
Pre-show: Marco tries a Waymo Follow-up: Casey’s MyBMW foibles iMazing Approov BMW case study Screen sharing OBD-II Home Assistant + Pushover + Shortcuts? (via Khaos Tian ) GL.iNet Comet Q PiKVM Lex Friedman: Claude writes code; I author the apps AirPower desk video was by HTX Studio …who previously interviewed Tim Cook! (via Elijah Yap) Original video (via Adeiko ) Ubiquiti home Wi-Fi vs. Eero Previously on ATP Overtime A positive anecdote A negative anecdote FiOS CableCARD discontinuation RecDiffs #295: If I Adjust for Europe TiVo’s desperation One-AirPod vs. two-AirPod audio settings…
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E710 · 24 Sep 2026 · 2 hr 13 min
710: That New Mouse Pad Feeling
🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️ Podcastathon on Friday October 2 @ noon eastern The Marco Offset™ Flying Spaghetti Monster Follow-up: New treats John iPhone 18 Pro John’s case AirPods 5 with Wireless Charging Case IP57 Dust protected Immersion, up to 1m, for 30 minutes Oddities Volume control Marco Apple Watch S12 Ceramic Apple Watch S12 bezels are bigger than S10 ? Mac mini Casey: Apple Watch S12 Aluminum How should Apple have handled iPhone Duo dev tools? (via Oscar Echeverri) Photos libraries on external drives (via Larry Fieman) Preliminary M5 Ultra GPU Geekbench scores Chart Apple watch…
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E709 · 17 Sep 2026 · 2 hr 8 min
709: Steel-Cable Insurance
🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Insider: Show Q&A 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️ The Marco Offset™ Todd Vaziri on James Bond homages in the event video Comparison video Previously, in 2018 Making of (via Techzha ) Preliminary Geekbench scores A20 Pro (iPhones 18 Pro) CPU GPU M6 CPU GPU M5 Ultra CPU iPhone 18 Pro Max & Apple C2 Solar phone charging? 🤔 (via flanker ) Pragmatic #38: Watch This Time and Space Aperture blades on iPhone 18 Pro / Pro Max camera MKBHD’s review PetaPixel’s Review Explaining starbursts Straight vs. rounded examples Debate on DPReview forums iPhones 18 Pro Face ID (YouTube…
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E708 · 10 Sep 2026 · 3 hr 4 min
708: Primary, Tertiary, and Third Cousin
🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️ The Marco Offset™ September 2026 event MacRumors on the cellular chips SynthID Standard Apple Audio Intelligence Privacy Overview Surface Duo PowerBook Duo Rafa’s toot about layouts Apple Developer Videos Post-show: Jetty update Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s new business terms in the EU Ben Thompson’s breakdown Gruber’s take Adrian Weckler at Irish Independent Sponsored by: ElevenLabs : AI Customer Support Agents Factor : Healthy Eating, Made Easy Quince : Elevated essentials and staples that last Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member…
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E707 · 3 Sep 2026 · 2 hr 6 min
707: Haunting the Campus Like a Ghost
🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️ The Marco Offset™ Follow-up: Luz fooled me , Jerry! Extremely convincing fake by Daniel Luz Mea culpa Apple fooled us all Siri blobs fix System Settings → Screen Time → Content & Privacy → Content & Privacy (turn the switch on) → Siri → Writing Assistance (turn the switch off) John is happy with new Macs timetable Are photo libraries on external disks supported? Knowledge base Iris Yankees / Sox in Apple Vision Pro Dithering Motivations for SME adoption (via shac ron ) ✅ Tim Cook exit interview AT 688: A Company Man at 1h8m29s (Overcast timestamp link) Phil takes…
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E706 · 27 Aug 2026 · 2 hr 38 min
706: No One Is Getting a Good Deal Tonight
Pre-show: Marco’s casement windows Screen clips Screen clips, installed (white prototypes for visibility) TPU for AMS 🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Movie Club: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Follow-up: macOS 27 UI tweaks Redesigned stoplights in β6 Video Stoplights Stretchy buttons Video Porsche 911, 996 generation In defense of the fried egg Porsches Turning off the Siri logo macOS 27 got the new Preview icon LLM determinism when temperature = 0 Write-up by Horace He IEEE standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic 𝓍OS 27 Photos Shared Album gotchas See also Other people’s phones Not sped up!…
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