595: The Best Secret Store

• Pre-show: Casey’s tales of woe

Fully Herman Miller Jarvis

• Follow-up:

An 🎵 accidental 🎵 miss • from the iPod Tier List special • (via Scott Shuchart • )

• The origins of S-Tier • in tier lists • (via David Schaub)

Grading in Japan

• AirPods Pro do have an inward-facing microphone • Another entry for Brexit-style name for Apple rage-quitting the EU (via Terry Gilbert)

• What’s the justification for allowing AI crawlers? (via Manu • )

Cloudflare has 1-click AI crawler blocking • Epic Games & Apple continue to bicker

Epic accuses Apple of delaying its EU alternative store launch •

Epic’s statements

Apple approves Epic Games Store Tim Sweeney pops off

• Tech and Labor

FTC • has banned noncompete agreements for workers TSMC’s Struggles in Arizona •

Gruber’s summary

US-made chips will cost Apple more •

The Financial Times

Judge says “just kidding” to FTC’s noncompete ruling

• Ask ATP:

• Is moving to a bundled password manager safe (via Trager • )

• Is Apple’s embrace of AI enough to prevent it from being the next crypto? (via Jamie • )

• What makes iCloud Keychain different than the Windows Recall database? (via Jon Wilson)

• Is Apple still a privacy-first company? (via Steven Wood)

• Post-show: John still isn’t allowing holes in his house

Technology Connections video on heat pumps Inverted U-shaped heat pumps

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