Episode 118: We are selling Nostalgia

Follow Up

Kaiser Permanente handed over 13.4M people's data to Microsoft, Google, others

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/26/kaiser_patient_data/

Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/26/24141361/tesla-autopilot-fsd-nhtsa-investigation-report-crash-death

Logitech’s Mouse Software Now Includes ChatGPT Support, Adds Janky ‘ai_overlay_tmp’ Directory to Users’ Home Folders

https://512pixels.net/2024/04/ai-overlay-tmp-home-folder-mac-os/

Framework won’t be just a laptop company anymore

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/23/24138475/framework-laptop-product-categories-new

Apples 8gb ram and the Tim Cook Era

https://mstdn.social/@dschaub/111813281624281698

Apple Reportedly Stops Production of FineWoven Accessories

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/21/apple-reportedly-stops-finewoven-production/

News

Apple announces May 7th event for new iPads

https://www.apple.com/apple-events/

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/23/24078670/apple-may-product-event-ipad-date

M4 Chips in iPads

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-04-28/apple-rivals-retool-to-compete-with-iphone-and-vision-pro-ios-18-and-ai-details-lvjhucsv

Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation

https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/26/signed-out-of-apple-id-account-problem-password/

Apple blocked Spotify’s latest EU update, again

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/24/24139335/spotify-apple-eu-ios-app-update-submission-antitrust-dma

Apple reportedly cuts Vision Pro production due to low demand

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/23/24138487/apple-vision-pro-cut-shipment-forecast-kuo-rumor

The Apple Vision Pro’s eBay prices are making me sad

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/27/24142810/apple-vision-pro-ebay-low-prices

chris says iPads in the UK before WWDC

Financial Times signs licensing deal with OpenAI

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/29/24141869/financial-times-licensing-deal-openai-news

Airline keeps mistaking 101-year-old woman for baby

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9wz7pvvjypo

Microsoft Things

Microsoft dusts off ancient MS-DOS 4.0 code for release on GitHub

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/26/ms_dos_4_open_source/

Microsoft needs to win back trust

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/25/24139914/microsoft-cyber-security-incidents-trust-report

Why is Windows 11 so annoying?

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/21/24063379/windows-11-ads-bing-edge-cruft

Media

Yes, the YouTube app now hijacks your Apple TV’s screen saver

https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/22/yes-the-youtube-app-now-tries-to-hijack-your-apple-tvs-screen-saver/

VLC vs the app stores

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/04/19/vlc-vs-the-app-stores/

Games

The Delta emulator will soon turn your iPad into a giant Nintendo DS

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/28/24143574/delta-emulator-ipados-version-multi-device-multiplayer

PlayStation Emulator

https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/19/provenance-playstation-emulator-app-store/#more-943646

Retro Games in Manchester:

https://www.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/whats-on/power-up

Main Show

The Verge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9_Vh9h3Ohw

Palm OS and the devices that ran it: An Ars retrospective

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/palm-os-and-the-devices-that-ran-it-an-ars-retrospective/

App of the Week

Thing of the Week

https://www.insta360.com/product/insta360-link

Thing of the Week

Clarkson’s Farm Series 3 on Friday 3rd May

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k9NMbQe0C4

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