Episode 178: Hei Suomesta

Follow Up 

EU: Apple and Meta won’t face immediate sanctions after June 26 DMA deadline

https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/19/apple-meta-wont-face-immediate-sanctions-after-dma-deadline/ 

It's Not Just You: Apple Intelligence is Down on iOS 26 and Other Betas [Fixed]

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/19/apple-intelligence-down-on-ios-26-beta/ 

Pour one out for 400/800 FireWire? macOS 26 beta 1 drops support for both standards

https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/19/firewire-400-800-macos-26-support/

Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/apple-australians-youre-too-stupid-choose-your-own-apps 

StS on iPadOS 26

https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/114703903339734179 

Firefox shenanigans

Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/17/opinion_column_firefox/ 

It's Official: Mozilla quietly tests Perplexity AI as a New Firefox Search Option—Here’s How to Try It Out Now

https://windowsreport.com/its-official-mozilla-quietly-tests-perplexity-ai-as-a-new-firefox-search-option-heres-how-to-try-it-out-now/ 

OpenAI weighs “nuclear option” of antitrust complaint against Microsoft

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/openai-weighs-nuclear-option-of-antitrust-complaint-against-microsoft/ 

Court Upholds Regulator's Case Against Apple Over App Store

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/16/court-upholds-case-against-apple/ 

News 

16 billion passwords exposed in record-breaking data breach, opening access to Facebook, Google, Apple, and any other service imaginable

https://cybernews.com/security/billions-credentials-exposed-infostealers-data-leak/ 

Apple Pulls 'Convince Your Parents to Get You a Mac' Ad From YouTube

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/21/apple-pulls-the-parent-presentation-video/ 

Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates meet for the first time

https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/114719902404533331 

iPhones and iPads now come with EU energy labels, here’s what they reveal

https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/20/iphone-and-ipad-now-come-with-eu-energy-labels-heres-what-they-reveal/ 

iOS 26 to let third-party apps build their own AirDrop alternative

https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/20/ios-26-to-let-third-party-apps-build-their-own-airdrop-alternative/ 

Apple Internally Discussing Whether to Bid to Acquire Perplexity AI

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/20/apple-discussing-perplexity-ai-bid/ 

Microsoft is blocking Google Chrome through its family safety feature

https://www.theverge.com/news/690179/microsoft-block-google-chrome-family-safety-feature 

The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible

https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/687492/trump-mobile-phone-t1 

Car Corner

VanMoof’s co-founders have a new e-bike coming from Raleigh

https://www.theverge.com/e-bikes/688967/vanmoof-raleigh-carlier-ties-taco-e-bike 

Media 

RATW final

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002tvs 

Taskmaster back at its best

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/taskmaster 

The Man with the Golden Gun

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/man_with_the_golden_gun 

Games

This is how Microsoft is combining Windows and Xbox for handheld PCs

https://www.theverge.com/news/682011/microsoft-windows-xbox-pc-combination-features-rog-xbox-ally-devices 

Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 has been announced 

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/call-of-duty-black-ops-7-has-been-announced-can-someone-please-explain-the-plot-of-these-games-to-me 

Main Show

Turn off stolen device protection

https://support.apple.com/en-us/120340

Download the correct iPSW

https://ipsw.me/ 

App of the Week 

Apple Maps Offline Mode

https://support.apple.com/en-us/105084 

Thing of the Week 

Snow Patrol Tour

https://snowpatrol.com/live/

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