Job advice for CS graduates, whether external drives should be USB, Thunderbolt, or FireWire, and a draft of how we'd make the worst MacBook.

• Pre-Show: John’s almost an empty-nester 😱
  • Reconcilable Differences
• Follow-up:
  • FireWire now with Thunderbolt! (via Timo Hetzel)
  • Tahoe without Xcode beta: Device Support for macOS 26 Beta
    • Developer downloads
    • ↳ Direct link
  • Putting older OSes on newer hardware (via Gui Rambo)
  • UPS VA ratings (via Marshall C)
  • Apple’s LLM/LRM paper (from Overtime in ATP #643)
    • Training data vs. distribution (via Deon Garrett)
    • Rebuttal
    • Rebuttal of the rebuttal
    • More from Gary Marcus
    • The original rebuttal was… a joke? 🤨
  • HDR in 𝑥26
  • iPadOS 26 window limits
  • “Glass iPhone” demo
    • ↳ Direct video link
  • That “natural language to CLI” app is Substage
• Apple plans to launch a low-cost MacBook powered by… an iPhone CPU‽
  • Apple A18
  • References spotted in code
  • Jason on A18 speed
  • Stephen on the technical limitations
• Ask ATP:
  • Is adding permanent NVMe storage a bad plan? (via Neil)
    • CalDigit TS5+
  • What’s the best way to increase “internal” storage on a Mac? iSCSI? Mounted disc images? (via Patrick Harms)
    • Atto Xtend SAN
  • How does a new grad land a job?
• Post-show: Casey’s approach to ad-free YouTube must be dissected
  • YouTube Premium Lite
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s App Store changes for the EU
  • Jason’s coverage
    • Store Services tiers in the EU
  • Gruber’s summary
  • Cranky man remains cranky
  • Steve Troughton-Smith’s take
  • The Verge

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