Episode 227: The bong noise of air power
About this episode
The episode discusses various tech news including DOJ demands, subscription models, and Apple updates.
This week Chris and Rod have follow up on the DOJ reportedly demanding that Reddit and X hand over the identities of anti-ICE posters, California looking at letting Linux distributions bypass strict age-verification checks, and Meta rolling out a web of new subscription tiers across Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp. We also look at signs that Apple Music might be planning tiered subscriptions of its own, alongside a neat update bringing live lyrics to CarPlay. In the news, a groundbreaking gene-editing drug slashes bad cholesterol by 62% in a small clinical trial, Apple acquires yet another company to fuel a rumoured Creator Studio subscription service, and a disgruntled zero-day hunter threatens Microsoft with a "bone-shattering" exploit dump. Plus, DuckDuckGo launches a new NOAI search alternative. The main show features the boys' big pre-WWDC breakdown, parsing through massive leaks about an iOS 27 Camera app overhaul, an upcoming anti-snatching safety feature, a potential five-product hardware dump, and some pink Beats headphones spotted in the wild.
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