406: ‘Hock TUAW’, With Christina Warren

Christina Warren (a.k.a. "Mary Brown") returns to the show. Topics include Apple's new iOS 18.1 and MacOS 15.1 betas (featuring Apple Intelligence), a little reminiscing about Gil Amelio and Steve Jobs, and the bizarre saga of TUAW, resurrected as a zombie AI slopsite. Sponsored by: Squarespace : Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. Links: “On the Firing Line: My 500 Days at Apple” by Gil Amelio . Steve Jobs introduces the Mac OS X Dock — and the purple “single window mode” button — at MWSF 2000 . Coverage of zombie TUAW and Christina's AI-generated alter ego: Christina, announcing the scam on Threads , and on Mastodon , both of which resulted in interesting threads. Karissa Bell at Engadget: "[Apple Blog TUAW Returns as an AI Content Farm](Apple blog TUAW returns as an AI content farm)". Jason Koebler at 404 Media: “ Hocked TUAW ”. The Verge: “ Early Apple Tech Bloggers Are Shocked to Find Their Name and Work Have Been AI-Zombified ”. Ernie Smith, deducing that the new owner of TUAW is Haider Ali Khan , and that he also bought the ilounge.com domain name. A very much NSFW tweet testing Apple Intelligence's familiarity with current slang . MTV News shut down and the jerks at Paramount pulled the plug on their decades-long archive . Brett Terpstra . Ernie Smith, author of Tedium and creator of udm14.com , a single-serving site that shows you how to make Google's "web" view your default for search . This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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