Follow Up

Google loses long-running appeal over record $4.7bn EU fine: Ars Technica

UK regulator pushes for developers to bypass App Store fees: The Register

News

Medtronic warns patient health data swiped by cybercrooks: The Register

Apple's Hide My Email feature faces security scrutiny: Engadget

Study explores if the iPhone acted as birth control: NBER Working Paper

Chinese developers file antitrust complaint over App Store fees: 9to5Mac

Car Corner

Tesla sales increase by 25% in Q2 2026: Ars Technica

Media

Star City: Rotten Tomatoes

Local Hero: Rotten Tomatoes

Games

Sony announces end of physical PlayStation discs by 2028: Ars Technica

Main Show: Rod's New Mac Setup

Rod walks through his step-by-step methodology for setting up a brand-new Mac from scratch, keeping things local and avoiding as many cloud account traps as possible.

The Initial Config: Proceeded entirely without a network connection or iCloud account login, authenticated directly onto Eduroam, and immediately disabled Safari’s native password and username autofill in favour of Proton Pass.

Desktop Ergonomics: Relocated the dock to the left side of the screen, shrunk its default size down significantly, and stripped out all the default program shortcuts.

The Homebrew Spree: Installed the Homebrew package manager via Terminal and deployed a vast stack of local tools, dependencies, and office suites:

Security & Work: brew install viscosity (for work VPN), alongside Microsoft's Windows App to bridge remote work connections.

Communication: Added Zoom, Teams, Slack, and Google Chrome, followed by a trip to system settings to manually grant Screen and System Audio Recording privileges.

Productivity & Layout: Installed LibreOffice, Scribus for desktop publishing, Zotero for reference management, Notion, and Apple’s SF Symbols toolkit.

System & Dev: Deployed openjdk (manually symlinked to /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/ so extensions would work), the high-performance Zed code editor, Ollama for running local LLMs, and Stats for menu-bar system monitoring.

The Rest of the Stack: Pulled down the standalone Tailscale installer directly from their site (triggering an unfamiliar MDM device management warning screen), installed OneDrive and Outlook from the Mac App Store, and used Homebrew to configure Syncthing, Netbird, Shottr, and Keka.

Beta Bugs: A late warning that the latest iOS 27 and macOS developer betas have completely broken clipboard syncing and search indexing in Spotlight, requiring a quick deployment of maccy to handle clipboard management duties.

App & Thing of the Week

App: The boys highlight a few standout utilities from Rod's clean install list, including the Zed editor and Maccy.

Thing: Chris Harris and Francis Bourgeois go train-spotting in a modified BMW. YouTube

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