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GranolaWe are sponsored this week by Granola. So, I have an odd job—not the bad guy—but a unique job wherein I don't really have meetings, but we wanted to make sure that Granola was the real thing. And so John and I had a meeting and we talked about ATP membership stuff and we talked for like something like an hour, hour and a half. And while we were talking, Granola was there listening and capturing meeting notes for us and a transcript as well. And this worked out really well because one of my big failings when I had a jobby job was that I would oftentimes record the bare minimum amount of action items, particularly for myself, that I would then look back on later and be like, I have no idea what these words mean. And I'm the one who wrote them. I lost the context completely. So, Granola is an AI-powered notepad that makes your meeting notes look useful. It captures what happens in your meetings and turns it into clean structured notes with decisions and action items pulled out and made easy to find. So, like I said, action items are pulled out and made easy to find. So, at the bottom of the notes that Granola generated for our meeting, there's next steps. And one of the next steps—I'm reading this verbatim—is, uh, approve sponsor product in the doc assigned to Casey, which is exactly right. That is one of the things that I needed to do. And this is very helpful because not only does it tell me what I need to do, but I can click on that line item and get a transcription summary. And then if I really want to go back to the actual transcript, I can do that as well. This makes it really hard for me to lose context, which is really, really helpful. So once you try it on a first meeting, it is hard to go without. You can try it totally free. You can head to granola.ai/atp. That's granola.ai/atp to get your time back. Go to granola.ai/atp and try it on your next call. Thank you to Granola for sponsoring the show. |  Accidental Tech Podcast | |
Coveronbrought to you by Coveron. Okay. So I'm sure because you're smart, you've got a password manager, right? Maybe you have an antivirus. You got credit alerts on all your credit bureau stuff. All good stuff. Here's the thing nobody talks about, though. You can have all that stuff, but when you get bit, when a scam actually works, and by the way, I do too. And I got bit, those tools might tell you it happened, but they don't get your money back. They don't help you fix it. And scams are really working. If they can fool me, they could fool anybody. The FTC says Americans last year lost more than $15.9 billion to fraud. These days, the scams, the reason is they don't look fake. They look real. They're written by AI. The English is perfect, the Italian is perfect, whatever language. No typos, no obvious red flags, just a message that looks like it's uh your bank. In my case, it looked like it was my phone company. T-Mobile said, 'Hey, you're going to lose all your T-Mobile points. You could get free headphones if you just click this link.' I said, 'Oh, I don't want to lose my T.' Turns out there are no T-Mobile points. After I gave it one credit card and then it said, 'No, that's no good. Give me another one.' And I gave it another. Then I said, 'Wait a minute. Hold on. That's how easy it is. One click, boom, and it's over in minutes. That's why I need Coveron and that's why you need Coveron. Coveron watches the dark web for your personal information. Alerts you when your data login or payment details are exposed because that's what happens, right? They get the credit card, they sell it on the dark web so you can act before someone starts using it, right? Before someone steals your identity. Coveron tracks changes to your credit. That's very handy. Helps stop fraudsters from opening new loans in your name. And here's the part that stands out. Coveron steps in when money is on the line. You get up to $100,000 in coverage if you're hit with cyber extortion or online fraud. And you get real people who walk you through recovery step by step. So you're not spending, as I did, weeks on the phone with banks trying to fix it yourself. Coveron even offers up to $2 million in identity theft coverage, including the worst case somebody uses your identity to take out a loan. That could add up. To check it out, go to coveron.com/macbreakweekly. Use the coupon code macbreakweekly. By the way, Coveron also has family and couples plans. One plan, one dashboard. It covers the kid whose social security number could show up in a breach. And the mom or dad who's one convincing text away from getting phished. Tools reduce risk. Insurance reduces loss. Coveron gives you both. One scam could cost you everything. Protect yourself now. First 100 users get 20% off with the code macbreakweekly at coveron.com/macbreakweekly. Again, that's coveron.com/macbreakweekly. The code is macbreakweekly. |  MacBreak Weekly (Audio) | |
Fountain LifeEverybody welcome to the health section of Moonshots brought to you by Fountain Life. You know we talk about AI on this Moonshots podcast all the time. One of the most important things AI is going to be able to do for you besides educating your kids and helping you with your taxes is making sure that you're living a healthy lifestyle that you get a chance to get to 100 plus. I'm here today with Dr. Don Mucalem, the chief medical officer of Fountain Life and a part of my medical team. Don, a pleasure. Great. You know, the thing that people are concerned about most about living to 100 or 120 is their cognitive abilities, making sure they don't have dementia and uh the numbers about dementia are problematic. Uh, can you share what you've learned? Such an important point and you're right at Fountain Life, our members, the number one thing people are most concerned about is losing their brain health, forgetting the name of their child, forgetting the face of their loved one. We know that when it comes to dementia, the conservative estimates are that 45% are entirely preventable. What was amazing is with the advanced testing we're doing at Fountain Life, one quarter of our members had advanced brain age. Wow. But what was really awesome is again back to that prevention when we partnered it with healthy living. This gives me chills. Eating healthier, moving our bodies, sleep, optimizing sleep is so important. You know what we saw? We saw that we improved that brain age by 26%. That is a big big number to show that the majority of those individuals were able actually to improve the brain age. And one of the things I love about Fountain is we're searching the world for the best therapeutics, the best approaches, and making sure we bring it to our members. So if having healthy brain function uh till 100 120 is important to you, check out Fountain Life. Go to fountainlife.com/per. Make sure you become the CEO of your own health. All right, now back to the episode. | Moonshots with Peter Diamandis | |
SuperhumanOur show today brought to you, Speaking of, by the way, this is an interesting company. Our show this week brought to you by Superhuman Go. This is a company in Ukraine that has really done some amazing stuff. I first became aware of it as Grammarly. In fact, we use Grammarly for years now called Superhuman and they have a new tool called Go that is mindblowing. With everything I need to manage in my workflow, it's very easy to get worried about missing things, something important slipping through the crack. But I've got Superhuman Go from the makers of Grammarly. Superhuman Go is different from the other AI I've tried and you've tried. I'll tell you why. Superhuman Go doesn't make you switch to another tab. You just, you know, paste in your context and write the perfect prompt. It works and collaborates with you where you are. I really like this. It's in the doc you're reading. It's in the email you're writing. Superhuman Go helps you make sense of a dense thread. Getting ready for a meeting, catching something before you send it. You can get help where you're stuck without losing your place. It's no context switching. You're the one in control. It works inside the tools and sites you already use. Superhuman Go handles the repetitive stuff so you can focus on the work only you can do. I really appreciate AI that values that that knows the distinction between what I can do, what I am special and how it can help, you know, without getting in my way. Improve your workflow. Yeah, you can use Go's AI chat to draft emails and messages to summarize long threads and documents all without leaving the page you're on. Pull it together and prep out of back-to-back meetings and not sure what you owe. Have you ever had that experience? Ask Go what was decided? Turn it into clear action items. It's great ahead of the meeting for meeting prep. It's great after the meeting so you can send a draft out of what you all agreed to. Follow up with confidence in seconds before something leaves your hands. This is really important. Go flags what doesn't add up, a number, a name, a claim. So you it makes you look smarter. You don't miss anything obvious because Superhuman Go is there to help. It's built for how you actually work. It's right there when you need it on the side of your browser. Already aware of what's in front of you. No new tabs, no switching apps, no losing your place. Try Superhuman Go. It's from the makers of Grammarly. Find out more at superhuman.com. That's superhuman.com. | This Week in Tech (Audio) | |
Daft MusicWe are sponsored this episode by Daft Music, a native Apple Music-playing app for Mac and iPhone, custom-designed for each and built for the liquid glass generation. Daft Music is a wonderful third-party Apple Music app. Now, it isn't just an Apple Music client. It uses Apple Music as a streaming backend, but it does things its own way. So, there's all sorts of wonderful features in Daft Music that are opinionated and designed for Apple nerds like us. So they have a library for your favorite songs, albums, artists, playlists, and you can pin everything within the library. They have a directory of custom-selected mixtapes. And this is picked by humans, not AI. In fact, they even have a new feature that you can check any track for AI that will flag recordings that have AI fingerprints left behind by the music generators so that you can tell, like, you know, if you want to listen to AI or not, you can you can easily tell what's AI inside Daft Music. They have a radio feature that Shazams every song from Internet radio tracks as they play. You can import or subscribe directly from Spotify and Tidal. And all of this is very lightweight on your machine because it's written with native code, SwiftUI and AppKit. And they have features always powered by the latest Apple tech such as Core AI. They're constantly issuing new updates to Daft Music. There's AirPlay support come... that came recently. A wonderful feature called instrument isolation that you can actually mute the vocals or drums or bass or everything but those things live during playback all done on device. There's a ten-band equalizer, 3D cover art support, and so much more all in Daft Music. So go to daftmusic.app, that's D-A-F-T-M-U-S-I-C.app, daftmusic.app, or just search for Daft Music in the iOS or Mac App Store. So daftmusic.app. Thank you so much to Daft Music for Mac and iPhone for sponsoring our show. | Accidental Tech Podcast | |
BulletinThis episode of Designed in California is brought to you by Bulletin. Bulletin is made by Dominic Williams, who runs a one-person development studio called PixelFolio from Nova Scotia in Canada. His first Mac wasn't actually a Mac. Couldn't afford one. So, back in 2012, he ran Mac OS on a Hackintosh Dell laptop because it was the way he could learn to build iPhone apps cuz that's what he wanted to do. And Dominic shipped his first app back in 2018. And these days, he does something unusual and I think admirable. I really love this. Instead of starting every app from scratch, Dominic takes and finds well-made indie apps that were otherwise going to wind down and gives them a second life. Bulletin is one of those apps. Bulletin is a newsreader where you choose every source. It's RSS but with a really clean, simple interface that pays close attention to Apple's design guidelines. Bulletin organizes your feeds into categories you choose like technology, sports, or just about any you create yourself. It has a feature called Smart Summary that gives you a short summary of any article or an overview of an entire feed or category. Summaries cite the publication behind every point. So one tap just takes you into the story itself. And when you read the full piece, it's a beautiful distraction-free experience with no clutter. I really like that it has an ability to rewrite an article's headline. If you want to get a quick view of something without any clickbait, you can just rewrite it. It's really cool. There's a read later list which syncs over iCloud so your news is ready for you on all your devices, iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Bulletin is on all of them. You can even read your stories in other languages with translation for full articles and summaries that run right on your device powered by Apple's translation framework, as well as Bulletin. Dominic makes Vinyls, an unapologetically retro Apple music player that spins your library on animated vinyl, and Globe Trotter, an app that turns your photo library into your complete travel record, showing you the countries you visited, the landmarks you've collected with no manual entry. Bulletin is free to download and available on the iPhone, the iPad, and Mac. So, you can get it on all your devices. Pay once for lifetime access at just $39.99. Or if you prefer a subscription, open the app and use the code DICA50 and you'll get half off your first year. That's DICA50. Our thanks to Bulletin by PixelFolio for their support of this show and relay. |  Designed in California | |
SerpAPIBut first, we wanna thank our friends at SerpAPI. I was so glad when I heard that they were gonna be a sponsor because I have built shortcuts with SerpAPI. So here's what it is. It's a web search API that gives developers real-time structured access to search engine results. So if you wanted to do something like search for whatever and parse those results in a certain way to then get the links out of it—spoiler—I wanted to do this for Apple News article links to create a shortcut that will always find the Apple News version of an article and vice versa. Anyway, I was using SerpAPI to do that, and it gives you that structured access to those search engine results. And you can use SerpAPI to power AI agents and AI assistants, market intelligence platforms, research tools, RAG workflows, and other applications that need fresh information from the web. It's really powerful, and you can receive results from web search as clean, structured markdown using roughly 50% fewer tokens than JSON on average. Or, you know, like, what I was trying to do is, like, scrape the raw HTML of a Google search results page doesn't work. And so that's why you need SerpAPI. And you can—there's very simple integration with your AI workflow across 100+ SerpAPI APIs. So there's multiple APIs in here. And so instead of building and maintaining scraping infrastructure yourself, SerpAPI handles the complexity and delivers search results and structured data. And it offers 100+ APIs with access to Bing, Amazon, Walmart, Google, YouTube, and many other sources. You can do a lot of stuff with it, and enterprise-grade security and compliance—SerpAPI is SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3, and ISO 27001 certified, making it a strong option for organizations. And you can get started for free with 250 searches every month. And so you can read more on their website, and here's what you do. You go to serpapi.com/primarytech, and that is where you can get an extra 250 searches for free. So visit serpapi.com/primarytech and receive an extra 250 searches free. That is 500 free searches in your first month with SerpAPI. So serpapi.com/primarytech. Thanks to SerpAPI for sponsoring this episode. |  Primary Technology | |
GuardsquareYou need to defend your mobile app against this kind of attack by taking a proactive approach to mobile app security. You can stay one step ahead of these attacks and maintain the trust of your users. Look, I'm counting on you. That's why you need Guardsquare. Guardsquare delivers mobile app security without compromise. You get advanced protections, both iOS and Android. It combines with automated mobile application security testing. So that's nice because you you know you know ahead of time whether there's vulnerabilities in your app. It also gives you real-time threat monitoring so you understand how these new attacks are proceeding so you can defend against them. Discover more about how Guardsquare provides industry-leading security for your mobile apps at guardsquare.com. That's guardsquare.com. By protecting me, you're protecting yourself. guardsquare.com. We thank them so much for their support of MacBreak Weekly. | MacBreak Weekly (Audio) | |
CleanMyMacHighlights the heaviest folders, and helps you clear space automatically. There's also the My Clutter feature, it helps you spot identical files and similar images, which is super nice, and a ton more. I run this on my Macs, really helps me keep that storage under control, get rid of things I don't need. It's a beautifully designed app as well. So here's what you do. You're going to go to CleanMyMac.com. And that link is also going to be in the show notes. And you get a deal here. You get 20% off CleanMyMac.com/primarytech, and you get 20% off. And you can get tidy today. Try seven days for free. Use our code primarytech, all one word, 20% off at CleanMyMac.com/primarytech. And that link is down in the show notes as well. Our thanks to CleanMyMac for sponsoring this episode. | Primary Technology | |
Adaptive SecurityUse Plaid. It's how I connect my financial accounts to apps that I use. Plaid's platform powers thousands of digital finance apps. Links consumers, developers, and institutions. They are on the front line. Right. With sensitive data at its very core, Plaid security and compliance are absolutely non-negotiable. Plaid's head of security GRC says, and this is a direct quote, Adaptive has equipped our teams with cutting-edge tools and built a smarter, more resilient security culture across the company. End quote. Don't you want that? Trusted by Fortune 500s, backed by Nvidia and OpenAI, Adaptive is building the defenses we need for the AI era. Learn more at adaptivesecurity.com. That's adaptivesecurity.com. We thank him so much for supporting this week in tech. | This Week in Tech (Audio) | |
TailscaleWe are sponsored this week by Tailscale. So, if you're an ATP listener, it is likely that you have at least a couple of devices that you may want to be able to talk to, for perhaps your Mac and a Synology. Maybe you have a device at a friend's or a parent's house. Maybe you have a Raspberry Pi at a parent's house to help with troubleshooting or something like that. Maybe you have 48 Mac minis in a colocation facility. You never know what could happen. Well, imagine you could talk to any of these other devices no matter what network you're on or what network they're on. If you use a special IP address provided by Tailscale, or hostname for that matter, as long as both these devices are on your tailnet, you will be able to talk to them. Tailscale is amazing. It busts through firewalls. It busts through network address translation. It does amazing things. Tailscale has compensated us to talk to you about their software, but they cannot pay me to say this is possibly my favorite software I've used in years and years and years and years. It is so good. So, what Tailscale does is, like I said, it creates a mesh network between all your devices. This is different, mind you, than hub and spoke. And despite the fact that it uses WireGuard, which is a VPN technology, you shouldn't think of it as a VPN. It's really its own thing. And what makes it so magical is that no matter what network you're on, no matter what continent you're on, and what network or continent your target devices are on, you will be able to talk between your devices on your tailnet. It is truly incredible. And not having to care where you are when it comes to accessing your other machines and devices is amazing. It's so freeing. So, here's the thing. Tailscale's personal plan will be free forever. They've regularly committed to that and it's free forever for up to six users and unlimited devices. They have been making it more and more permissive over time. True story. There's no credit card required. They'll never even hint at asking for one. They don't even care. So, you can go to tailscale.com/accidentaltech to get started. And additionally, if you'd like to bring Tailscale to work, you can use the code accidental tech for three free months of any paid plan. Thousands of companies like Microsoft, Nvidia, and the New York Times have already made the switch. So go to tailscale.com/accidentaltech to get started. Thank you to Tailscale for sponsoring the show. | Accidental Tech Podcast | |
Arctic WolfMeanwhile, uh, this show brought to you today by Arctic Wolf. Arctic Wolf. I love that name, isn't it? It's such a great image. Arctic Wolf helps organizations stay ahead of evolving cyber threats. And they do this in a couple of ways, but they have they every year they put out this great trends report that is so insightful. For instance, the latest research reveals something surprising. Even as and we're seeing it, AI accelerates the pace and the complexity of attacks. Just like we were talking about, many security leaders say they're confident they can keep up. Really? Maybe it's because Arctic Wolf to better understand what's driving that confidence. Arctic Wolf surveyed more than 1,350 security and IT leaders worldwide. This is for their new State of Cyber Security, their 2026 trends report. And this you need to read. It's a snapshot of what cyber security professionals are prioritizing and concerned about right now. The trends report explores everything from AI adoption to threat detection to security operations to the challenges organizations expect to face over the next year. Whether you're responsible for securing a small business, managing enterprise infrastructure, maybe you're an MSP advising clients, maybe you're just simply trying to stay ahead of the latest security trends. Arctic Wolf's trends report offers valuable insight into how the industry is responding to an increasingly AI-driven threat landscape. Arctic Wolf. Now, by the way, Arctic Wolf's Aurora AI is amazing. It addresses these challenges by putting defensive AI to work, combining agentic AI, generative AI, machine learning, and security expertise to help organizations detect threats faster. But you are going to want to see how these innovations and other critical findings are shaping your business. You can go to arcticwolf.com/trends. Just fill out a simple form to reserve your copy of the Arctic Wolf State of Cyber Security, the 2026 Trends Report. They do a lot of research for this and it's incredibly valuable. That's arcticwolf.com/trends. We thank them so much for supporting this week in tech. | This Week in Tech (Audio) | |
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