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Colleen McClain and Eugenie Park at the Pew Research Center: Today, 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life – up from 37% in 2021. Another 9% are more excited than concerned and 37% say they’re equally excited and concerned, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted June 22-28, 2026.

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This week on the podcast: A bunch of future Apple hardware has leaked in a beta of macOS Tahoe. The guys go through the list and then consider the iPad mini’s place in the world and the UI changes coming with Golden Gate.

RR Auction has something amazing for sale at the moment: an Apple I built for the Byte Shop. The auction page has more details: Well-preserved and fully functional ‘Byte Shop’–style Apple-1 computer (also commonly known as the Apple I, or Apple Computer 1), complete with all components and accessories required for operation, housed in a unique Smith-Corona typewriter case modified to fit the Apple-1.

Kenneth Chang has the bad news at The New York Times (Gift Link): NASA’s high-risk, high-reward attempt to save one of its space telescopes before it falls out of orbit has failed. On Wednesday, NASA announced that a rescue spacecraft that was meant to grab onto the space agency’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and push it into a higher altitude will not proceed.

After talking for years about Things’ lack of flexibility around repeating tasks, I have some good news, via the Cultured Code blog: Repeating to-dos just got far more flexible, with two highly requested improvements: You can now complete them early, and easily reschedule them when plans change! It took a while, but I think they really nailed this.

Earlier today Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed an executive order requiring data center projects to be regulated with “strict guardrails to hold data center developers accountable to the public interest” in areas of energy costs, environmental impact, and workforce development. This action is just one on a growing list of legislation fueled by pushback against AI data centers across the country. This evening, the Memphis City Council acted on a year-long moratorium on new data centers.

Myke Hurley, marking the 12th anniversary of our company: The versions of myself and Stephen who started this podcast network in 2014 feel incredibly different to me. We’ve learned a lot, changed a lot, adapted a lot, and sought new opportunities along the way. I kind of feel like our personal journeys have mirrored Relay’s journey.

Developer Beta 6 of the 27 OSes is out today, and the macOS build has something I didn’t really expect this late in the game: redesigned window controls! Like before, hovering over the “stoplight” controls with the cursor reveals the close, minimize, and junk drawer that has become the former maximize button. Tahoe is on the left; Golden Gate Beta 6 is on the right: (Trying to line up screenshots between a MacBook Neo and a MacBook Pro using a Pro Display XDR was …fun.

Samuel Hardiman, The Daily Memphian: Memphis, a city known nationwide for Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI’s data centers, may finally take legislative steps to pause data center development. At its Aug.