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RMP 052 — Apple’s Most Significant Products of the Last Half Century
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Plus new Ubuntu 26.04, massive Patch Tuesday release, 2D fan port of Tomb Raider, and more!
Episode Notes
Apple News
April 1: Apple Computer 50th Anniversary — https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-to-celebrate-50-years-of-thinking-different/
The Mac Pro is officially discontinued— https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/26/apple-discontinues-the-mac-pro/
WWDC26 announced for June 8-12 — https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apples-worldwide-developers-conference-returns-the-week-of-june-8/
Tim Cook steps down as CEO; John Ternus (senior VP of hardware engineering) named as successor — https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-ceo-tim-cook-stepping-down-to-be-succeeded-by-john-ternus-204237479.html
Linux/FOSS News
Gnome 50 released — https://release.gnome.org/50/
Manjaro 2.0 manifesto — https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-2-0-manifesto/186171
Ubuntu 26.04 “Resolute Raccoon” released — https://documentation.ubuntu.com/release-notes/26.04/
Fedora Asahi Remix 43 — https://asahilinux.org/fedora/
Microsoft News
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate price went up last month, now drops — https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/04/21/xbox-game-pass-update/
April “Patch Tuesday” was the second largest security update in it’s history — https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/patch-tuesday-analysis-april-2026/
Other Tech News
Anthropic’s Claude “Mythos” LLM released to select companies — https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/07/anthropic-claude-mythos-ai-hackers-cyberattacks.html
NationStates game data breach — https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=2747770
Retro Gaming News
Fans make a 2.5D side-scrolling action platformer version of Tomb Raider — https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/04/a-fan-project-not-to-be-missed-this-new-project-reimagines-the-classic-tomb-raider-games-as-a-2-5d-sidescroller
Commodore International backs down amid customer frustration over FPGA custom firmware — https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/04/we-listened-we-agree-no-fpga-lockdown-commodore-backpedals-on-unofficial-c64-ultimate-firmware
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