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Ep 33: IP68 failed: dust killed the iPhone Duo's inner display. · MAG 7 Daily

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  IP68 failed, dust killed the iphone duo's inner display. This is MAG 7 Daily, episode 33, a
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  tear down, a government software rule, and a television app come next, and the weekend review closes
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  the stretch. Jerry rig everything's Nelson watch dust enter the iphone duo hinge at several
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  points and overwhelm the magnets that hold it shut, Mac rumors reports, a bend test then
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  left a permanent green line across the inner display, and that screen stopped responding.
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  The outer glass, ceramic shield 2, scratched at level 7 on the most scale.
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  The inner panel only reached level 2, though a matte nano texture made the marks disappear.
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  Nelson said he has tested folding phones since the first generation 7 years ago that most
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  of them survive and that this one did not.
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  Rewa technology and phone repair guru posted the first tear down videos of the same phone.
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  Two cells come out on electrically activated adhesive.
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  The larger cell is rated 2,962 milliamp hours, 11.56 watt hours.
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  The smaller cell is 1,921 milliamp hours, 7.5 watt hours.
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  Together that is 4,883 milliamp hours.
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  Rewa's labeled board shows Apple's A20 Pro and a C2 cellular modem.
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  Phone repair guru found the touch ID button can come out for repair and called that job difficult.
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  The same video treats the USB-C port as fully modular.
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  The duo is ESIM-only worldwide.
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  Apple has published the repair manual, and IFixit is expected to post a fuller tear-down
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  in the coming days.
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  Sweden's government offices will block chat GPT and clawed on staff computers from Monday,
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  October 26th, decrypt reports, citing Svergis radio.
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  Civil servants are pointed to Microsoft co-pilot as the only approved assistant.
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  McHale, wetter crants, the office's director of digitalization, wrote on the staff internet
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  that AI services used without a formal contract can have consequences for information security.
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  He cited both the sensitivity of what people typed in and how the generated answers were
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  handled.
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  Consumer tools without that contract send queries to outside company servers and US law can
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  compel those companies to hand data over.
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  However, co-pilot got through a review in which the offices raised its security settings.
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  Chat GPT and Claw did not get the same treatment.
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  Some employees can still reach both block tools through an internal platform the offices
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  built.
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  The press office has not said how many people that covers or what restrictions apply.
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  The tax agency and the national board of institutional care have already banned consumer AI tools.
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  The enforcement authority is preparing a decision of its own.
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  A transport administration audit found roughly 10 AI services in use, in a widespread and
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  risky way.
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  In February, the European Parliament disabled chat GPT, Claude, and co-pilot on work
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  devices.
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  Microsoft folded Claude models into co-pilot in early 2026.
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  In the EU, those anthropic models default to off unless an administrator turns them on.
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  And the government offices have not confirmed whether Claude is switched on in their co-pilot.
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  Google, in an InfoQ report, used Gemini 4 Argon to optimize the agent development kits Python
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  codebase overnight. That codebase is 200,000 lines. Meta's AI commitments have surged to
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  $825 billion. Digitimes reports. The piece treats that sum as a test of how the company
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  finances the build. Microsoft Communications Chief Frank X Shaw is leaving at the end of
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  year. Geekwire reports. The exit interview looks across nearly three decades, including
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  his work for Bill Gates, Steve Balmer, and Satya Nadella. Mistakes he would handle differently.
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  His dealings with top tech reporters and how communications is changing in the AI era.
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  Two figures sit outside those stories. Amazon's Cloud Unit says its AI security agent fixes
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  89% of bugs. The new stack reports. The information puts Meta's business with CoreWeave at 35 billion
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  dollars. The dust failure does not describe the outer glass. MacRumor's account of Nelson's
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  test still credits Ceramic Shield 2, which scratched only at Mo's level 7, and the inner nano texture,
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  which made Mark's vanish. Those two results cut against reading the whole phone as soft.
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  They do not clear it. The inner screen stopped at level 2. The bend left a permanent green line,
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  and Nelson's verdict was that the duo did not survive. Instagram's television app is now on Apple
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  TV. After tests on Amazon's Fire TV and on Google TV, an Apple's own metadata calls
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  the build version 66.0. That metadata dates the build to October 23rd. The first day
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  the app is on Apple's streaming box. An archived app store listing from October 19th
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  still showed only iPhone and iPad. The app plays reels, longer videos and live shows.
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  A viewer can watch creators they follow, discover videos, and pick up a video on another device.
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  Instagram describes it as a way to watch with friends and family, so a phone feed moves
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  onto a screen or room shares.
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  The television job did not start on Apple hardware.
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  Instagram began testing on Amazon Fire TV devices in the United States in December 2025.
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  It expanded to Google TV in February 2026, and to Samsung Smart TVs in June.
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  The first version sorted reels into channels by a viewer's interest and played the next
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  clip on its own.
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  That same June, Meta said it would go past short video toward longer creator pieces, episodic
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  series, and live broadcasts.
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  The Apple TV listing names longer videos and live shows next to Reels, so the June outline
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  is what reached Apple Store.
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  This follows Instagram's iPad app which arrived in September 2025 after years of requests for
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  a tablet layout.
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  The Television app needs TVOS 26.0 or later, and it is on the Apple TV App Store.
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  4. Meta reaches that box only if Apple lists the app, and only on that operating system
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  floor.
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  Apple's streaming device now carries Meta's catalog beside the show's Apple cells
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  under its own TV name.
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  A clip started on an iPhone can continue on the Apple TV, so Meta's account and Apple's
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  screen share one session.
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  December 2025 was the Fire TV test.
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  February 2026 was Google TV.
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  June was Samsung, and June was when Meta said the product would leave short video behind.
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  9. October 19 is the last listing in today's record that still stopped at phone and tablet.
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  October 23 is version 66.0 on Apple TV.
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  September 2025 remains the tablet step that came first on Apple's own hardware.
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  The past seven days before this desk ran through a tighter set of moves than a single Sunday
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  can hold.
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  On October 19, Google's four Gemini agents wrote 2,783 programs and beat Minecraft on their
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  own.
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  On October 20th, Amazon put a 16 billion Euro 2027 Germany spend on data centers, satellites,
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  and video.
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  On October 21st, the claim was that 14 days, not 6 months, gets an Nvidia AI factory
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  into production.
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  From March 20th, 2027, Apple has to open Australian iPhones to rival app stores.
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  And by October 23rd, only one iPhone had iOS 27.1, with every other model skipping to 27.2.
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  Yesterday, Amazon's cloud was described as largely sold out through 2027, which pins AI
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  labs to capacity already booked.
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  Before we go, Monday is the cutoff on those government machines.
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  That's Mag 7 Daily for today.
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  Nothing in this show is financial advice.
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  I'm Patrick in Vancouver.
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  See you tomorrow.
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