Fios CableCARD Fade, Apple Chip Comparisons, and a Rumored October Event on ATP 712

The Accidental Tech Podcast's episode 712, titled "Mildly Technologically Traumatized," jumped between subjects this week, from a ride in a Waymo robotaxi to the internal layout of Apple's next chips. The show's published notes are mostly a list of links rather than a transcript, so the details below reflect the topics the hosts flagged.

The biggest consumer-facing item is the discontinuation of CableCARD support on Verizon Fios. Cable-card tuners have long been the way some households pulled premium TV channels into third-party recorders and streaming setups, and the hosts treated the change as another sign of the shrinking room left for dedicated set-top hardware. The episode also raised TiVo's current position in that same shrinking market.

On the Apple side, the hosts spent considerable time on chip architecture. Their notes point to a breakdown from High Yield and SemiAnalysis that compares the A20 Pro with the M6 and the M6 with the M5, with focused segments on core layouts and core die images. The episode also refers to a rumored October event, which would put new hardware back in the spotlight.

The rest of the rundown is a grab bag of practical tech. The hosts compared Ubiquiti's home Wi-Fi gear with Eero, touched on Home Assistant notifications paired with Pushover and Shortcuts, and discussed GL.iNet's Comet Q and PiKVM. For Mac users, there were updates to Full Disk Access in macOS, a topic that tends to affect which apps can read protected folders. On the audio front, the show explained where to set how AirPods behave when only one bud is in use compared with both: Settings, then Accessibility, then AirPods, then your specific pair.

Listeners who want the full context can use the episode's timestamped links, which jump directly to the chip-core discussion and the core-image comparison.