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Method Security, which specializes in dual-use cyber capabilities, raised $26M across seed and Series A rounds led by a16z and General Catalyst, respectively  —  Method Security, a dual-use company combining cyber expertise with artificial intelligence speed, raised $26 million across its seed round and Series A.

• 🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It II
  • ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It — 16 October 2023
• Follow-up:
  • The origin of “diamond dogs” (via Jared Counts)
    • Wikipedia
  • Matte, glossy, glass, and nanotexture (via Johnny “Decimal” Noble)
    • Paperlike
    • Rock Paper Pencil
  • Steam Machine
    • EuroGamer article about APU/GPU (via DavidShaub)
  • PlayStation 5 OS is FreeBSD-based (via Jesús Santaigo Narváez)
    • Wikipedia
    • PS Dev Wiki
  • Steam Frame
    • Lenses (via Michael)
    • Spec chart (via James O’Loughlin)
    • Top strap image
    • Steam → Apple Vision Pro using ALVR (via Iain Wallace)
      • Guide on Reddit
  • SteamOS
    • Is not universally supported (via DavidSchaub)
    • Alternatives (via solmnmagus)
      • Bazzite
      • CachyOS
    • Anti-cheat considerations (via Julian Torres)
    • Screw it, I’m installing Linux
  • Steam strategy
    • Is Steam-on-ARM popular?
      • Hardware survey (via Lars Boris)
        • Additional thoughts from Ava
    • Steam has only one person to answer to (via charlesesmith)
  • Single thread performance ranking (via Steven Op de beeck)
  • “High-Res Antiglare” (via Adam Wunn)
• John mourns the recent news
  • GPU issues (via Colin Cornaby)
  • GeekBench Metal scores
    • Mac Pro (2019) + AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
    • Mac Studio (2025) + M3 Ultra
  • The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor
• Tim Cook to step down as early as next year
  • Tim Cook & Kara Swisher in 2021 (starts at 35:51)
    • As discussed in ATP #425: Hey Billionaire
  • Financial Times, 14 November 2025
  • Gruber’s take
  • Joe Rossignol @ Mac Rumors
    • Apple Corporate Governance Guidelines
• Post-show: Declan discovers “HyperCard”
  • Rage-baiting
• Members-only ATP Overtime: The App Store on the web
  • Dan Moren @ Six Colors
  • MJ Tsai
  • Apple shipped its source maps
    • Svelte
  • See also: Apple Maps on the web
    • Announcement
  • See also: Apple Podcasts on the web
    • Juli Clover @ MacRumors

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