TNW 409: Apple's New M5 MacBook and iPad Pro - How Apple's New Hub Chip Could Reshape Home Automation
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy of The Verge is on Tech News Weekly with Mikah Sargent this week! Jennifer is excited about the new iPad Pro. California passed a law requiring warning labels on social media. Apple announced the new iPad Pro, MacBook Pro, and Vision Pro with the M5 chip. Meta launched new PG-13 Guidelines for teen users on Instagram.
- The iPad Pro got an M5 update! But Jennifer is more excited about how the iPad got the chip needed to be a smart home controller that officially supports the Thread protocol.
- Mikah talks about California passing a new law that requires social media companies to disclose the health risks of using social media.
- Dan Moren of Six Colors stops by to talk about, besides the iPad Pro getting an upgrade to M5, the MacBook Pro and Vision Pro getting updated with the M5 chips.
- And Mikah shares Meta's new PG-13 guidelines for Instagram Teen accounts.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Guest: Dan Moren
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Jennifer Patterson-Tooey is here. We kick off the show talking about the |
| 0:04.9 | iPad, the new iPad, and how it has a chip that's going to help you with your smart home. |
| 0:10.9 | Afterward, we talk about California's new law aimed at providing a warning label for teens accessing social media. |
| 0:19.5 | Afterwards, Dan Morin of Six Color stops by to give us the rundown of all the new stuff Apple announced. |
| 0:26.7 | And I round things out talking about Instagram's new PG-13 guidelines for teen accounts on the platform. |
| 0:34.7 | All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:39.4 | Podcasts you love. From people you trust. This is Twitter. |
| 0:47.2 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 409, with Jennifer Patterson, Tui, and me, Micah Sargent. |
| 0:54.1 | Recorded Thursday, October 16th, 2025. |
| 0:57.9 | Apple's new M5 MacBook and iPad Pro. |
| 1:02.5 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show where every week we talk to and about the people making and breaking the tech news. |
| 1:09.7 | It is October the Spookiest Month, |
| 1:12.6 | and I am joined by a wonderful guest. |
| 1:16.6 | Uh, a, a ghostly presence here. |
| 1:20.6 | No, it's Jennifer Patterson, too. |
| 1:22.6 | Hello, Jen. |
| 1:23.6 | I am wearing white. |
| 1:24.6 | Yeah, that's what I was going for at the end. I can be the ghost. I do wish I'd had |
| 1:30.4 | time to go find my witch's hat, though. Next, no, next time it'll be November. Oh, well. Next year. |
| 1:37.7 | I'll prepare next time. So this, of course, is the part of the show where we talk about our stories of the week. |
| 1:45.3 | Later in the episode, I will be talking to someone about the overall announcements from Apple that just hit this week. |
| 1:54.8 | But as is the way of things, I'm very excited to be joined by Jen, who is our expert on all things home, |
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