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iFixit's teardown confirmed what many suspected: the Trump phone is an HTC U24 Pro painted gold. They swapped mainboards between the two devices and both worked — proving they share the same system-on-chip, form factor, and board. Made in Shenzhen, China.
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The final segment covers a flurry of closing stories. The Skydance-Paramount merger is approved despite state AG challenges, creating a media giant under Larry Ellison's son David Ellison with CBS, HBO, CNN, and Paramount under one roof. Bloomberg reports Roku is seeking a buyer, prompting Christina to describe a potential Skydance acquisition as 'my nightmare' — a home screen from hell owned by the Oracle guy's son. Two new studies link smartphone access and high-speed internet to declining US fertility rates, with a natural experiment comparing counties with and without early AT&T iPhone coverage. Leo closes with a fond RIP for Fable Pool — a briefly-lived crowdfunding project to pool tokens for ambitious Fable 5 projects that died with the model shutdown. The panel says its goodbyes, with Leo previewing John Gruber joining MacBreak Weekly Tuesday and Richard Campbell teasing more whiskey segments from Canada.
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