If you’ve got an Apple silicon Mac running macOS 27, have some fun playing with on-device AI using the fm command tool. Free and completely private.
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Analysis of bundle counts in /System/Library and bundled apps from Mojave and Catalina to Golden Gate shows how much they’ve changed over the last 7 years.
Full Disk Access gives apps and services access to all our most sensitive secrets. Should you grant that to AI agents such as those of Meta’s Muse app?
How an AIR reports proofreading, a Siri request about an image of a painting, and image generation in Image Playground, and the first release of AIRer to help you read your own reports.
Frustrated trying to read Apple Intelligence Reports? Try this new app that extracts their useful contents, converts dates, and lays them out to make them accessible and understandable.
How to ensure the external disk has you as its Owner, with a LocalPolicy that allows your Mac to use it as a boot disk. When yo avoid using a DFU port, and negotiating keychain problems.
Apple has just released security updates bringing Golden Gate to 27.0.1, Tahoe to 26.7.1, and Sequoia to 15.8.1. […]
Seven burning problems, from encrypted login keychains to problems updating XProtect, have turned the last week into a plate-spinner’s nightmare..
How your Siri AI requests remain private even when processed off-device, by PCC. How a simple request becomes a long and elaborate prompt.
Take one Golden Gate VM, tweak its security settings, restart, agree to a long stream of licences, then devise a command to parse and export an attestation bundle and what do you get?
