Possible Vulnerability in #Apple’s Automatic Reboot https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/10/possible-vulnerability-in-apples-automatic-reboot.html

Here we go… Foldin’, foldin’, foldin’!

Day 1: Apple

#Inktober #Apple #FediArt #HumanArt #LineaSketch

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A digital colored pencil sketch of an electronic tablet, folding in half with the Apple logo squarely in the middle in oranges and purples.

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The official Inktober 2026 prompt list with Day One: Apple crossed out by a folding zigzag line.

Time-lapse process for Day 1: Apple

#Inktober #Apple #FediArt #HumanArt #LineaSketch

How to get rid of the persnickity #AI that in macOS 27 is "split across different settings panes" without a single toggle to shut off and leaves at least 12 GB of data on your Mac even if you don't want it...

#Apple #tech
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An open-source tool lets you delete 12GB of Apple Intelligence data on macOS/ ‘RemoveMacAI’ switches off Apple’s AI features, deletes its AI models, and blocks them from being downloaded again ~

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1004672/mac-delete-apple-intelligence-ai-tool
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https://archive.ph/Rydzv

For all the smarts in the latest #iOS it can still be pretty dumb:

- "Siri, open stopwatch"

<starts a stopwatch instead of opening the app>

- "Siri, open stopwatch APP".

<Opens Clock App, not to Stopwatch screen>

I tried again, this time the phone froze on "Opening the Clock app" with a red screen.

#apple #ai

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Phone screenshot stuck with red background, "Opening the Clock app" overlay.

TIL that #Apple passwords defaults to allow websites to automatically upgrade existing accounts to use passkeys. O_o

Thanks to @iamkonstantin for the alert about it before something happened to my accounts.

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apple macos 27 password preferences showing the offending setting

This is what education looks like in a Big Tech world that only cares about money.

"Schools are weighing the cost of maintaining Chromebooks versus leasing MacBook Neos."

"In Texas, Beaumont Independent School District estimated they completed more than 6,600 laptop repairs in a single school year, across a fleet of devices an average of five years old. Support costs reached $469,576, covering $212,574 in repairs since January 2025, $220,040 in IT staff time for the 2025-26 year, and $36,962 in overtime."

Inc: Apple and Google Both Want to Rule the Classroom. The Tide Is Turning for 1 of Them https://www.inc.com/connor-jewiss/apple-and-google-both-want-to-rule-the-classroom-the-tide-is-turning-for-1-of-them/91413960 @IncMagazine #Google #Apple #education

@mttaggart

@gruber

ps if AI can threaten us by gaining system wide access, how can #apple best protect us and ensure our privacy and security of personal data.

"...we will introduce additional controls to ensure that users who genuinely wish to grant an app this extraordinary level of access can only do so with very explicit user action. Addressing this is critical. As AI agents become increasingly capable and autonomous, the risks associated with this level of access will grow substantially."

I don't want ANY app to have full acccess to my Mac drive! SECURITY over convenience! Lock it DOWN! Exception: Backup apps. Maybe!

#APPLE @gruber

The Mac Studio M5 Ultra can't give a proper Logic Pro X graph, because software wise Logic Pro is limited by 1000 concurrent tracks. 😱😂

What a beast of a machine and at 6200 EU for the base model this dream machine will stay a dream.

#xp #Macstudio #M5Ultra #MacOS #Apple #AppleSilicon

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M5 Ultra SOC Logo

Huh.

Apple says it's tightening macOS 'Full Disk Access' controls due to new risks from AI agents | TechCrunch
#Apple #AI #Tech
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/02/apple-says-its-tightening-macos-full-disk-access-controls-due-to-new-risks-from-ai-agents/

@nixCraft This is what happens when you don't have a micro-manager at #Apple anymore who likes sweating the details. Didn't they recently terminate a guy who worked on a lot of plumbing and quality of life features of #macOS?

Apple Watch Ultra (1st Gen) abzugeben

Hat jemand Interesse an einer Apple Watch Ultra (1st Gen)?

Ich kann ein unbenutztes Armband (ausgepackt, aber unbenutzt) beilegen. Ladeschale lege ich auch bei.

Der Grund warum ich die ablöse ist, dass es keine Software-Updates mehr gibt. Sie läuft aber ohne Probleme weiter. Zum Konfigurieren ist ein iPhone notwendig.

Part# ist MQFL3FD/A. Der Akku-Zustand war zuletzt bei 87%.

Product Specifications

• Model: Apple Watch Ultra (1st Gen)
• Case Size: 49 mm
• Case Material: Aerospace-grade Titanium
• Band Type: Alpine Loop
• Band Color: OrangeBand Size: Medium (fits wrists 145–190 mm)
• Region Code: FD/A (Designated primarily for Austria, Germany, and Switzerland).

VHB: 150€

Standort ist #Kronshagen bei #Kiel, falls jemand die abholen will. Versende die aber auch.

#flohmarkt #apple

Also $IRL today’s episode, $DAUGHTER and I had a #Facetime meeting where we had both webcam on and I shared my iPhone screen. So that I could run the #workout app and she could see its content too. So we both did the workout real-time while being about 130 km far from each other.

Yeah, pretend in 2020 again… 😷

That would probably not have been possible if we were not tied to #Apple. But this particular usage could justify it.

I guess I hadn't looked at photos since migrating to Alpine Linux lately.

Does anyone have HEIC (i.e. Apple) formatted images working correctly under Alpine?

I've installed libheif, kimageformats and anything remotely libheif related in the repo but Gwenview still doesn't display HEIC images. Neither does Shotwell.

I installed Ristretto to compare and it also doesn't display HEIC images.

GIMP works as does Darktable.

Dolphin displays the thumbnails properly but the preview pane doesn't work.

Ideas? Kinda pulling my hair out and out of options.

#Linux #AlpineLinux #AlpineLinuxEdge #KDE #Plasma #Gwenview #libheif #HEIC #Apple #Ristretto #GIMP

... sparingly. Each submenu adds complexity to the interface and hides the items it contains.

> Limit the depth and length of submenus. It can be difficult for people to reveal multiple levels of hierarchical submenus

Thanks @valery_kirichenko for the video.

#Popup #Apple #HIG #iOS #Menu #Submenu 2/2

Search : un navigateur Mac de 3 Mo qui tourne sur le moteur WebKit déjà présent dans macOS. Fenêtre ouverte en 320 ms, contre 526 ms pour Chrome et 730 ms pour Safari. Bloqueur de pubs intégré, extensions Chrome supportées, open source sur GitHub. ⬇️
https://officecommun.com/search

#Apple #macOS #iOS #Swift

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Early take on Apple’s Siri AI. 2 out of 5. #Apple #SiriAI #AppleIntelligence

"Finally, pity the poor Macintosh workers at Apple. In the heyday, one benefit for the Mac team was company paid-for massages at your workstation. They were called 'stress reduction treatments.' But with a little pain in the muscle of Macintosh sales, Steve says, 'No more back rubs.'"

#apple #retrocomputing

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Stewart Cheifet delivering the news in a 1985 "Computer Chronicles" episode. The insert graphic shows an image of a woman giving a man a back rub with the caption, "No More Back Rubs."

iPhone 18 Pro : score DXOMARK de 172 sur la caméra, en hausse grâce à l'aperture variable qui étend la profondeur de champ sur les portraits de groupe. Zoom longue portée en retrait, dominantes de couleur persistantes sur la balance des blancs. ⬇️
https://www.dxomark.com/apple-iphone-18-pro-camera-test/

#Apple #macOS #iOS #Swift

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Deux iPhone 18 Pro en couleur bordeaux présentés de face et de dos, mettant en avant le système de triple caméra circulaire et l'écran avec encoche, sur fond noir.

Did you know the seeds of OSX and iOS were seeded decades ago in the 1900s? #Apple #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #ios

Apple Configurator : transformer son iPhone en dumbphone en désactivant l'App Store via un profil de configuration. Icône disparue, plus d'installation ni de mise à jour possible. Le profil ne se retire qu'en effaçant tout le contenu du téléphone. ⬇️
https://korben.info/apple-configurator-iphone-dumbphone-temps-ecran.html

#Apple #macOS #iOS #Swift

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Affiche rétro de style vintage présentant un smartphone bleu et rouge avec un écran affichant une grille de carrés colorés, surmonté du texte "FERME" en lettres blanches sur un bandeau rouge traversant l'image.

macOS 27 Golden Gate abandonne définitivement les Mac Intel : il faut au minimum une puce M1. Apple Intelligence devient impossible à désactiver, avec des modèles téléchargés de force sur le disque. Les modèles les plus avancés exigent une puce M3 et 12 Go de RAM. ⬇️
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/macos-27-golden-gate-the-ars-technica-review/

#Apple #macOS #iOS #Swift

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Le Golden Gate Bridge de San Francisco se dresse majestueusement au coucher du soleil, ses arches rouge-orange illuminées par la lumière dorée, tandis que des rochers parsèment la plage rocheuse au premier plan.

How to kill your new burgundy iPhone 18 Pro within a minute. The part after 02:58 is especially satisfying. 💥

👉🏻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGhMjbut9JU

#xp #Apple #iPhone #iPhone18 #iPhone18Pro

I'm happy to report that MacOS 27 Golden Gate seems to run stable 24/7 on my Mac Mini M4 server. However there's not a lot installed on there.

I have decided not to upgrade my production machine YET. There's limited information available about audio plugin compatibility. Moreover Ableton Live doesn't seem to be officially supported yet.
Adobe Lightroom Classic/CS seem to have contrasting user experiences.

#xp #MacOS #GoldenGate #Apple #Macbook

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MacOS Golden Gate logo

@gruber I am depending on the ability to play with it at the #Apple store to minimize my FOMO from getting the best of me. I really don't need it since the 17 Pro Max is still excellent. I really want to see it mature a few releases more before I consider it.

If You’re Moving From 1Password to Apple Passwords Check Out These Resources
#Apple #1Password #Tech #ApplePasswords
https://warnercrocker.com/2026/09/15/if-youre-moving-from-1password-to-apple-passwords-check-out-these-resources/

Siri AI arrive avec iOS 27, iPadOS 27 et macOS 27 : compréhension du contexte personnel, prise en compte de l'écran, actions système poussées. Historique synchronisé via iCloud sur tous les appareils Apple. Beta en anglais, français prévu en octobre. ⬇️
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/major-updates-for-apples-software-platforms-are-now-available/

#Apple #macOS #iOS #Swift

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Affichage des appareils Apple avec les nouvelles mises à jour logicielles : un MacBook Pro affichant une présentation sur les olives, un iPhone avec des applications variées, un iPad montrant un article sur le Bosque de Chapultepec, une Apple Watch rouge et une Apple Vision Pro, tous illustrant les fonctionnalités d'Apple Intelligence.

Caveat: if you are updating to #macOS 27 there is this lovely fscking Apple Stupidity "feature" which starts quantising *all your disk* so that Spotlight can give you "better answers".

It has been going for over 24hrs for me and it is at 7.1% … the I/O is floored and you simply cannot run any I/O intensive tasks (e.g. Parallels).

To find out the state of affairs you can use:

plutil -extract SpotlightKnowledgeV2.embeddingGenComplete raw ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spotlightknowledge.plist | awk '{printf "%.1f%%\n", $1 * 100}'

Whoever at #Apple thought this is up is a complete and utter cretin, especially because it is clearly running with a high priority and takes over all disk I/O.

I still have not found a way to stop it so I can actually do some work.

Update: figured out a fix… note that it blocks Apple Stupidity as a side-effect:

UID=$(id -u)
# Disable Apple Intelligence search daemons
launchctl disable gui/$UID/com.apple.assistantd
launchctl disable gui/$UID/com.apple.assistant_service
launchctl disable gui/$UID/com.apple.assistant_cdmd
launchctl disable gui/$UID/com.apple.siriknowledged
launchctl disable gui/$UID/com.apple.siriinferenced
launchctl disable gui/$UID/com.apple.Siri.agent
# Disable system-wide AI search components
sudo launchctl disable system/com.apple.contextstored
sudo launchctl disable system/com.apple.modelmanagerd
# Stop the running hybridsearchd process immediately
sudo launchctl bootout gui/$UID/com.apple.hybridsearchd 2>/dev/null || true
sudo pkill -9 hybridsearchd 2>/dev/null || true

mactap : app menu bar qui transforme des taps sur le châssis du MacBook en raccourcis (copier, coller, undo). Détection on-device, M2+ et M1 Pro/Max.
Gratuit et open source. ⬇️
https://mactap.vercel.app/

#Apple #macOS #iOS #Swift

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Un tutoriel illustrant l'application macTap : à gauche, une flèche indique où frapper sur l'aluminium du MacBook près du trackpad, à droite une main effectue un tapotement détecté par l'app qui propose trois raccourcis (un, deux ou trois tapotements) pour déclencher diverses fonctions.

Apple releases iOS 27, macOS Golden Gate 27 with Siri “AI” and Liquid Glass refinements

Apple releases its yearly cluster of operating system updates today, with the two most prominent of course being macOS and iOS/iPadOS. These new versions focus heavily on Apple's "AI" stuff, but there are a few actual improvements and changes to the actual operati

https://www.osnews.com/story/145962/apple-releases-ios-27-macos-golden-gate-27-with-siri-ai-and-liquid-glass-refinements/

#Apple

New #blog #post: Gratitude Day 14: Apple Video Codec

https://rldane.space/gratitude-day-14-apple-video-codec.html

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cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @stfn @golemwire

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#rlDaneWriting #blost #SeptemberTheme #SeptemberBloggingTheme #SepThemeBear #SeptemberGratitude #gratitude #thankfulness #algorithms #lossy #compression #codec #codecs #AppleVideo #Apple #video #quicktime

Looking forward to today's release o MacOS 27 Golden Gate. I honestly haven't been this excited about a new MacOS update for over a decade and I am considering a day 1 upgrade over my current Mac OS 15.7.9 Sequoia installation.

I have been testing Golden Gate earlier on an old Macbook Air M1 and it felt very polished, efficient. While I hated Tahoe and therefore never upgraded to it, I think Liquid Glass has been improved to the point that I'm ready to embrace it.

#xp #Apple #MacOS #Macbook #GoldenGate

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New #blog #post: Gratitude Day 13: Re: G.A.S.

https://rldane.space/gratitude-day-13-re-gas.html

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cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @stfn @golemwire

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#rlDaneWriting #blost #SeptemberTheme #SeptemberBloggingTheme #SepThemeBear #SeptemberGratitude #gratitude #thankfulness #iPhone #GearAquisitionSyndrome #GearHead #consumerism #apple

Comparatif des prix de l'iPhone 18 Pro sur 41 pays, converti au cours BCE du jour. Les États-Unis restent la référence à 1295 $, la Turquie grimpe à +119 % avec la TVA à 20 %. La France se classe 29e, +32 % par rapport aux USA. ⬇️
https://ulrichrozier.com/pippin/

#Apple #macOS #iOS #Swift

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Une infographie compare les prix de l'iPhone 18 Pro, Pro Max et Duo dans 41 pays selon les tarifs de l'Apple Store. Elle affiche le prix le moins cher (1 115 € aux États-Unis), le plus cher (2 450 € en Turquie) et l'écart maximal (+120 € pour l'iPhone 18 Pro 256 Go).

For anyone tempted to use the newly announced Apple Watch features, despite all the ethical, legal, privacy, and security concerns,

Please remember that Apple specifies (in very small print):

"Siri Recap summaries and Live Rewind text snippets are generated using Apple Intelligence and may be incomplete or inaccurate.

Important details may be omitted, misunderstood, or summarized incorrectly.

When accuracy matters, confirm important information with the people involved or another reliable source.

Siri Recap is designed to limit certain potentially sensitive content, such as financial information, government-assigned identifiers, and more, but automated filtering may not remove all sensitive information."

Source: https://support.apple.com/en-us/148354

#Apple #Privacy #Security

Right so, Facebook is all sad because people are calling their "AI" surveillance specs "Pervert Glasses" and it's killing them. It's also establishing the social norm that you don't go around with video recording glasses on your face, you'll be shunned.

So we need to start calling the Apple Watch the "Creep Watch" for humanity's sake.

#Privacy #Apple #MassSurveillance

https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/117259285279707604

Imagine you're having a remote appointment with your doctor for a very personal health issue.

Your doctor is a tech enthusiast, and is proudly wearing the new Apple Watch with all the recording features enabled.

You don't see the "Audible and visible signals for Live Rewind", because you don't see your doctor's wrist on videochat or on speakerphone.

The "Omitted content" safeguard fails to detect the sensitive conversation, because none of the pre-selected keywords are detected.

"What about all the privacy laws protecting me?", you claim in distress.

Sadly, your doctor is unaware and thinks "surely Apple respects all the laws by default?"

The medical clinic isn't informed about privacy risks related to new technologies, and hasn't implemented any training or policies about it yet.

Your sensitive health data is collected by Apple's new features, stored on their servers, blissfully unaware of the infringements to your consent, your privacy, and all the laws supposed to protect you.

This is only one scenario of the many surveillance nightmares we might hear about in the coming months and years.

Brace yourself.

#Privacy #Security #Consent #Apple

Today @zackwhittaker brings up a very important topic about the launch of the new Apple Watch this week:

How a large company like Apple can play an important role in normalizing intrusive surveillance.

"Apple is opening the door to a world where other companies, device makers, and app developers try to recreate or rival Apple's technology and do a far shoddier job, all the while creating a worse surveillance monster and introducing new security and privacy risks along the way."

We don't talk enough about how privacy is also a culture, part of cultural norms that can go in one direction or another.

Products like this, produced and sold at a massive scale, weakens our culture of consent and privacy, and pushes society towards the increasing normalization of always-on surveillance.

I highly recommend reading Zack's article: https://this.weekinsecurity.com/watch-what-you-say-apple-opens-the-door-to-a-nightmare-world-of-always-listening-tech/

#Privacy #Security #Apple #MassSurveillance

BREAKING: New #Apple watches can listen all day and feed audio to #AI, possibly violating two-party consent state privacy laws

@iFixit Apple advertised that the iPhone Duo hinge contains 100 tiny parts like that’s a feature.

It’s a $2,000 phone with a 100 more parts to break.

#Apple #iPhoneDuo

#iOS jailbreaking needs to get a come back..

Not to add software but to remove it

#Apple #iPhone