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by alwillis 8mo ago
> A person suspecting their iPhone has been hacked has no way to check it. Apple only offers a cope mechanism in the form of "lockdown mode", which likely can be bypassed just as well. In the past, Apple alerted users (journali
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FBI stymied by Apple's Lockdown Mode after seizing journalist's iPhone(arstechnica.com)
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Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit in foreign spy and criminal hands(wired.com)
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'MacBook Neo' briefly appears on Apple's regulatory website(appleinsider.com)
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If you’re working on something sensitive, you may not want to share it with OpenAI or Anthropic. You can run open source models like Kimi K or Qwen locally. Apple recently updated Xcode 26.3 to support local models.
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In the US, power adapters are included: 70W USB-C Power Adapter (included with M5 Pro with 16-core GPU) 96W USB-C Power Adapter (included with M5 Pro with 20-core GPU, configurable with M5 Pro with 16-core GPU) USB-C to MagS
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Prices aren’t likely to change. Even when the tariffs were on, Apple’s prices didn’t change; they gave up some margin. They also probably had RAM contracts in place far enough in advance to avoid the worst of the price spikes.
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I’ve been running the macOS 26.4 beta and have none of these issues.
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LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy(arstechnica.com)
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The huge advantage for some people: you can get a cellular data connection for an iPad. If you need internet connectivity on the road regardless if Wi-Fi is available, only the iPad has that option. Yes, you can use a Mac laptop with your p
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by alwillis 8mo ago
> trying not to make iPads accidentally powerful enough for someone to skip buying a MacBook. This clearly isn’t the case—the iPad Pro got the M4 processor in May 2024; the Mac didn’t get the M4 until October. So for a few months, Apple’
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The 17 is the first base model iPhone to have a ProMotion display.
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Every phone since the iPhone 15 Pro has the minimum 8GB to accommodate Apple Intelligence.
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Going back to the 2007, Apple doesn’t reveal the amount of RAM for the iPhone in their marketing. Occasionally there’s a feature that requires a minimum amount of RAM like Apple Intelligence but that’s the exception.
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> It’s not a luxury brand, it is a quality brand. There is a difference. It’s an attainable luxury brand. There aren’t many products that a high school kid has in common with billionaires, superstar athletes and movie stars—the iPhone is
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The conventional wisdom is Apple believes anyone for whom ultra wide-band is an important feature wouldn’t be interested in a bargain iPhone.
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Yes, the baseline 17 has almost all of the features of previous Pro models.
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The modem chip (the C series) and the N series are two different chipsets. For example, the 16e has the C1 modem but the standard Broadcom (or whoever) Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chipset.
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Yes! And they're not happy about it.
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After Quicksilver, I went to LaunchBar, a fine app. It seemed to lose momentum after a while… I tried going built-in with Tahoe's upgraded Spotlight, a big improvement compared to the original. But it wasn’t enough. I resisted Raycast
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>> The central promise—that distributed digital fabrication would bring manufacturing back to America, that every city would have micro-factories, that 3D printing would decentralize production—simply didn’t materialize. > This ver
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Because Apple’s CEO is playing nice with the administration (for now), Apple has been exempt from tariffs, even going back to Trump’s first term. Also investing $500 billion in domestic manufacturing doesn’t hurt.
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> Right, but it's closer to 1% of total device sales like I said in my comment. That’s correct.
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This looks awesome! I’m excited to try it out. Loved Quicksilver back in the day.
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Mac mini plant was planned under the Biden administration(appleinsider.com)
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> Mac Minis are also around 1% of Apple's device sales. Apple doesn't break out the Mac sales by product, but the latest estimates is it's 5% [1] of total Mac sales. [1]: https://www.macrumors.com/2026&#x2F
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Apple will spend more than $500 billion in the U.S. over the next four years — https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/02/apple-will-spend-more... Apple Manufacturing Academy opens in Detroit on August 19 —
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> a Ryzen 5800h mini PC last year, which roughly lands in the same performance bracket [as a Mac mini]. Not really. And this is before the M5 Mac mini which ships later this year. Putting it together in desktop‑mini form factors: - Raw C
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> It doesn't say the Mini will be exclusively produced at this US facility. What's likely to happen is Mac minis for North America will be made in Houston. Otherwise, the ones for the rest of the world will be made at the same
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All of the major LLMs have re-useable prompts now, so once someone makes a skill [1] that does it, anyone can use it. Even now, with OpenClaw and all of the spinoffs, it's possible to have n agent do this today. [1]: https:/&#x2F

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