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No More Icons In Every Menu By Default
Jim Nielsen welcomes Apple removing default icons from every menu item in macOS Golden Gate, notes the new Human Interface Guidelines now cite Tahoe's menus as what not to do, and reflects on how choosing not to do something you've done is experience.
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Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads
Teddy Svoronos, who teaches by writing on handouts from an iPad AirPlayed to a projector while using the same iPad for notes, polls and slide control, explains how iPadOS 27 broke this: tapping any other window now mirrors the whole iPad screen. He describes the impact in GoodNotes, Keynote and PowerPoint and proposes a fix.
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Mac and iOS developer Jeff Johnson explains why he still avoids passkeys and sticks with randomly generated passwords. Even with the new credential exchange protocol, he argues passkeys tied to iCloud Keychain fail his requirements of logging in from an unfamiliar device and keeping independent backups, and that big platform vendors oversimplify security for everyone.
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Local and Distributed Large LLM Inference with MLX and RDMA on Mac Studio
Apple Machine Learning Research explains how MLX plus RDMA lets large open-weight models run locally and across networked Mac Studios—covering distributed inference setup aimed at the Muse Spark Open and similar workloads.
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Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS
Apple says it will add stronger, more explicit controls around macOS Full Disk Access as capable AI agents make broad access to files, mail, messages, and browsing history riskier for users and contacts.
1 min · 187 words
David Bushell timestamps the moment he refused Apple Intelligence features—and Apple’s later defaults said yes anyway—on consent, OS nudges, and keeping a blog as a personal audit trail.
2 min · 513 words
Resurrecting iChat Audio and Video Conferencing
Chris Jones explains how he got Apple iChat AV audio and video calls working again on Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard: with old network captures and LLM help he reverse engineered the dead SNATMAP NAT-discovery service, wrote a small UDP replacement server, and now one /etc/hosts line points old Macs at his public instance or a self-hosted one.
6 min · 1,373 words