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Securitydeveloper.apple.comOct 22

Full Disk Access is the most dangerous setting on my Mac

On October 2, Apple told Mac developers it will add new controls to Full Disk Access, so that granting it takes "very explicit user action."

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Tools & Gearyoutube.comOct 22

I asked Android users what's stopping them from getting an iPhone

I asked Android users in a YouTube poll on October 2 what's stopping them from getting an iPhone, and most of the people who answered just like Android more.

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Infrastructureresearch.meta.aiOct 22

Meta opened up Muse Spark, and it takes two Mac Studios to run it at home

Meta released Muse Spark Open on October 15, a model with 816 billion parameters, 42 billion of them active.

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Tools & Gearmacrumors.comOct 22

Withings wants about $100 a year to sync your scale with Apple Health

Anyone who creates a Withings account on October 13 or later needs a Withings+ subscription for automatic syncing to Apple Health, MacRumors reported, at $99.50 a year in the U.S.

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Tools & Gearmacrumors.comOct 22

iPhone Duo inner screen repair costs $999, so if you preorder one anyway, buy AppleCare+

iPhone Duo preorders opened October 16, and the number I'd look at before the $1,999 starting price is $999.

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Hacks & Buildsgithub.comOct 22

Somebody got Android apps running on a Mac with no emulator, and they show up in the Dock

A developer who goes by kksimp put a project on GitHub, Mac dot apk, that runs Android apps on Apple Silicon Macs with no emulator and no virtual machine.

#android 2 min read

Tools & Geargizmodo.comOct 22

iPhone Duo sold out until January? Don't pay a scalper

Apple's first foldable starts at $1,999, and Gizmodo reported that its ship dates slipped from launch day, October 23, to mid-November in under five minutes.

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Tools & Geartheedgemalaysia.comOct 22

Apple Intelligence is coming to China without the new Siri

Tim Cook told The Paper, a state-backed Chinese outlet, that Apple Intelligence has been approved in China and that a test version is due later in October, Reuters reported.

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Tools & Gearpcmag.comOct 21

Apple ran a graphite pipe through the iPhone Duo's hinge to cool it

Apple's first foldable has the heat problem every foldable has: it's thin when it's open, and its thickness doubles when you close it.

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Hacks & Buildspagetable.comOct 21

Super Mario 64 moved onto the dining table

Michael Steil has turned Super Mario 64 into a living diorama for Apple Vision Pro.

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Retromacrumors.comOct 21

Apple's cancelled future now opens in a browser

Apple cancelled Copland in August 1996, and you can now boot it in a browser tab.

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Retro0x3.jawncon.orgOct 20

JawnCon put its conference schedule inside an emulated Macintosh Plus

JawnCon, Philadelphia's hacker conference, built this year's schedule as a HyperCard stack and runs it "in a Macintosh Plus, in a 68k emulator in your browser," according to the event's schedule page, though a plain web version is there too for anyone in a hurry.

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Hacks & Buildsgithub.comOct 14

Someone ran an unmodified Linux graphics driver on an iPad

An iPad is running Linux's own graphics driver, unmodified, to drive an AMD GPU in a Thunderbolt enclosure.

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Hacks & Buildsgithub.comOct 9

A developer got Google's Googlebook OS running on an Apple Silicon Mac

Googlebook OS now runs on a Mac, unofficially, in a virtual machine with GPU acceleration and Chrome working.

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