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Find my hacker: How Apple's network can be a potential tracking tool (cec.gmu.edu)
Accessing region-locked iOS features, such as EU app stores (downrightnifty.me)
Assorted macOS Tips & Tricks (saurabhs.org)
iMac G4(K) (jcs.org)
Securing tomorrow's software: the need for memory safety standards (security.googleblog.com)
Xcode constantly phones home (lapcatsoftware.com)
touch grass: reduce screen time (touchgrass.now)
Apple to invest $500 billion in the US in the next four years, build AI server factory (nytimes.com)
MacOS for KDE Users (matklad.github.io)
Three questions about Apple, encryption, and the U.K (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
How Swift's server support powers Things Cloud (swift.org)
Apple stops offering end-to-end encrypted iCloud storage in the UK due to government spying demands (theverge.com)
Apple pulls encryption feature from UK over government spying demands (theverge.com)
Context, discussed very recently on Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/07jh0c/uk_demands_apple_break_encryption_allow
Crustacean for Lobste.rs (crustacean.optionalstudio.work)
Howdy folks! I wrote a native app for Lobste.rs to give back to the fantastic community and was wondering if I could have the opportunity for some feedback. It is still very early days but here is a list of things that work: - Read only access to the trending, active & new tabs. - Comments for th...
Amazon Appstore on Android and Coins will be discontinued on August 20, 2025 (amazon.com)
TRAVERTINE (CVE-2025-24118): Race condition in XNU (jprx.io)
Apple debuts iPhone 16e (apple.com)
Being a happy Nixer on a Mac (paretosecurity.com)
Proposal: Starting tasks synchronously from caller context (github.com)
[The author shares a high level introduction on the Swift Forums](https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-concurrency-starting-tasks-synchronously-from-caller-context/77960).
Serving local LLMs with MLX (kconner.com)
Other threads about employing MLX: - [simonw's `llm` with `llm-mlx` plugin](https://lobste.rs/s/1reyhf/run_llms_on_macos_using_llm_mlx_apple_s_mlx) - [Exo](https://lobste.rs/s/uaz4x1/exo_software_distributed_llm_solution)
Swift Evolution Proposal: InlineArray, a fixed-size array (github.com)
Debugging An Undebuggable App (bryce.co)
The Mac Menubar and SwiftUI (troz.net)
SharingGRDB: A SwiftData Alternative (pointfree.co)
DSLs for Safe iOS/watchOS Communication (defn.io)
Run LLMs on macOS using llm-mlx and Apple’s MLX framework (simonwillison.net)
First analysis of Apple's USB Restricted Mode bypass (CVE-2025-24200) (blog.quarkslab.com)
Terminader: merging the Finder and Terminal (github.com)
Are modern iPhones unusable without a case?
Marcan Resigns as Asahi Linux project lead (asahilinux.org)
Additional context: His personal blog post here: https://marcan.st/2025/02/resigning-as-asahi-linux-project-lead/