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Apple Tightens macOS Full Disk Access Over AI Agent Privacy Risk
Apple is requiring 'very explicit user action' before any app can receive Full Disk Access, citing AI agents as a new and growing threat to user privacy.
WebGPU + DuckDB-Wasm Bring Real AI Workloads Into the Browser
James Hall shows how WebGPU, Transformers.js, and DuckDB-Wasm make client-side AI inference practical for production workloads — without sending data to the cloud.
Abbott Freezes Texas Flock Camera Funding After $30M Spend Exposed
Texas spent over $30M on Flock ALPR cameras via a $1 insurance surcharge. Governor Abbott froze further spending as bipartisan backlash mounts.
Google HEIR Compiles PyTorch Models for Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Google's open-source HEIR toolchain compiles pre-trained PyTorch models for FHE inference, with ~10³ overhead and no published LLM benchmarks yet.
Firefox Smart Window Gets Live Web Search and Zero-Retention AI Contracts
Mozilla's Smart Window now pulls live web results via Exa, adds natural-language history search, and enforces zero-data-retention contracts with every model provider.
ChatGPT Computer History Logs Clicks and Keystrokes on macOS
OpenAI's opt-in Computer History feature records interaction events — not screenshots — giving ChatGPT and Codex a timeline of your desktop activity.
Twitch Defaults Your Content Into Amazon AI Training
Twitch quietly enabled Amazon AI training on all creator content by default. Over 16,000 creators protested. Here's what the opt-out actually covers.
Meetily Transcribes and Summarizes Meetings Locally, Free
Meetily is a free, open-source meeting assistant that runs AI models locally—no account, no subscription, no cloud upload required.