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Apple is tightening the reins on Full Disk Access in macOS, and the timing is pointed. The move comes in direct response to AI applications quietly hoovering up far more data than users realized. It's a familiar pattern — convenience outpaces consent, and Apple steps in to redraw the line.
On the labor front, Lyft has agreed to pay two hundred seventy two point five million dollars to settle a worker classification lawsuit brought by the state of California back in two thousand twenty. The case centered on whether drivers were employees or contractors — a distinction worth billions in benefits and protections. It's a significant, if long-delayed, reckoning for the gig economy.
And for those who want serious compute in a small box, Minisforum is shipping its Ryzen AI Max Plus PRO four ninety five workstation with one hundred ninety two gigabytes of memory and two terabytes of storage. It lists above nine thousand two hundred dollars, but preorder pricing brings it under seven thousand four hundred. It's a machine aimed squarely at developers and researchers who've outgrown the cloud.
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