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Apple is making a significant change to macOS privacy settings, tightening controls around full disk access in direct response to risks posed by AI agents. The move follows an incident where Meta's Muse agent reportedly sent a user unsolicited notifications referencing private Apple Messages conversations, raising serious questions about how broadly AI tools interpret the permissions we grant them.
Staying with Apple, the company has acknowledged a hardware bug affecting iPhone eighteen Pro Max users on the AT&T network, leaving some devices stuck in SOS mode with no cellular connection. Apple confirms the issue is a hardware defect and says affected customers will need a full device replacement, a significant admission for a flagship phone still fresh on shelves.
And in the world of developer tools, a new open source project called Gloss is quietly drawing attention on Hacker News. The tool lets developers annotate live code directly and feed that structured feedback back to an AI coding agent, bridging the gap between human judgment and automated assistance in a way that feels more collaborative than most AI workflows we have seen so far.
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