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❗️ Benchmarks show the 1TB iPhone 18 Pro Max becomes as slow as an SD card due to its QLC memory. The $600 cheaper 256GB model uses TLC and is way faster.
HOMOLAB found the 1TB's QLC storage falls from 3,000+ MB/s to an average of 79.4 MB/s once its caches fill, dipping to 1.1 MB/s at 60% full.
A 512GB iPhone 18 Pro with TLC beat it in every mixed read/write test, by up to 38%.
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All the top tech giants have deep ties to the CIA. Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon. Facebook and Instagram are overseen by “former” CIA operatives. Our whole civilization is run by an alliance of oligarchs and empire managers.
Ten years a former senior Pentagon official told me what I thought was an apocryphal story: American spies had saved Steve Jobs, and by extension, Apple.
Tracking it down became a personal obsession and the starting point for my new book, Valley of Death. I'm thrilled to share the excerpt about Jobs and the CIA published today in the @WSJ.
wsj.com/tech/steve-jobs-appl…
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❗️Under a secret order, the UK wants Apple to build a backdoor into its encrypted iCloud backups. Apple is refusing, and fighting it in court.
Britain's first attempt covered Americans' data too. Washington pushed back, and it was withdrawn — then the Home Office issued a new one, narrowed to UK users only. Apple filed against it at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal last month.
Britons have had no Advanced Data Protection since February 2025: the opt-in setting that end-to-end encrypts iCloud photos, notes and backups. Apple pulled it rather than comply.
By Apple's own account, UK users are now the only ones in the world who can't switch it on. Their photos and backups sit on servers Apple can unlock — and hand over on a valid legal request...
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Apple is suing OpenAI into the ground.
Breaking News: Apple sued OpenAI, accusing the company of stealing secrets about products still in development. nyti.ms/44oAF9C
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@AudioBrewers have released Ab Recorder for IPhone users.
thebeatcommunity.com/2026/07…
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We just had an emergency family meeting. I had to explain to them that we’ll be selling our family car in order to afford the next generation Mac Mini when it gets released. I told them that’s the only way we’ll be able to run AI models now that all the AI labs are getting de facto nationalized, plus we can always use the public transportation. They protested vehemently saying something like “we live in America, there is NO public transportation here”, but I held firm and pointed out that was their false conscience speaking and they were all victims of the late stage capitalism gaslighting. Man, I love my family.
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Apple's Tim Cook has "never seen anything like" the surge in memory & storage costs that forced a product price hike.
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iOS 26.4.2 Patches Flaw That Let FBI Extract Deleted Signal Messages macrumors.com/2026/04/22/ios…
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Big shout out to OpenClaw.
One of the most downloaded OpenClaw skills was AmosStealer
Chat, MacOS malware is so fucking back
1password.com/blog/from-magi…
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Joint Statement: Apple and Google have entered into a multi-year collaboration under which the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Google's Gemini models and cloud technology. These models will help power future Apple Intelligence features, including a more personalized Siri coming this year.
After careful evaluation, Apple determined that Google's Al technology provides the most capable foundation for Apple Foundation Models and is excited about the innovative new experiences it will unlock for Apple users. Apple Intelligence will continue to run on Apple devices and Private Cloud Compute, while maintaining Apple's industry-leading privacy standards.
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hey wanna see something kinda interesting? this was the entire fix to the iPhone Antennagate in 2010. 20 bytes.
ALT iOS 4.0: 8d ff ff ff 91 ff ff ff 95 ff ff ff 99 ff ff ff 9d ff ff ff iOS 4.0.1: 86 ff ff ff 98 ff ff ff 9e ff ff ff a7 ff ff ff b0 ff ff ff
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Tim Cook is likely to step down as Apple’s CEO
According to Bloomberg, John Ternus, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering, is expected to take over.
Bloomberg notes that Apple now likely needs an engineer rather than a sales or operations specialist. While the company expanded significantly under Cook’s leadership, it has struggled to break into new tech categories such as virtual reality, generative AI, smart home devices, and autonomous vehicles.
Ternus reportedly stands out among other potential successors. After stepping down, Cook may remain as chairman of Apple’s board — a path previously taken by leaders like Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The Bloomberg article does not mention a time frame about when Cook will step down -- instead, it focuses on who will take over whenever "Cook eventually steps down"
bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
archive.ph/tSh5x
How to: Get to Know iPhone Privacy and Security Settings | Surveillance Self-Defense: ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-ge…
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UK govt sought broad access to Apple customers’ data, court filing shows. Document suggests the government’s ‘back-door’ demand was not limited to the company’s most secure iCloud service<not a surprise to me nor the alleged extraterritorial scope
archive.is/FL6Xz
Apple Music radio stations now available for free on the TuneIn app: 9to5mac.com/2025/08/27/apple…
