techwire (@techwire@social.gamefan.net)
Apple Warns Canada's Bill C-22 Could Force Encryption Backdoors
Apple and Meta have opposed a Canadian bill that the companies say could force them to create backdoor access to encrypted user data, should it pass through the country's parliament. Proposed by Canada's ruling Liberal …
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/08/apple-warns-canada-bill-force-encryption-backdoors/
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Pulrepo (@Pulrepo@mastodon.social)
🚀 Fastest-growing AI projects today
1. Open-source repositories leveraging OpenAI's gpt-image-2 interface were particularly po...
2. CookSleep/gpt_image_playground takes the top spot thweek with a remarkable Growth Score...
3. Thtool allows users to generate and edit images using the gpt-image-2 interface, offeri...
Full report → https://pullrepo.com/report/todays-image-video-generation-fastest-growing-projects-may-09-2026
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alexbsr (@alexbsr@defcon.social)
A $1,999 Mac mini vs. a $4,000 Windows workstation for local AI — and the Mac wins. Here's why.
Most people running AI today are using cloud APIs — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini. The model lives on someone else's server, and your device barely works up a sweat. That's still the dominant model, and it works well.
But a growing number of developers and businesses are experimenting with something different: running the language model locally, on their own hardware. Always-on, private, no per-token cost.
When you go down that path, the hardware question gets interesting fast.
On a conventional Windows workstation, the CPU and GPU have separate memory pools. A 70B parameter model needs ~40 GB just to load — more than most consumer GPUs have. So you either cap out at smaller models, or spend $6,000+ on a professional GPU card.
Apple Silicon does it differently. The M4 Pro chip puts the CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine on the same die, sharing one unified memory pool. A 48 GB Mac mini hands the full 48 GB to its GPU cores directly — no transfer, no bottleneck, no VRAM ceiling.
Result: a $1,999 Mac mini runs Llama 3.1 70B. A $3,500 Windows workstation with an RTX 4090 cannot.
We wrote up the full comparison — including where Windows workstations still win (CUDA toolchains, training, high-concurrency serving) and a practical hardware decision guide for 2026.
https://www.buysellram.com/blog/why-mac-mini-is-the-surprising-frontrunner-for-local-ai-agents/
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techwire (@techwire@social.gamefan.net)
Spotify Now Plays Personal Podcasts Generated by Your AI Agent
Spotify has launched a new feature that lets users save AI-generated audio briefings called Personal Podcasts directly to their Spotify library. It uses a new command-line tool for desktop that works with AI coding agen…
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/08/spotify-personal-podcasts-ai-agent/
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simsus (@simsus@social.tchncs.de)
#FSFE warnt: #NHS sollte quelloffenen Code nicht depublizieren | Security https://www.heise.de/news/FSFE-warnt-NHS-sollte-quelloffenen-Code-nicht-depublizieren-11283406.html #OpenSource @fsfe
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techwire (@techwire@social.gamefan.net)
OpenAI's Codex Now Works in Chrome With New Extension
OpenAI today launched Codex for Chrome, a Chrome extension that lets Codex work directly in the browser on Macs and PCs. With the extension, Codex can use the browser to test web apps, get context across multiple tabs, …
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/07/openai-codex-chrome-extension/
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grimmy (@grimmy@mastodon.social)
Greetings Programs!! Doing work random work on @pidgin 2.15.0 tonight and maybe some other old stuff. Come on by and find out!!
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techwire (@techwire@social.gamefan.net)
Perplexity's New Mac App Brings Personal Computer to Pro Users
Perplexity today launched a new Mac app with support for its hybrid local-cloud AI agent Personal Computer, plus it expanded Personal Computer access to Pro and Enterprise users, so it is no longer limited to just Max s…
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/07/perplexity-mac-app-personal-computer/
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admin (@admin@mastodon.raddemo.host)
🚀 Deploy #Poweradmin on #AlmaLinux #VPS (5 Minute Quick-Start Guide)
Below is a complete, production-ready, step-by-step guide for how to deploy Poweradmin on AlmaLinux VPS.
What is Poweradmin?
Poweradmin (PowerAdmin) is an open-source, web-based #DNS management interface for PowerDNS.
What it does
PowerAdmin provides a graphical UI that allows administrators and users to manage DNS zones and ...
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techwire (@techwire@social.gamefan.net)
Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 243 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements
Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser that was first introduced in March 2016. Apple designed Safari Technology Preview to allow users to test features that are plan…
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/07/apple-releases-safari-technology-preview-243/
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Pulrepo (@Pulrepo@mastodon.social)
🚀 Fastest-growing AI projects today
1. The popularity of these tools suggests a growing demand for more accessible and scalabl...
2. Additionally, we see a surge in projects focused on integrating multiple AI engines and...
3. 1bananachicken/MaaNTE takes the top spot with a growth score of 72.04 and over 985 stars.
Full report → https://pullrepo.com/report/todays-ai-frameworks-sdks-fastest-growing-projects-may-09-2026
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techwire (@techwire@social.gamefan.net)
Apple Faces £3 Billion UK Trial Over iCloud Lock-In Claims
Apple was not able to narrow the scope of a UK lawsuit accusing it of locking 40 million UK consumers into iCloud, to the detriment of third-party cloud storage providers. British consumer group Which? first filed the l…
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/07/apple-icloud-lock-in-uk-lawsuit/
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