GeekyBear

> I feel that Apple open pandora's box with the client-side scanning.

That box has been open for years now.

Big brother is already watching what you do on your Android device.

> A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveil...

They do mention that the 8 Gig version of the laptop is stuttering while just working on Google Docs in a way that the 16 Gig version does not.

> The Surface Laptop would hang for a few seconds like this several times a day, even when I thought I wasn’t pushing it too hard. I’ve had these temporary freezes while just working in some Google Docs — no Teams call running or anything streaming in the background.

The issue seems to be that there isn't enough RAM for light multitasking or heavier applications without hitting the swap file hard enough that the system stutters.

Personally, I would rather see public resources used to teach parents how to use the existing controls (in iOS and Android) to restrict what their own kids can do on their own smartphone.

However, if a school district wants to restrict the use of smartphones during the school day for all students, I would be OK with that.

DRAM doesn't require cutting edge Fabs, and Chinese manufacturers have finally caught up to the DDR5 standard.

> Multiple motherboard and PC component makers move forward with Chinese-made memory validation

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/memory/multiple-motherboard...

The only thing standing in the way of a major Chinese DDR5 ramp up is money.

Not just VAT.

For example, the EU mandates extended warranty protections that would be an optional purchase in other markets.

Dave Cutler created and ran the Windows NT product line through Windows 2000.

Other people ran Windows XP, but Cutler was still in charge of Server 2003 before moving on to special projects like creating 64 bit Windows and Microsoft Azure.

His attitude towards the eradication of known bugs really led to Windows feeling rock solid, with the exception of driver bugs (being the leading cause of blue screens).

Macs allow the machine owner to install (and boot) a completely unsigned OS on a different partition without having it affect security when you do boot MacOS.

The Mac partitions are encrypted by default and the system partition is signed and read only.

The firmware blobs (and the system files) for MacOS live on a read only partition that is digitally signed.

> pace of development is doomed to be too slow

When the new leadership team took over, they announced that they would prioritize upstreaming the existing work over adding support for newer hardware.

Upstreaming their changes into the kernel took time.

Now the announced that they had started work on the M3 in February and things are progressing well.

> On top of the above, we also have PCIe, WiFi, Bluetooth, NVMe, keyboard, trackpad, and other core SoC block drivers working in Linux for M3 series machines. Most of this work has come by way of Yureka, who has been very busy hacking on both m1n1 and Linux with her M3 series machines for a while now. We still have a ways to go before we can start enabling Asahi Installer support for these machines, but progress is rapid so watch this space!

That sounds more like talented people doing meticulous work than doom.

It's nice to see M3 support progressing well.

They first mentioned that efforts to add M3 support were starting in February:

> For quite some time, m1n1 has had basic support for the M3 series machines. What has been missing are Devicetrees for each machine, as well as patches to our Linux kernel drivers to support M3-specific hardware quirks and changes from M2. Our intent was always to get to fleshing this out once our existing patchset became more manageable

https://asahilinux.org/2026/02/progress-report-6-19/

Oddly enough, Samsung and SK Hynix decided that they needed to expand production on the same day another lawsuit accused them of colluding to keep production low and prices high.

> South Korea announces $520bn chip plant project with Samsung, SK Hynix

https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/semiconductors/south-k...

You can control which apps children can install, how much time they are allowed to use those apps a day, decide if they have access to the web, which web sites they can visit, and decide who they are allowed to communicate with.

What features are missing that makes everyone giving up their privacy a better option?

Parents already have the ability to lock down Android or iOS devices for their own children, if they choose to do so.

InFO combines chiplets, but does not do so by bonding multiple chiplets directly to a silicon interposer as CoWoS does.

The article compares CoWoS to InFO.

> CoWoS uses a passive silicon interposer—etched with thousands of fine interconnects—that sits between the active dies and the package substrate. This interposer provides high-density connections between chiplets and supports memory integration, most notably High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) stacks.

It also mentions that CoWoS is the tech used to build Nvidia's high end AI accelerators.

> AI Accelerators: Nvidia H100, B100 (HBM3 via CoWoS)

Apple is taking a tech that has previously only been used in very high end enterprise applications and is using it to make consumer SOCs starting with this years iPhone.

You can start by reading up on TSMC's name for the tech (although there are many versions at TSMC and TSMC isn't the only company packaging chiplets and memory on top of a silicon interposer).

> CoWoS (Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate)

https://semiwiki.com/wikis/industry-wikis/cowos-chip-on-wafe...

It's a more advanced update from their older InFO tech.

Is there anything less interesting on this site than baseless claims that other people's posts are AI?

Apple isn't just transitioning to TSMC's 2nm node, they are also transitioning to a chiplet based design using TSMC's advanced packaging.

> What sets the A20 apart isn’t just the node shrink—it’s the revolution in packaging. Apple is transitioning to Wafer-Level Multi-Chip Module (WLCM) integration, meaning that RAM will no longer be situated beside the chip, but rather on the chip wafer itself, integrated alongside the CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine.

This shift eliminates the need for silicon interposers and substrates, thereby enhancing signal integrity, improving thermal dissipation, and facilitating faster memory access with lower latency. The benefits? Better multitasking, smoother AI processing (hello, Apple Intelligence), improved battery life, and potentially a smaller chip footprint—freeing up space for other components.

https://hwbusters.com/news/apples-a20-chip-ushers-in-a-new-e...

It's entirely possible that TSMC is ramping up more slowly than expected.

> This means there won't be a redesigned MBP this year since there won't be M6 Pro/Max chips.

They can release a redesigned MBP with the base M6 chip.

To be fair, Microsoft announced their third XBox price hike today.

> The price of XBOX consoles will increase by US$100 for 512 GB models and US$150 for 1 TB models. We will also be sunsetting our 2 TB model.

https://kotaku.com/xbox-price-increase-2026-tariffs-buy-now-...

This is in addition to the other two recent price hikes.

Amazon has Prime Day discounts off the old price today.

If you wanted to buy in the near term, Amazon is offering Prime Day discounts off of the old prices today.

> M5 MacBook Air - $949.00 (now $1,299.00 at Apple)

M5 MacBook Pro - $1,549.00 (now $1,999.00 at Apple)

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/25/beat-apples-price-hike/

Windows 2000 was the last version of the Windows NT lineage with Dave Cutler in charge of everything.

His no-nonsense attitude towards fixing known bugs was sorely missed in later versions as Windows quality began its decline.

I find this take (from the guy who wrote the Windows task manager while at Microsoft) to be evenhanded.

> Windows "SUCKS": How I'd Fix it by a retired Microsoft Windows engineer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTpA5jt1g60

If Google and Apple also decided to remove support for common video formats instead of just paying the slightly higher licensing fee, I might have some sympathy.

Microsoft thinks they have all the money in the world when it comes to wasting huge sums on mergers and acquisitions that go nowhere. Spend some on maintaining the user experience.

Also, with Dell and others releasing new Windows laptops with 8 Gigs of RAM, needless memory bloat is unacceptable.

For an abuse of monopoly power this big, I would argue that only getting ~400 upvotes is indeed little notice.

When sites attempt to block users who use ad blocking extensions, dynamic filtering allows well written ad blockers to continue to work.

For instance:

> Last year, Google/YouTube ramped up its efforts against ad-blockers, preventing playback for users with the software installed on their devices, coercing them to disable it.

Users continued to exploit loopholes in browsers and third-party extensions, such as Firefox, that allowed them to bypass YouTube's ads while watching videos. However, the tech giant has seemingly doubled down on its efforts against ad-blockers, closing the few remaining loopholes

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/streaming-video...

> For uBlock Origin users on Chrome, there’s uBlock Origin Lite. However, the Lite version “allows some tracking, its blocklist is a fraction of what the original blocked, and it can't perform the dynamic filtering that made the original effective,”

https://www.pcmag.com/news/googles-next-chrome-update-will-f...

"Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension" really doesn't tell a general audience what is happening here. No wonder it gained little notice.

This isn't Claude specific. Developers can also write apps that call Google's server based Gemini models.

> At WWDC, Apple announced that it's opening its Foundation Models framework to third-party cloud model providers. Starting with iOS 27, macOS 27, iPadOS 27, visionOS 27 and watchOS 27, model providers can implement the new public LanguageModel protocol to provide a common interface for model inference. We've made Gemini models available to the Foundation Models framework through the Firebase Apple SDK.

This provides a fully native development experience — cloud-hosted Gemini models can plug directly into the Foundation Models framework using the same API. That means the on-device Apple model and cloud-hosted Gemini models sit behind a shared API surface, so you can easily swap between local and cloud inference to fit your use case.

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-...

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