Privacy

Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS: Apple Announces New User Protections, October 2, 2026 Apple announced on October 2, 2026 that it will introduce additional controls for Full Disk Access in macOS, tightening how apps obtain one of the most powerful permissions available on the Mac.

Apple is revamping its macOS privacy settings to prevent third-party app developers from exploiting full-disk access permissions to read users' private message histories.

Janus, a new open-source tool showcased on Hacker News's Show HN forum, offers developers a single Go binary that runs GGUF large language models locally while exposing an OpenAI-compatible API.

Ethereum’s zkAPI went live on Ethereum mainnet on Thursday, enabling prepaid API access with greater financial privacy.

Gavin Newsom signed workplace AI laws Wednesday to protect workers from algorithmic firing, mass layoffs and biometric surveillance.