Daily Tech News 3 October 2026

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• I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Apple is changing the meaning of granting applications full disk access, because it meant that applications granted full disk access were granted full disk access.

  In Muse's case, the AI optionally allows users to enable Full Disk Access. This setting, Apple explains, gives an app permission to access files, mail, messages, and even browsing history.

  As I said.
  
  Apple thinks its customers are idiots.
  
  Much of the time, this is true.

  "Some developers are using Full Disk Access in ways that could put users at risk, exposing everything on their systems...without users' full knowledge and understanding," Apple said in a new blog post aimed at developers.

  Illiterate idiots.

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• Cloudflare is trying to outplay Jev with Clef, an open-weight model that allows you to run the already open-weight Qwen 3.5 9B while using only seven times as much memory. (The Register)
  
  Jev is an LLM model for making simple decisions with a good degree of accuracy, rather than performing complex tasks badly. Qwen 3.5 9B running at a default quantisation (level of detail) needs about 6GB of RAM - VRAM or shared RAM on a Mac or a PC with integrated graphics.
  
  Somehow Clef requires 41GB. I presume that's not just because Cloudflare are idiots; they're generally not. But it does cost six times as much as Jev if you choose to run it in the cloud because you don't have 41GB of VRAM.
  
  
  
• A new antitrust case against Google for (checks notes) running a search engine in this economy has been thrown out by the same judge who ruled against Google in the government's recent anti-trust suit. (Ars Technica)
  
  "Yeah," explained Judge Amit Mehta, "nah."
  
  
  
• Socialists harm democracy. (Reuters)
  
  Do tell.
  
  
  
• Hey, FBI. This company right here. OpenAI has alerted more than a hundred companies and other groups that it may had inadvertently hacked their systems. (Reuters)
  
  AI safety isn't about AI being too smart. It's about humans not being sent to prison.
  
  
  
• After all these year's it's no longer a typo: The 4970K is on its way. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Intel's 4790K appeared back in 2014 as a four core 4.4GHz CPU. The new 4970K has 28 cores - though only eight of them full size - and a Big F*cking Cache.
  
  Seriously, the full model number is the Core Ultra 9 4970K BFC and there's only one thing that could stand for.
  
  
  
• Toshiba is planning to double its hard drive production next year. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Maybe a little relief in one small segment of the market?
  
  
  
• OpenAI's Dot agent is enterprise software that can also order you dinner and wipe out all life in the galaxy. (The Verge)
  
  Thanks, I already ate.
  
  
  
• Only the EU could produce a worse alternative to Microsoft Teams. (Politico)
  
  Our expectations were low, but...