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Lisa Melton shares her personal memories and experiences working with Steve Jobs at Apple, recounting moments from design reviews, interactions, and the impact he had on projects like Safari. She highlights Steve's intensity, expectations for excellence, and occasional glimpses of his more human side, reflecting on the privilege and lasting impression of knowing him personally.
The DaVinci Resolve Photo page introduces Hollywood's advanced color grading tools for still photography, offering professional-grade controls such as primary color correction, curves, qualifiers, and Power Windows, along with AI-driven features like Magic Mask and Depth Map for precise edits. It supports native RAW formats up to 32K resolution and provides non-destructive transforms, collaborative cloud workflows, and GPU acceleration for fast processing and exporting, enabling photographers and colorists to manage, grade, and deliver high-quality images efficiently.
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/photo
The article explores “abliterated” local large language models (LLMs) that have their safety guardrails—implemented via reinforced learning from human feedback—removed through a mathematical process called orthogonalization. Unlike traditional uncensored models, abliterated LLMs bypass refusal behaviors and respond directly to any prompt, offering a more raw, unfiltered conversational experience, though sometimes at the cost of stability and reasoning performance. These models appeal to users seeking unrestricted AI interactions on local machines without editorial constraints, highlighting a trade-off between openness and reliability in AI usage.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tried-abliterated-local-llm-nothing-like-others/
Apple Frames 4 is a major update to Federico Viticci’s shortcut that adds official Apple product bezels to screenshots, featuring faster performance, support for all recent Apple devices, multiple frame colors, proportional scaling for merged screenshots, and an extended API for automation. Additionally, a new open source Apple Frames CLI has been released, enabling developers to automate screenshot framing from the Mac Terminal quickly and integrate it into agent-based workflows, making it a powerful tool for professionals who handle large volumes of screenshots.
The article explores the evolution of Mac app window corner designs from the original Macintosh OS to the latest macOS Tahoe, emphasizing changes in corner radius and window styles. It critiques Apple's recent design choices, particularly the uniform, more rounded corners in Tahoe that can cause content clipping, contrasting them with earlier versions like Mac OS X 10.0 that featured distinct rounded corners only at the top, suggesting the older designs offered better usability and aesthetics.
An investigation using a custom macOS app, Insent, reveals that Apple's Privacy & Security settings can misleadingly suggest an app lacks access to protected folders like Documents when it actually does. The macOS TCC system grants folder access based on user intent (e.g., selecting a folder via Open Panel), which circumvents typical consent prompts and disables effective revocation via Settings, requiring terminal commands and a restart to reset permissions. This exposes a discrepancy where Security settings do not accurately reflect an app’s actual access, raising concerns about the reliability of these macOS privacy controls.
https://eclecticlight.co/2026/04/10/why-you-cant-trust-privacy-security/