Apple's Hidden Swear-Word Tracking Exposed
macOS records which swear words users keep, per app and recipient, and Apple's private dictionary flags words by sensitivity. Trump stands as the only living politician in the English sensitive tier. — helgesver.re
Safari 27.3 Beta Adds Adaptive Dark Mode
The browser automatically converts light websites to dark, serving the nearly 40% of page loads from dark-mode users that most sites don't support. Sites cannot detect the transformation, preserving privacy against trackers. — webkit.org
macOS 27 Kills CoreStorage Volume Support
macOS 27 refuses to mount, convert, or erase encrypted HFS+ volumes through any standard tool, stranding existing storage. Only a low-level read-only mount still works. — wadetregaskis.com
PostgreSQL Internals Author Seeks New Roles
Hironobu Suzuki, author of The Internals of PostgreSQL, is open to international roles and remote work. The documentation now covers PostgreSQL through version 19-beta. — interdb.jp
ByteDance's USDB Cuts Storage Latency and Cost
ByteDance's USDB sequence storage system for recommendation models cut mean write latency by 85.8% and lowered infrastructure costs during production migration. — arxiv.org