Over the years, I've come to rely on many of these tools to stay productive and in control of my Mac. Here are some open-source must-haves that I use pretty much every single day. Though I ...

Ubuntu suits general use, Alpine excels when size and speed matter, and Debian rewards anyone who values long-term stability. Match the distro to the workload instead of defaulting to the familiar ...

Visual Intelligence offers a set of AI features that can be used to identify objects and items in photos or things on screen, ...

Your Mac has a free AI chatbot built right in. Here's how to find Apple's hidden local AI model and use it without a ...

Meta's Muse Spark Open runs locally on Apple silicon, but only on Mac Studio clusters. See the memory needs, costs, license ...

Perplexity today said it is updating Perplexity Computer to run fully locally on Mac. The local version runs on Qwen 3.6 or ...

Plan a macOS build machine for iOS CI: pin Xcode versions, protect signing keys, size disk for caches and choose hosted, office or data-center Macs.

UTM 5 for Mac adds DirectX 11 and 12 for Windows 11 VMs, Vulkan 1.3 for Linux, snapshot management and USB sharing for macOS ...

Now that Terminal is set up, there are two primary ways to install Linux applications: apt and dpkg. Let's focus on the most ...

Homebrew now has an official MacOS GUI app for visual package management, offering a graphical alternative to the popular ...

Frontier-level AI models right on your desk. Unprecedented AI and gaming performance on Mac. Very small for this amount of power. Tons of ports. Supports up to four 5K monitors. Can get very hot.

McDonald’s has ramped up its use of AI to guide menu prices at restaurants across the country as it tries to boost profits – risking backlash from regulators and customers already fed up with ...