this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2026
76 points (97.5% liked)

Technology

88591 readers
3344 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
76
Apple will update Macs to protect users from AI agents with full disk access (mashable.com)
submitted 2 hours ago by TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
19 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Ashrakal@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Good change.

  • It helps the less tech savvy users,
  • It actually forces developers to write their app properly.

Software should not operate at a privileged level “just in case”, but rather have a well-defined functional boundary.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 3 points 53 minutes ago

It's not clear exactly what Apple is going to impose here. In principle, trying to ensure users understand the implications of a permission is good. In practice, Apple is famous for keeping users from making decisions they might reasonably want to make on phones, and it's starting to creep into the Mac; installing an app Apple hasn't signed requires the command line, for example.