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Security Bite: This nifty privacy app blurs your Mac screen the second you look away

Security Bite: This nifty privacy app blurs your Mac screen the second you look away

9to5Mac Security Bite is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Making Apple devices work-ready and enterprise-safe is all we do. Our unique integrated approach to management and security combines state-of-the-art Apple-specific security solutions for fully automated Hardening & Compliance, Next Generation EDR, AI-powered Zero Trust, and exclusive Privilege Management with the most powerful and modern Apple MDM on the market. The result is a totally automated Apple Unified Platform currently trusted by over 45,000 organizations to make millions of Apple devices work-ready with no effort and at an affordable cost. Request your EXTENDED TRIAL today and understand why Mosyle is everything you need to work with Apple. Who said all privacy protections had to be digital nowadays? In my line of work, traveling can be common, and working from a coffee shop, train, or hotel lounge is something I do on the regular. So when I came across this nifty privacy app that knows to blur your screen the second you look away, I was enthralled. more…

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Deals: MacBook Pro massive $600 off, AirPods, Mac mini, Apple iPhone cases, more

Deals: MacBook Pro massive $600 off, AirPods, Mac mini, Apple iPhone cases, more

We are starting the week off with a solid $50 price drop on AirPods Pro 3 and AirPods Max 2 at $120 off, but today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break is headlined by MacBook Pro. We are now tracking a massive $600 price drop hits Apple’s 24GB M5 Pro to deliver one of the best MacBook deals of the year alongside a host of other configurations you’ll find below. You also still have a chance at M6 Mac mini all-time lows at up to $150 off if you’re quick (they are starting to disappear), a series of discounts on Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro cases, and this deal on Apple Pencil (USB-C) for your iPhone Duo. All of that and more awaits below. more…

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Meta Launched Muse Wonder. Let's Build a Tiny Active Focus Loop in TypeScript.

Most agents fail in one of two boring ways. They quit at the first error. Or they never stop. One hands you half a task and a polite apology. The other retries the same broken idea all afternoon. Neither is focus. On October 12, 2026, Meta introduced Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, which it calls its most capable models to date for personal and professional agentic tasks. Muse Wonder is available today through the Meta Model API and Muse Code. Muse Wonder Full is available today for Muse Code subscribers. Two features carry the launch. Active Memory carries important context across conversations and retrieves the details relevant to the task. Active Focus is the part I keep thinking about. From Meta's research blog: Active Focus describes how Muse Wonder continues working toward a challenging goal: trying alternative approaches, working through blockers, and adapting to new information. Along the way, it asks for clarification when needed and checks in before taking important actions. Meta says it evaluates focus with FocusBench, and sustained execution with SWE-Marathon, which tests work on long-running software projects. That distinction matters. Focus is not "try harder." It is a set of decisions. Keep going. Switch approaches. Ask. Check in. Stop. Persistence is easy to fake. Knowing which move comes next is the actual feature. So let's build a tiny version. By the end, you'll run one command: npx tsx focus.ts And watch a scripted agent switch approaches, ask which lease you meant, check in before deleting branches, report a blocker, and give up honestly. No API key. No network. One honesty note: the goals, files, and branches below are example inputs. The loop is my small model of the behavior Meta describes. It is not how Muse Wonder works inside. What We Are Building Project Setup Step 1: Model the Goal and the Attempt Log Step 2: Respect the Constraints Step 3: Write the Focus Policy Step 4: Run the Loop Step 5: Script the Example Goals Where It Breaks Dow

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Firefox 158 released with JPEG XL support

Firefox 158 released with JPEG XL support

Firefox 158 is now available to download, providing out-of-the-box support for JPEG XL images. JPEG XL is said to have better compression than other image formats, including WebP, PNG and regular ol’ JPEG. It supports wider colour gamut, HDR and high bit-depth, as well as animation, alpha channels and lossless and progressive encoding. Mozilla has spent several months testing JPEG XL support in Firefox, providing an opt-in toggle to try it out via the browser’s Labs page. Other changes and fixes Firefox’s Smart Window, the AI-powered browsing mode that uses a cloud-based provider like OpenAI and Alibaba to help you […] You're reading Firefox 158 released with JPEG XL support, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.

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