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512 Pixels is a blog covering Apple, computer history, design, and other fine nerdery, written by Stephen Hackett.

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macOS Tahoe Beta 2 Fixes the Finder Icon

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2025/06/23

If you missed my previous post on the topic, the first version of Tahoe had the dark blue on the right side of the Finder icon, which was criminal. Our 14-day national nightmare is over. As of Developer Beta 2, the Finder icon in macOS Tahoe has been updated to reflect 30 years of tradition: […]

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‘A Black Hole of Energy Use’

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2025/06/23

Roshan Abraham, writing at 404 Media about Meta’s AI datacenter in Louisiana: A January report from NOLA.com said that the the state had rewritten zoning laws, promised to change a law so that it no longer had to put state property up for public bidding, and rewrote what was supposed to be a tax incentive for broadband internet […]

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Quinn Nelson Printed His Own Macintosh

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2025/06/23

I wish my 3D printer was big enough to pull this off:

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Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: YouTube Ad Blocker for...

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2025/06/23

Do you want to block all YouTube ads in Safari on your iPhone, iPad and Mac? Then download Magic Lasso Adblock – the ad blocker designed for you. As an efficient, high performance and native Safari ad blocker, Magic Lasso blocks all intrusive ads, trackers and annoyances – delivering a faster, cleaner and more secure […]

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Mac Power Users 802: The Ubiquiti Universe

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2025/06/22

This week on Mac Power Users: Stephen leads David through the maze of Ubiquiti’s Unifi networking offerings. The company offers a wide range of equipment for home and business users, including routers, switches, access points, cameras, and more, but it can be confusing to navigate.

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xAI Gathering Turbines for Second Memphis Site, One...

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2025/06/20

In May, it was reported that xAI was looking to use gas turbines to power its second Memphis location, in part through a partnership named Stateline Power Solutions. Part of the deal was some property just south of the Tennessee/Mississippi state line, which was being used to store the gas turbines that xAI will rely […]

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Tahoe Seems to Drop FireWire Support

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2025/06/19

Joe Rossignol has the news: The first macOS Tahoe developer beta does not support the legacy FireWire 400 and FireWire 800 data-transfer standards, according to @NekoMichi on X, and a Reddit post. As a result, the first few iPod models and old external storage drives that rely on FireWire cannot be synced with or mounted on a […]

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xAI Looking to Raise Billions

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2025/06/19

Amanda Silberling at TechCrunch: Elon Musk’s startup xAI is trying to raise a $4.3 billion equity investment, according to a report from Bloomberg. This equity funding would be in addition to the $5 billion that Musk is allegedly trying to raise in debt funding for the combined entity of X and xAI. The company appears to be raising money […]

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Connected 557: From a Place of Passion

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2025/06/18

This week on the show: Federico interviewed Craig Federighi about the past, present, and future of the iPad. Myke started a blog, and I am hoping for change.

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Federico Interviewed Craig Federighi

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2025/06/18

Federico Viticci, writing at MacStories: It’s a cool, sunny morning at Apple Park as I’m walking my way along the iconic glass ring to meet with Apple’s SVP of Software Engineering, Craig Federighi, for a conversation about the iPad. It’s the Wednesday after WWDC, and although there are still some developers and members of the […]

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With Liquid Glass, Less is More

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2025/06/17

David Smith: I was fortunate enough to get one of the Design Labs late last week, which meant that I spent Friday morning frantically doing as many first-pass updates to the new design as I could. I then was able to discuss many of them during the lab and learned a bunch. Like David, I […]

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NAACP Looks to Sue xAI Over Clean Air Act as Turbines...

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2025/06/17

Samuel Hardiman writing, for The Daily Memphian reporting that the NAACP plans to sue xAI for alleged violations of the federal Clean Air Act: The notice of intent provides the entity that could be sued with 60 days’ notice of the lawsuit, allowing it or the regulator (the Environmental Protection Agency or another government entity) […]

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Apple’s Service Program for M2 Mac minis with Power...

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2025/06/16

Apple: Apple has determined that a very small percentage of Mac mini (2023) devices with the M2 chip may no longer power on. Affected devices were manufactured between June 16, 2024 to November 23, 2024. If your Mac mini has exhibited this issue, please use the Serial Number checker below to see if your device is eligible […]

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Windows 11 Test Builds Include Vista Startup Sound

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2025/06/16

Tom Warren, writing about the mistake: Microsoft quickly acknowledged the mistake,1 and added a line to its release notes for the latest Dev Channel build. “This week’s flight comes with a delightful blast from the past and will play the Windows Vista boot sound instead of the Windows 11 boot sound,” says the Windows Insider team. “We’re working on […]

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Sponsor: Rogue Amoeba: Great Audio Software, Ready...

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2025/06/16

Apple just announced MacOS 26 (Tahoe), and the team at Rogue Amoeba is already hard at work on official support for the new OS. This week, they’re also sponsoring 512 Pixels. For over two decades, the (strange) name “Rogue Amoeba” has been synonymous with audio on the Mac: you can use Audio Hijack to record […]

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A Simple Fix for Tahoe’s Finder Icon

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2025/06/16

D. Griffin Jones: I would like to present, in response to the widely criticized Finder icon in macOS Tahoe Developer Beta 1, the icon I created in literally fifteen minutes with Pixelmator Pro and Apple’s own Icon Composer. Apple could very easily keep the icon’s historical appearance without compromising the Liquid Glass aesthetic by just… flipping the […]

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Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

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2025/06/12

The Steve Jobs Archive: To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Steve’s commencement address at Stanford, we are sharing a newly enhanced version of the video below and on YouTube. It is one of the most influential commencement addresses in history, watched over 120 million times, and reproduced in media and school curricula around the world. The […]

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WWDC25: Tahoe Delivers New Format for Disk Images

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2025/06/12

Howard Oakley has spotted a change coming with macOS 26: Disk images have been valuable tools marred by poor performance. In the wrong circumstances, an encrypted sparse image (UDSP) stored on the blazingly fast internal SSD of an Apple silicon Mac may write files no faster than 100 MB/s, typical for a cheap hard drive. […]

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Inside the ‘Macintosh’ Screen Saver

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2025/06/11

macOS Sequoia’s Macintosh screen saver is one of the strongest hits of nostalgia Apple has ever produced. If for some reason you haven’t seen it, Mr. Macintosh has you covered: When this showed up last year, a little birdie told me that it was dynamically generated based on the user’s preferences, which explained why I […]

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Connected 556: The Last Thing You Touch

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2025/06/11

This week on the podcast: The guys learn how their predictions fared, talk about some of the news from WWDC25, and someone gets a trophy.

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