☕️ Apple is locking down macOS access

• Apple will add new restrictions on macOS's Full Disk Access permission, the catch-all setting that lets an app read or write nearly any file on a Mac's drive, citing abuse by developers and the growing risks from autonomous AI agents.
• Originally meant for backup apps, the permission sidesteps Apple's privacy controls and exposes files, mail, messages, contacts, and browsing history; updaters from Adobe, Logitech, and Microsoft OneDrive request it, as do most AI agents on the Mac.
• Apple hasn't detailed the controls or a timeline, but the company says granting such access will require very explicit user action going forward, likely starting with stronger warning language spelling out exactly what an app can see.

• Lukas Vogel's SQLDoom project runs the 1993 game's logic inside CedarDB, a Postgres-compatible database, in 5,900 lines of SQL versus the original C source's 9,000, with a Python frontend handling only graphics, sound, and input.
• Entity updates that needed "for" or "while" loops in C collapse into a single parallel "UPDATE... WHERE" statement, while the 1,300-line renderer is one query spanning 89 tables, with BSP traversal reduced to a "SELECT... ORDER BY" sorting walls front-to-back.
• Multiplayer came out cleaner than the original, since syncing interdependent state is what databases do, snapshots, authentication, and access control are free, and a game tick is just a transaction, though floor and ceiling flood-fill renderers didn't map well to SQL.

• Google has released Google Cloud API Client Libraries for Swift, backing the language as a server-side option and letting developers build GCP infrastructure with native async/await APIs and compile-time data-race safety.
• The libraries target Swift 6.2+ and lean on SwiftNIO's asynchronous event loops, HTTP/2 multiplexing, gRPC transport, and strict concurrency flags, catching data races in the editor before a binary compiles or reaches production.
• Google pitches the SDK for microservices built with Swift frameworks like Hummingbird or Vapor, though the article notes server-side Swift adoption has been slow and its TIOBE ranking slipped from 9th in January 2020 to 18th.

• Supabase has agreed to acquire Turso, the startup behind a SQLite-based database built for AI agents, to extend its own AI data capabilities alongside a $150 million funding round.
• Turso inherits SQLite's small hardware footprint, so agents can spin up instances almost instantly, and it adds embedding support plus per-page encryption that aren't available in stock SQLite.
• Supabase plans to fold the technology into Supabase Compute, its new hosted-sandbox service for long-running agents, letting them launch lightweight Turso instances for simple tasks that don't need a full relational database.

• Chrome 141 ships a preview of the Chrome DevTools MCP server, letting AI coding assistants tap DevTools debugging and performance insights directly inside the browser.
• Coding agents previously couldn't observe how their generated code behaved at runtime; the MCP server lets them debug web pages live in Chrome, improving accuracy when identifying and fixing issues.
• This release also adds a Debug with AI button on the Network dependency tree insight that opens the Gemini-backed AI assistance panel, where you can now export or copy the conversation.

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