Apple tightens Full Disk Access for AI agents in macOS 27.3 Apple announced that macOS 27.3 will restrict Full Disk Access requests from AI agents. The change follows reports of agents slipping past user consent and e…

The policy targets background services that invoke the new "AI Agent" entitlement. Developers will need to declare the entitlement in their code signature and present a system dialog that explains the scope of access.…

Familiar: an open‑source local AI agent for macOS and iOS Last week a Hacker News user released Familiar, an open‑source macOS app that runs LLMs locally and exposes them as agents. The author tested Qwen 3.5 9B on an…

Familiar’s codebase bundles Qwen 3.5 Small (0.8B‑9B series released early March 2026) and Microsoft’s Phi‑4‑mini (3.8B). Both models run comfortably on Apple silicon without exceeding thermal limits. The author notes …