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Mac malware increasingly targets something far more vulnerable than Apple’s software safeguards: unsuspecting users.
This weekend’s feature story explains why you might be the weak link in your Mac’s security — and tells you what to look out for.
Also in this edition of The Weekender:
We got tons of software updates this week, for iPhone, Mac and iPad, as well as HomePod, Apple TV 4K and AirPods. And they’re not all bug fixes.
Apple CEO John Ternus reportedly wants to make Siri AI better ASAP. We talked about that, fun Apple Easter eggs and more on this week’s episode of the Cult of Mac podcast.
Somewhat shockingly, Apple plans to pull the plug on the long-standing Apple Support Community.
A teardown shows how Apple added one of the new MacBook Pro’s coolest features.
Our own Ed Hardy reviews a new Samsung SSD that’s faster than ever.
And finally, Cult of Mac Deals rolled out an array of new offers and price cuts, including iconic Bose QuietComfort headphones, a new language-learning platform and a tool that disguises AI writing to make it sound human.
Enjoy your weekend!
— Lewis Wallace, managing editor
Feature story
A message from Wispr Flow
The voice-to-text app that built its own speech model
Most dictation apps are a wrapper around someone else's speech model. Wispr Flow trained its own.
It's called Canto, and it was built for the way people actually talk to AI: thinking out loud, changing direction mid-sentence, half-whispering in an open office.
Wispr tested it on 10 hours of real dictations from more than 2,300 speakers. Canto had the lowest word error rate of every model tested, including models from Google, OpenAI, AssemblyAI and Deepgram. That means your prompts to ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor come through the way you said them.
Talk naturally in any app and Wispr Flow types clean, formatted text, 4x faster than typing.
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