This Week in Apple: Spooky season is upon us

AI does scary things, someone cut the phone lines, and Apple strikes twice.

The toddler that ate your hard drive

Are you tired of throwing your sabot into the machinery? Does it leave you shoeless and wondering if there isn’t a better way to fight the endless march into a dystopian future that leaves workers, artists, and writers jobless? Well, rejoice, comrade! Now you can fight back against the tide!

“Mac Users Reclaim 12GB+ of Storage With Apple Intelligence Removal Tool”

With the Apple models gone, you lose all Siri-related AI features, Writing Tools, Genmoji, Image Playground, ChatGPT integration, summaries, smart replies, inline predictions, Photos Clean Up, Spatial Photos, and Xcode predictive completion.

You had me at “Image Playground”.

That’s a joke, actually. If I delete Image Playground, how will Dan and I periodically terrify each other by texting the nightmare fuel of dead-eyed simulacra of ourselves it generates? Remember, Image Playground is supposed to be “fun”.…