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By pradeepviswav · Posted
Apple is expanding Private Cloud Compute beyond its own data centers by Pradeep Viswanathan At WWDC 2026, as part of the improved Apple Intelligence capabilities, Apple today announced that it is expanding Private Cloud Compute (PCC), its privacy-focused cloud infrastructure for Apple Intelligence, beyond its own data centers for the first time. Private Cloud Compute was designed to handle Apple Intelligence requests that are too complex to run fully on-device. The PCC system does not store user data and does not allow Apple or anyone else to access user requests. Last year, Apple also expanded its Security Bounty program with rewards of up to $1 million for researchers who could find serious vulnerabilities in PCC. Until now, Apple's PCC data centers were using Apple's own silicon. As part of the expansion, Apple is working with Google and NVIDIA to run new Apple Intelligence workloads on Google Cloud systems powered by NVIDIA GPUs. Apple will be using this new infrastructure to execute more demanding AI tasks while maintaining the same privacy and security guarantees of PCC. The new implementation uses NVIDIA Confidential Computing with NVIDIA GPUs, Intel CPUs with TDX, and Google’s Titan chip. Apple says it has worked with Google to build additional protections beyond a traditional confidential computing deployment. Despite the expansion to third-party data centers, Apple claims that its core PCC requirements remain unchanged, including stateless computation, no privileged runtime access, non-targetability, and verifiable transparency. The company highlighted that it will continue to control the PCC software stack, and Apple devices will only trust PCC software that has been cryptographically approved by Apple. To take security to the next level, Apple mentioned that it is maintaining an append-only ledger of Google Cloud hardware that is part of the PCC fleet. The company claims this will help reduce the risk of supply chain attacks. In addition to AI infrastructure, Apple also worked with Google to use technologies behind the Gemini family of models to build the next generation of Apple Foundation Models to power Apple Intelligence features across on-device and cloud workloads. As expected, for more demanding AI tasks like agentic tool use and complex reasoning, Apple will rely on the expanded PCC infrastructure running on Google Cloud. The expansion of PCC on Google Cloud will gradually ramp toward the full set of protections during the summer preview period. As before, Apple will also publish binaries for public inspection, provide research tooling, and give researchers access to live PCC nodes in research mode through the Apple Security Bounty Program. -
By Bdpy · Posted
my problem with outlook (new) is that it connects only to outlook.com. all connections to external providers goes through there. Got your mail server and want to use imap directly? no way... it adds a connector on outlook.com. last bug; if your email on an external provider if the same as principal email of your microsoft account, it doesn't work... -
By cleverclogs · Posted
It's the only reason I finally have an iPhone (for work) and enjoy using it so much that I'm tempted to move from android next time I need to replace my own device -
By leonsk29 · Posted
So is Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, just to mention a few. What's your point? Everyone is a threat from their enemies' perspective. I'd say that Israel is only a threat to their immediate enemies like Hamas, Hezbollah and the Iranian regime, not to anyone else. -
By astropheed · Posted
The government is not the good guy either. You propose 99% of people require that the government overreach and govern their freedom of information and privacy, while ignoring the government is made up 100% of people, of which 99% are (as you described) brain dead. You can't have both. The reality is Signal is absolutely right and the government is doing what it has always done. Ignoring that we are their boss and grabbing all the power they possibly can to make sure we aren't. Your (societies) ###### parenting is not reason enough as to why I can't have a safe platform for my data/information. Thinking the government is helping is precisely what they are targeting psychologically to take suckers like you for a ride. "Think of the children" was, has, is, and will always be a mechanism of control. In the rare occasion it's actually essential the mass consensus has always been there and it doesn't become a debate.
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chrispinto
Okay i've finally reached the end of my patience. Now, i may be seen and classed as a Windows fanboy, simply because i tend to get the latest first (and only because i strenuously test, and thus reap rewards for my work).
This will more than likely go the same way as the main page article on Vista being a zombie, but after a little bit of internet searching, i find comments like this, back in 2001, about XP.
That last comment to me, is especially interesting.. "XP will be the virtual " straw " that broke the Camel's back as far as M$'s PC monopoly." ...was it? Not according to the "discussions" that go on here of late
Round and round in circles, we're at the same point, for the most part, we all were back in 2001. I know for a majority fact that the vast percentage of Vista flamers have tried the OS for little more than a week, couldnt work out where things were, got annoyed with the folder linking for things like documents and settings, etc for legacy programs to still find their way into the right places, swearing that Vista had locked them out of their own files. People moaning about UAC, no different to WPA back in the day (in terms of annoyance to some)
Like various previous OS's, i've been privileged enough to be a user/tester from near enough start of beta cycle, and most certainly first RC. Vista has been stable for me since last RC release, and much more stable again since RTM. Now i'm not just being all "woo yay vista", because i remember when i had Win2k on RC1, i thought it was very stable, loved it, made my main OS, and stuck with 2k on one of my systems until 2003. My experience with XP was simply one of "well i can dump ME now then", rather than "WOO XP great", as it was simply NT 5.1 (many forget this) I.E. Win2k Second Edition, with some major (and even more minor) improvements.
Guys i'm just asking for an end to this XP vs Vista vs linix rubbish that seems to swamp tech sites (Neowin included) these days.
Take it all on board, we'll be saying how amazing Vista is compared to say, Windows 7, in about 3-5 years time, i can guarantee it.
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