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Your iPhone Can Now Run Command & Conquer Generals. It Shouldn’t Be This Hard.

A 2003 RTS now runs on Apple Silicon via a ludicrous five-layer rendering pipeline (DirectX 8 → DXVK → Vulkan → MoltenVK → Metal). It’s a technical miracle and a damning critique of Apple’s graphics strategy. The open-source community did what Apple and EA couldn’t—and it shouldn’t be this hard.

Apple’s Hide My Email Feature Is a Privacy Trap — And You’re Falling for It

Apple’s Hide My Email appears to protect your privacy from third parties, but secretly centralizes all your email aliases inside Apple’s own servers. This creates a single point of trust — and failure. The feature doesn’t give you privacy; it gives you a new master. Here’s why you need to rethink every alias you’ve ever created.