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Norman Reedus joins James Marsden in Apple TV action thriller series ‘Disavowed’

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Norman Reedus joins James Marsden in Apple TV action thriller series ‘Disavowed’

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Norman Reedus is joining the series-regular cast of Apple TV’s upcoming action thriller “Disavowed.”

The project, created by Art Marcum and Matt Holloway (Iron Man, Uncharted), stars James Marsden as legendary CIA case officer Brad Griffin. Griffin is abruptly fired in the middle of a global hunt for an elusive assassin who killed his colleague. Disgraced and cut off from the intelligence world, he decides to pursue the $15 million federal bounty on the assassin’s head. Reedus’ character has not been revealed.

The series comes from Apple Studios. Marcum and Holloway executive produce alongside Tom Spezialy, Michelle MacLaren, Rebecca Hobbs, and Marsden. Blue Marble Pictures (Pachinko) produces, with Theresa Kang and Caroline Garity also serving as executive producers. MacLaren (The Morning Show, Breaking Bad) will direct the first two episodes and executive produce with Hobbs under her overall deal with Apple TV.

Reedus is best known for playing Daryl Dixon across 11 seasons of AMC’s The Walking Dead and the spinoff The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, which is set to conclude after its upcoming fourth season. He also starred as Murphy MacManus in The Boondock Saints and its sequel, and is in pre-production on a third installment as star and executive producer. Recent credits include Takashi Miike’s untitled Kyoto project; he next appears in Mark Heyman’s Pendulum.

MacDailyNews Note: Apple TV is available on the Apple TV app in over 100 countries and regions, on over 1 billion screens, including iPhone, iPad, Apple TV 4K, Apple Vision Pro, Mac, popular smart TVs from Samsung, LG, Sony, VIZIO, TCL and others, Roku and Amazon Fire TV devices, Chromecast with Google TV, PlayStation and Xbox gaming consoles, and at tv.apple.com, for $12.99 per month with a seven-day free trial for new subscribers. For a limited time, customers who purchase and activate a new iPhone, iPad, Apple TV 4K or Mac can enjoy three months of Apple TV for free.

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Apple CEO Ternus touts product pipeline, ‘phenomenal’ September 9th iPhone launch in memo

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Apple CEO Ternus touts product pipeline, ‘phenomenal’ September 9th iPhone launch in memo

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Apple Chief Executive Officer John Ternus touted the company’s strong product pipeline and teased a “phenomenal” iPhone launch next week in his first remarks to employees as their new leader, according to Bloomberg News‘ Mark Gurman.

Ternus, who officially began as CEO on Tuesday, sent a company-wide memo on his first day. The former head of hardware engineering thanked staff for their well-wishes and lauded Apple’s upcoming products and longer-term pipeline.

“Today, on my first day as CEO, I just wanted to send a quick note to thank everyone for the warm wishes,” Ternus wrote. “I also want to extend my deep appreciation to Tim for sharing so much of his knowledge and experience during this transition, and more importantly, for everything he contributed to Apple over the years. We’re so lucky to have had a CEO who led with his values and with such decency and humanity. We are all better for it, and I’m so grateful he’ll be our executive chairman.”

He added: “I’m honored to be stepping into this role at what is truly the greatest company in the world, and I am so excited about everything we have in store. We have a huge launch next week that’s going to be phenomenal. Thanks for everything you’ve all done to make it possible.”

The September 9th event, branded “Surprise and Shine,” will be Ternus’s first major product launch as CEO and is widely anticipated to include new high-end iPhones and Apple’s first foldable iPhone. Apple typically uses its September event to introduce the products that generate most of its revenue.

Ternus said he is equally focused on what comes after the launch. The CEO said that he’s excited about what “lies beyond” the new iPhone release, “including the incredible products already in the works and the ones we haven’t even imagined yet that we’ll dream up and create together.”

“There’s no team in the world I’d rather build the future with,” he wrote. “More to come. In the meantime, thanks for your excellent work!”

The remarks come as Ternus inherits a company preparing a broader hardware push beyond the annual iPhone cycle, including products already in development that Gurman has previously reported span new categories planned over the next several years.
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Perplexity brings hybrid compute to Mac, keeping sensitive AI work on device

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Perplexity brings hybrid compute to Mac, keeping sensitive AI work on device

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Personal Computer for Mac is now rolling out to Perplexity Max subscribers — Personal Computer for Mac

Perplexity has launched Hybrid Compute for its Computer agent on Apple Silicon Macs, a system that splits a single task between frontier models in the cloud and compact models running locally so confidential files and personal data never have to leave the machine.

The idea is simple and, if it holds up in daily use, important: Computer still starts work in the cloud, where large models handle research, planning, and long-horizon reasoning. When a local classifier spots sensitive information — names, emails, account numbers, privileged files — the user is prompted to keep that slice of the job on the Mac, mask the details, or send it to the cloud anyway. Cloud and local pieces stay in the same workflow. The user does not have to restart the task or shuttle files between tools.

At launch, local options include Gemma 4 E4B, Qwen3.6 35B-A3B, and a Perplexity post-trained Qwen variant. Users pick the cloud orchestrator; Perplexity selects helper frontier models. Hybrid Compute is available today to Pro, Max, and Enterprise subscribers in the Perplexity Mac app on Apple silicon running macOS 15 or later, with 24GB of unified memory as the minimum and 32GB recommended. Setup is a one-click model download rather than a custom local-runtime stack.

The Mac does not have to be the device that starts the job. A prompt from iPhone or iPad can still kick off a session; if the Mac is on and running Perplexity, sensitive steps can execute there against local files and apps. That makes a always-on Mac mini a plausible private compute node for people who work from a phone most of the day.

Perplexity has been building toward this split for months. In June it described hybrid agentic inference as a way to optimize for accuracy, privacy, and token cost at once: keep financial records, health information, and personal files local; send only the work that truly needs a frontier model to the server. Portable Computer, a more local-first variant, already existed for users who want most of the stack on device and only escalate with permission. Hybrid Compute approaches the same problem from the other direction — cloud-first orchestration with an on-device privacy gate.

That gate is the linchpin. An on-device PII classifier, which Perplexity says it has open-sourced and trained with its Secure Intelligence Institute, inspects content before anything is transmitted. Credentials, payment numbers, and government IDs get the strictest treatment. For enterprises, admins can set organization-wide rules for what must stay local, what may be masked, and what requires approval, plus audit when data leaves a device. That is the pitch for law, finance, healthcare, and other regulated shops that want agentic tools without dumping client records into someone else’s cluster.

Competitors are chasing the same mix of on-device privacy and cloud intelligence. Perplexity’s claim is that it can start a job in the cloud, peel off the confidential pieces mid-task, and finish without losing context. For Mac users sitting on 24GB-plus Apple silicon — and for the new M5/M6 machines Apple just put on the table — that is now a shipping product rather than a Computex slide.

MacDailyNews Take: The use cases Perplexity and early reviewers walk through are familiar: an attorney updating a brief with client files that stay on the Mac while case-law research runs in the cloud; an analyst rebuilding a confidential model against public comps; a small-business owner starting pricing research from a phone while private price lists never leave the desktop. In each case the agent is only as useful as the data it can touch. Hybrid Compute is an attempt to let it touch private data without treating the cloud as the default home for that data.

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