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Under-the-hood AI changes and efficiency improvements at the OS layer across Apple’s platforms are certainly the highlights at WWDC 2026. But there have also been significant changes IT admins will need to prepare for, particularly around Declarative Device Management (DDM). 

The Intel age is over

Apple warned us this was coming, but macOS 27 will not support Intel at all. The company will deliver three more years of security updates for those devices, and you will still be able to use Rosetta to get Intel app binaries to run legacy apps on Apple Silicon. But if you still rely on any Intel apps or Macs, it really is time to plan your upgrade.

DDM becomes the present

It was the future once, but when it comes to Declarative Device Management (DDM) that future is now. Apple is removing all its legacy MDM mechanisms to replace them with DDM. “For IT admins, WWDC 2026 is a migration year,” wrote Fleet. “Apple is removing legacy MDM mechanisms and replacing them with Declarative Device Management (DDM). Some of it is urgent. Some of it just needs a plan.”

It’s a great step, though IT admins will need to ensure they aren’t relying on legacy MDM to handle any of their device fleets. That’s a particular issue around software and security update management. In most cases, your MDM provider has probably already introduced DDM support. But if you aren’t certain, now is the time to find out before your systems fail.

Apple has also added new DDM tools across various systems, apps, identities and more. Some of the highlights include:

VPN and Network configurations can be provisioned using DDM; they also become credential-reliant, which should make management more streamlined.

Apple Intelligence, Siri, and keyboard settings can also be configured via DDM, and admins can manage individual Apple Intelligence tools. 

Web content filter and content caching both become controllable with DDM.

A new privacy key lets IT manage things like camera or microphone access.

Apple has added a device system health reporting function to verify that hardware components on iPhone and iPad are genuine.

IT will be able to detect whether a device is in Lockdown Mode.

“One of the new features I’m most excited about is the ability to set permission defaults for managed apps and websites viewed in Safari,” said Adam Henry, senior product manager at Iru. “While the user is still prompted to allow these permissions, we can now present those requests as a unified prompt immediately upon app launch, along with a custom explanation as to why those permissions are important — think a teleconferencing app or website that always needs access to camera and microphone.

“Overall, I think this is a much more user-friendly solution that will likely increase permission compliance.”

Siri and AI

Although, Apple has introduced new management tools for AI, it’s important to remember some advice from Joel Rennich, senior vice president for product management at JumpCloud: “Traditional IAM models assume users directly interact with applications, but agentic systems change that assumption. AI intermediaries can now retrieve data, execute workflows, and make decisions across systems. Enterprises will need identity frameworks that govern both human and non-human actors consistently.”

He also noted: “The separation between where data lives and where it is used becomes increasingly invisible to the user. Intent becomes the primary input, not app selection.”

At the same time, the evolution of AI on Apple’s devices promises a lot for enterprise users. Matt Vlasach, Jamf senior vice president, enterprise products and solutions engineering, told me: “Most notable for me was Siri AI and the push towards on-device and more capable models that can do more with user context. While obvious for consumer use cases as illustrated in the keynote, the opportunity to evolve this to the work context using a more advanced Apple Intelligence framework is an exciting evolution.”

Farewell AFP

Apple has finally eradicated Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) in macOS. This will be an issue for any business that uses legacy Time Capsule or NAS storage devices, though in most cases those products are already obsolete and should be replaced. This is unlikely to be a huge challenge for most, given that Apple began using SMB as its primary file sharing protocol back in 2013 and support for AFP server disappeared in 2020. (Time Capsule fans might want to take a look at the TimeCapsuleSMB open-source project.)

Hello AppleCare log collection

Apple will introduce a new remote log collection capability that integrates directly with the company’s support infrastructure. So, when AppleCare support engages with an organization’s IT team, they can provide an enhanced logging token which can be shared to get the device to collect diagnostic logs to upload to AppleCare. You just know this will expedite remedy.

Single Sign-On improvements

As I noted here, there are some significant Single Sign-On (SSO) updates; two that caught my eye include:

IT can now insist on biometric as well as password ID on managed devices.

Authenticated Guest Mode with Platform SSO allows users to quickly and securely login to a shared Mac in a temporary session.

Platform SSO on macOS 27 adds web-based authentication.

Network and more

Another change affects the system processes used in device management at a network level. Apple now requires that you use TLS 1.2 or later. If you or your MDM systems are not doing so, get ready for things to break. (Apple has published a support article to help IT test their network environments in preparation for this change.)

Apple also announced that IT admins will be able to purchase and manage app subscriptions directly in Apple School Manager and Apple Business Manager. And it introduced a managed migration feature that should help migrate data, while preserving device management enrollment and settings. 

More information

I’ve really only offered a flavor of some of the IT improvements introduced at WWDC. To find out more, watch the Apple sessions on “What’s new in managing Apple devices” and take a look at the Apple Platform Deployment guide; it should be updated before the new operating systems ship this fall 

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While AI is proliferating across the workplace, it is introducing a new productivity paradox: While the technology makes work feel faster, it actually pushes more burden onto employees to provide context, perform quality checks, then rinse and repeat across numerous disparate tools.

This, according to a new survey of 6,000 full-time digital workers by Glean’s Work AI Institute, results in two emerging behaviors: “botsitting,” all the unrecognized work that goes into making AI actually usable; and “botshitting,” shipping AI-generated work that is unverified, not that well understood, or perhaps not even trustworthy. The survey report was co-authored by experts from Work AI Institute, Emory University, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara, UNC Charlotte, University College London, and University of Notre Dame.

“It’s definitely in many ways a vicious cycle that feeds itself,” said Rebecca Hinds, head of Glean’s research center the Work AI Institute, a research collaborative of AI experts. Enterprises need to begin understanding and addressing the “massive, massive human labor that’s at the core of this.”

Workers are using AI more, getting more frustrated

There’s no doubt that AI is quickly becoming a central teammate in the workplace. Glean’s Work AI Institute found that 87% of digital workers are using AI: It is already automating more than a quarter of their work and saving about 11 hours a week.

Still, only 13% say the use of AI has significantly improved their company’s performance, and their time savings are being eaten up by the same technology that is producing them. Employees lose about one-third of their work week (6.4 hours) botsitting: feeding AI context, supervising outputs, debugging errors, cleaning up AI-generated work, and switching between AI tools.

“We’re seeing high, high rates of multiple tool usage, and often those tools aren’t connected,” said Hinds.

In terms of context-feeding, large language models (LLMs) are trained on the vast corpus of the internet, but not always on enterprise-specific data. Thus, employees often have to provide additional information around their company’s products, customers, services, or other details.

“They’re often feeling frustrated when the tools don’t understand enough about day to day work to be useful,” said Hinds. Also, because employees are using multiple tools, they often have to repeat the same prompt over and over.

“It’s exhausting for workers to not only do this, but to have the work be unrecognized, often unrewarded and unacknowledged within the organization,” she said.

Similarly, workers are having to catch outputs that might look polished and finished on the surface, but could be wrong, incomplete, or missing important context. Debugging is the biggest driver of exhaustion, because it is often conducted by people who didn’t necessarily contribute to the initial output, Hinds noted, so they first have to dig up background information.

However, “not all botsitting is bad,” Hinds emphasized. “Certainly, we want workers to have some level of ownership and oversight.”

But when it is unnecessary, it can lead to botshitting, where users ship AI-generated work they haven’t verified because they’re overwhelmed or time-constrained. Sixty-nine percent of users admit to doing so, and 41% say they sometimes deliver work they could not explain if asked. Another 28% blame AI for mistakes they themselves caused.

“Botshitting is offloading your critical human thinking, judgment, and understanding,” Hinds explained. “You’re offloading that work that absolutely needs to remain with the human.”

Workers using multiple AI agents are significantly more likely to do this, she added, because agents are so scalable, and can spiral out of control if they don’t have the right controls or permissions built around them, causing overwhelmed users to give up on their verification efforts.

“You don’t often see the negative impacts until 3, 4, 5, steps down the line,” said Hinds. “Then it requires all of this cleanup work, detective work, to understand where did the agent go wrong.”

Using AI … but not too much

Interestingly, more than half of the workers surveyed said they get more day-to-day help from AI than they get from their managers, and consider it easier to collaborate with than humans.

Still, they seem to be facing a Goldilocks problem when it comes to sharing their use of AI. Among self-identified high AI achievers, 54% are using unapproved tools or using approved tools in noncompliant ways, and 36% are hiding how much AI helps them.

As Hinds explained, depending on the context and the level of psychological safety an organization has provided, it can be “differentially beneficial or harmful” to show you’re using AI, and, on the flip side, to conceal that you’re using it too much, because that might make you less valuable, or perceived as less valuable, she said.

It’s a complicated balance, because, she noted, “there’s massive pressure in so many organizations to demonstrate AI fluency, to demonstrate you’re a power user.”

What successful organizations are doing differently

In fact, the report said, “The companies pulling ahead are doing something different. They aren’t spending a greater share of their AI time using AI. They’re spending a greater share on the work around it: setting context, defining what ‘good’ looks like, building judgment, and deciding what should never have been handed to a model in the first place.”

The most transformative organizations are addressing AI challenges proactively: Providing training and support, treating AI as an opportunity to redesign work, and formally rewarding AI skills. In addition, it noted, the hardest skill to build is knowing when not to use AI.

It is “not just clicks of the tool, not just tokens used, but real skills, real learning,” said Hinds. In addition to investing in workers, these organizations are clearly stating AI strategy and clarifying the “why” behind it. Governance should also be “living and breathing,” with companies continuously re-evaluating policies.

And it needs to happen at every level, top execs included, said Hinds: “It’s being able to see the executives use the technology, sharing both the success stories and the failures.”

Successful companies are also actively using metrics anchored in existing key performance indicators (KPIs). They are measuring quality, efficiency, and employee engagement in different ways, and putting data in the hands of employees so they can assess their own adoption and success.

“It’s less about surveillance and more about feedback in terms of how we work collectively,” said Hinds.

What’s “fascinating but perhaps not surprising,” she said, is that workers are increasingly using AI itself as a teacher, and prefer it over other learning channels. This speaks to the importance of low-code, no-code tools, with low learning curves and organizational context, that are embedded directly into workflows.

“It is starkly different from what we’ve seen with previous technologies,” she said.

This article originally appeared on CIO.com.

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Organizarea jocurilor și prima impresie

Primul contact cu un portofoliu vast de jocuri se face adesea prin structura oferită de platformă: categorii clar delimitate, filtre pe furnizori, teme sau tipuri de premiu și pagini dedicate pentru colecții curatoriate. Această organizare transformă o colecție de sute sau mii de titluri într-un traseu de descoperire intuitiv, astfel încât utilizatorul să poată naviga după preferințe estetice, ritmuri sonore sau mecanici vizuale, fără a se pierde în multitudinea de opțiuni.

Pentru o perspectivă mai amplă asupra evoluției și structurii pieței, merită consultate resurse informative precum https://silviutolu.com/, care prezintă sinteze despre tendințe și modul în care furnizorii își segmentează portofoliile. Linkul acesta se potrivește temei de descoperire, oferind context despre cum se constituie colecțiile și ce așteptări au jucătorii moderni.

Spotlight: sloturi video și universurile tematice

Sloturile rămân coloana vertebrală a ofertei, dar nu sunt toate la fel: ele sunt construite ca experiențe tematice ce pot varia de la aventuri epice la reinterpretări moderne ale culturii pop. Organizarea pe teme ajută la descoperirea rapidă a titlurilor care rezonează cu gusturile vizuale și narative ale fiecăruia, iar paginile dedicate temelor reunesc jocuri cu artă, muzică și animații similare.

• Sloturi inspirate din mitologie și istorie
• Sloturi cu teme de ficțiune științifică sau fantasy
• Sloturi retro și cele cu grafică inspirată de arcade
• Mini-jocuri sau secvențe narative integrate în sloturi

Fiecare sub-gen are propria ergonomie: unele pun accent pe atmosferă și design cinematic, altele pe dinamica vizuală și pe variația nivelurilor de recompensă. Această varietate vizuală și sonoră face ca explorarea să fie la fel de importantă ca experiența în sine — descoperirea unui joc nou cu o direcție artistică neobișnuită poate redefini așteptările jucătorului.

Spotlight: jocuri live și conexiunea socială

Secțiunea de jocuri live schimbă paradigma de la experiență solitară la una orientată pe interacțiune. Firmele care dezvoltă astfel de camere investesc în producție audiovisuală, în prezentatori profesioniști și în creația unor seturi tematice ce reproduc atmosfera unui cazinou fizic sau a unor show-uri televiziune. Organizarea acestor oferte pe tipuri de masă, limbi sau stil de prezentare permite găsirea ușoară a unei atmosfere potrivite.

Acest tip de divertisment pune accent pe socializare: chat-urile integrate, posibilitatea de a urmări sesiuni sau de a alege mesele în funcție de ritm creează subcomunități temporare. Pentru cei interesați de diversificare, paginile dedicate jocurilor live afișează adesea programul emisiunilor și descrieri ale formatelor, ceea ce facilitează explorarea fără a transforma experiența într-un ghid tehnic.

Spotlight: colecții speciale, turnee și pagini de producător

Colecțiile speciale și paginile dedicate producătorilor sunt elemente cheie în modul în care utilizatorii descoperă conținut nou. Aceste secțiuni reunesc titluri similare din punct de vedere stilistic sau tehnic și oferă o hartă coerentă a evoluției unui furnizor, de la primele creații la inovațiile recente.

• Colecții retrospective care scot în evidență titluri definitorii
• Selecții „best of” conform tematicii sau graficii
• Paginile producătorilor ce prezintă portofoliul și tendințele lor de design

Turneele și competițiile, privite ca evenimente de varietate, stimulează explorarea altor titluri din aceeași categorie, încurajând utilizatorii să treacă dincolo de obișnuințe și să descopere jocuri cu stiluri diferite. În esență, organizarea informației — fie prin etichete, colecții sau rubrici editoriale — facilitează transformarea catalogului vast într-o experiență de descoperire continuă.

Concluzie: diversitate structurată pentru exploratori

Divertismentul în cazinourile online nu este doar despre titluri individuale, ci despre cum sunt aranjate și prezentate aceste titluri pentru a crea trasee de descoperire. Fiecare platformă devine astfel un curator al lumilor digitale, iar utilizatorii pot să concentreze explorarea pe estetici, ritmuri de joc sau conexiuni sociale, fără să piardă din vedere plăcerea pură a descoperirii.

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Apple Silicon Macs fail at less than half the rate of Intel Macs, dramatically reducing the platform’s already industry-leading total cost of ownership (TCO), according to data revealed by London, UK-based Apple reseller Hoxton Macs.

While it’s true the data is based on a relatively small sample group, it does seem to reflect what the industry in general sees.

Apple’s chip design transforms Mac reliability

The success of Apple Silicon hardware is attributed to its simpler design, which integrates multiple components into a single chip, reducing the number of potential failure points. Additionally, Apple Silicon Macs run cooler, leading to less wear and tear on components such as batteries and USB-C ports, the report says. Across the wider laptop market, most studies show hardware faults affect one in five non-Apple machines over their first three years in use.

This builds on Apple’s enduring record for making good hardware as independent reliability surveys consistently rank the company as the most reliable laptop brand. To some extent, the data reflects the anecdotal experience most Mac users have — their computers seem to last much longer than other systems do, which helps them retain value on the second-user market.

Apple already had a good story to tell in terms of tech support before it introduced Apple Silicon machines. More than a decade ago, Fletcher Previn, then vice president of Workplace-as-a-Service at IBM, told the Jamf Nation User Conference that just 5% of IBM’s Mac-using employees needed to call the help desk; in contrast, an astonishing 40% of PC-using staff had to do so. That difference is significant because it translates into serious differences in cost; each tech support call made by those working on your ailing PC fleet has a price.

That TCO difference prompted Previn to say, “I can confidently say every Mac that we buy is making and saving IBM money.” Years later, as CIO at Cisco, he said the company’s tens of thousands of Mac users experienced five times fewer cyberthreats and nine times fewer virus issues than PCs, and that Cisco needed 33% fewer engineers to manage the Macs.

Those impressive real-world data points reflected Macs in the pre-Apple Silicon world. Those Intel Macs already worked better for longer and required less tech support. This month’s Hoxton Macs data, while based on a much smaller sample group, suggests that this particular advantage has grown even greater now. And it’s not just down to the silicon.

Fewer parts, less heat, fewer failures

Apple has designed its processors to deliver excellent performance per watt. Because these are SoCs (System on Chips) the power requirement to drive all the system components is that much lower, and it means whole categories of component failure are removed. The design also means they use less energy and generate less heat to run, dramatically reducing thermal wear and tear. 

“Fewer parts, less heat, simpler construction: the result is a machine with markedly fewer ways to break,” Hoxton Mac said in an extensive article explaining its data.

>Failure rates are consequential to everyone. Even a small failure rate means some people will end up with Macs that have hardware issues, which is always a problem for those affected. But the low fail rate should be reassuring to the millions of people switching to Apple’s  href=”https://www.computerworld.com/article/4180406/after-a-quick-1-1m-sales-macbook-neo-set-to-reshape-the-pc-industry.html”>even cooler-running MacBook Neos>. 

Those users might now justifiably look forward to lower running costs from their new computers, combined with good resale rates once they’re ready to upgrade. It doesn’t hurt Apple’s platform loyalty either — making it even more likely those millions of users will stay with the Mac rather than going back to where they were before.

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