Apple has promoted Johny Srouji to Chief Hardware Officer, expanding his responsibilities beyond silicon engineering. Srouji will now oversee all hardware engineering teams, including Mac, iPhone, iPad, and wearables. He previously served as Senior Vice President of Hardware Technologies.
The article provides a command-line recipe for transcribing audio files on macOS using the Gemma 4 E2B model with MLX and mlx-vlm. It demonstrates the transcription of a 14-second WAV file, noting minor misinterpretations in the output.
When working with 24-bit-per-pixel formats on video cards with bank-switched memory, code had to use aligned memory accesses despite the pixels themselves not being aligned. This requirement was necessary due to the hardware constraints of bank-switched video memory architectures.