Strong internal rumors are that Apple wants to move to new version of their HEIF format. And establish this as paid licensed standard.

JPEG local viewing support will be fully absent both on Macs and iOS devices.

Yet you will be able to view or use JPEG image, to do so it will be sent to Apple Cloud servers and converted either to lossy or lossless HEIF, available option will depend on your payment plan.

Apple Cloud software also will be making image licensing check, faces and object recognition and inserting all this information into the meta fields.

Photographers will be able to pay Apple to add photos into license check database and assign special cost for each usage time.

If you try to use such licensed JPEG or HEIF image in Apple application or application available in Mac Store you will be present with special dialog to pay for one time or perceptual license use. Any applications that go around it and use images directly will be prohibited (on ARM platforms).

All new Apple chips will have special hardware making encoding and decoding of images, and special DRAM section where image data will reside while being fully protected from any access from any code including OS core level. Only special on-chip hardware coprocessor will have access. Hardware decoder will always add special encoded watermark with machine id into any image data that will be rendered to screen or given to application.

Feature is expected to become standard on all Apple devices since 2024. With Macbooks getting it around late 2022.

Electricity supply reached limits with government turning off many manufacturing plants.

The European Union can no longer legally recognize Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as the legitimate head of Venezuela after he lost his post as head of parliament, representatives of the 27 member states of the bloc said.

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