If your Mac is running low on storage space, macOS can help make more room by moving the files that you use less frequently to iCloud.
iCloud Drive - Apple iCloud
Store, organize and collaborate on files and folders with iCloud Drive. Easily upload, delete or recover files. Changes will sync across your devices with iCloud.
iCloud Drive - Apple iCloud
Store, organize and collaborate on files and folders with iCloud Drive. Easily upload, delete or recover files. Changes will sync across your devices with iCloud.
Unclutter for Mac
A new space on your desktop to store and organize your Files, Notes and Clipboard data.
AppleInsider.com
Apple has dramatically increased the amount of data that it stores on Google's cloud services, suggesting that its storage needs have grown faster than it can handle with its own servers.
Mac Users Reclaim 12GB+ of Storage With Apple Intelligence Removal Tool
A new open-source tool is making waves in the Mac community by helping users reclaim valuable storage space taken up by Apple's AI models. Called "RemoveMacAI," the command line tool disables Apple Intelligence on macOS 27, removes its downloaded models, and prevents them from being downloaded again. In macOS 27, Apple removed the toggle to disable Apple Intelligence wholesale, and simply disabling individual features doesn't remove the models from your Mac's drive.
GitHub - omlahore/RemoveMacAI: Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back. One command, fully reversible.
Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back. One command, fully reversible. - omlahore/RemoveMacAI
Chrome’s AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage
You can take steps to delete it though.
Chrome's 4GB AI model isn't new, but you're not wrong for being confused
You can stop Chrome from taking up 4GB of storage for local AI, but that shouldn't be your problem.
Why is decentralized and distributed file storage critical for a better web?
The team behind IPFS and Filecoin explain how advances in distributed data storage and strong alignment of market incentives are combining to create a much more secure and efficient web.
Alex Cheema on Twitter / X
It’s kind of crazy but the shitstorm of supply chain issues has created a new best-in-class local AI deployment: M5 Max MacBook clusters.- The memory unit economics are great - each MacBook has 128GB @ 614GB/s for $5k- M5 Max added tensor cores (Apple Neural Accelerators) with… https://t.co/f8STQ0tLZs pic.twitter.com/FLm3oOnyEl— Alex Cheema (@alexocheema) May 14, 2026
How we knew it was time to leave the cloud
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Attic — Back up your iCloud Photos to your own storage
Keep using Photos.app like you always do. Attic quietly backs up your originals and edits to cloud storage you control — including EU providers.
Saving another 100TB of RAM with math (and Rust)
Cloudflare's global network is immense but not limitless. As we look for small ways to trim our resource usage, we sometimes get lucky and we can cut significantly more. Here’s how we reduced one of our Pingora-based service's RAM usage with statistics.
