Off-Prem AWS racks M3 Ultra Macs that boast specs you can’t currently buy Manages to get its hands on some Mac Studio machines before the OpenClaw machine grabs them
Software macOS 27 threatens to bury Time Capsule, FOSS brings a shovel Apple's old backup boxes only speak AFP and SMB1, but NetBSD under the hood gives them one last shot
Devops Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port It's not the fork that's the problem, it's the attempt to make it look official, says original Notepad++ dev Don Ho
Applications After years of being stood up, ARM64 Linux users finally get Chrome date Someone, somewhere, ticked a box on a build farm. The wait is over
OSes US state laws push age checks into the operating system Bad legislation, but an especially big headache for FOSS
OSes Stop macOS 26 nagging with one tiny policy tweak Trick uses a simple configuration profile to convince your Mac that upgrading isn't allowed
SaaS Apple's Creator Studio creates a subscription where free apps used to live Mac faithful aghast at helpful wallet-emptying suggestions
Patches Logitech macOS mouse mayhem traced to expired dev certificate Company says it dropped the ball, apologizes for wasting people's time
OSes Keeping Windows and macOS alive past their sell-by date Practical steps to make an aging operating system usable into 2026
Applications Devs say Apple still flouting EU's Digital Markets Act six months on Coalition for App Fairness warns App Store fees remain unlawful despite non-compliance ruling
OSes Classic MacOS for non-Apple PowerPC kit rediscovered Unreleased variants that Jobs killed off found – 7.6 on a G4, anyone?
On-Prem Rideshare giant moves 200 Macs out of the cloud, saves $2.4 million Grab tried to virtualize macOS, but Apple doesn’t make that easy
Applications Dirty little Electron secret tanks macOS 26 performance Apple's bad QA or poor coding by developers?
Security Microsoft spots fresh XCSSET malware strain hiding in Apple dev projects Upgraded nasty slips into Xcode builds, steals crypto, and disables macOS defenses
OSes Bring back your old Mac: 5 ways to refresh the OS on elderly Apples Newer OSes for unsupported kit, and new browsers for older OSes. There's always a way
Software RIP: Bill Atkinson, co-creator of Apple Lisa and Mac His work set the direction of modern computer interfaces, and much more
Software Still browsing like it's 1999: Fresh tools that keep vintage Macs online and weirdly alive You can't keep a good OS down
Software Essential FOSS tools to make macOS suck less Moved from Windows or Linux? Smooth some of the rough edges
Applications Photoshop FOSS alternative GNU Image Manipulation Program 3.0 nearly here Nearly 21 years since version 2.0
Security macOS HM Surf vuln might already be under exploit by major malware family Like keeping your camera and microphone private? Patch up
Applications Microsoft rolls out one Teams app to rule them all That annoying requirement to switch between home and work accounts has finally gone
OSes PowerToys bring fun tweaks to Windows 10 and 11 Mac migrants (if any exist) will find Powertoys Run strangely familiar
Applications Apple reverses course to approve Epic Games Store on iOS in EU Arguments over buttons set to continue while European Commission looks on
Personal Tech Apple finally adds RCS support after years of mixed messages WWDC sees Cupertino up to its old trick of adding features - in this case a password manager - that compete directly with third parties
Security Nissan infosec in the spotlight again after breach affecting more than 50K US employees PLUS: Connected automakers put on notice; Cisco Talos develops macOS fuzzing technique; Last week's critical vulns
Security Academics probe Apple's privacy settings and get lost and confused Just disabling Siri requires visits to five submenus
OSes HoRNDIS MacGyvers your Mac to get online with Androids Apple makes this harder every macOS release, but there are ways nonetheless
Personal Tech The real significance of Apple's Macintosh 40 years on, it's still widely misunderstood
Software Penguins get their Wayland with Firefox 121 Latest version of Mozilla's web browser brings something different depending on your machine
Research Fresh find shines new light on North Korea’s latest macOS malware Months of work reveals how this tricky malware family targets... the financial services sector
Software In quest to defeat Euro red-tape, Apple said it had three Safari browsers – not one And with a straight face, too. Brussels didn't buy it
Personal Tech Asahi Linux goes from Apple Silicon port project to macOS bug hunters Refresh rate glitch could leave MacBook Pro 14" and 16" models unbootable
Research Side channel attacks take bite out of Apple silicon with iLeakage exploit Nearly six years on from Spectre and Meltdown, novel method steals passwords, emails, texts
OSes Apple antique aficionados can boot to the future with OpenCore Legacy Patcher Hackintoshing reaches a wider audience – owners of older Macs
Security Google warns infoseccers: Beware of North Korean spies sliding into your DMs ALSO: Verizon turns self in for reduced fine, malvertising comes to macOS, and this week's critical vulnerabilities
Research Apple's defense against apps vandalizing other apps still broken, developer claims Cupertino appears to be blasé about long-standing macOS bug, so coder has blabbed
OSes Soon the most popular 'real' desktop will be the Linux desktop Microsoft is moving Windows to the cloud and Apple will be happy to have you run macOS on the cloud
OSes Firefox 115 browser breathes life into old operating systems Release is good news for fans of Windows 7, 8, and macOS from Sierra to Mojave.
Security Crypto catastrophe strikes some Atomic Wallet users, over $35M thought stolen Victims nursing huge losses haven't the foggiest how heist happened, yet
On-Prem Microsoft embraces Apple Mac loyalists – as long as they're using its software iDevice admins now have a safe space where they can talk about M365
Patches Apple squashes iOS, macOS zero-day bugs already exploited by snoops Keep calm and install patches before abuse becomes widespread
Patches Apple patches all the iThings, including iOS 15 hole under attack right now Issue identified in February but owners of older kit weren't warned
Devops MacStadium brings macOS instances orchestrated by Kubernetes to AWS Another option for devs burned by VMware snubbing Apple platforms
Patches Apple splats zero-day bug, other gremlins in macOS, iOS WebKit flaw 'may have been exploited' – just like Tim Cook 'may have' made a million bucks this week
OSes helloSystem 0.8: A friendly, all-graphical FreeBSD Not complete yet, but getting closer to welcoming Mac migrants and systemd scorners
Research Dridex malware pops back up and turns its attention to macOS Malware testers spot attempt to attack Macs. But (try not to weep for the bad guys) there are still compatibility issues with MS exe files
OSes MacOS9.app: A tour de force of emulation and integration The 'Infinite Mac' is an astonishing demonstration of emulation and integration between some of the best tech of the '90s and the '20s
Personal Tech If Apple's environmental rhetoric is meaningful, Macs and iPads should converge An Apple a day keeps the doctor away, but too many might be a burden on the planet.
OSes Laugh all you want. There will be a year of the Linux desktop But, it won't play out the way you think it will
CSO Microsoft's macOS Tamper Protection hits general availability A boon for administrators having to deal with Apple hardware while also keeping everything secure
SaaS Open source 'Office' options keep Microsoft running faster than ever LibreOffice, Collabora, KDE Gear all updated their Microsoft alternatives – whatever your OS
Personal Tech We sat through Apple's product launch disguised as a dev event so you don't have to M2 chip teased plus MacBooks, iOS 16, macOS 13, watchOS 9 and more
Research This Windows malware uses PowerShell to inject malicious extension into Chrome And that's a bit odd, says Red Canary
OSes macOS Server discontinued after years on life support It's not like Apple was a player in the market since the demise of Xserve
Security Apple emits macOS, iOS, iPadOS patches for 'exploited' security bugs Nothing like a little kernel-level memory snooping, code execution
OSes Apple delivers desktop, mobile OS updates, patches dozens of security holes Plus: Face ID can recognize you with a mask on, kinda
Storage Microsoft goes native with OneDrive on Apple Silicon Hopefully a better experience than the 'disastrous' Files On-Demand update
Storage Microsoft rolls out Files On-Demand with tighter macOS integration – but it defaults to 'on' and can't be disabled Get ready for a new 'experience'...
OSes BeOS rebuild / Haiku has a new feature / that runs Windows apps Poetry and WINE – a heady combination
OSes Don't make an iOS of yourself – Apple's patched its OSes, you know the drill Cupertino also added a Digital Legacy – special IDs so your loved ones can get your data once you're dead
OSes Why your external monitor looks awful on Arm-based Macs, the open source fix – and the guy who wrote it Q&A with the developer of BetterDummy: from macOS secrets to his motivations
PaaS + IaaS AWS adds another Arm CPU to its cloud: Apple's M1 Updates bare metal Macs-a-service and claims up to 60 per cent better price performance vs cloudy x86 Macs
Software Microsoft previews Visual Studio 2022 for Mac, but why bother when VS Code runs just fine on Apple hardware? .NET works in mysterious ways
OSes Apple's macOS Monterey upgrades some people's laptops to doorstops Reports of bricked computers suggest it may be worth waiting for better-behaving code
Security Shrootless: Microsoft found a way to evade Apple's SIP macOS filesystem protection Flaw could have let miscreants slide rootkits onto your iDesktop
OSes Apple ditches support for pre-2015 MacBook Air, Pro laptops with macOS Monterey But it seems the iPhone 6 and SE will be looked after until the end of time
Security Apple patches macOS flaw exploited by malware to secretly snap screenshots Bug can also be abused to record audio and video, access files – and iOS, iPadOS updated, too
Security Apple is happy to diss the desktop – it knows who's got the most to lose Also: The basic utility of the general purpose OS cannot be sanitised into total safety. Nor should it
OSes Apple's macOS is sub-par for security, Apple exec Craig Federighi tells Epic trial Trashing your desktop OS to save the iOS walled garden – it's a bold strategy. Let's see if it pays off for 'em
Off-Prem Fleet would Mac? Microsoft's Azure VPN Client for Apple machines hits public preview Azure Active Directory's tentacles wriggle into ever stranger places
Virtualization VMware is 'a few months away' from M1 release of Fusion macOS desktop hypervisor Test code is apparently blazingly fast, but for now Parallels has VMs on Apple silicon to itself
Virtualization Windows comes to Apple M1 silicon as Parallels delivers native desktop hypervisor Meanwhile, ESXi on Arm spotted booting Windows
OSes Mac OS X at 20: A rocky start, but it got the fundamentals right for a macOS future For pity's sake, don't thank Jobs
Personal Tech What lurks within the latest Big Sur beta? References to two unreleased iMac models Expect a bigger display and slimmer body thanks to Apple's M1 silicon
Personal Tech Hidden text in MacOS 11.3 beta suggests removal of Rosetta 2 compatibility layer in some countries Time to go down to Memphis, er, Cupertino, to check for a decree
OSes Apple's latest macOS Big Sur update stops cheapo USB-C hubs bricking your machine Still, it's probably best to stick with eye-wateringly expensive official peripherals
OSes macOS Big Sur muscles onto Amazon's cloudy Macs AWS flicks the switch on EFS too for those who fancy sharing cloudy volumes
OSes Apple offends devs by asking for Developer Transition Kits back early, then offering them a measly $200 off an M1 Mac They also have to use the credit before 31 May or lose it
OSes If you really must have Edge on your Apple M1 silicon, there's a compatible stable build for Microsoft's browser It works – but the more 'exciting' stuff is in the Dev and Canary Channels
OSes Blackberry Cylance's consumer antivirus product won't work with macOS Big Sur until end of January Only three months after latest OS version released
OSes CodeWeavers' CrossOver ran 32-bit Windows Intel binary on macOS on Arm CPU emulating x86 – and nobody died Trying to get that one weird app working on new Mac silicon?
OSes If you suddenly can't print to your HP Printer from your Mac, you're not alone: Code security cert snafu blamed Driver software snubbed by macOS 10.15, 10.14, Amazon Music, too
OSes Apple's T2 custom secure boot chip is not only insecure, it cannot be fixed without replacing the silicon Which means your new Mac is vulnerable to 'evil maid' attacks, if that's something you worry about
OSes Microsoft's OS joins macOS and Linux at the Flutter party, but guess which one performs best? Hint: It's not Windows Google's cross-platform development tool targets the Windows desktop with support now in alpha
OSes Who cares what Apple's about to announce? It owes us a macOS x86 virtual appliance for non-Mac computers Shift to Arm processors will maroon some users – and Hackintoshes are problematic
OSes Feds seize 'largest ever' haul of crypto-dosh from terrorists – including coins from 'fake' pandemic mask web store Plus: Someone's gunning for Mac developers
OSes This week of never-ending security updates continue. Now Apple emits dozens of fixes for iOS, macOS, etc Make sure your iThing installs these patches
OSes One year ago, Apple promised breakthrough features to help iPhone, iPad, Mac owners with disabilities. It failed them
OSes Here's a headline we never thought we'd write 20 years ago: Microsoft readies antivirus for Linux, Android
OSes Email innovator Hey extends an olive branch in standoff with Apple, tweaks code to make the iGiant appier
OSes VMware and Office for Mac need patching, Microsoft can scan your firmware, and Anonymous takes credit for Atlanta police hacks
OSes MacOS on Arm talk intensifies: Just weeks from now, Apple to serve up quarantini with Kalamata golive, reportedly
OSes You, Apple Mac fan. Put down the homemade oat-milk latte, you need to patch a load of security bugs, too
OSes Apple promises third, no, fourth, er, fifth time's a charm when it comes to macOS Catalina: 10.15.5 now out
OSes I know what you leased last summer: Asset database leak hits Capita, Rolls-Royce, Tesco (every little helps, eh?)
OSes Incredible how you can steal data via Thunderbolt once you've taken the PC apart, attached a flash programmer, rewritten the firmware...
OSes Flaw hunter bags $75,000 off Apple after duping Safari into spying through iPhone, Mac cameras without permission
OSes Apple's latest macOS Catalina update mysteriously borks SSH for some unlucky fans. What could be the cause?
OSes Stuck inside with nothing to do? Apple fires out security fixes for iOS, macOS, wrist-puters... and something weird called iTunes for Windows
OSes B-but it doesn't get viruses! Not so, Apple fanbois: Mac malware is growing faster than nasties going for Windows
OSes Flaws punched holes in Azure cloud, Apple patches pretty much everything, Eurocops cuff Maltese hackers, etc
OSes In a desperate bid to stay relevant in 2020's geopolitical upheaval, N. Korea upgrades its Apple Jeus macOS malware
OSes FUSE for macOS: Why a popular open source library became closed source and commercially licensed
OSes Tricky VPN-busting bug lurks in iOS, Android, Linux distros, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, say university eggheads
OSes You'e yping i wong: macOS Catalina stops Twitter desktop app from accepting B, L, M, R, and T in passwords
OSes How bad is Catalina? It's almost Apple Maps bad: MacOS 10.15 pushes Cupertino's low bar for code quality lower still
OSes Jamf emits mystery security fix for Pro macOS, iOS wrangler, keeps admins in dark by censoring chatter
OSes Got a pre-A12 iPhone? Love jailbreaks? Happy Friday! 'Unpatchable tethered Boot ROM exploit' released
OSes Hands up who likes gaming! Hands up who likes gaming on Macs! Er, OK. Well, Parallels has an update for you
OSes It's 2019 and you can still pwn an iPhone with a website: Apple patches up iOS, Mac bugs in July security hole dump
OSes Stop using that MacBook Pro RIGHT NOW, says Uncle Sam: Loyalists suffer burns, smoke inhalation and worse – those crappy keyboards
OSes Malware spotted doing unspeakable, filthy things to infected Macs – injecting Bing results into Google searches
OSes Don't get the pitchforks yet, Apple devs: macOS third-party application clampdown probably not as bad as rumored
OSes Level up Mac security, and say game over to malware? System alerts plus Apple game engine equals antivirus package
OSes Bad news: Google drops macOS zero-day after Apple misses bug deadline. Good news: It's fiddly to exploit
OSes At least Sony offered a t-shirt, says macOS flaw finder: Bug bounties now for Macs if you want this 0-day, Apple
OSes A picture tells a 1,000 words. Pixels pwn up to 5 million nerds: Crims use steganography to stash bad code in ads
OSes It's December 2018, and a rogue application can still tell your Apple Mac: I'm your El Capitan now
OSes Did you hear? There's a critical security hole that lets web pages hijack computers. Of course it's Adobe Flash's fault
OSes A Spectre flaw solution, Cloudflare blips, a bank cyber-heist in Canada, and more in infosec land
OSes Apple's magical quality engineering strikes again: You may want to hold off that macOS High Sierra update...
