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macOS and security updates in detail

Major macOS releases from Sierra to Ventura, with full details of each release and security update. Also updates to XProtect, MRT and Gatekeeper.

May 8, 2023 Macs, Technology

M-series Macs

For a systematic compilation of links to articles here about Apple silicon Macs, M1, M2, M3, M4 and […]

January 22, 2021 Macs, Technology

Hero or hooligan: Odysseus escapes the Sirens

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Odysseus is warned about the Sirens, who lure ships’ crews to their deaths. After negotiating their threat, they sail past Scylla and Charybdis, but all his crew are lost in shipwreck, and he ends up with Calypso for 7 years.

August 3, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 371

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 371. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Brown beverage […]

August 3, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

Find an expected macOS or security data update

A macOS update has just been announced, but your Mac can’t seem to find it. Here’s what to try next, so you can bring your Mac up to date. Includes details of log entries during a normal check.

August 3, 2026 Macs, Technology

On the beach in paint 2

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A giant roc’s egg, a Punch and Judy show, a train of camels, emigrants leaving the Scottish highlands, a massive canon, and a firing squad.

August 2, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Onward and update

Few Macs survived the past week without an update, and for more recent models that meant two updates. Have we gone forward, and if so, where have we got to?

August 2, 2026 Macs, Technology

On the beach in paint 1

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Some of the strange things seen on the beach, from racing sandyachts in 1608, to mermaids and mermen three centuries later.

August 1, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 371

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Brown beverage […]

August 1, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

Reading floating point numbers with Mints

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Why floating point numbers expressed in hexadecimal are so difficult to read, and how to use Mints’ Floating Point Explorer to convert and understand them.

August 1, 2026 Macs, Technology

A cold countryside: The genius of George Morland

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Brilliant, painting over 4,000 oil paintings in little more than 15 years, arrested as a French spy, and finally succumbed to bouts of heavy drinking and mounting debts.

July 31, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Virtualising Golden Gate betas

If you installed the first Xcode beta in macOS 26.5.1, it probably stopped you building any more VMs. Here’s what happened, and how to recover normal virtualisation, even creating Golden Gate beta VMs again.

July 31, 2026 Macs, Technology

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