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Month: August 2025

Saturday Mac riddles 322

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

August 23, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of SIP

It provided 3 protections when introduced in El Capitan in 2015, and has now grown extensively to cover NVRAM, kernel boot arguments, authentication of root, and even malware scans.

August 23, 2025 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 223 Armour B

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Every painter should have a suit of armour hanging in their studio, and those of German Romantics, Pre-Raphaelites and others, of Don Quixote.

August 22, 2025 General, Life, Painting

What to do when there’s something fundamentally wrong with an Apple silicon Mac

How to check there’s no hardware problem, then use Restore in DFU mode to completely wipe internal storage, including firmware, and reset the NVRAM.

August 22, 2025 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 222 Armour A

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Worn by Mars, Athena/Minerva and Bellona, it also featured in the war against Troy. It was worn by Joan of Arc, and by Lovis Corinth too.

August 21, 2025 General, Life, Painting

How to check if your Apple silicon Mac is booting securely

How to check your Mac is booting in Full Security, and how to read its log to verify all the key steps involved in that process.

August 21, 2025 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released security updates to macOS 15.6.1, 14.7.8 and 13.7.8

Apple has just released urgent security updates to bring macOS Sequoia to 15.6.1, Sonoma to 14.7.8, and Ventura […]

August 20, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

The Dutch Golden Age: Still Life

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Although not entirely new, from 1620 still life paintings were highly popular, thanks to skilled painters migrating from Flanders and Brabant to escape religious oppression.

August 20, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Explainer: Yara rules

Used by two of XProtect’s malware detection features, Yara rules are valuable way to check whether files satisfy a logical condition, and more.

August 20, 2025 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […]

August 19, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

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