Authentication dialogs for Macs with and without support for Touch ID, in recent versions of macOS including Tahoe, and how to tell whether a request in Terminal is genuine.
Category Archive: Macs
A complex set of rules with optional flags determines whether any given xattr is preserved when copying, saving, syncing with a cloud service, backing up, and more. Here they are.
Apple has just released an update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5325. As usual, it doesn’t release […]
Some who updated to 26.2 reported their downloads were over 10 GB in size, rather than the expected 3.78 GB for Apple silicon Macs. Why was that, and why didn’t Apple release an earlier BSI?
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 338. Here are my solutions to them. 1: The […]
Several utilities access the log. When there are problems getting entries, they each report details. Here’s what each error report means, and what you can do to fix it.
Five test questions put to Google’s AI-enhanced search. Answers analysed to understand its weaknesses rather than strengths. And why every answer is a bit random.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: The first […]
It’s the master compositor, laying all windows out to generate the image to be displayed. It also handles input and other event routing, as it knows where each app’s windows are, and which are at the front.
A largely routine update, with a few interesting new features such as Edge Light, a security enhancement to AirDrop, and two important security fixes that have already been exploited in iOS.
The Eclectic Light Company 