At 18:00 on 16 September, XProtect 5315 was released for all Macs. Sequoia systems were unable to update for 24 hours, and Tahoe silently updated when it felt like it. How come?
Category Archive: Macs
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Melody containing […]
From Switcher and MultiFinder, with Process Manager and Thread Manager in Classic Mac OS, to Pthreads, NSThreads, and Grand Central Dispatch.
XProtect, XProtect Remediator, XProtect Behaviour Service, kernel extension excludes, incompatible apps, and some historical remnants, including a database that’s downloaded then vanishes.
How custom folders are easy to set up and to use. How they work in iCloud Drive, and can even be seen on your iPhone. And what makes them work.
If you have a Mac Studio M3 Ultra and want to upgrade it to run macOS 26.0 Tahoe, […]
This new disk image format is claimed to be “efficient and general-purpose”. But is it? Is it as fast as sparse bundles or read-write (UDRW) disk images are?
Apple has just released its weekly update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to […]
Which type of CPU cores are most active during Visual Look Up? How their frequencies and active residencies change? How demanding is it?
Apple has just released macOS 26.0 Tahoe (build 25A354), together with security updates to Sequoia taking it to […]
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