From their origin with an email engine in 1993, to the addition of the more secure Data Protection keychain supporting passkeys and much more.
Category Archive: Macs
When it started up after its macOS update, available space on its internal SSD had shot from about 160 GB to nearly 400 GB. Where had all my files gone?
I had left my Mac running near midnight. Next morning it had shut down in the middle of an unwanted macOS update. Here’s how macOS went against my express settings.
Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […]
This first experimental version gets log extracts direct, rather than using the log command tool, and has a SwiftUI front end, but requires macOS 14.6 or later.
How Apple’s new CPU cores can guess which code to run, and which data to load from memory. How those speculative techniques can be exploited, and should we be worried?
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 296. Here are my solutions to them. 1: No […]
The difference between consent and intent, why an app adds itself to Settings, and when you should add it to Full Disk Access.
Permissions, privacy and security protections can conspire to prevent us from accessing our own files. They aren’t integrated, consistent or documented, and badly need improvement.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: No amateur […]
The Eclectic Light Company 