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Category Archive: Technology

Are your text secrets safe in a PDF or image?

Does macOS use Live Text to extract and index recognisable text in images? Is that a good or bad thing if it did? What about PDFs?

January 26, 2024 Macs, Technology

Avoiding unintended upgrades to macOS

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If you can’t upgrade it to Sonoma, how can you ensure your production Mac doesn’t get upgraded unintentionally?

January 25, 2024 Macs, Technology

Serious bugs fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.3

Sparse bundle passwords, shared folders in macOS VMs, and security updates for VMs, are all important fixes. But none for the Finder.

January 24, 2024 Macs, Technology

T2M2 should now work better with macOS 11-13 and daily backups

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You can disable its checks of scheduling, and it better analyses Speed in Big Sur, and backups in macOS 11-14.

January 23, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

What has changed in Sonoma 14.3?

The update to bring macOS Sonoma to version 14.3 isn’t large, although it has some compelling security content […]

January 22, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has just released an update to XProtect

Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all versions of macOS from El Capitan or so, […]

January 22, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has released macOS Sonoma 14.3, and security updates for Ventura and Monterey

Apple has just released the update to bring macOS Sonoma to version 14.3, and security updates for Ventura […]

January 22, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 239

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 239. Here are my solutions to them. 1: In […]

January 22, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

Why does virtualisation run some code far slower on Apple silicon?

In a wide range of in-core tests, CPU performance in VMs is close to that of code running native on the host, and M3 VMs are faster than M1 native. With one significant exception.

January 22, 2024 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Secrets of Apple silicon

When running on M3 hosts, macOS VMs lack support for some of the instruction set, and Accelerate commands may be much slower. Why?

January 21, 2024 Macs, Technology

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