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Category Archive: Technology

How Apple intends checking images for CSAM

Apple’s controversial proposals to check photos for CSAM content before they’re uploaded to iCloud depend on image matching, as explained here.

August 9, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Where’s the accelerator?

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Three recent WWDC sessions extolling Apple’s “extensive reference material” and Xcode can’t find anything on these rich and extensive libraries.

August 8, 2021 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 111

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Twenty-three years ago, […]

August 7, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: File systems

Turning the data blocks into files and directories, these have common functions and additional features which can give rise to tricky problems.

August 7, 2021 Macs, Technology

Accelerating the M1 Mac: an introduction to SIMD

More cores are great for running more processes, but how can you make individual operations within a process faster? SIMD is one solution.

August 6, 2021 Macs, Technology

Apple has released standalone updaters for 10.14 and 10.15 Security Updates

Apple has today, 5 August, released standalone updaters for the last two Security Updates, which were first released […]

August 5, 2021 Macs, Technology

There/their/they’re goes the Cupertino

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Driven crazy by spurious spelling corrections? Don’t get mad with your spell-checker, train it.

August 5, 2021 General, Language, Macs, Technology

When idiomatic code is slower, and how to Accelerate

Benchmarking 32-bit Float vector dot-product calculations using Swift, NEON assembly, and Apple’s SIMD libraries, on Intel and M1 Macs.

August 4, 2021 Macs, Technology

Knowing what not to back up, and how

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Don’t clutter your backups with files you’d never want to restore. Here are five methods to exclude items from Time Machine backups to keep them leaner.

August 3, 2021 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 110

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 110. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Errand […]

August 2, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

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