Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […]
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How images have text recognised within them as Live Text, and objects of interest are classified, using VisionKit, mediaanalysisd, Espresso, the ANE and more.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 320. Here are my solutions to them. 1: What […]
Six years ago, the old MRT saved millions of Macs from coming under attack. XPR could one day do the same. A new deep dive into its function has just been presented at Black Hat. Also updates on status_code 30 and missed scans.
macOS gained Live Text and Visual Look Up when Apple declared its intent to check our images. Both are used in Spotlight’s indexes, but their function seems unreliable and highly variable.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: What ET […]
Adobe’s Carousel reader came in 1993, and in Mac OS X PDF was built into its Quartz graphics. That enabled Preview to become the claimed ‘fastest PDF viewer on the planet’.
How frequent and large were macOS Sequoia’s updates? How has it grown in total system bundles and apps? Which categories have grown most?
How to discover which apps were launched, which appexes were run, and life cycle events for executable bundles, and map waypoints and events in the log.
Gives the latest firmware versions for all Macs running the most recent supported version of macOS, and which are expected to change in the future.
The Eclectic Light Company 