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Last Week on My Mac: Heavy hand on the kill switch

Imagine going to open an app which you use daily, only to be told by macOS that it “will damage your computer” and must be trashed. Can we have confidence in Apple?

August 9, 2020 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to XProtect

Apple has pushed an update today, to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]

August 6, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Week on My Mac: Coming NeXT on Apple Silicon

Look forward to Universal Apps, which will show how well Apple Silicon Macs perform. There’s a lot of history buried in them too.

August 2, 2020 Macs, Technology

System 8 runs again – in macOS 10.15

Interested in Mac history, or human interface design? This virtualised Quadra running System 8 is brilliant.

August 1, 2020 Macs, Technology

Smartphone contact tracing has failed everywhere

Even the ‘successful’ contact tracing apps have fallen well below expectations, and incapable of discovering their effectiveness.

July 25, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed updates to XProtect and MRT

Apple has pushed two updates today, to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]

July 23, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Firmware updates and the iMac Retina 5K 27-inch Late 2015 (iMac17,1)

What is wrong with this iMac, which has such a struggle updating its firmware? And why is Apple not acknowledging the problem?

July 23, 2020 Macs, Technology

Big Sur is both 10.16 and 11.0 – it’s official

macOS 11.0 will identify itself differently according to the SDK used, and an environment variable does the same for scripts.

July 21, 2020 Macs, Technology

How to tell Intel code from Universal

How can you tell whether an app on your Mac is a Universal App, or only support Intel processors?

July 20, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Malware detection games

Why hasn’t Gatekeeper data been updated for almost a year, but in 2 weeks we got 3 updates to XProtect? Will Tom ever catch Jerry?

July 19, 2020 Macs, Technology

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