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Last Week on My Mac: Apple leak

The combination of a new kernel built just 10 days earlier with a set of new graphics drivers sufficed to bring many Macs to their knees.

August 16, 2020 Macs, Technology

The life cycle of a kernel panic

Catalina 10.15.6 update included a bonus: a large memory leak which led to kernel panics. This is the story of its patching.

August 14, 2020 Macs, Technology

What has changed in the macOS 10.15.6 Supplemental Update?

macOS Catalina 10.15.6 Supplemental Update is promised to address two problems: some Macs running Virtual Machines under VMWare […]

August 13, 2020 Macs, Technology

macOS version numbering isn’t so simple

If you’re running an interpreted/JIT language, Big Sur could return that it’s either 10.16 or 11.0, depending on the version of the environment.

August 13, 2020 Macs, Technology

Apple has released macOS Catalina 10.15.6 Supplemental Update

As expected, Apple has just released macOS Catalina 10.15.6 Supplemental Update, which it claims fixes the memory leak […]

August 12, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

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

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