Apple has today pushed an update to Gatekeeper configuration data, which should have been silently installed on your […]
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Apple has today released another Supplemental Update to macOS High Sierra 10.13.3, apparently just to fix a security […]
Looking for a new MacBook turned thoughts to Meltdown and Spectre, and our response to recent appearance of new malware. We need better protection of some key folders.
Does APFS currently support hard disks, Fusion Drives, and other forms of storage beyond SSDs? The devil is in the detail.
Apple is in the process of pushing an update to its malware removal tool, MRT, bringing it to […]
Apple should name macOS version with literary references. Here’s the justification for macOS 10.14 Gormenghast.
For no apparent reason, Sierra has again downloaded and installed an old ‘security’ update from 2016. Not only that, but it does its utmost to prevent you from finding out, even when studying the log. At least 5 bugs!
A tag containing the filename of a file still held remotely in iCloud, attached to a stub. Only in iCloud files.
Scripts and apps which could look at folders in iCloud should watch for stub files. Here’s how they work, and why they can mislead.
How the two user modes differ, what iCloud Drive does to files transferred between two different clients, and an apparently unique tag it applies to apps which pass through.
The Eclectic Light Company 