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Deep-reading an Apple Intelligence Report with pccvre

Take one Golden Gate VM, tweak its security settings, restart, agree to a long stream of licences, then devise a command to parse and export an attestation bundle and what do you get?

September 24, 2026 Macs, Technology

LogUI 1.1 build 90 fixes a menu glitch in macOS 27

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Update fixes a cosmetic glitch where the items in the Search menu aren’t shown correctly in Golden Gate.

September 23, 2026 Macs, Technology, Updates

Checking an SSD trims in Golden Gate

macOS 27 has changed log entries that confirm that an SSD is being trimmed correctly when it’s mounted. Full details explain how you can verify Trimming.

September 23, 2026 Macs, Technology

Read an Apple Intelligence Report

There are 3 sources of records of AI transactions, of which Apple Intelligence Reports are the most important and detailed. But can the user read their contents?

September 22, 2026 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Is AI worth 30 GB?

Golden Gate’s AI features go far beyond Visual Look Up and others. But do they use up too much disk space, and could there be a single switch to turn them all off?

September 20, 2026 Macs, Technology

macOS Tahoe 26.4 changed boot volume structure

It turns out that macOS Tahoe 26.4 added a new folder and firmlinked it from the Data to System volumes, and it’s now seeing light use in Golden Gate.

September 19, 2026 Macs, Technology

Spotlight indexing bug fixed in Golden Gate

Since macOS Mojave, certain plain text files can never be found by local Spotlight search, because their contents weren’t indexed. This has now been fixed in macOS 27.0. Hurrah!

September 17, 2026 Macs, Technology

What has happened with XProtect

Changes to XProtect and XProtect Remediator in macOS 27 can appear puzzling. And why does it still get MRT from 2022? Plus details of firmware and Recovery systems.

September 16, 2026 Macs, Technology, Updates

Finding your feet in Golden Gate

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How to deal with problems upgrading, a guide to Recovery in case, new Liquid Glass control and an Easter Egg, rounding of rectangle corners, and AI and language support.

September 15, 2026 Macs, Technology

Apple has released macOS Golden Gate, and security updates to Tahoe 26.7, Sequoia 15.8

Apple has now released the first public version of macOS 27.0 Golden Gate, together with security updates taking […]

September 14, 2026 Macs, Technology, Updates

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