How to use First Aid in Disk Utility to check and repair APFS storage, whether it’s part of your boot disk, or general storage.
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Does Sonoma analyse and classify your images? What content does it obtain from them? How to discover what search terms it recognises? And could this be used to detect CSAM?
After the dataless file, we get the codeless app, in the form of Sonoma’s new Web Apps. These sidestep issues of code-signing with their linked UUIDs and ad hoc signatures.
In Sonoma, some healthy Macs are unable to retain complete logs for 24 hours because of the frequency of entries, and even when privacy is removed, some content is censored.
A fuller account with log extracts to show what happens when a user creates a Web App, and when they run it.
What is a Web App? How to create and use them, and how they run without any executable code. Could crafted Web Apps turn malicious?
Each of the main security services in macOS, like XProtect, relies on data commonly stored in separate files […]
No updates for Intel Macs without T2 chips, apart from the iMac19,1, and there only in Sonoma. T2 and Apple silicon models are more confusing, though.
This article lists the firmware versions of Macs that have been successfully upgraded to run macOS 14.8.5 Sonoma. […]
At one time, trying to manage iCloud Drive storage was like getting into a lift with only an Up button. What happens then when Apple fixes that bug? Anguish and anger.
The Eclectic Light Company 