Catch up on your reading with selected articles from the past year, covering hardware, firmware and Recovery, troubleshooting and updates.
update
Is your Mac running Sequoia or Tahoe? Is its XProtect up to date and using version 5325? If not, you might have to wait until the return from holidays before that’s fixed.
Standard users aren’t allowed to chang other users’ settings, but they’ve long been able to update macOS, and for the last 3 years to install full upgrades. Should this change?
Before macOS 12.3, upgrades and updates were different, and only admin users could authenticate the installation of an upgrade to macOS. Now even standard users can, as explained here.
Apple has just released an update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5325. As usual, it doesn’t release […]
Some who updated to 26.2 reported their downloads were over 10 GB in size, rather than the expected 3.78 GB for Apple silicon Macs. Why was that, and why didn’t Apple release an earlier BSI?
A largely routine update, with a few interesting new features such as Edge Light, a security enhancement to AirDrop, and two important security fixes that have already been exploited in iOS.
Apple has just released the update to bring macOS Tahoe to version 26.2, and security updates to Sequoia […]
Apple has just released an update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5324. As usual, it doesn’t release […]
Fixes a crashing bug when using its Crawler feature. Analysis of provenance xattrs confirms they can be useful in providing more information about files.
The Eclectic Light Company 