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Apple reverses course to approve Epic Games Store on iOS in EU

Arguments over buttons set to continue while European Commission looks on

Applications08 Jul 2024 | 15

Apple finally adds RCS support after years of mixed messages

WWDC WWDC sees Cupertino up to its old trick of adding features - in this case a password manager - that compete directly with third parties

Personal Tech11 Jun 2024 | 28

Nissan infosec in the spotlight again after breach affecting more than 50K US employees

Infosec in brief PLUS: Connected automakers put on notice; Cisco Talos develops macOS fuzzing technique; Last week's critical vulns

Security20 May 2024 | 2

Academics probe Apple's privacy settings and get lost and confused

Just disabling Siri requires visits to five submenus

Security05 Apr 2024 | 30

HoRNDIS MacGyvers your Mac to get online with Androids

FOSS Fest Apple makes this harder every macOS release, but there are ways nonetheless

OSes07 Feb 2024 | 25

The real significance of Apple's Macintosh

40 years on, it's still widely misunderstood

Personal Tech29 Jan 2024 | 71

Penguins get their Wayland with Firefox 121

Latest version of Mozilla's web browser brings something different depending on your machine

Software20 Dec 2023 | 15

Fresh find shines new light on North Korea’s latest macOS malware

Months of work reveals how this tricky malware family targets... the financial services sector

Research07 Nov 2023 | 4

In quest to defeat Euro red-tape, Apple said it had three Safari browsers – not one

And with a straight face, too. Brussels didn't buy it

Software02 Nov 2023 | 52

Asahi Linux goes from Apple Silicon port project to macOS bug hunters

Refresh rate glitch could leave MacBook Pro 14" and 16" models unbootable

Personal Tech01 Nov 2023 | 25

Side channel attacks take bite out of Apple silicon with iLeakage exploit

Nearly six years on from Spectre and Meltdown, novel method steals passwords, emails, texts

Research26 Oct 2023 | 10

Apple antique aficionados can boot to the future with OpenCore Legacy Patcher

FOSS Fest Hackintoshing reaches a wider audience – owners of older Macs

OSes09 Oct 2023 | 21

Google warns infoseccers: Beware of North Korean spies sliding into your DMs

Infosec in brief ALSO: Verizon turns self in for reduced fine, malvertising comes to macOS, and this week's critical vulnerabilities

Security11 Sep 2023 | 2

Apple's defense against apps vandalizing other apps still broken, developer claims

Updated Cupertino appears to be blasé about long-standing macOS bug, so coder has blabbed

Research22 Aug 2023 | 17

Soon the most popular 'real' desktop will be the Linux desktop

Opinion Microsoft is moving Windows to the cloud and Apple will be happy to have you run macOS on the cloud

OSes04 Aug 2023 | 311

Firefox 115 browser breathes life into old operating systems

Release is good news for fans of Windows 7, 8, and macOS from Sierra to Mojave.

OSes05 Jul 2023 | 21

Crypto catastrophe strikes some Atomic Wallet users, over $35M thought stolen

Victims nursing huge losses haven't the foggiest how heist happened, yet

Security05 Jun 2023 | 22

Microsoft embraces Apple Mac loyalists – as long as they're using its software

iDevice admins now have a safe space where they can talk about M365

On-Prem01 Jun 2023 | 18

Apple squashes iOS, macOS zero-day bugs already exploited by snoops

Keep calm and install patches before abuse becomes widespread

Patches10 Apr 2023 | 1

Apple patches all the iThings, including iOS 15 hole under attack right now

Issue identified in February but owners of older kit weren't warned

Patches28 Mar 2023 | 11

MacStadium brings macOS instances orchestrated by Kubernetes to AWS

Another option for devs burned by VMware snubbing Apple platforms

Devops28 Feb 2023 | 13

Apple splats zero-day bug, other gremlins in macOS, iOS

WebKit flaw 'may have been exploited' – just like Tim Cook 'may have' made a million bucks this week

Patches15 Feb 2023 | 7

helloSystem 0.8: A friendly, all-graphical FreeBSD

Not complete yet, but getting closer to welcoming Mac migrants and systemd scorners

OSes31 Jan 2023 | 79

Dridex malware pops back up and turns its attention to macOS

Malware testers spot attempt to attack Macs. But (try not to weep for the bad guys) there are still compatibility issues with MS exe files

Research06 Jan 2023 | 6

Microsoft reports macOS Gatekeeper has an 'Achilles' heel

Insert your Trojan joke here

Security20 Dec 2022 | 12

MacOS9.app: A tour de force of emulation and integration

Friday FOSS Fest The 'Infinite Mac' is an astonishing demonstration of emulation and integration between some of the best tech of the '90s and the '20s

OSes09 Dec 2022 | 15

If Apple's environmental rhetoric is meaningful, Macs and iPads should converge

Opinion An Apple a day keeps the doctor away, but too many might be a burden on the planet.

Personal Tech23 Nov 2022 | 48

Laugh all you want. There will be a year of the Linux desktop

Opinion But, it won't play out the way you think it will

OSes14 Oct 2022 | 151

Microsoft's macOS Tamper Protection hits general availability

A boon for administrators having to deal with Apple hardware while also keeping everything secure

CSO16 Aug 2022 | 5

Open source 'Office' options keep Microsoft running faster than ever

LibreOffice, Collabora, KDE Gear all updated their Microsoft alternatives – whatever your OS

SaaS13 Jun 2022 | 72

We sat through Apple's product launch disguised as a dev event so you don't have to

WWDC M2 chip teased plus MacBooks, iOS 16, macOS 13, watchOS 9 and more

Personal Tech06 Jun 2022 | 78

This Windows malware uses PowerShell to inject malicious extension into Chrome

And that's a bit odd, says Red Canary

Research27 May 2022 | 13

macOS Server discontinued after years on life support

It's not like Apple was a player in the market since the demise of Xserve

OSes22 Apr 2022 | 16

Apple emits macOS, iOS, iPadOS patches for 'exploited' security bugs

Nothing like a little kernel-level memory snooping, code execution

Security31 Mar 2022 | 4

Apple delivers desktop, mobile OS updates, patches dozens of security holes

Plus: Face ID can recognize you with a mask on, kinda

OSes16 Mar 2022 | 15

Microsoft goes native with OneDrive on Apple Silicon

Hopefully a better experience than the 'disastrous' Files On-Demand update

Storage02 Mar 2022 | 5

Remote code execution vulnerability in Samba due to macOS interop module

Patch now

Security02 Feb 2022 | 12

Microsoft rolls out Files On-Demand with tighter macOS integration – but it defaults to 'on' and can't be disabled

Get ready for a new 'experience'...

Storage14 Jan 2022 | 35

BeOS rebuild / Haiku has a new feature / that runs Windows apps

Poetry and WINE – a heady combination

OSes10 Jan 2022 | 34

Don't make an iOS of yourself – Apple's patched its OSes, you know the drill

Cupertino also added a Digital Legacy – special IDs so your loved ones can get your data once you're dead

OSes14 Dec 2021 | 26

Why your external monitor looks awful on Arm-based Macs, the open source fix – and the guy who wrote it

Interview Q&A with the developer of BetterDummy: from macOS secrets to his motivations

OSes03 Dec 2021 | 63

AWS adds another Arm CPU to its cloud: Apple's M1

Updates bare metal Macs-a-service and claims up to 60 per cent better price performance vs cloudy x86 Macs

PaaS + IaaS03 Dec 2021 | 2

Microsoft previews Visual Studio 2022 for Mac, but why bother when VS Code runs just fine on Apple hardware?

.NET works in mysterious ways

Software09 Nov 2021 | 24

Apple's macOS Monterey upgrades some people's laptops to doorstops

Updated Reports of bricked computers suggest it may be worth waiting for better-behaving code

OSes01 Nov 2021 | 65

Shrootless: Microsoft found a way to evade Apple's SIP macOS filesystem protection

Flaw could have let miscreants slide rootkits onto your iDesktop

Security29 Oct 2021 | 23

Microsoft's axeman cometh for OneDrive sync app on older versions of macOS

Bye Sierra

Applications10 Aug 2021 | 11

Apple ditches support for pre-2015 MacBook Air, Pro laptops with macOS Monterey

But it seems the iPhone 6 and SE will be looked after until the end of time

OSes08 Jun 2021 | 24

Apple patches macOS flaw exploited by malware to secretly snap screenshots

Bug can also be abused to record audio and video, access files – and iOS, iPadOS updated, too

Security24 May 2021 | 12

Apple is happy to diss the desktop – it knows who's got the most to lose

Column Also: The basic utility of the general purpose OS cannot be sanitised into total safety. Nor should it

Security24 May 2021 | 79

Apple's macOS is sub-par for security, Apple exec Craig Federighi tells Epic trial

Trashing your desktop OS to save the iOS walled garden – it's a bold strategy. Let's see if it pays off for 'em

OSes20 May 2021 | 103

Fleet would Mac? Microsoft's Azure VPN Client for Apple machines hits public preview

Azure Active Directory's tentacles wriggle into ever stranger places

Off-Prem17 May 2021 | 1

VMware is 'a few months away' from M1 release of Fusion macOS desktop hypervisor

Test code is apparently blazingly fast, but for now Parallels has VMs on Apple silicon to itself

Virtualization27 Apr 2021 |

Windows comes to Apple M1 silicon as Parallels delivers native desktop hypervisor

Meanwhile, ESXi on Arm spotted booting Windows

Virtualization15 Apr 2021 | 16

Mac OS X at 20: A rocky start, but it got the fundamentals right for a macOS future

For pity's sake, don't thank Jobs

OSes26 Mar 2021 | 69

What lurks within the latest Big Sur beta? References to two unreleased iMac models

Expect a bigger display and slimmer body thanks to Apple's M1 silicon

Personal Tech24 Mar 2021 | 15

Hidden text in MacOS 11.3 beta suggests removal of Rosetta 2 compatibility layer in some countries

Time to go down to Memphis, er, Cupertino, to check for a decree

Personal Tech03 Mar 2021 | 47