A strange and potentially intricate fencing operation seems to have surfaced with a customer purchasing a new MacBook Pro from a Best Buy location, the computer launching the Remote Management screen upon initial boot and stating that the computer was owned by finance company American Express. Per Reddit: “Sorry if this isn’t the right group! […]
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Apple announces 2024 App Store Award finalists
Apple on Monday revealed its 2024 App Store Award finalists, with entries hailing from 45 finalists across 12 categories, including a first-ever Apple Vision Pro category. Apple said the awards recognize developers who delivered the “highest levels of user experience, design, and innovation” on the App Store this year. Kino was released earlier this year […]
Following up on yesterday’s story about how Apple pushed major macOS, iOS, and iPadOS security updates out the door to cover a pair of vulnerabilities, it appears that the vulnerabilities are already being exploited in the wild. The vulnerabilities, credited to Google’s TAG (Threat Analysis Group), are being actively exploited on Intel-based macOS systems, Apple […]
As nifty as Apple’s M4 chip is, sometimes there’s still a kink or two to work out. Owners of Apple’s newest M4-equipped Macs have noticed that they are unable to run older versions of macOS in a virtual machine given a strange booting issue. Running a virtual machine with older generations of macOS can have […]
You might want to snag these updates. Apple on Tuesday released its iOS 18.1.1, iPadOS 18.1.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1.1 updates. The patches address JavaScriptCore and WebKit vulnerabilities that Apple says have been actively exploited on some devices. With the JavaScriptCore vulnerability, processing maliciously crafted web content could lead to arbitrary code execution. The WebKit […]