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Rumor: 2021 MacBook Pro notebooks to feature significant redesign, 1080p webcam, standard 16GB of RAM

With Apple’s October 18th event having been officially announced, a flurry of last minute rumors as to the 2021 MacBook Pro have surfaced, the general consensus being that this year’s models will represent the first major redesign for Apple’s pro notebooks since the disastrous 2016 butterfly-keyboard generation. Various sources indicate that these new machines will […]

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Rumor: Apple’s upcoming 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro notebooks expected to use identical M1X processor, operate at equivalent speeds

The biggest MacBook Pro may not be the fastest one. Per tech leaker @Dylandkt, while Apple is working on both 14-inch and updated 16-inch MacBook Pro notebooks, the two models will use the same M1X chip, thereby providing equivalent speeds across both models. While Apple typically includes a discrete GPU in its larger MacBook Pro […]

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Apple support document cautions users against closing their MacBooks while using a camera cover

This sort of answers one of the questions of the modern age. Apple has released a new support document advising users not to close their MacBook’s lid while using a webcam cover, as this can potentially damage the screen. When you close your MacBook’s lid, the space between the screen and keyboard is small, and […]

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Apple issues second silent macOS update to address Zoom-based webcam vulnerabilities in RingCentral and Zhumu

Apple has pushed yet another silent update to macOS to address the Mac hijack vulnerability in RingCentral and Zhumu. These two apps are powered by Zoom, and thus present the same web server vulnerability as Zoom. The Zoom vulnerability, which was discovered last week, was addressed by a silent macOS update issued by Apple to […]

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Apple patches “Fruitfly” malware, which relied on pre-OS X system calls

Apple appears to have nixed the “Fruitfly” malware strain. The malware, which has been patched over, relied on antiquated code predating OS X. Although older, the Fruitfly malware had been used in real-world attacks on biomedical research groups according to security software maker Malwarebytes. Fruitfly operated by communicating with two command-and-control servers, and can perform […]