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Civilization VI receives native Apple Silicon support

It’s not a huge update, but it definitely helps. Sid Meier’s Civilization VI, which has been available on the Mac and the Mac App Store since 2016, received an update, and was optimized for Apple Silicon by Aspyr. In casual testing of the game, it now loads about twice as fast as it did in […]

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Apple changes App Store rules and policies, eases the path for game streaming app creation for developers

If you’re looking to use game streaming apps on your Apple devices, the rules have just become a bit less restrictive to do so. Apple is updating its App Store policies to relent on a longstanding ban on game streaming apps. Developers are now allowed to submit a single app that can contain a catalog […]

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EVE Online ported to Mac, now takes advantage of Intel, M1 hardware, macOS shortcuts

The spiffy news: The longstanding space MMO Eve Online has been natively ported over to the Mac. Although available to Mac users for years now, the game had been running through an emulated version of the Windows client. On Thursday, CCP Games announced a native Mac client for the game. Now, Mac users can enjoy EVE […]

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“Silver Sparrow” malware in the wild, M1-native version available, overall purpose remains unknown

The Silver Sparrow malware is out in the wild. And no one quite seems to know what it does. Over the weekend, news surfaced of a mysterious new pieced of malware called “Silver Sparrow” that had infected 30,000 computers to date. There’s also a version of it built for the new M1-based Macs. To date, […]

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Security researcher notes first malware written natively for Apple’s M1 processor

It’s not the cheeriest news, but it was bound to happen eventually. A piece of malware specifically designed to run on Apple’s new M1 chip has been discovered, indicating that malware authors have begun adapting malicious software for Apple’s new generation of Macs with Apple silicon. Per Mac security researcher Patrick Wardle, a malicious Safari […]