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T2 processor found within iMac Pro, 2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pro could be causing kernel panics for some Mac owners

This might call for a firmware update. A number of iMac Pro and MacBook Pro users have reported macOS kernel panics, learning investigators to begin suspecting Apple’s T2 security chips. Threads in Apple’s support forums discuss issues with the iMac Pro, and more recently the 2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pro. All describe how the Mac […]

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iOS’ “iBoot” component leaked to GitHub, quickly pulled by Apple

Apple, and its legal department, do not like it when you leak source code for core components of iOS on GitHub. This is exactly what happened, as a chunk of source code, labeled “iBoot”, which is the part of iOS that is responsible for ensuring a trusted boot of the operating system, found its way […]

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Apple releases iOS 11.2.5 update, adds HomePod support, security fixes, other changes

This should come in handy. Apple pm Tuesday released iOS 11.2.5 for its iPhones and iPads. The release “includes support for HomePod and introduces the ability for Siri to read the news (US, UK and Australia only).” The company also announced earlier in the day that preorders for the HomePod will begin on Friday, January […]

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Apple has partially repaired effects of Intel “KPTI” memory/security bug, will add additional fixed in macOS High Sierra 10.13.3

Following public disclosure of a security flaw with nearly every Intel processor produced for the last 15 years, concern grew that a fix may take up to 30 percent of the processing power away from a system. But Apple appears to have at least partially fixed the problem with December’s macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 with […]

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iMac Pro to incorporate T2 chip to handle discrete functions, security functions and secure enclave processes

The upcoming iMac Pro will feature new security hardware in the form of a new custom chip dubbed the T2, serving as a secure enclave for encrypted keys, giving users the ability to lock down their Mac’s boot process and also handling system functions like the camera, audio control, and managing the solid-state hard drive. […]