Enlarge / The iPhone 13 Pro Max, photographed by the iPhone 13 Pro in low light. (credit: Samuel Axon) As has now become a custom, Apple has released new OS updates for virtually all of its devices in one giant volley today. The releases include iOS 15.2 and iPadOS 15.2, macOS Monterey 12.1, watchOS 8.3, […]
Enlarge / A minimalist view of the Firefox web browser. (credit: Firefox) Mozilla has released the latest version of Firefox, Firefox 95, for Windows and macOS. It’s available now for all users on both platforms. The Firefox team says the new macOS version reduces CPU usage during event processing and that power usage is reduced […]
Enlarge / The Amazon Prime Video app for macOS. (credit: Samuel Axon) Amazon has released a Prime Video app that runs natively on the Mac. The app offers many of the same features as the mobile app but is available in the Mac App Store. The app is free to download but requires an Amazon […]
Enlarge / The default wallpaper for macOS Catalina. (credit: Apple) News is making the rounds today, both via a write-up in Vice and a post from Google’s Threat Analysis Group , of a privilege escalation bug in macOS Catalina that was being used by “a well-resourced” and “likely state-backed” group to target visitors to pro-democracy […]
Enlarge / The 2021 14-inch MacBook Pro stacked on top of the 2021 16-inch MacBook Pro. (credit: Samuel Axon) Apple has long offered an application called Time Machine that lets you revert the software on your computer to the state it was in before something went seriously wrong. In many ways, the new MacBook Pro […]
Enlarge / The worm says, “I’ve got root! ” (credit: Andreus / Getty Images) The Ms 365 Defender Research Team released a blog post yesterday describing a newly found macOS vulnerability that can abuse entitlement inheritance in macOS’s System Integrity Protection (SIP) to allow execution of arbitrary code with root-level privilege. The vulnerability is listed […]
Enlarge (credit: Apple ) Big Sur was a landmark release of macOS, in ways both technical and symbolic. It introduced a major new redesign, it was the first version of macOS to run on Apple’s own in-house processors in addition to Intel’s, and it was the first version of macOS in nearly 20 years to […]
Enlarge / The new MacBook Pro. (credit: Apple) Nearly a year after announcing the first, low-end M1 Macs last November, Apple has finally unveiled its higher-end Macs. New 14-inch and 16-inch Macbook-pro models will include the M1 Pro and M1 Max chips, faster successors that build upon the foundation of the original M1, as well […]
Enlarge / The 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro. (credit: Samuel Axon) The seventh beta of macOS Monterey contains what appear to be references to new screen resolutions suitable for the MacBook Pro line, as discovered by MacRumors . In a list of supported graphics resolutions within macOS, there are two new resolutions: 3, 456 by 2, […]
Enlarge / Safari’s new look (and some light fixtures? ) (credit: Apple) This week, Apple released Safari 15 for macOS Big Sur and Catalina. Among other things, the new update includes a major design overhaul—plus the ability to roll back to the old layout and look if you’re not a fan. Apple company released major […]