Enlarge / The 2020, M1-equipped Mac mini. (credit: Samuel Axon) Microsoft has released a new version of source-code editor Visual Studio Code that runs natively on Apple Silicon Macs like the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini models with Apple M1 chips. The change came in Visual Studio Code 1.54 (now 1.54.1 thanks to […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A previously undetected piece of malware found on almost 30,000 Macs worldwide is generating intrigue in security circles, which are still trying to understand precisely what it does and what purpose its self-destruct capability serves. Once an hour, infected Macs check a control server to see if there are any new […]
Enlarge / Just a few of the Chromebooks we’ve reviewed and tested in recent years. (credit: Valentina Palladino) For ages now, every annual report on desktop operating system market share has had the same top two contenders: Microsoft’s Windows in a commanding lead at number one, and Apple’s macOS in distant second place. But in […]
Enlarge / GoSearch22 isn’t, technically speaking, any sort of “virus.” But it’s certainly not anything you’d want on your shiny new M1 Mac. (credit: Pete Linforth) Last year, Apple released Macbooks and Mac Minis powered by a new ARM CPU—the Apple M1. A few months later, malware authors are already targeting the new hardware directly. […]
Enlarge / The update is available on supported Macs today. (credit: Samuel Axon) Today, Apple released a small update to macOS Big Sur, numbered 11.2.1. Primarily, it fixes a problem affecting some MacBook Pro models that prevented their batteries from charging properly. It also fixed a sudo bug that could in some cases play a […]
Enlarge / Users can install Homebrew via the Terminal in macOS. (credit: Samuel Axon) Popular Mac tool Homebrew has long been used by developers and others for package management on macOS, but as we lamented in our first M1 Mac review, it didn’t support Apple Silicon when Apple’s new Macs first launched late last year. […]
Enlarge / The update prompt for macOS Big Sur 11.2. (credit: Samuel Axon) Today, Apple pushed out a small update to its macOS 11 Big Sur operating system for supported Mac laptops and desktops. Labeled Big Sur 11.2, the update “improves Bluetooth reliability” and fixes a number of bugs. Those bugs include one widely reported […]
Expand (charge: Apple) Before this week, many macOS sysadmins started reporting that several Apple apparatus were neglecting to update to Big Sur variant 11.1. Affected users can temporarily observe the 11.1 update, but it disappears from your upgrade UI and in the control line softwareupdate tool although not been installed. Erroneous update ask Developer Victor […]
A Growl notification. (charge: Aurich Lawson) Growl, an integral portion of their Mac background experience for 17 decades, has been retired. Christopher Forsythe, that acted as a lead programmer for the job for many years, declared the retirement at a blog article on Friday. Launched in 2004, Growl supplied alarms for software on Macs (it […]
The picture representing the Apple M1 processor, as exhibited by Apple in an event earlier this season. A while {} an Apple campus construction, a bunch of engineers got together. Isolated from the other people in the business they even accepted the guts of outdated MacBook Air laptops and joined them for their prototype boards […]