254 posts tagged ‘Mac’
Opting Out of “Help Apple Improve Search”
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Norbert Heger: Apple has recently shown a noticeable tendency to collect, gather, transmit, and sometimes even store privacy-sensitive data – despite repeatedly emphasizing the importance of protecting such data and ensuring it remains solely on the user’s device. […] macOS Sequoia introduces another new feature labelled Help Apple Improve Search, which sends and stores various […]
SysBumps Attack
Guru Baran (via Ric Ford, PDF): The research team from Korea University, led by Hyerean Jang, Taehun Kim, and Youngjoo Shin, presented their findings in a paper titled “SysBumps: Exploiting Speculative Execution in System Calls for Breaking KASLR in macOS for Apple Silicon.” Their work represents the first successful KASLR break attack on macOS systems […]
LG UltraFine 6K
Malcolm Owen: The LG UltraFine 6K Monitor, model 32U990A, surfaced on Monday as part of the 2025 CES Innovation Awards, as an honoree in imaging. The monitor is described as the first in the world to have a 6K resolution display that also uses Thunderbolt 5.[…]LG’s newest screen has a Nano IPS Black panel, delivering […]
Apple Intelligence News Notification Summaries
Graham Fraser: Apple Intelligence, launched in the UK earlier this week, uses artificial intelligence (AI) to summarise and group together notifications. This week, the AI-powered summary falsely made it appear BBC News had published an article claiming Luigi Mangione, the man arrested following the murder of healthcare insurance CEO Brian Thompson in New York, had […]
Coding Font Selection Tournament
Jason Snell: Leo Laporte pointed me to the very clever site Coding Font, which lets you step through a tournament-style bracket of monospace fonts to find the one you like the best. Unfortunately it’s lacking a bunch of the options mentioned above, but if you’ve ever been curious about switching up your terminal font, it’s […]
Swift Parameterized Testing
Keith Harrison: Swift Testing calls the test function once for each value in the arguments collection. […] If you pass a second argument, Swift Testing generates test cases for all combinations of the two arguments. […] You’re limited to at most two arguments. If you don’t need every combination you can zip the arguments to […]
25 Years of the Dock and Aqua
James Thomson (Mastodon): On the 5th of January 2000, Steve Jobs unveiled the new Aqua user interface of Mac OS X to the world at Macworld Expo. […] The version he showed was quite different to what actually ended up shipping, with square boxes around the icons, and an actual “Dock” folder in your user’s […]
M4 Mac Issues With Ultrawide Monitors
Filipe Espósito: As noted by many users on the Apple Community forums, Reddit and even corroborated by a 9to5Mac reader, the M4 Macs seem to break support for some ultrawide monitors. More specifically, those with 5K2K (5120 x 2160) resolution.According to these reports, M4 Macs don’t display the proper resolution options for these monitors, which […]