16 posts tagged ‘macOS 13 Ventura’
Most Compatible With Google Chrome
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Catalin Cimpanu (2019, via Hacker News): A former high-ranking Mozilla executive has accused Google of intentionally and systematically sabotaging Firefox over the past decade in order to boost Chrome’s adoption.He is not the first Firefox team member to come forward and make such accusations in the past eight months; however, his allegations span far beyond […]
Xcode 15 Logs nil As an Empty String
Jeff Johnson: [The] functions os_log and NSLog now log nil as an empty string. The previous behavior, going back forever as far as I remember, was to log nil as (null).[…]I don’t know whether this is a bug or intended behavior, but it makes debugging our apps markedly worse, because now there’s no easy way […]
macOS 13.6.2
Apple (release notes, full installer for M1 and M2, M3): This update has no published CVE entries. Available for MacBook Pro (2021 and later) and iMac (2023) Enterprise release notes: MacBook Pro 14-inch and 16-inch computers with Apple silicon no longer start up to a black screen or circled exclamation point after the built-in display’s […]
iLeakage: Browser-Based Timerless Speculative Execution Attacks on Apple Devices
Jason Kim et al. (Hacker News): We present iLeakage, a transient execution side channel targeting the Safari web browser present on Macs, iPads and iPhones. iLeakage shows that the Spectre attack is still relevant and exploitable, even after nearly 6 years of effort to mitigate it since its discovery. We show how an attacker can […]
macOS 13.6.1 and macOS 12.7.1
Apple (full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Ventura 13.6.1. Apple (full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Monterey 12.7.1. Previously: macOS 14.1 macOS 13.6 and macOS 12.7
6 TB and 12 TB iCloud+ Plans
Juli Clover: The 6TB and 12TB iCloud + plans can now be purchased through the iCloud + interface as higher-tier options that join the existing 50GB, 200GB, and 2TB storage plans.The 6TB plan is priced at $29.99 per month, while the 12TB plan is priced at $59.99 per month.[…]Apple’s new 6TB and 12TB plans can […]
Not Setting Up Find My Bricked My MacBook
Paul McMahon (via Hacker News): About 30 minutes before my flight was boarding, I pulled out my laptop to do some last minute work. But when I opened it up, a stranger’s profile greeted me. Evidently we had swapped laptops going through security.[…]I eagerly opened the box, which had a distinctly exotic scent - perfume […]
What Happened to __crashreporter_info__?
Seth Willits (in 2022): The new “ips” crash reports in macOS do not contain assert() information!(Assertion failed: (myVar != nil), function fooBarTest(), file code.m, line 100)Problematic because symbolication is often finicky, so it takes a LOT more work to find which assert() failed.[…]I don’t know whether it’s the “log” that’s to blame or that the […]