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Full Disk Access Was On, and macOS Still Refused the App
12+ hour, 32+ min ago (858+ words) A Mac app I maintain needs Full Disk Access. It measures disk usage, and most of what is worth measuring sits behind that permission. I switched it on in System Settings ▸ Privacy & Security ▸ Full Disk Access, and the app went…...
Open-Source Project Brings Full iOS 27 Virtualization to Apple Silicon
15+ hour, 49+ min ago (270+ words) The open-Source project vphone-cli enables a full iOS 27 system to run as a virtual machine on Apple Silicon. Built on Apple's own Virtualization.framework rather than traditional emulation, the proje...
I built Gridly: a Mac window manager controlled by title-bar swipes
20+ hour, 23+ min ago (220+ words) I’m Michael Yang, a solo indie maker at yangbyte. I built Gridly, a title-bar swipe window manager for macOS 14+. Instead of reaching for a menu or memorizing shortcuts, swipe a window’s title bar to move it into place. Gridly is…...
47GB of Compressed Memory and No Permission to Kill It: Handing a Monitoring Script Exactly One Root Command
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (505+ words) The header comment of mem-hog-guard.sh records how this started. In short: macOS's dasd (Duet Activity Scheduler) sat at an RSS of 264MB while holding MEM 47GB / CMPRS 46GB, pushed swap up to 37GB, and made Chrome's launchPersistentContext time out at 180 seconds. Every SNS…...
'Core' Discoveries; Hands-on apple science
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (37+ words) fox6now.com MILWAUKEE - Many families will head to an orchard to pick apples this Fall! Sarah Rushford from Ebenezer Child Care Centers shares simple ways to turn your apple-picking haul into at-home learning....
Hackers Use Fake Claude and ChatGPT Installers to Infect Mac Users With Password-Stealing Malware
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (629+ words) Mac users seeking AI tools face a malware trap. Attackers are using fake Claude and ChatGPT installers and sponsored search results to push MacSync, a macOS password stealer. The campaign relies on persuasion instead of a software flaw. A visitor…...
plutil -extract replaced my plist with the key I was reading, and exited 0
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (346+ words) A loop of mine walked eight launchd job plists to read the schedule out of each one. Afterwards every one of the eight files looked like this: That is the StartCalendarInterval array, and nothing else. Label was gone. ProgramArguments was…...
The Remote Job Printed Nothing for 48 Hours. stdout Had No TTY.
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (440+ words) I added more prints, then I added logging.warning, then I added a file write sitting beside the print. The file write showed up on disk almost immediately, and that should have been the only clue I needed. The print…...
Security Bite Podcast: What's hitting Macs so far in 2026, plus OBTS v9 preview (Part 2)
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (212+ words) Security Bite Podcast: What’s hitting Macs so far in 2026, plus OBTS v9 preview (Part 2) 9to5mac.com Security Bite Podcast: What’s hitting Macs so far in 2026, plus OBTS v9 preview (Part 2) 9to5Mac Security Bite is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified…...
Perplexity Open-Sources Lily, a Metal-Driven Local Runtime for Apple Silicon
4+ day, 8+ hour ago (657+ words) TL;DR — Key Takeaways AI search company Perplexity has released a runtime engine, called Lily, that allows macOS users to run foundational models against their own files and processes much more quickly–while using fewer cloud tokens and better guarding…...