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MacBook Pro's Education Prices, in Full: The Four Figures Apple Publishes
4+ hour, 38+ min ago (467+ words) MacBook Pro’s Education Prices, in Full: The Four Figures Apple Publishes The Mac Observer Apple’s Education Store Eligibility: The Categories Apple Names, and the Products It Excludes What Apple Has Published About Supplier Labour, and What It Has Not The…...
Apple Intelligence on a Budget: $699 Buys In, and $1,099 Buys the Tier Above
10+ hour, 40+ min ago (489+ words) If you are buying hardware purely to get Apple Intelligence, buy the iPhone 17e at $699. It is the cheapest device on Apple’s own price list that also appears on Apple’s Apple Intelligence device page, and the software itself costs nothing: iOS…...
Full Disk Access Was On, and macOS Still Refused the App
12+ hour, 31+ 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…...
A Dialog Can Now Be a Native Desktop Window
15+ hour, 30+ min ago (270+ words) Codename One dialogs can stay inside a secondary window or become native modal windows, while sheets, popups, overlays, tooltips, HTML, and accessibility now resolve the correct top level. Tagged with java, mobile, android, ios....
Open-Source Project Brings Full iOS 27 Virtualization to Apple Silicon
15+ hour, 48+ 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, 22+ 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…...
The PaperCut Pipeline: How Two Vulnerabilities Became an Automated RCE Factory
21+ hour, 28+ min ago (148+ words) Two PaperCut vulnerabilities are now chained into a fully automated attack pipeline with in-memory persistence—and 47% of installations can't patch. On August 26, security researchers at Huntress identified anomalous activity in customer logs involving base64-encoded commands like whoami and tasklist. This…...
ChatGPT Was Used as a Hidden Channel to Pull Gmail Data Across Accounts
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (703+ words) By Nokka | September 11, 2026 Security researchers at Check Point found a flaw in ChatGPT that let an attacker pull data from a victim's Gmail through a hidden channel between supposedly isolated user accounts [1]. OpenAI has fixed it and shut down the…...
Why POWER, SPARC, and AIX Were Used in Older HPC Systems
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (810+ words) Here, we will primarily focus on the transition from the 1990s to the 2000s and explain the situation with CPUs and operating systems separately. In HPC, it's not just clock speed that matters. Factors such as how many floating-point operations can be…...
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…...