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Apple has announced fresh versions of the Mac Mini and Mac Studio desktop computers, alongside some new chips: the M6 and M5 Ultra. Neither Mac desktop has undergone any physical changes on the exterior, but the long-awaited update brings these Macs back into stock after being difficult to buy for most of this year. Importantly,
Mac users who haven’t installed the latest security updates for their operating system could be in danger of exposure to a major screen-sharing vulnerability. According to researchers in the Netherlands, the exploit has already led to online hacking for cryptocurrency mining. As sites including 9to5Mac and Ars Technica have reported, Apple recently addressed the issue
One of the oddest things about macOS is the installation dance. Dealing with disk images, dragging and dropping—it’s the main way of installing software from outside the Mac App Store, and it’s annoying. You download a DMG file, open it to mount a virtual disk, and drag the application from there to your Applications folder.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot and Codex coding agents have had access to memories, the company’s term for context (background information) derived from previous chat activity, since April 2024. A new Computer History feature builds on that to include (if you opt in) logging your interactions with websites and applications, so it can essentially follow your footsteps