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A massive preservation project of vintage Macintosh magazine media has reached the milestone of over 1 million files, providing an intriguing look into early Mac software distribution and development.

Looking for better search results? Adam Engst explores how AI-powered answer engines are transforming online research by ...

Apple has released updates for its primary operating systems to address two actively exploited security vulnerabilities. iOS users also gain fixes for wireless CarPlay, while macOS enterprise users ...

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Americans lost $12 billion to fraud in 2024, with a significant portion coming from phishing, smishing (SMS phishing), and social media trickery. Individuals have been tricked into handing over ...

Glenn Fleishman writes about the past, present, and future. He’s been a technology journalist since the 1990s, contributing to TidBITS since 1993. He’s also a printing historian, specializing in ...

Apple’s release notes for updates to macOS, when they provide any details at all, are by necessity brief because they encompass so many bundled apps. The notes operate more as a suggestion—“Take a ...

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Mozilla has issued Firefox 137 with a few new user interface enhancements. Firefox finally catches up with Safari and Google Chrome by adding support for tab groups, which allow you to organize ...

Over on the Apple Consultants Network mailing list, people have been complaining about a destructive new Comcast policy that could result in “inactive” Comcast email accounts being deleted, with no ...