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Category: OS X

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    On The IT Hour This Week: Rapid Security Response Updates

    I’m a last minute addition to JumpCloud’s The IT Hour this week to talk about Apple’s release of their first Rapid Security Response update. We’ll be talking about this new update type, what it means for Apple Admins, how it works on iOS and macOS, and how you should think about this update’s necessity and…

  • Sierra Features & Recommendations

    Today, Apple releases the 13th major revision of what began life as Mac OS X, turned into OS X, and is now macOS. Sierra, macOS 12, will appear in the App Store this morning for free. The tentpole features this time out are subdued, and Sierra represents a refinement of the changes that began in…

  • Something Siri Should Know: Baseball Magic Numbers

    I’ve been trying to use Siri more for tasks in the Sierra Beta, and I finally had an obvious one to go looking for tonight. I asked her what the Nationals Magic Number is. This was her response: Well, that’s not ideal. Why doesn’t Siri know how to make this calculation? The magic number to…

  • Apple Accidentally Blacklists Own Ethernet Kernel Extension

    This afternoon, Apple released a background update that accidentally blacklisted their own Ethernet kernel extension. These background updates are generally not user-facing. The system will perform a daily check for these updates and apply them without notification. Users whose systems installed the update, marked as com.apple.pkg.IncompatibleKextConfigData.14U2129 or Incompatible Kernel Extension Configuration Data 3.28.1, on reboot lost their…