Just days after Apple released the second developer beta of iOS 11, it was time for the public to get involved. It’s part of Apple’s Public Beta program, where brave customers have their chance to try out beta operating systems. In the past, all the action revolved around macOS and iOS, but this year you’ll […]

There are fascinating Mac rumors afoot these days, topped with the report that Apple’s next reference operating system release may arrive sooner than expected, perhaps as early as the first quarter of next year. The claim is based on a slide presentation delivered at a San Diego conference last week that featured Apple’s director of Unix […]

There’s a classic battle in force now. One that weighs Apple’s rights to keep its product plans secret, and the desire on the part of not just Mac users, but the entire technology press, to know just what those plans are. There have been legal skirmishes, as most of you know, and it may take […]

Some people might have felt safe referring to Mac OS X as the “teflon operating system,” because it was free of real virus threats. Proofs of concept didn’t count. But the news that there is, at last, genuine Mac malware in the wild should end your complacency for good. The offending file bears the innocuous […]