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Last Week on My Mac: Drought and neural engines
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Last Week on My Mac: Drought and neural engines

If there’s one thing you can rely on about the UK weather, it’s rain. Unless you live in that narrow belt of East Anglia officially classed as semi-arid, you’ll be used to rain whatever the season or forecast. The last time we had a long dry summer was 1976, when much of Northern Europe basked in sunshine from late May until the end of August. This year has proved similar, so here we are again, dry as a bone, banned from using hosepipes except t…Read Article
A brief history of XML and property lists

A brief history of XML and property lists

Before the arrival of Mac OS X, our Macs had remained almost free from the property lists and other XML files that now seem to fill them. Those owe their origin to the grandfather of markup languages, SGML, originally known as Generalised Markup Language. That was invented by Charles Goldfarb, Ed Mosher and Ray Lorie in 1969, when they were working at IBM, as a means of structuring text semantically, and first used a different form of markup, as…Read Article
How XProtect’s detection rules have changed 2019-25

How XProtect’s detection rules have changed 2019-25

XProtect is the front-line tool in macOS for detecting known malware. When a downloaded app is run for the first time and put through Gatekeeper checks, those rely on detection rules defined in the XProtect.yara file inside the XProtect bundle in /System/Library/CoreServices. Those are updated periodically to extend their coverage as new malware is detected and analysed by Apple’s security engineers. This article looks at how they have changed o…Read Article

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