Apple device security nerds, unless they’ve been living under a rock, have probably heard about CVE-2024-54498, or perhaps better known as the sharedfilelistd vulnerability. It was one of several vulnerabilities that Apple claims to have patched in macOS Sequoia 15.2, macOS Sonoma 14.7.2, and macOS Ventura 13.7.2, citing details shared on Apple’s About the security content of macOS Sequoia 15.2 web page.
It was just over a month ago that Apple platform Developer Simon Støvring released a Mac app called Festivitas that brought animated festive lights to various interface elements of the macOS platform.
Apple has responded to concerns about inaccurate notification summaries created by Apple Intelligence, saying an iOS 18 update will fix them but it's unclear how.
Topaz Photo AI, one of my favorite tools for the desktop for enhancing sub-par photographs, has picked up some important updates this week in versions 3.4.0 and 3.4.1.
While many modern Mac computers now have a notch at the top of their display, I certainly feel that Apple missed a wonderful opportunity to incorporate Dynamic Island-like features into it just as they’ve done already on the iPhone.
I have long been an advocate of software that brings the holiday spirit to our everyday devices. Just look at the Snoverlay 2 jailbreak tweak that we shared back in 2021 for jailbroken iPhones and iPads that caused snowflakes to rain down your entire display, regardless of what interface you may have been using.
As someone who has been using the Mozilla Firefox web browser on their Mac and Windows computers for nearly two decades, I’ve never been able to comfortably switch to Apple’s Safari web browser on my Mac. This is, in part, because of the higher quality extensions available for Firefox. But one gripe that I’ll admit is Safari’s deep integration with Apple’s Passwords app makes entering logins a breeze.
Apple has released iOS 18.1.1, iPadOS 18.1.1 and macOS Sequoia 15.1.1 with fixes for actively exploited vulnerabilities, so install them as soon as you can.
In an announcement shared via the Cowabunga Discord channel on Saturday, iOS developer LeminLimez revealed an updated version of Nugget, a device customization utility that makes use of the SparseRestore exploit to make jailbreak tweak-like changes to iPhones and iPads without a jailbreak.
It looks like AltStore isn’t the only sideloading application receiving updates this Wednesday. In an announcement post shared to /r/jailbreak just this afternoon, the Sideloadly team announced that it too had released an update to its sideloading utility.
Apple on Wednesday unveiled a much-anticipated update for its Final Cut Pro video editing software, officially bringing it up to version 11.0 and updating the name from Final Cut Pro X to Final Cut Pro 11. This update includes not only major improvements for its macOS software, but complements sister updates to Final Cut Pro for iPad, which has been dubbed version 2.1, and Final Cut Camera for iPhone, which is now version 1.1.
Apple's macOS Sequoia 15.2 update conveniently puts glanceable weather forecasts for multiple locations to the menu bar of your Mac.