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Re: About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

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Post by microtonal »

AJRF wrote: post #3

Weird thing to see at number 3 on HN - is there some subtle context I am missing here? Are we wink winking that it's a lot of fixes?

It is a lot of fixes and the Android Security Bulletins of June and Android 17 also had a lot of fixes [1], despite ASBs only containing high/critical vulnerabilities (other vulnerabilities are only fixed in major releases and QPRs, which most Android vendors respectively roll out late or never at all).

I think the story here is that vulnerability discovery has accelerated a lot with LLMs, but since are adversaries are doing the same, it is more important than ever to update quickly (and not let some Android vendors get away with their lazy update schedules).

[1] https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/2026/2026-... https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/android-17

Re: About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

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Post by Cider9986 »

cromka wrote: post #19
senadir wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple also hosts a copy of Claude internally in their servers.

Do they? As in Claude but on premises? Wonder if this is gonna be the solution that e.g. banks will require, exactly like they do now for cloud services (e.g. Azure on premises).

Banks are all about security theatre so probably not.

Re: About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

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Post by AJRF »

DStiego wrote: post #6
AJRF wrote: post #3

Weird thing to see at number 3 on HN - is there some subtle context I am missing here? Are we wink winking that it's a lot of fixes?

Relevant context might be for example that there are 4 mentions each of Claude by Anthropic and XGPT by ThreatBook, both based on LLMs. AI attribution might be one reason people are particularly curious.

I missed that, thanks for pointing out

Re: About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

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Post by snvzz »

pjmlp wrote: post #18

Map the amount of fixes with "... improved bounds checking..." , "...improved memory handling..." , "...improved memory management..." into the amount of developer, QA and release management teams salaries per hour, versus other stuff they could be working on, and that gives an approximate value of how using specific languages maps into monetary loss, and why companies are starting to care nowadays, given computers a…

If anything, there's a strong argument to switch to seL4.

Re: About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

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Post by embedding-shape »

tengwar2 wrote: post #33

15.7.8 is out today as well, with these security fixes: https://support.apple.com/en-us/128071 . For context, there have been issues with MacOS 26 which have led many people to defer upgrading until MacOS 27 is available, and MacOS 15 is the previous version.

Same thing happens almost every release. I've stopped updating my Mac machine until I see something in the release notes I literally have to have in order to continue doing macOS/iOS builds, otherwise I'm staying on the version I've validated to work, and I know the existing bugs with.

Re: About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

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Post by jghn »

tengwar2 wrote: post #33

15.7.8 is out today as well, with these security fixes: https://support.apple.com/en-us/128071 . For context, there have been issues with MacOS 26 which have led many people to defer upgrading until MacOS 27 is available, and MacOS 15 is the previous version.

> For context, there have been issues with MacOS 26 which have led many people to defer upgrading

For me the issue is liquid glass. Which I doubt is getting fixed any time soon

Re: About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

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Post by anonymars »

mrtksn wrote: post #22
muterad_murilax wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What happened?

The gist is, OpenAI hired a high ranking Apple employee who helped other Apple employees get hired by OpenAI and exfiltrate Apple trade secrets in the process. Allegedly of course.

The accusations are pretty wild

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48865294

Re: About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

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Post by ExoticPearTree »

tengwar2 wrote: post #33

15.7.8 is out today as well, with these security fixes: https://support.apple.com/en-us/128071 . For context, there have been issues with MacOS 26 which have led many people to defer upgrading until MacOS 27 is available, and MacOS 15 is the previous version.

26.0 had a very annoying video jitter issue, but that was the first things that I noticed to be fixed in the next 26 release. Other than that, it worked just fine.

Re: About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

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Post by illithid0 »

jghn wrote: post #37
tengwar2 wrote: post #33

15.7.8 is out today as well, with these security fixes: https://support.apple.com/en-us/128071 . For context, there have been issues with MacOS 26 which have led many people to defer upgrading until MacOS 27 is available, and MacOS 15 is the previous version.

> For context, there have been issues with MacOS 26 which have led many people to defer upgrading For me the issue is liquid glass. Which I doubt is getting fixed any time soon

Also a liquid glass hater, but for what it's worth, 27 is supposed to make it a little bit better. I would prefer to go back to what I had before I had to upgrade into this horrible UI, but this is better than nothing.

https://www.cultofmac.com/news/liquid-glass-changes-ios-27-m...

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