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Re: About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

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Post by frizlab »

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

macOS 27 does polish Liquid Glass and makes it look passable on macOS IMHO. It was very bad on 26. Comically bad.

Re: About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

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Post by ajmurmann »

makeitdouble wrote: post #55
mrtksn wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> high ranking Apple employee Jony Ive basically works for Open AI (it's more complicated, but it's a good approximation), and has more or less rebuilt a designing team over there. He's not the central person mentioned in Apple's accusations but that's arguably the central point that's triggering all of this.

Didn't he live Apple a very long time ago?

Re: About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

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Post by crossroadsguy »

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.

Did they un-hardcode the corner radius? I mean were they able to? I mean not that that anyone at this point needs convincing how utterly disgusting incompetent they’re at software.

Re: About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

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Post by bouke »

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.

The question now is, is 27 sufficient enough of an improvement over 15 to upgrade and tolerate Liquid Glass?

Re: About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

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Post by hbn »

illithid0 wrote: post #40
jghn wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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...

I've been running the 27 beta and it fixes so much of the ugliness I hated in Tahoe. Lots of places had toolbars restored, solid areas that indicate where the window can be grabbed. The shitty icon spam in menus is back to sanity. And window corner radii are consistent and less bulbous.

Re: About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

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Post by mholm »

bel8 wrote: post #60
senadir wrote: post #14

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

source? edit: it seems asking for a source it frowned uppon in this site. And it seems there's no source.

I don't believe it's published anywhere, but it's common knowledge to Apple engineers. I can second the poster's assertion that they run Claude internally.

Re: About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

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Post by hbn »

carra wrote: post #54
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.

Are there no versions between MacOS 15 and 26???

Last year they unified all their OS version numbers to just match upcoming year.

macOS went from 15 to 26

iOS went from 18 to 26

watchOS went from 11 to 26

and so on

Re: About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

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Post by zbentley »

acdha wrote: post #44
bluecalm wrote: post #21

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>>, 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 are always exposed to the world network. You need also factor development time and ease of finding developers willing to work in a specific language. There are other factors like readability of the code (very verbose languages are likely to be worse) and cos…

> You need also factor development time and ease of finding developers willing to work in a specific language This even more strongly favors Rust or Swift. Nobody is writing C or even Objective-C in 2026 as a growth language.

If you just meant apple-targeting developers, then yeah; you're right that those languages are in decline. But if you meant developers in general, I think you'd be surprised how many growth sectors are hiring C programmers. They're often not SaaS tech companies, but they are massive and many are growing. Hardware, industrial control systems, defense/aerospace ... there's a ton there, the spaces in which they hire just don't overlap a ton with the spaces frequented by hacker news. Also, a lot of them aren't US based companies.

I hope that changes over time, since I definitely agree that the downsides of C-family languages massively outweigh the downsides of competitor languages.

Re: About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

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Post by MBCook »

bel8 wrote: post #60
senadir wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

source? edit: it seems asking for a source it frowned uppon in this site. And it seems there's no source.

I don’t know about hosting it internally but a an Apple focused podcast I listen to (Accidental Tech Podcast) has mentioned numerous times in the last few months they’re using Claude heavily. And they know Apple insiders.

Re: About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

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Post by MBCook »

mholm wrote: post #66
bel8 wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

source? edit: it seems asking for a source it frowned uppon in this site. And it seems there's no source.

I don't believe it's published anywhere, but it's common knowledge to Apple engineers. I can second the poster's assertion that they run Claude internally.

I know they use it, they host it too?

That would be a very Apple thing to do.

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