1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (354+ words) Omarchy M is targeting M1 and M2 Macs with a native installer, GPU support, Touch ID, external displays, disk encryption and MLX. Omarchy M is the new team behind Omarchy’s push to bring its Linux desktop to Apple Silicon Macs, with M1 and M2 machines…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (505+ words) The header comment of mem-hog-guard.sh records how this started. In short: macOS's dasd (Duet Activity Scheduler) sat at an RSS of 264MB while holding MEM 47GB / CMPRS 46GB, pushed swap up to 37GB, and made Chrome's launchPersistentContext time out at 180 seconds. Every SNS…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1458+ words) Best value overall: Bitdefender leading detection at mid-range pricing with a light footprint. Best free option: Malwarebytes’ scanner, which cleans an infected Mac without costing anything. Best macOS specialist: Intego. Best bundle: Norton, if you’ll actually use the VPN, backup,…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (986+ words) Advanced AppSec suite, built for devs. in-app runtime defense and threat detection. Real-time malware & vuln threats XCSSET is a macOS worm that spams a malicious build hook into every Android Gradle project, Xcode project, and git repository it can find…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1776+ words) This article walks through one afternoon of Debian system management, in which the machine turned out to have been reporting two of its own defects continuously, for as long as it had been configured, to nobody. Debian tells you almost…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (357+ words) Easier way to test an optimised package set Ubuntu 26.10 daily builds now include an amd64-v3 installer, allowing you to try out a CPU-optimised package set from the off, without any post-install reconfiguration. The distro began building amd64v3 packages as an opt-in archive…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1524+ words) Macs get malware. Not as much as Windows, but the volume of macOS infostealers harvesting browser credentials, crypto wallets, and keychain data has grown sharply, and they arrive through cracked software, fake installers, and malicious ads rather than exploits. Bitdefender…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (324+ words) A file transfer flaw in ScreenConnect Remote Access Support and Access sessions affects both Cloud and On-Premise deployments, ConnectWise confirmed. “A CVE identifier and an official fix will be issued within the week,” the company wrote in its September 3 advisory....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (186+ words) Phoronix - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals Linux Patches Posted For Initial Enablement Of The Apple A18 Pro + MacBook Neo Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1758+ words) The day my social media automation posted exactly zero times in 24 hours was the day I stopped trusting Activity Monitor. RSS said 264MB. Reality was 47GB. Here is how I found the gap and built a launchd job that closes it while…...