Mitch McConnell Is Going to Run Ads Urging Kentuckians to Get Vaccinated

1Password Takes Second Round of Venture Capital

Jeff Shiner (tweet): Today we’re announcing a new investment round in 1Password. Our current investor Accel led this round and a number of incredible folks including Ashton Kutcher’s Sound Ventures and top executives from Shopify, Slack, Squarespace…

Apple’s Q3 2021 Results

Apple (Hacker News): The Company posted a June quarter record revenue of $81.4 billion, up 36 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.30. […] “Our record June quarter operating performance included new revenue records …

XLoader Malware

Ben Lovejoy: XLoader malware has now migrated from Windows machines to attack Macs too. An evolution of the malware known as Formbook, it lets an attacker log keystrokes, take screenshots, and access other private information. Worryingly, the malwar…

Hydromac Malware

Bill Toulas: The infection begins with dropping a legit copy of Adobe Flash Player, which is also very common among macOS malware strains. Still, MapperState’s features, encryption scheme, debug symbols, and strings were all hidden, encrypted, or st…

Charles Barkley: Sports Leagues ‘Should Force Guys to Get Vaccinated’

Techdirt Is Now Entirely Without Any Google Ads or Tracking Code

WSJ Investigation Into How TikTok’s Algorithm Figures Out Your Interests

Essential Apple Podcast 229: It’s a dead Mac! :(

Yes so we didn’t record last week… sort of because it was hot and sticky (at least by UK standards), and we didn’t feel The post Essential Apple Podcast 229: It’s a dead Mac! :( appeared first on MyMac.com.

Brief Grief

Apple Reports Record Third Quarter Results

As Promised, Safari for iPadOS 15 Beta 4 Has a Standalone Tab Bar, Like the Mac Version

Safari’s Crowded Toolbar in iOS 15 Beta 4

Safari UI Changes in iOS 15 Beta 4

WSJ Investigation Into How TikTok’s Algorithm Figures Out Your Interests

Brief Grief

MacOS 12 Monterey Beta 4 Now Supports Live Text on Intel Macs

Inside Apple’s CSAT Solutions Repair Depot

Chance Miller: While some Apple products are repaired directly in Apple Stores, Apple contracts many of its Mac repairs to third-party providers, including CSAT Solutions based in Houston, Texas. A new report today from Insider today sheds light on …

Safari Frustrations

Perry Sun (via Hacker News): With IE now out of the way, the distinction of ‘most-hated browser’ goes to Apple’s Safari – which all along had been a close second to IE. In a similar vein, Safari has consistently lagged behind competing browsers in s…

Safari 15 Changes in Beta 4

Juli Clover: Apple today seeded the fourth betas of iOS and iPadOS 15 to developers for testing purposes, with the updates coming two weeks after Apple released the third betas. Juli Clover: The fourth beta of iPadOS 15 that was released today intro…

Developer Account Terminated After Reporting Security Issue

Khaos Tian: lol apparently reporting security issue to Apple product security can lead to termination from Apple Developer Program? Got a notice of termination from the personal account that has no activity recently today 🙃 Looks like I’m getting gh…