Work continues on features for supporters and related platform changes (plus some design work), but if you see any problems or changes in the meantime, please let me know.
Thanks,
Ric Ford
hosting upgrade
This website is running on an improved hosting server now, which involved a huge amount of migration work in the background, but we seem to have managed to avoid affecting website visitors during that whole process. Please let me know if you see any issues or anomalies.
Ric Ford
development work
The MacInTouch website will be in flux this weekend as I work on several complicated development projects. The first step will be migrating the current website to a higher-level hosting system, which may cause some temporary outages and certificate issues with https: connections.
Ric Ford
macOS anti-malware update
Apple continues silently updating its hidden anti-malware mechanisms in macOS, bringing the latest version to MRT 1.83 after updates to MRT and XProtect on Aug. 23.
Howard Oakley tracks these updates and publishes the very helpful SilentKnight app, a free utility for checking and installing the updates (for OS X 10.11 and later, with Universal Binary native code for both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs).
Chrome 93 (with security update)
Google Chrome 93.0.4577.63 brings more patches for high-priority security flaws today. Active exploits (zero-days) weren’t listed this time among the 27 vulnerabilities patched. The new version also adds features.
Other Chromium-based browsers, which include Brave, Opera, Microsoft Edge, and Chromium itself, also should be updated.
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