Apple’s M1 is a fast CPU—but M1 Macs feel even faster due to QoS
Enlarge / The Apple M1 is a world-class processor—but it feels even faster than its already-great specs imply. Howard Oakley did a deep-dive investigation to find out why. Apple's M1 processor is a world-class desktop and laptop processor—but when it comes to general-purpose end-user systems, there's something even better than being fast. We're referring, of course, to feeling fast—which has more
New macOS 10.15.5 feature reduces your battery life to save your battery’s life
This week, Apple released macOS Catalina 10.15.5, rounding out a series of system software updates that has rolled out to various Apple platforms (iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS) over the course of a week or so. This version of macOS is primarily focused on a new battery management feature similar to one already introduced in iOS. It helps prolong the life of the device's physical battery by moderatin
JavaScript infinite alert prank lands 13-year-old Japanese girl in hot water
Japanese police in the city of Kariya have questioned and charged a 13-year-old female student for distributing malicious code online after she linked to the code on an online message board. The malicious code in question? An infinite loop that popped up an alert message, immediately showing a new message each time you click OK. Those curious to see the code can see it in action here, though it's
Critical PGP and S/MIME bugs can reveal encrypted emails—uninstall now [Updated]
The research for this post is now public. See this post for details. A less drastic safeguard is to ensure HTML is disabled in the email client, although the researchers have warned that future exfiltration attacks may work even then. For the truly paranoid, disabling plugins that decrypt messages in the email client is the safest measure. In such scenarios, people can still encrypt and decrypt me
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macOS 10.12 Sierra: The Ars Technica review
When Mac OS X (as it was then called) first moved to a yearly release cycle in 2011, Apple had trouble defining its scope for each release. Lion, the first in this cadence and the first release to pull in a significant number of features from iOS, feels like a half-finished version of Mountain Lion in retrospect. Mavericks stripped out some of previous versions' skeuomorphism and superfluous textu
Google to bring official Android support to the Raspberry Pi 3
The Raspberry Pi 3 is not hurting for operating system choices. The tiny ARM computer is supported by several Linux distributions and even has a version of Windows 10 IoT core available. Now, it looks like the Pi is about to get official support for one of the most popular operating systems out there: Android. In Google's Android Open Source Project (AOSP) repository, a new device tree recently po
25-GPU cluster cracks every standard Windows password in <6 hours
Welcome to Radeon City, population: 8. It's one of five servers that make up a high-performance password-cracking cluster. A password-cracking expert has unveiled a computer cluster that can cycle through as many as 350 billion guesses per second. It's an almost unprecedented speed that can try every possible Windows passcode in the typical enterprise in less than six hours. The five-server system
OS X 10.11 El Capitan: The Ars Technica Review
Poor OS X can't get no respect. Apple's Mac operating system has been playing second fiddle to the iPhone since 2007, when Leopard was delayed to make more room for the then-new smartphone. And despite the occasional protest to the contrary, OS X hasn't been the apple of Apple's eye since then. It was second to iCloud, second to iMessage, second to the post-Scott-Forstall flattening of the operati
New OS X beta dumps discoveryd, restores mDNSResponder to fix DNS bugs
Apple has fixed a bunch of OS X Yosemite's bugs since releasing it last fall, but one big one remained: the error-prone discoveryd DNS service was still present in 10.10.3, and it was still causing problems. Today, Apple released a new beta build of the OS X 10.10.4 update, and it turns out that Apple's fix for the problem was the same as ours: 9to5Mac reports that the discoveryd service is gone,
Yes, the 5K Retina iMac’s screen runs at 60Hz at 5K resolution
Enlarge / The Retina iMac on my desk, driving my pair of 27-inch Thunderbolt monitors. I’m at the end of my time with the Retina iMac now that our Senior Applemeister Andrew Cunningham is back from his nuptials. He’ll be finishing up our coverage of the device, but I wanted to touch on a couple of final points with the big Mac before I send it on its way to the East Coast. We’ve received several v
OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review
When the book is finally closed on the product line known as OS X, last year’s release of OS X 10.9 Mavericks may end up getting short shrift. Sure, it brought tangible energy saving benefits to Mac laptop owners, but such gains are quickly taken for granted; internal changes and new frameworks are not as memorable to customers as they may be to developers and technophiles. And while Mavericks inc
OS X 10.9 Mavericks: The Ars Technica Review
After a dozen years and nine major releases, OS X has had a full life: the exuberance of youth, gradually maturing into adulthood, and now, perhaps, entering its dotage. When I am an old operating system I shall wear… leather? The 2011 release of OS X 10.7 Lion seemed to mark the natural endpoint of the “big cat” naming scheme. But Apple couldn’t resist the lure of the “cat, modifier cat” naming p
Is Google revamping its logo? Hints appear in new Chrome beta for Android (updated)
With all the talk about new logos lately, it's about time Google did a little revamping of its own. Hidden in the latest version of Chrome Beta for Android is a new design for Google's ubiquitous logo, one that probably shouldn't have seen the light of day this early. Here's a comparison image: It's flat! All the beveling and shadows are gone, and the colors have been tweaked from their traditiona
Op-ed: MPAA/RIAA lose big as US backs copyright "limitations"
Harold Feld is a senior vice president of Public Knowledge, a Washington, DC advocacy group dedicated to "the openness of the Internet and the public's access to knowledge." The article originally appeared on Wetmachine, a group blog on telecom policy, software, science, technology, and writing. The views expressed here do not necessarily represent those of Ars Technica. Well, it's been a fun week
PhoneGap to become an Apache project as Adobe acquires Nitobi
Adobe has entered an agreement to acquire Nitobi, the startup behind PhoneGap. Alongside news of the acquisition, Adobe and Nitobi have jointly announced plans to donate the PhoneGap project to the Apache Software Foundation. PhoneGap is an open source mobile development framework for building applications with standards-based Web technologies. The project provides a cross-platform Web runtime tha
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