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macOS has a defect that causes the TCP/IP stack to crash after 49 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes and 47 seconds of uptime.

This will disconnect the device from any network communications until it’s restarted.

https://sixcolours.com/link/2026/04/macs-crash-after-49-days-of-uptime/
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macOS a un défaut qui cause l’arrêt de la pile TCP/IP après 49 jours, 17 heures, 2 minutes et 47 secondes de fonctionnement.

Cela déconnectera l’appareil de toute communication réseau jusqu’à ce qu’il soit redémarré.

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Macs crash after 49 days of uptime?

Software developer Photon, whose product requires running a bunch of Macs to connect to iMessage, discovered a pretty major bug: Every Mac has a hidden expiration date. After exactly 49 days, 17 ho…

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Paul Turnbull 🇨🇦1d ago

@EdwinG To be specific MacOS Tahoe (26) has this bug. Earlier versions do not.

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C.1d ago

@Chigaze @EdwinG

It may not even be true on Tahoe. I've seen trustworthy reports from technical people with machines that have much longer uptime than that with no problems.

The source of the report is also really fishy, AI spammers etc. Over-dramatizing a "critical" bug for some publicity, maybe? Nah, it'd never happen.

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Paul Turnbull 🇨🇦

@cazabon Definitely possible. We’re checking our machines at work but we haven’t pushed our mission critical ones with long uptimes to Tahoe yet so it’s hard for us to test.

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