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Ω 🌍 Gus Posey#Mastodon isn't difficult because of what you have to learn, it's difficult because of what you have to unlearn.
In this week's MacAdmins.news we talk about 50 years of Apple, have a lot of interesting security posts and a nice collection of posts and updates from the Apple admins.
This week's MacAdmins.news looks at all the news from the 26.4 'Spring' updates, Apple Business announcement and the usual set of security and support articles and updates.
Apple 26.4 Platform Updates — March 2026
macOS macOS Tahoe 26.4 (25E246: What's new, Developer Release Notes, Security, Enterprise, IPSW, PKG installer macOS Sequoia 15.7.5 (24G624): What's new, Security, PKG installer macOS Sonoma 14.8.5 (23J423): What's new, Security, PKG installer iOS and iPadOS iOS 26.4: About, Enterprise iPadOS 26.4: About, Enterprise iOS and iPadOS 26.4: Developer Release Notes…
https://scriptingosx.com/2026/03/apple-26-4-platform-updates-march-2026/
BasicAppleGuy
macOS 26.4 brings more default app confirmation prompts
The 26.4 updates have been released and among the many documented changes, there is one that the Apple documentation team seems to have missed to tell us about. There are now several url schemes and file types which will prompt for user confirmation when the default app is changed. What happened so far Some years ago—I believe it was in macOS High Sierra 10.13—Apple added a prompt for the user when an app or…
https://scriptingosx.com/2026/03/macos-26-4-brings-more-default-app-confirmation-prompts/
Natalia PanferovaMy new SwiftUI book is finally out! 🎉
I wrote "The SwiftUI Way" for developers who feel like they are fighting the framework as their projects grow in complexity. The book will help you align your code with SwiftUI's internal expectations to avoid common pitfalls.
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Nowhere GirlThe thing that gets me is we already had working speech transcription, we had useful digital assistants, and the insertion of LLM based "AI" made them worse and even less reliable.