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There's no 'secret project' to port OS X to ARM, because it already exists

There's no 'secret project' to port OS X to ARM, because it already exists

Posted on Feb 09, 2012 by MG1

You may have seen some reports doing the rounds today that a "secret project" was initiated at Apple to port the underlying guts of OS X (AKA Darwin) to ARM chips, and that those duties were handled by a then-intern named Tristan Schaap. The story goes that Schaap was part of a team tasked with manufacturing a build of Darwin for the Marvell MV88F6281 processor, and that upon completion of the project, he was hired on by Apple as a CoreOS engineer. While the latter part is accurate — Schaap does appear to be part of that team — the rest of it doesn't make sense on a number of levels, the most notable being that the essence of OS X (certainly much of its codebase) has already been adopted for...

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New Mac Trojan virus disables OS X anti-malware

New Mac Trojan virus disables OS X anti-malware

Posted on Oct 20, 2011 by MG1

According to internet and computer security research firm F-Secure, there’s a new Mac Trojan virus making the rounds. The virus has been labeled as OSX/Flashback.C and attacks by disabling the updater component of XProtect, which is OS X’s built-in anti-malware protection.
The virus first decrypts the paths of the XProtectUpdater plist files and unloads the XProtectUpdater daemon. It then overwrites the XProtectUpdater files with a blank character and also overwrites the plist and binary for the XProtectUpdater.

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Twitter for Mac launching in Mac App Store tomorrow

Twitter for Mac launching in Mac App Store tomorrow

Posted on Jan 06, 2011 by MG15

Longing for an updated version of Tweetie for Mac? Well, come tomorrow — rumored to be exactly at noon ET when the Mac App Store launches

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