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Apple Releases macOS Mojave Featuring Dark Mode and Other Features; Earlier Today a Security Researcher Published 0Day Bypass For a Privacy Bug in the new OS
Apple on Monday made available to the public macOS Mojave -- aka macOS 10.14, the latest major update to its desktop operating system. From a report: Though Mojave is substantially focused on under-the-hood improvements, it includes several major changes to the Mac's Finder, as well as a small collection of apps that were ported from iOS. On the Finder side, Apple has introduced a system-wide Dark Mode, which optionally reskins the entire user interface with black or dark gray elements. Dark Mode pairs up with Dynamic Desktop, which can automatically adjust certain desktop images in sync with time of day (morning, afternoon, and evening) changes. Minutes ahead of the release, Patrick Wardle, chief researcher officer at Digita Security, tweeted a video of an apparent privacy feature bypass that's designed to prevent apps from improperly accessing a user's personal data. From a report: For years, Macs have forced apps to ask for permission before accessing your contacts and calendar after some iOS apps were caught uploading private data. Apple said at its annual developer conference this year that it would expand the feature to include apps asking for permission to access the camera, microphone, email and backups. Wardle told TechCrunch that his findings are "not a universal bypass" of the feature, but that the bug could allow a malicious app to grab certain protected data, such as a user's contacts, when a user is logged in.
I barely got through the title before I needed a rest.
better double down on security and writing stable code apple.
I'm pretty happy that Apple occasionally does releases meant more to improve speed and stability than just pile on features.
This is one of those releases, it makes my older MacBook Pro feel a bit faster, especially along with improvements to speed made in Xcode 10.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Apple OS 9.xx was perfectly adequate. I was happy with it. Installing OS X broke my mac. I had to reinstall os 9.
All this fancy OS X is nothing but bloat. The kind of bloat some busy body brown noser thinks is a good idea at a mon day morning office meeting. Bloat to create useless programmer jobs equivalent to " téléphone desanatiser " or "management consultant" of Hitchhikers Guide.
Bloat designed to support bloated websites full of memory/CPU cl9gging advertisement.
This is too much. I'm finished. Apple boycott for life
is not a good reason. ill update when there is actually something wort updating for. Sadly with apple its essenially never now.
lmao, also WinBlow$
Linux rules!
I guess that counts as "innovation" nowadays.
Who cares about privacy bugs? We have a Dark Mode.
- SuperKendall
Windows 10, Most Linux Distibutions, and now OS X all seem to like this Dark theme. It was cool for a while, but trying to install a Light Theme is nearly impossible now, and all new apps seems to want to use it as well.
Sure it looks all Sci-Fi. but in a retro way.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Yeah, who cares if it uploads all your contacts to anyone who asks for it?
IDK, why not ask every Android user?
BURN
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I used to use Macs in the 9.xx days. Cooperative multitasking, where one program could completely hang the system unless it calls WaitNextEvent() resulted in a relatively unstable OS build, especially if you used a lot of programs. I remember having to restart constantly, to the point where when I needed to change tasks, I restarted.
OS X is far more stable. One crappy app can be killed, and life move on.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/24/security-researcher-claims-macos-mojave-privacy-bug-on-launch-day/
Who cares how happy you are with an incremental update you obsequious toady? You're a store-bought bitch Ken Doll lol, but why would you think anyone is interested in your vanilla-after-vanilla reviews?
None of what you say matters even a little bit, and this is just another one of those times. Get a life, get a job. Walmart needs boring greeters like you.
So sez the COWARD...
Log In and Lose Karma like a Man!
Sez the apple worshiping asshole
For the company that prides itself on interface design and "user experience" it sure took them long enough. God, Xcode fucking sucks, but with this update it sucks a little bit less.
I am sorry, I will ask Apple for a refund for the cost of how much macOS 10.14 cost me out of pocket... i.e. $0.
Seriously, who the fuck thinks that having an additional skin merits inclusion in the headline?
Especially when half the users are going to be staring at a bright white word processor screen most of the time anyway?
Come on, you didn't even need to RTA! It's right there in the summary:
system-wide Dark Mode, which optionally reskins the entire user interface with black or dark gray elements
If you don't want Dark Mode, just turn it off. You don't have to install a "Light Theme".
back in the early 1990s, i remember motif allowed me to change the color of anything on the screen - and in 2018, we have a binary choice between all-white/all-black "mode" for the screen? that's progress?
you don't have to turn it off, you just have to not turn it on
apple gives away the OS because YOU are the product!
Yeah, not like how things are over there at Google/Android! You tell 'em!
If you have Firefox on the mac, check out this extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
It basically allows you to darkify (is that a word?) all websites. ALL of them. It has a slider if you want to play with the intensity of the darkifying. You can exclude certain sites, of course. With a whitelist. Yea no, I'm not kidding, it's called a whitelist.
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Also, AFAIK, Apple's dark mode is not "everything dark all the time" but instead adjusts your desktop and apps according to the time of day. Light during the day, darker in the evening and dark during night time.
#DeleteFacebook
apple gives away the OS because YOU are the product!
PROVE it, or GTFO!!!
'Dark Mode' is everything dark all the time. Changing the desktop based on time of day is something different.
"Dark" is the new "flat". Can't wait for green text to become all the rage, too.
Chelloveck
I give up on debugging. From now on, SIGSEGV is a feature.
Did some project manager at Apple fire up their 25-year old 486 running Windows 3.1, play with theme settings, and think "How can we market this today"?
Apple really is running out of ideas.
Dark Mode lasted about three minutes. It's garbage and hurt my eyes.
Give me proper skins like Gnome.
This reminds me of that time that Apple released a version of iMacOSx that allowed people to gain root by just pressing enter with no password.
I love Apple's new beta-testing program... where they release beta software as if it's release-ready, to find the bugs they used to find and crush BEFORE releasing their new OS to the general user populace.
Our reign has gone on long enough. Indeed. Summon the meteors.
shows that apple is not trustworthy now on par with Google and Microsoft.
Seriously, I do not understand this.
Managers come in and say something must be done so it looks like something was done by them.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Stop making new software. We've had databases since the 60s or earlier. We've had email for 30+ years. STOP INTRODUCING SECURITY VULNERABILITIES!!!
What else do you need? Why would any sane person want a microphone in there house that controls things?
At night I prefer to just set my backlight to minimum level. The only thing worse than dark mode is forced dark mode. I have made custom CSS for a couple of web sites I regularly read (one of them is Hackaday) to override that eye cancer.
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