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03
Apr
2018

Apple stop using Intel processors

It was discussed in the press in 2012.

Chips are down: Apple to stop using Intel processors in Macs, reports say

Intel shares fall 6% after Apple said to be planning to design chips for computers in-house

Alex Hern @alexhern Tue 3 Apr 2018 05.15 EDTLast modified on Tue 3 Apr 2018 06.33 EDT https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/03/apple-stop-using-intel-chips-processors-mac-computers

Rumours of the switch contributed to a 6% drop in Intel’s share price over the course of Monday, adding specific pain to a general collapse in tech stocks caused by fears of oncoming regulation in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandalat Facebook.

As Apple has grown into the largest company in the world, it has been able to unlock economies of scale that are not reliant on third-parties.

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29
Nov
2017

Mac OS High Sierra

categories: announcement

ANYONE CAN HACK MACOS HIGH SIERRA JUST BY TYPING “ROOT”

ANDY GREENBERG 11.28.17 05:47 PM

https://www.wired.com/story/macos-high-sierra-hack-root/

THERE ARE HACKABLE security flaws in software. And then there are those that don’t even require hacking at all—just a knock on the door, and asking to be let in. Apple’s macOS High Sierra has the second kind.

Just tested the apple root login bug. You can log in as root even after the machi was rebooted pic.twitter.com/fTHZ7nkcUp

— Amit Serper (@0xAmit) November 28, 2017

malicious code running on the operating system could steal the contents of its keychain without a password.

Apple does have a bug bounty, but only for iOS, not MacOS.

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Chips are down: Apple to stop using Intel processors in Macs, reports say

ANYONE CAN HACK MACOS HIGH SIERRA JUST BY TYPING “ROOT”