Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-11-25

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News and Opinion

macOS Ventura and iOS 16

Social Media

  • L0Psec on Twitter: “When querying macOS unified logs via the log command, I was looking for a location of known subsystems I could use. Found them within: /System/Library/Preferences/Logging/Subsystems/ On 12.6.1, this directory contains 292 plists. Example in screenshot.”
  • Mr. Macintosh on Twitter: “Almost a month after the release of Ventura, Monterey has taken the lead. Monterey took the lead from Ventura on November 10th and has not given it up since then.”
  • @Morpheus______ on Twitter:macOS/iOS Entitlements Database now with Monterey and Ventura entitlements.”

Security and Privacy

Support and HowTos

Scripting and Automation

Apple Support

To Watch

To Listen

Support

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