After a few weeks of releases, this week was a bit quieter. Still a nice selection of posts and articles, thanks to all the authors who share their experience.
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📰News and Opinion
- On Not Taking Money for NetNewsWire – Brent Simmons
- M1 Mac Linux 6.2 support for Apple silicon – Ben Lovejoy, 9to5Mac
⚙️macOS and iOS Updates
🔐Security and Privacy
- Where there is love, there is …malware? – Patrick Wardle, Objective-See
- The 5 most dangerous cyberthreats facing businesses this year – Mark Stockley, Malwarebytes Labs
- Mac & Windows owners have to contend with different kinds of malware – Amber Neely, AppleInsider
🔨Support and HowTos
- Deploying Nudge: Customised! – Robin Laurén
- Secure Boot and disaster recovery for Apple silicon Macs – Howard Oakley
- “Origin checking failed … does not match any trusted origins” CSRF errors in Crypt Server – Alan Siu
- How to get the Trash working properly – Howard Oakley
- Block attachments with htm or html extensions and/or javascripts in Office365 – Charles Edge
🤖Scripting and Automation
- sips: Scriptable image processing system – Simon Willison
- Scripting User Deferrals with SwiftDialog – Trevor Sysock
- Tinkering with automation. Respond to an end user disabling Gatekeeper – skartek.dev
- Automatically Renaming Computers using a Package in Jamf Pro – Anthony Reimer
- Dealing with leftover Zoom tabs in the browser – Brett Terpstra
- Avoid Unicode Mangling in Jamf with shef – Joel Bruner
♻️Updates and Releases
- Sloth 3.2
- Twocanoes DFU Blaster 2.1 (video, Blog post by Kevin M. Cox)
- super v3.0-b8
- Jamf Pro 10.44.0 (video)
- Baseline v0.5.2-Beta
🎧To Listen
- The Joe Penalty Box System — Command-Control-Power
- Application Vulnerability Testing – Mac Admins Podcast
- Where did the name Meeting Owl come from? – Apple @ Work Podcast, 9to5Mac
- Employee Resource Groups – Jamf After Dark
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