Latest issue 29 May 2026

408: Ten days until WWDC

26.6 betas start the countdown

26.6 platform updates beta released. Countdown for WWDC 26 starts.

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Ten Days until WWDC

WWDC starts a week from Monday. Apple traditionally releases products and news they could not or did not want to show in the Keynote the week before, so next week might be interesting. Even a lack of such releases would be of note. Will Apple release the much anticipated M5 versions of the Mac mini and Mac Studio, or is even Apple's legendary supply chain challenged by the industry's parts constraints?

📰 News and Opinion

The Community is the Achievement; the Achievement is the Community

Bethan Tovey-Walsh, LinguaCelta:

I want to approach LLMs from the perspective of the community we share, as people involved in technology.

There is "usefulness" in LLMs as tools, but I remain reluctant to embrace them in their current state while the companies that build and endorse them, demonstrate a continued disregard for the ethical, environmental, societal, educational, and economical consequences. This post does an excellent deep dive into the effects of LLM use on tech communities.

🔐 Security and Privacy

mSCP 2.0 Is Almost Here: Highlights from Mac Admins Day 2026

Tony Young, Patch Notes and Progress:

A Mac Admin's recap of NIST's mSCP Mac Admins Day 2026: the 2.0 launch timeline, what changed under the hood, new community tools, and what you need to review before June 23.

Dhruv Majumdar, Fleet:

ClickFix is a social-engineering technique, […] in which a malicious web page presents a fake verification or support prompt […], silently copies an obfuscated shell command to the victim's clipboard, and instructs the victim to paste it into the Windows Run dialog or macOS Terminal. The victim runs the command themselves; no software vulnerability is exploited.

Patch management vs vulnerability management

Ashish Kuthiala, Fleet:

Vulnerability management is the broader discipline of finding, prioritizing, and remediating risk across your environment. Patch management is the operational practice of deploying software updates. Patching is one remediation option that comes out of vulnerability management. It is not the same thing.

🔨 Support and Tutorials

Your newest sysadmin is an LLM

Luke Hefson, Workbrew Blog:

AI coding tools in 2026 don’t just generate code, they set up the machine to run it too.

Mac External Display Support (M1–M5)

RetinaDesk:

How many external monitors can your Mac actually drive? Pick your exact Apple Silicon Mac — we'll show the maximum external display count, per-port resolution and refresh caps, valid configurations, and the gotchas that burn people.

Apple Cache Service: a primer - part 2

Adam Tomczynski (on LinkedIn):

The idea is to help you understand the topic in more capacity.

🤖 Scripting and Automation

Reporting on Jamf Pro API clients and assigned API roles

Rich Trouton:

for auditing purposes, it’s useful to know which API clients are using which API roles as API roles determine the permissions that the API clients have.

8 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Programming

Paul Hudson, Hacking With Swift:

But looking back on me as a kid just starting out, I really had no idea what I was doing, so if I were able to build a time machine today there are eight things I would tell a younger version of myself.

This is great advice for learning in general. It is application, even if you are just planning to learn some shell scripting on the side.