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📰 News and Opinion
Apple’s DMA Criticism Highlights Tech-Government Power Struggle
As much as I believe Apple makes good products that serve its users well, what’s best for Apple users (and thus Apple itself) isn’t always best—or even good—for everyone else.
Apple's Thoughts on the DMA
Some of Apple’s specific complaints above don’t make much sense to me. For example, with the Live Translation feature, are they against both using Live Translation with third-party earbuds and using third-party translation apps with AirPods?
Unsupported, Unstoppable
Ugur Koc on LinkedIn
Not “they don’t work.” Not “they’re unsafe.” Just “unsupported.” As if that’s some kind of death sentence.
⚙️ Apple Updates
- Apple Platform Deployment: Welcome, What's new, Revision history
- Apple Platform Certifications: Welcome, Revision history
- Apple Business Manager: Release notes, User Guide, Revision history
- Apple School Manager: Release notes, User Guide, Revision history
- Apple Business Essentials: Release notes, User Guide, Revision history
Lots of interesting updates in the Platform Deployment Guide, but also a long awaited new feature in Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager: restrict user logins to Managed Apple Accounts.
Apple rebrands Rapid Security Responses in iOS 26.1 beta with new "Background" updates
With iOS 26.1 beta 1, […], the company is rebuilding how Rapid Security Responses work. […] the system will soon be called Background Security Improvements.
When will macOS be updated in 2025-26?
This article looks at what’s in store for us over the coming year, as far as macOS is concerned.
These estimated dates for the 26 minor updates match my predictions, except for the March .4 release. This so-called "spring update" is usually beefier than then other minor updates. Its release date has been quite volatile historically, mostly because there were often hardware releases around the same time. My best estimate for the "spring release" is "sometime in March, possibly early April.
🔐 Security and Privacy
Network Relays: Apple’s Modern Approach to Secure Remote Access
we will explain the basics of the QUIC protocol and proxying over HTTP/3. Later in this article, we will create a simple network relay using Go and the quic-go library.
🔨 Support and Tutorials
How To Hold macOS User Identity in 2025
what does modern identity look like on macOS? More broadly, what does cloud managed identity look like on all endpoints for now and future?
The Crossroads of Device and Identity Management
For MacAdmins, Platform SSO is more than just a login improvement. It represents Apple’s recognition that identity signals from the device need to be first-class citizens in authentication.
DEP, BYOD, and Roaming Students: Moving Between Campuses and Jamf Instances
Chris Hafner on Jamf Tech Thoughts
Have you ever had to manage devices from a DEP instance you don’t control or even own? Or send DEP or BYOD devices to another campus where they need to be managed with a different MDM? This was the situation we encountered last year, and here’s how we solved it.
🤖 Scripting and Automation
📺 Watch
The one good feature of macOS Tahoe 26
Jeff Geerling demonstrates macOS Tahoe's new "unlock FileVault over ssh" feature.
🎧 Listen
Enterprise IT and the ‘26 releases
Apple’s back to talk about the ’26 release cycle, new APIs and plenty of great work that we can get excited about.
Building your fleet for compliance
Jason Dettbarn from Addigy joins the show to talk about solving your IT compliance problems with Apple devices.
RBAC is Broken (Here's Why) with Dmitri Altum, GitLab, ex-Ramp
Dmitri Altum from GitLab breaks down why role based access control is failing modern businesses and shares how his team achieved 93% automation with just a 3 second delay.
Can you disappear online?
Peter Dolanjski, director of product at DuckDuckGo, about why the internet is so hungry for your data, how parents can help protect the privacy of their children, and whether it is pointless to try to “disappear” online.
🎈Just for Fun
What goes into making an OS to be Unix compliant certified?
In last week's issue, I wondered why Apple still bothers about UNIX 03 certification. Someone pointed me to this Quora post (Thank you!) which explains why and how Apple sought and achieved certification in the first place.
Very much worth reading, but I still wonder why Apple bothered with macOS 26. They do not advertise out loud that it's Unix, any more, do they?