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How to discover shadow AI [Free guide]
In just the past year, Nudge Security has discovered over 1,000 new AI tools hitting the market—not to mention the MCPs and AI features being added to virtually every other SaaS app.
Without good visibility into where AI tools can access your corporate data, it's pretty much impossible to mitigate risks. This guide helps you make sense of the options for AI discovery so you can get the visibility you need and sleep better at night.
Greeetings from MacSysAdmin in Gothenburg!
I have just spent an amazing week at the MacSysAdmin conference. It was so great to meet everyone! I presented on "Managing First Contact" and got to see and learn from all the other great presenters. It's been a long week and I need to process most of it. I might do a writeup over the next week.
Conference season is in full swing, next week is Jamf Nation User Conference in Denver and the week after that Objective-by-the-Sea in Ibiza.
Safe travels to all who are returning from or going to conferences and have fun!
📰 News and Opinion
MacStadium sees Apple adoption accelerating across US enterprises
Here’s a prediction: MacOps will one day become so much part of life no one will remember when Apple was almost invisible in business.
Losing nine years of answers to find better questions
Now, in my new role, I’m on the other side. I’m the new kid. No nine years of trivia. No encyclopedia of half-remembered decisions.
⚙️ Apple Updates
The Mac Hardware/Software Obsolescence Chart
Updated for macOS 26.
The latest update to my Mac Hardware / Software Chart is now available, listing support (or lack thereof) for macOS Tahoe. This will also be the final update to the chart, but if someone wants to adopt it, I have now released the chart into the public domain
Welcome to Tahoe's Launch Angels
Browsing through the /System/Library folder in macOS Tahoe you’ll no doubt be surprised to see a new folder, between LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemons, named LaunchAngels.
“Three Angels for Tahoe”
macOS
- macOS Tahoe 26.0.1 (25G354): What's new, Developer Release Notes, Security, Enterprise, IPSW, PKG installer
- macOS Sequoia 15.7.1 (24G231): What's new, Security, PKG installer
- macOS Sonoma 14.8.1 (23J30): What's new, Security
iOS and iPadOS
- iOS 26.0.1 About, Enterprise
- iPadOS 26.0.1: About, Enterprise
- iOS 18.7.1: About, Enterprise
- iPadOS 18.7.1: About, Enterprise
- iOS and iPadOS 26.0: Developer Release Notes, Security
- Security: 26.0.1,18.7.1
Other Platforms
- visionOS 26.0.1: About, Developer Release Notes, Security, Enterprise
- watchOS 26.0.2: About, Developer Release Notes, Security (26.0)
🔐 Security and Privacy
Software’s month of supply chain chaos
In September 2025, a lot of nightmares have come true, with a spree of supply chain attacks and governance fumbles impacting multiple language ecosystems. You may have heard of one or two of them, but since the chaos has been so distributed, we wanted to round up the happenings in one place.
macOS Under Attack: AMOS Malware Surge & Defense Tips
In the last couple of years, we’ve watched hobby projects evolve into polished crimeware aimed squarely at everyday Mac users. The old comfort phrase, that “Macs don’t get malware” is now more of a historical quote than a safety rule.
🔨 Support and Tutorials
Suppressing the Software Update Complete screen with a configuration profile on macOS Tahoe
Rich Trouton on DerFlounder
it is possible to suppress the Software Update Complete screen on macOS Tahoe using a configuration profile.
Managing SkipSetupItems settings in management profiles on macOS
Rich Trouton on DerFlounder
Apple has provided settings for suppressing various screens which appear the first time you log into a Mac and sometimes also after an OS update.
🎧 Listen
mSCP 2.0 & Tahoe Support
Here with an update about mSCP 2.0, some format changes, and new functionality, are Bob Gendler, Allen Golbig, and Dan Brodjieski
Lost in the Cloud: Flyers, Reviews, and Resetting Reality
the hosts reconnect for a public episode featuring casual banter and professional insights. Discussions range from optimal microphone placement for virtual backgrounds, humorously recounting past advertising endeavors, to moving children into college.
Going back to the practitioner role
Tom Bridge joins the show to discuss moving back to an IT practitioner role after 4+ years on the vendor side.