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This week, MacAdmins.news looks at (of course) the MacBook Neo and other releases from Apple's "big week," but also Tahoe interface and updates, and more MacAdmins tools and articles.
In this week's MacAdmins.news, we look ahead to Apple's "big week" and a lot of community project updates.
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Browser based ES/Mac Monitor log analyzer
- Story timelines
- Sigma rule matching
- In-depth process tree analyzer
- Much much more!
Amazing work by my coworker @txhaflaire.bsky.social
Check it out! https://es.decompiler.dev/
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swiftDialog has a (version) birthday today
3.0 is out now with new stuff and better old stuff
https://github.com/swiftDialog/swiftDialog/releases/tag/v3.0.0
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Highly recommend this post. It perfectly captures the internal conflicts and mindset shift I’ve gone through over the last 2 years of coding with AI.
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Google continues to take money for malware pretending to be Homebrew installation.
There’s nothing Homebrew can do about this. Google needs to fix it.
Please put me in contact with someone at Google high enough level to actually fix it.
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Instead of defending the use of LLMs for polishing up your writing, we could be advocating for unpolished writing. Blog posts with spelling errors and awkwardly repeated words. Emails that sound a bit less warm and professional because you forgot the preamble of "Apologies for the late reply, hope you're well! Thanks for the thing last week".
If there's no budget for a human editor, why should the text meet a "professional" (middle class, formally educated) standard? Dyslexic people can just write how they write and people can deal with it. Autistic people can just say what they mean to say and not waste energy on the double empathy gap.
We can learn to read for a more inclusive world, instead of wasting the planet's diminishing resources masking our differences.
@mjg There are ways to properly deploy Xcode on a managed device. https://www.jamf.com/blog/managed-xcode-deployment/ It is disgraceful that you have to point that out to your IT team though. You can't be the first with problem?
This week's issue of MacAdmins.news looks at new the new betas, new conferences, and new helpful articles and tools from MacAdmins for MacAdmins!
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@MDOYVR/115968130590786048
So exciting to finally announce we are moving the MacDevOps conference to Montreal this year. If you have wanted an excuse to visit Montreal or attend MDO then this is your chance to do both. Get your Quick Talks ready. It’s going to be a lot of fun 🤩
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I was looking into using passkeys in enrollment customizations. It works nicely in macOS, but not in iOS. Further research revealed that macOS and iOS/iPadOS/VisionOS are using two different versions of the web view. iOS is using the older style of WKWebview, which does not support showing WebAuthN options. macOS has been updated to use ASWebAuthenticationSession, which supports that, which is why we all are able to use passkeys on macOS.
We have raised a feature request with Apple - if you believe that iOS/iPadOS
and visionOS would benefit from passkey support during MDM enrollment, reach out to Apple and add your weight to it.
@shayman the correct mathematical progression would be one person navigating two bobs at the same time.
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The wait is over 🎟️ Ticket sales for Mac Admins Europe 2026 are now live! Be one of the first 100 to grab an Early Bird ticket at €149. After that, prices go up to €199. Don't wait too long!
@JasonAnthonyGuy @shayman @manton these system can answer those question because experts who put in years of experience wrote that experience down. How to go forward from here, where it seems that building new human expertise is not efficient/affordable, will be … interesting
This week's issue of MacAdmins.news has all the informational links for the 26.3 updates from this week, questions whether managed Macs need a local admin account, and has the usual set of useful posts and automations.
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Put the WW in WWDC:
On making Apple's WorldWide Developers Conference truly WorldWide.
https://dimsumthinking.com/Blog/2026/02/12-PutTheWWInWWDC.html
Apple 26.3 Platform Updates – February 2026
macOS macOS Tahoe 26.3 (25D125): What's new, Developer Release Notes, Security, Enterprise, IPSW, PKG installer macOS Sequoia 15.7.4 (24G517): What's new, Security, PKG installer macOS Sonoma 14.8.4 (23J319): What's new, Security, PKG installer iOS and iPadOS iOS 26.3 About, Enterprise iPadOS 26.3: About, Enterprise iOS 18.7.5: About iPadOS 18.7.5: …
https://scriptingosx.com/2026/02/apple-26-3-platform-updates-february-2026/
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Note: the iOS 26.3 RC was build 23D125. The GM is 23D127. To get the GM via OTA, you need to turn off beta updates in your device then check for updates.
Then turn betas back on to get the future 26.4 betas.
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I'm not old, exactly.
I've just been doing Old Computer Shit since back when it was New Computer Shit
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