Macworld Update 6/27/23: Apple has released the developer beta 4 of macOS Ventura 13.5. The public beta 4 will follow later this week. Apple on Tuesday released the macOS Ventura 13.5 beta 4 to developers. The release notes are as follows: Startup Security Utility Known Issues Startup Security Utility in macOS Recovery may not accept an administrator password after updating. This affects Intel Macs with the Apple T2 Security Chip that have the secure boot policy set to “No Security”. To work around this, boot to macOS Recovery and run the resetpassword command from Terminal. Once the password is changed, you can authenticate with the new password in Startup Security Utility. (109932528) SwiftUI Resolved Issues Fixed an issue where NSHostingView would not appear when…

Ali Farhadi, one of Apple’s key machine learning executives, is departing the company to take over as CEO of the Allen Institute of Artificial Intelligence. Farhadi joined Apple in 2020 after the company acquired the startup he founded, Xnor․ai, in a deal valued at around $200 million. more… The post Apple’s ‘next-gen machine learning’ leader departs for AI non-profit appeared first on 9to5Mac.

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, a non-profit aimed to furthering AI research, has named Apple machine learning chief Ali Farhadi as its new CEO.Starting from July 31, Darhadi will become the CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), the research institute explained on Tuesday. The move will have Farhadi overseeing the work of the non-profit, which performs AR research and engineering.An AI professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, Farhadi joined AI2 in 2015 to work on its Computer Vision team. He went on to co-found Xnor.ai, a deep learning startup that was acquired by Apple in 2020 for $200 million. Read more...

Macworld Do Macs get viruses? Do Macs need antivirus software? The answers to these questions aren’t as simple as they might seem. In this article, we look at the dangers faced by Mac users, and the pros and cons of using Mac antivirus software. Historically, the Mac has been considered safe and secure for a number of reasons that we will go into below, but in recent years the consensus has fluctuated. In its 2020 State of Malware report, Malwarebytes said it saw “a significant rise in the overall prevalence of Mac threats in 2019, with an increase of over 400 percent from 2018.” The following year, the company found that overall malware detected on macOS decreased by 38 percent…

Macworld Do Macs get viruses? Do Macs need antivirus software? The answers to these questions aren’t as simple as they might seem. In this article, we look at the dangers faced by Mac users, and the pros and cons of using Mac antivirus software. Historically, the Mac has been considered safe and secure for a number of reasons that we will go into below, but in recent years the consensus has fluctuated. In its 2020 State of Malware report, Malwarebytes said it saw “a significant rise in the overall prevalence of Mac threats in 2019, with an increase of over 400 percent from 2018.” The following year, the company found that overall malware detected on macOS decreased by 38 percent…

Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge When you boot up your Mac, you’ve probably noticed that a number of apps and tools are loading themselves into memory along with the operating system. There are advantages to this — it ensures that your files always stay in sync with the cloud and that certain plug-ins are always available. But there’s value in keeping a balance: having too many programs start up with macOS can be a drag on your system. Not only does it mean your Mac takes longer to get started and ready for use, but auto-starting apps can use up valuable memory space and processor time. It’s important to be selective about what can launch with macOS and…