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Apple today released OS X 10.11.3 which improves the stabiliy, compatibility, and security of your Mac. This update is recommended for all OS X El Capitan users.To update: 1. Open the App Store app on your Mac. 2. Click Updates in the toolbar. 3. Update each app individually, or click Update All to install all available updates.For more detailed information about this update, visit https://support.apple.com/kb/HT205356.For more detailed information about the security content of this update, visit https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201222.

Apple has just released iOS 9.2.1 which contains security updates and bug fixes including a fix for an issue that could prevent the completion of app installation when using an MDM server. How to update the iOS software on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch here.For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website: https://support.apple.com/HT20122

Judge issues permanent injunction against handful of devices found to infringe on a trio of Apple patents. Court ruling means Samsung can't sell you a Galaxy S3, a phone that has been replace by a succession of Galaxy flagship smartphones. Samsung has been ordered to stop selling a handful of older smartphones in the US that have already largely vanished from the market. In the latest round of the Apple v. Samsung patent war, US District Judge Lucy Koh on Monday granted an Apple motion for permanent injunction against devices that use technology covered by patents Samsung was found to...

How does one go about finding a CEO? If you’re Wal-Mart, you designate your heir like a Viking chief, picking the strongest of your children. If you’re Yahoo!, however, you put “Affirmative Action Hire” or “Easy, Breezy, Covergirl” in your third-rate search engine and hope for the best. What dubious specimen does the search engine spit out? One Marissa Mayer.

Update, 3:53 a.m. ET: Twitter is now back online for some, but many users are still experiencing delays and outages. Twitter is down. We know your first instinct is to whip up your Twitter client and complain about it, but you can't because, well, Twitter is down.

Samsung's got some new friends in its legal battle against Apple -- including farmers, African American small businesses and an electronics retailer. Legal experts, nonprofit organizations and technology companies have filed amicus or "friend of the court" briefs in support of Samsung, urging the US Supreme Court to consider the patent-infringement case. They want the nation's highest court to better define design patents and limit the damages that can be awarded. And they're using Apple v. Samsung as the case that hopefully gets the federal government to enact patent reforms, preventing so-called patent trolls from cashing in on intellectual property....

Microsoft just dropped a bombshell. Older versions of Windows will not be supported on the newest chips from Intel and others. The crux of a statement from Terry Myerson, executive vice president at Microsoft, is that new processors won't run older versions of Windows reliably -- and won't be supported. "Going forward, as new silicon generations are introduced, they will require the latest Windows platform at that time for support," Myerson wrote, in a blog post addressed to "enterprise customers," aka, businesses. So, in the future, don't expect to be able to run Windows 7, for example, on the newest...

The Novena Heirloom is a limited edition custom enclosure system I built for use with the open-source Novena computer designed by Bunnie Huang and Sean Cross. It was crowd funded in cooperation with Portland, Oregon-based Crowd Supply. Several prototype concepts were developed for the campaign. After consulting with Huang, we decided to forgo an easel design in favor of a more traditional clam shell laptop. The requirement for user access to the internal components argued for a removable keypad and drove the final result. The thrust of the design concept is informed by, and hopefully serves as homage to, the...

Microsoft is working with Intel, AMD, nVidia, and Qualcomm to support Windows 10 at a chipset level, effectively killing the future of Windows 7 and 8. The changes, which were announced in a company blog post, are the next step in Microsoft's big push to get everyone, from personal users to businesses, onto the latest version of the operating system. The partnership with the chip makers is surprising, as cutting support for Windows 7 and 8.1 on future PCs could adversely affect sales. "Going forward, as new silicon generations are introduced, they will require the latest Windows platform at that...

In a change to its longstanding support policy, Microsoft says PCs based on new CPU architectures, including Intel's Skylake chips, will require Windows 10. A list of preferred systems will support older Windows versions on new hardware, but only for 18 months. Enterprise customers are still the bulwark of Microsoft's Windows business, in both the client and server segments. Historically, those customers have also been among the most conservative, lagging years behind the latest releases of an operating system release. Those practices have been encouraged by Microsoft's support lifecycle, which offers a generous ten years of support for each Windows...

Seeing as how Glocktalk.com is still down after 3 days, I have made guest posting possible on my forum for the members of the Political Issues forum over there. http://internetwhispers.com/forums/politics.2/

Soon, when you buy a new PC, it won't support Windows 7 or 8. Microsoft has announced a change to its support policy that lays out its plans for future updates to its older operating systems, and the new rules mean that future PC owners with next-generation Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm processors will need to use Windows 10. It's not usual for old PCs to fall short of the minimum requirements of a brand new operating system, but in this case, the opposite is happening. Microsoft and its partners will not be putting in the significant work necessary to make...

Apple is notorious for being one of the most secretive companies on the planet. It's hard to blame them, particularly as Apple wants to avoid the potentially disastrous impact of the Osborne Effect  to its current product sales and wants to stay as far ahead of the competition as possible. That being said, if you pay close attention to commentary from Apple's suppliers on their quarterly earnings calls, it's not too difficult to at least get a glimpse into what the Cupertino, Calif.-based device maker is up to. On-contract chip supplier TSMC's most recent earnings call, I believe we got...

The Division (which hits March 8 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC) is from Sweden-based developer Ubisoft Massive. The open-world shooter takes place in a wintry New York City during the middle of a catastrophic societal collapse. The city is reeling from an outbreak of a mysterious but fatal disease. As the body count rises and food and water become increasingly scarce, the remaining survivors grow uneasy and resort to violence. Some of them form merciless gangs to take advantage of the anarchy. In this near-future wild west, you play as a member of the Division, a special task...

Back in September, Synack security researcher Patrick Wardle disclosed a nasty issue with Apple's nefarious-app stopping Gatekeeper system in OS X. While the software is great at stopping malware-infected apps that users have downloaded from the bowels of the internet, it did have a flaw: a signed app could, upon launch, initiate an unsigned program if it resided in the same directory. Because the end user is never aware that this second application is launching, it's a great way to infect a computer. As a responsible researcher, Wardle informed Apple and got a security update as a result. That should...

The European Court of Human Rights has set an interesting predcedent for workplace internet use by ruling in favour of a company that accessed its employees personal online communications. In the case brought forward by Romanian national Bogdan Mihai Bărbulescu in 2007, the court argued that his employer was within its rights to access messages he had sent via Yahoo Messenger during work hours. Judges said it was legal because the employer had the right to “check the manner in which its employees complete their professional tasks”. Even though he was using Yahoo Messenger to chat with his fiancee and...

Bitcoin slid by 10 percent on Friday after one of its lead developers, Mike Hearn, said in a blogpost that he was ending his involvement with the cryptocurrency and selling all of his remaining holdings because it had "failed". Hearn, one of five senior developers who has spent more than five years working on the web-based currency, said he would no longer be taking part in development. "Despite knowing that bitcoin could fail all along, the now inescapable conclusion that it has failed still saddens me greatly," Hearn said in his post on blog-publishing platform Medium. Along with Gavin Andresen,...

Apple (AAPL - Get Report) stock will fall to $80 or less in the next few months, according to comprehensive technical analysis. That prediction is based on the same set of analytical tools that yielded this Oct. 2 forecast that Apple shares would rise to the $120 area after hitting an August low of $92.00. The same day that forecast was published, the stock closed at $109. By the end of November, the stock reached the target level and began to roll back down. In that analysis, the decision support engine's algorithms showed that after the stock tested $120, the...

The Muslim world’s past contributions to science and education were extraordinary. The Islamic “golden age,” during which scholarship and learning flourished across the Muslim world, lasted many centuries, and included the establishment of the world’s first universities. Today, however, Muslim-majority countries lag well behind the rest of the world in terms of education and research. This must change if the region is to provide modern jobs and better lives to its booming population and keep up with global development. As it stands, only one university from the Muslim world — Turkey’s Middle East Technical University — makes the top 100...

200 million devices are now running Windows 10 all over the world, or almost two-thirds of the entire U.S. population. It's a bit surprising, given that much of this growth (about 40%) has occurred just since Thanksgiving. According to recent published data, Windows 10 is is on a trajectory of growth that beats Windows 7 (by 140%) and Windows 8 (by 400%). The question you might ask is: Why all of the raging success? And why now? [SNIP] My theory is more about speed. We notice when a computer is slow or fast, and we have almost zero patience for...