October 2026

30 items.

-- Saturday, October 31 --

Arc Browser Shuts Down December 22, 2026--The Browser Company Closed New Accounts on October 22, Ends Mobile Sign-In November 23, Deletes Account Data Within 30 Days of the Switch-Off, and Sends Mac Users to Dia, Which Runs Only on Apple SiliconMacs Only!

-- Friday, October 30 --

WARNING--Time4Popcorn's Abandoned Updater Ran as Root on Up to 350,000 Macs and Took Unsigned Code From Expired Domains, Eye Security Switched It Off on Two Million Machines, and the Fix Is to Delete the App and PT.upddMacs Only!

-- Thursday, October 29 --

Apple Introduced the MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display--The First Touch-Screen Mac, Tandem OLED at 2,000 Nits, a Dynamic Island and a Glowing Logo at $2,899 and $3,399, $400 Above the Mini-LED Models, Pre-Orders Open Since October 28 and Arriving November 6Macs Only!

-- Wednesday, October 28 --

Apple Introduced the 14-inch MacBook Pro and iMac with M6--$1,999 and $1,499, the Prices the M5 and M4 Models Already Carried, Pre-Orders October 28 at 10:10 a.m. Pacific, in Stores November 6, and the Touch-Screen MacBook Pro Is Expected Later the Same DayMacs Only!

-- Tuesday, October 27 --

macOS 27.2 is Out--Build 26B123 Brings Siri AI in Five More Languages, Suggestions in Messages and New Keyboard Sliders, Tahoe 26.7.2 and Sequoia 15.8.2 Get the Security Fixes, and Nothing Apple Published Says /etc/ssl/cert.pem ChangedMacs Only!

-- Monday, October 26 --

Follow Up--Apple Says a Future macOS Update Will Fix /etc/ssl/cert.pem for the eMudhra Certificates, Has Blocked the emSign ECC Root CA - G3 Since October 23, and Posted Four Terminal Commands for Mac Administrators Who Will Not WaitMacs Only!

-- Sunday, October 25 --

Australia's Federal Court Ordered Apple to Open the iPhone to Rival App Stores--Competing Stores, Web Downloads and Outside Payments for Australian Apple Accounts From Noon on March 1, 2027, 85 Percent of Epic's Trial Costs, Fortnite Back in the App Store, and Apple Says It Will Seek a Stay and AppealMacs Only!

-- Saturday, October 24 --

Follow Up--iPhone Duo Launch Day Brought the Lines Back to Apple Stores on October 23, Walk-In Stock Ran Out at Some of Them, iOS 27.1 Shipped for the Duo Alone, and Store Pickup Was Due Back October 24, 25 Years to the Day After the iPodMacs Only!

-- Friday, October 23 --

Pages, Numbers and Keynote 15.4.1 Are Out With an Intelligent Assistant--The Beta Drafts, Builds Formulas and Generates Slides for Creator Studio Subscribers at $12.99 a Month in US English Only, Apple Pulled All Three Apps Within the Hour on October 22, and a 15.4.2 Followed That Night Saying Only "Bug Fixes"Macs Only!

-- Thursday, October 22 --

WARNING--eMudhra's Eight Cracked Certificates Have Been Blocked on Apple Devices Since October 19, but the Mac's Built-In curl, git and python3 Still Trust Them Until /etc/ssl/cert.pem Is FixedMacs Only!

-- Wednesday, October 21 --

Apple Added the M6 Mac mini and M5 Mac Studio to Self Service Repair--Logic Boards, Power Supplies, Fans and Ports Sold With Apple's Manuals in the U.S., Canada and Europe From October 20Macs Only!

-- Tuesday, October 20 --

macOS 27.2 RC is Out--Build 26B118 Adds Siri AI in Five More Languages and New Keyboard Sliders, Carries Touch Gestures for a Mac Apple Has Not Announced, and Lands Nine Days Before the October 28 Pro and Tell EventMacs Only!

-- Monday, October 19 --

iPhone Duo Pre-Orders Slipped to January 25 in Half an Hour--Apple Calls the Demand "Nothing Short of Extraordinary," Its Stores Expect No Walk-In Stock on October 23, and the Price Stays $1,999 to $3,199Macs Only!

-- Sunday, October 18 --

Mac Shipments Fell 11 Percent in Q3 2026 While Apple's PC Market Share Rose--IDC Counts 5.9 Million Macs and a 9.5 Percent Share, Omdia 6.8 Million, in a PC Market Down 20 Percent on Memory Prices, With Apple's Own Number Due November 2Macs Only!

-- Saturday, October 17 --

Apple Published "Minions," a Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Macs--Six Apple Researchers Cut Ten-Hour Inference Queues to Minutes With the Macs Already on the Network, and Say Training Is NextMacs Only!

-- Friday, October 16 --

Apple's October 28 Launch Experience--Bloomberg Says Media Are Invited to Los Angeles for the Touch-Screen OLED MacBook Pro, an M6 MacBook Pro and iMac, and an OLED iPad mini, and a Reported November 6 Store DateMacs Only!

-- Thursday, October 15 --

Apple Marked the 12-inch MacBook (2017) Obsolete--The Two-Pound Notebook Gets No Apple Repairs but a Battery, Stops at macOS Ventura, and Nothing Under 13 Inches Has Replaced It Since 2019Macs Only!

-- Wednesday, October 14 --

Apple Announced Apple HomeView--A 7-Inch Siri AI Home Hub on an A18 Chip That Recognizes Six Faces, Tabletop or Wall-Mounted at $299 Either Way, Shipping November 13Macs Only!

-- Tuesday, October 13 --

-- Monday, October 12 --

Epson WorkForce Pro WF-5930--25 ppm in Black and Color, AirPrint and a macOS 27 Driver for $399.99Macs Only!

-- Sunday, October 11 --

Apple Q4 2026 Financials Preview--Guidance of 9 to 11 Percent Growth Means $111.7 to $113.7 Billion, Macs and iPhones in Short Supply, and the First Report Under John TernusMacs Only!

-- Saturday, October 10 --

Game--Transport Fever 3 for Mac, $49.99 the Same Day as the PC, and It Needs an M2 Pro and 16GBMacs Only!

-- Friday, October 9 --

From the Dark Side--Windows 11 26H2 is a 174KB Switch, and Microsoft Sets October 13 as the End of Updates for 24H2 Home and ProMacs Only!

-- Thursday, October 8 --

Wi-Fi 8 Routers Are on Sale--TP-Link's Archer 8 Ultra and ASUS's ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Arrive Ahead of a Standard Due in 2028, and Apple Lists No Mac With Wi-Fi 8Macs Only!

-- Wednesday, October 7 --

Tip--Replace Time Capsule Backups in macOS 27Macs Only!

-- Tuesday, October 6 --

WARNING--Parallels Desktop CVE-2026-90894 Gives Any Local User Root on a Mac; the Fix Is in Version 27, Which Intel Macs Cannot InstallMacs Only!

-- Monday, October 5 --

Logic Pro 12.4 is Out--One New Key Command Option, 53 Fixes and Changes Including Four Crash Fixes, and Apple Pages That Name Three Different macOS FloorsMacs Only!

-- Sunday, October 4 --

OLED Touch-Screen MacBook Pro Reported for October or November--Gurman Says Apple Is Testing It on macOS 27.2 With M5 Pro and M5 Max Chips, Above the Models Apple Sells From $1,999Macs Only!

-- Saturday, October 3 --

macOS 27.0.1 is Out--Build 26A434, 3.3GB of Unnamed Bug Fixes and One Platform SSO Fix, While Tahoe 26.7.1 and Sequoia 15.8.1 Patch an Exploited CoreGraphics BugMacs Only!