Why macOS 27 Golden Gate Gives Me Hope for Better Mac App Store Tools
Apple celebrates some of the Mac's most useful utilities. Trying to build the next one can lead to an unexpected problem.
Investigations
Evidence-led reports on security findings, bugs, disclosures, and failures.
How Facebook and Telegram Are Destroying Businesses
Facebook deleted my work, ignored a scammer using my old page address, and accused me of impersonating my own project. Telegram stole my project's username and is trying to sell it back to me.
Apple Makes It Easier for Mac Developers to Drop Intel Support
Apple now lets existing universal Mac App Store apps requiring macOS 13 or later drop Intel support, encouraging more Apple silicon-only releases.
Why Some App Store Developers Skip Free Trials
For some one-time-purchase iPhone and Mac apps, adding a free trial can weaken App Store discovery and complicate institutional volume sales.
Xcode 27 May End the Golden Era for Backward-Compatible Apple Apps
Xcode 27 turns old deployment targets into build errors. A hidden workaround still works, but Apple may be moving backward compatibility from a developer choice to a platform rule.
ChatGPT for Mac Is Broken — and Support Is Worse Than You’d Expect for a Paid Service
A 2025 report on a ChatGPT for macOS freeze, OpenAI support responses, and the localization setting that caused the model selector bug.
Experian Sends Scam Links by Email, Putting Millions at Risk
A 2024 investigation into a ProtectMyID alert email that linked to a scam domain and how identity protection alerts can become a delivery channel for phishing.
How a Seatback Screen Escaped Its Kiosk Interface
A translated 2017 in-flight entertainment security report about an Android kiosk escape and the disclosure effort that followed.