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For the third time in as many weeks, Apple has  released Security Updates for its more recent hardware. Today’s release included macOS Tahoe 26.6.2 and iOS/iPadOS 26.6.1.  Earlier, macOS Tahoe received some updates for macOS alone, causing the difference in the version numbers. Apple also released updates for iOS 18.7.10 and iPadOS 18.7.10 for devices […]

ISSUE 23.33 • 2026-08-17 SOFTWARE By Will Fastie In October, Microsoft will throw the kill switch for Publisher 365, which will prevent Publisher from opening — and thereby orphan Publisher files. In previous articles (see References below), we have discussed what this means and how to deal with it. In this article, I’ll explain in […]

TRAVELING TECH By Peter Deegan A good translation app on your phone is useful for travel abroad — and also locally in our diverse, globalized world. Both Apple and Google offer free translation apps that handle typed text, spoken conversations, and even live camera translation of signs, menus, and food labels. I rarely need a […]

FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT By Deanna McElveen • Comment about this article Before we get into today’s freeware, it might be helpful to talk about the service behind it. That service is VirusTotal. Even if you use VirusTotal regularly, as I do, you might be surprised that VirusTotal has been around for 22 years! It launched on […]

PATCH WATCH By Susan Bradley Microsoft is setting expectations, or is it? The August updates begin the gradual rollout of the first of many promised changes to Windows 11. This would seem to be a matter of setting expectations, but if you don’t know precisely when the changes and improvements are coming, how can you […]