

So when it prompted her for a passcode, she entered her Apple ID password. And when we had set up the iPad, she had insisted on an alphanumeric passcode. But I failed to explain that Touch ID would require her to enter her passcode every few days. The iPad was her first iOS device, and she was thrilled, especially with Touch ID. The Asus 1000HE, dating from the first days of the Obama administration, was literally wheezing and I didn’t even want to imagine what security vulnerabilities its copy of the long-abandoned Windows XP had. She had a Mac in the past, but after it died, she started using an old netbook running Windows XP that I had left lying around her house. #1658: Rapid Security Responses, NYPD and industry standard AirTag news, Apple's Q2 2023 financials.#1659: Exposure notifications shut down, cookbook subscription service, alarm notification type proposal, Explain XKCD.

#1660: OS updates for sports and security, Drobo in bankruptcy, why TidBITS doesn't cover rumors.#1661: Mimestream app for Gmail, auto-post WordPress headlines to Twitter and Mastodon, My Photo Stream shutting down.#1662: New Macs, 12 top OS features for 2023, vertical tabs in Web browsers, watchOS 9.5.1.
