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Dr. Web points out dormant nature of Flashback, cites that malware could remain on 650,000 Macs

Well, this is a bit of a kick in the head. Per Russian security company Dr. Web and Macworld, the Mac Flashback Trojan horse was still installed on more than half a million Apple computers late last week and is declining only slowly. Although all security companies now agree that the best days for Flashback […]

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Apple releases fourth Mac OS X 10.7.4 seed to developer community

The betas, they just keep rolling on… Per AppleInsider, Apple this week seeded its developer community with the fourth build of OS X 10.7.4, the upcoming maintenance update for its Lion operating system. Sources familiar with the latest build said it is labeled as “11E52.” The download is said to be more than 700 megabytes […]

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Intel launches Ivy Bridge architecture, includes 3D transistors in hardware

The day you’ve been waiting for has arrived. Or at least one of them. Because really good health-related news or the birth of a new child tends to rank up there as well. Per MacNN, Intel has officially launched the first wave of its Ivy Bridge processors with a new tri-gate transistor technology, touting the […]

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Rumor: Apple to discontinue 17-inch MacBook Pro model

In addition to Microsoft pulling its Office 2011 SP2 update, here’s your other piece of potential bad news for the day: Per AppleInsider, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo with KGI Securities predicted on Monday that Apple is “likely to stop making” the 17-inch MacBook Pro this year. He cited falling shipments with the company’s top-of-the-line notebook as […]

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Microsoft pulls Office 2011 Service Pack 2 update, offers apology and workaround for Outlook database corruption bug

Well, this is awkward. A little over a week after releasing an update to its Office 2011 for Mac, Microsoft has stopped pushing out auto-updates for Service Pack 2 over a flaw that corrupts identity databases in the company’s Outlook mail client. The announcement was made on Friday through the company’s Office blog, and notifies […]