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Valve celebrates Half-Life’s 25th anniversary by posting the original game to Steam storefront at 90 percent off

If you were looking for some amazing “Half-Life” retro goodness to run on an older Mac for next to nothing, you’re going to like this. Marking the 25th anniversary of the game’s release, Valve Software has made Half-Life next to free for a limited time, although you may need to use older hardware to actually […]

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The Battle of the Oranges: iMac historian creates tangerine iMac G3 vs. orange M1 iMac comparison video

The battle of the oranges has begun, and it is both nostalgic and nifty. Podcaster and iMac historian Stephen Hackett has published the following video comparing the new orange M1 iMac to the classic tangerine iMac G3. For those unfamiliar, Stephen has a storied history with the iMac G3. In 2016, he set out to collect […]

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Apple Design Chief to leave Apple, start new design company with Apple as a primary client

Jony Ive is moving on from Apple. Apple announced on Thursday that Ive is leaving to start his own design firm. While Apple will function as one of Ive’s “primary clients, ” he’ll be able to handle work for other firms while continuing to design for the Cupertino company. In a statement, Apple CEO Tim Cook said […]

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Apple patches “Fruitfly” malware, which relied on pre-OS X system calls

Apple appears to have nixed the “Fruitfly” malware strain. The malware, which has been patched over, relied on antiquated code predating OS X. Although older, the Fruitfly malware had been used in real-world attacks on biomedical research groups according to security software maker Malwarebytes. Fruitfly operated by communicating with two command-and-control servers, and can perform […]

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Revised DMCA allows for unlocking of handsets, other exemptions

There’s exceptions to every rule and some of them get pretty interesting. Per the cool cats at Ars Technica, the Digital Millennium Copyright makes it illegal to “circumvent” digital rights management schemes. But when Congress passed the DMCA in 1998, it gave the Librarian of Congress the power to grant exemptions. The latest batch of […]