Apple updates everything

  MacOS Monterey (12.0.1)

iOS 15.1

WatchOS 8.1

AppleTV 15.1

Safari

AND a lot of Apple Store Apps

More information to follow

FAKE U.S Government sites

 

Cumulative Update for Microsoft Windows 11

  A cumulative update for Microsoft Windows 11 released.

KB5006746.

OS Build 22000.282 Preview

Then a .NET 3.5 and 4.8 Preview will be available after the OS update 

Also my Windows DEV machine had a update to take that machine to build 22483.1011 from build 22483.1000.

And then. Updates to the Windows Store. Search for Android.

Click on Amazon Appstore app

SO not my PC. Perhaps the virtual android engine is not available.

Trying the preview

 I will update this blog as i find more. 

Contact the Windows SIG scccwindows@gmail.com with your experiences.

MacOS Monterey to be released 25-October-2021

  I have been running the beta release of macOS Monterey for a few months. A recent update to macOS 12.0.1 indicates more might be a follow on.

 An issue for older MACS might be the amount of free disk space required to load and perform the update.

 MacOS keeps a reserve of recently used files. When you attempt to load and perform the update that cache may prohibit the update. There are programs on the Internet to work this space issue. The ones I tried didn't work releasably, were more advertising, etc.

 If you see this when attempting to update:

read on. 

 A technique to flush the disk space held for recent file operations is to create a large requirement for disk space, then remove that temporary file.

 You can do this with the macOS terminal utility. You will need to invoke the terminal utility with Administrator access. Then use the dd command to create the temporary file, delete the temporary file when all free space gets exhausted, reboot, then attempt the update again. If your update fails due to free disk space issues you will need to free large files.

Chrome Security and feature Update

   Chrome version 95 released. Available on most platforms: Windows, Mac, Android, iDevices,

etc.  BUT not (so far) on ChromeOS.

 Chromium based browser (Edge, Brave. ToR, etc. are following.

Patch PATCH October 11

  iOS 15.0.2 released today  - Security issues

Chrome browser patch - Security issues

Windows Patch Tuesday - IMPORTANT

Facebook really down?

 

Facebook reports outage began at 10:39 AM October 4. Lasting over 6 hours, spokespersons indicated the outage was due to "faulty configuration change". In spite of chang board approvals, often the approved change may be implemented with error. Happens.

Facebook employees were locked out of their access, access to meeting rooms, and access to the server rooms to control or rectify the outage.

Apple releases iOS 15.0.1 and iPad 15.0.1

  Mostly usage fixes.

 Reported usage fixes