Apple is rolling out the third macOS 10.12.3 pre-release software update to developers. New features haven’t been discovered in previous macOS 10.12.3 betas, suggesting the software update is focused on bug fixes and performance improvements. We’ll update with any notable changes below: macOS 10.12.3 first entered developer beta on December 14 and saw a second beta on December 20 before the holiday break. Prior to macOS 10.12.3 beta, Apple released the current official version of the operating system with macOS 10....

Magic: The Gathering’s War of the Spark Mythic Edition releases this Wednesday, May 1, and will retail for $249.99 on eBay with limited availability. The latest iteration of a long-running collectible set, War of the Spark’s Mythic Edition follows a trend that has seen Magic creator Wizards of the Coast blend a premium offering of old and new cards with unique artwork and foiling. Magic: The Gathering card prices have always been mind-boggling, but the last few years have seen the game grow as a collector pursuit, which has in turn caused the financial side of the game to boom as well....

The message from MariaDB is that the financings will not change its current course. The name will change slightly to MariaDB plc, but the management team, led by CEO Michael Howard, is expected to stay in place. As for the SPAC, Angel Pond was established by former Goldman Sachs partner Theodore Wang and Shihuang “Simon” Xie, who co-founded Alibaba. Headquartered in Helsinki, MariaDB began life as a fork of MySQL after it was acquired by Oracle (as part of the Sun Microsystems acquisition) in 2009....

TechCrunch reports that development of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion is moving along smoothly and is actually ahead of schedule. The current developer preview of 10.7 Lion is pretty stable but is not without its bugs, lockups, and crashes. Apple has been at work improving the operating system and is reportedly actually almost ready to release a golden master build of the next-generation Mac operating system. A golden master (GM) software release is the stage in which the software’s development is complete and ready to print....

Open source tools like ClamAV and YARA we can tell us if an unknown file has already been classified as malicious. If we have a fresh database with the latest signatures, we will not spend time analyzing binaries other researchers have already identified. That lets us spend our time analyzing other new or unique types of malware. Installing ClamAV: ClamAV is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit, the AV tasks are handled by three processes:...

The multiple areas of risk CISOs must manage The origins of the Chief Information Security Officer title date back to the mid-90s, when Citigroup hired Steve Katz for the role to deal with new world of security and information. This came in response to a series of cyberattacks from a Russian hacker. Nowadays cybersecurity is, of course, one of the biggest concerns that any company has when it comes to the safety of their data....

The change happened in the last few hours, as noted by MacGeneration. This is an increase in shipping times of approximately one month. Apple began shipments of the shipments of the machine to Europe in mid-January. At the time, Apple reported one-month dispatch. The change today widens the availability gap to roughly two months. Currently, the US and Canadian stores still report a March timeframe. The discrepancy may be due to the fact that the Mac Pro is assembled in the United States, therefore making supply easier....

With Game of Thrones headed into the home stretch (of course there could still be spinoffs), cast members from the show are beginning to crank up their post-GoT careers by taking on big-screen work. Maisie Williams is one young actress from GoT who shouldn’t have any problem finding new projects to sink herself into after the series ends. Williams’ turn as Arya Stark has only grown more interesting and complex as the years have gone on, and her future seems very bright....

Noting that the Mac’s share of the PC market has risen almost continuously over the past decade (with just a brief dip in 2012) despite costing an average of $700 more than competitor machines, Needham’s Charlie Wolf is quoted by Fortune as saying that it “seems to defy the laws of economics.” The halo effect of the brand undoubtedly plays a part, but he seems to have missed the rather obvious point that OS X is a rather better operating system than Windows, and the slickness of the ecosystem makes a Mac an obvious choice for anyone who already owns an iOS device …...

Mafia: Definitive Edition is another action-adventure video game in 2020 that has been developed by Hangar 13 and published by 2K Games. Due to the stunning graphics and the gameplay, the game has received very positive reviews in just a couple of days or so. Though there are a couple of visual glitches in this game, the overall gameplay experience is well-optimized and very smooth than its previous releases. However, some of the unfortunate PC players are experiencing Mafia: Definitive Edition Crashing at Startup, Won’t Launch, or Lags with FPS drops issue either while launching it or during the gameplay....

A documentary is being made to showcase the 27-year history of Magic: the Gathering. Magic: the Gathering is one of the world’s most popular trading card games, and it has seen great success since its introduction in 1993. According to recent numbers from the publisher, Wizards of the Coast, the game has amassed over 35 million worldwide players. The impact Magic: the Gathering has had on pop culture is undeniable, especially when it comes to the field of trading card games....

OWASP Mantra Browser Mantra is a nice web browser developed by OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project). I am sure you have already heard the name of the company. Mantra is a free web browser that comes with powerful set of security tools. It also comes with FireCAT integration, which makes it even more powerful browser for security researchers. I think we should not call it just a browser. OWASP Mantra is a web application security testing framework that is built on top of a web browser....

Apple has released the fifth developer beta version of macOS 10.13.5 for testing. The beta version includes Messages in iCloud which works with iOS 11.4 beta. Aside from testing Messages in iCloud, the latest update is light on user-facing features and likely focuses on bug fixes. The update follows last month’s macOS 10.13.4 update to High Sierra which includes the ‘Ink Cloud’ wallpaper previously only offered on the iMac Pro, enhanced support for external GPUs, and more....

Mad Men may have ended in 2015, but everyone’s favorite AMC show about ad agencies in the 1960’s is still very much a part of our pop culture and the zeitgeist of our last decade. That being said, it’s getting to be time for a rewatch — after all, it’s almost been five years since the show ended, and it’s been over a decade since the show originally started in 2007....

These little emoticons have quickly become a staple of modern smartphones. They’re popular, fun and easily cross language barriers. That’s also why malware developers design custom emoji keyboards to trick users. Tap or click to see how an emoji keyboard installed malware on Android phones. If you want custom emojis but want to stay safe, there aren’t too many mainstream options. But Google aims to change all that with its new Emoji Kitchen feature in Google Keyboard....

Open File Explorer to This PC on Windows 11 To get started, open File Explorer. There are a couple of ways you can do that. You can click the folder icon on the taskbar to launch it. Or you can click the Start button and then click File Explorer. When File Explorer opens up you will notice that it has opened to the “Quick Access” section. Next, click on the See More button (three dots) on the right side of the toolbar at the top....

With the release of iOS 14 last year, Apple introduced new privacy features on the iPhone and iPad to make it easier to know when an app has recently accessed the camera or microphone. Apple is now expanding this to the Mac with MacOS Monterey, which is available now in developer beta. Apple says that in Control Center with macOS Monterey, you can see a list of applications that have recently accessed the microphone....

The bank announced on Monday that customers can now apply for a transaction and savings account, have their identity fully verified, and be able to have their debit card instantly loaded on a customer’s Apple or Google wallet in under a minute. “Many banks still require customers to visit a branch or wait days for the physical card to arrive in the mail. We have reimagined the account opening experience to be almost instantaneous while still delivering all of the same comprehensive security and identity checks,” Macquarie Bank deposit and payments head Olivia McArdle said....

Perhaps not the first of its kind, but certainly the experience that fueled a trend and introduced the public to the concept of ‘made-for-instagram.’ Opened in New York in 2016, it was an instant hit. (Insta-hit?…. I’m so sorry.) It took no time at all for perfectly curated photos and videos to inundate our social feeds—pepto-bismol pink rooms, ice cream cones hanging like pendant lights and videos of people swimming through pools of rainbow sprinkles captivated us....

Here, ptr is a pointer of cast_type. The malloc function returns a pointer to the allocated memory of byte_size. When this statement is successfully executed, a memory space of 50 bytes is reserved. The address of the first byte of reserved space is assigned to the pointer ptr of type int. Consider another example of malloc implementation: Output: Notice that sizeof(*ptr) was used instead of sizeof(int) in order to make the code more robust when *ptr declaration is typecasted to a different data type later....