"What bear these ships? —what news, what freight,
Do they bring us through the Golden Gate?"

Welcome to the middle of September! Here in Berlin, the formerly-little corvids of the summer are setting out on their own, and you can hear them before you see them, much like the university students.

Security, General:
Mr. Zdziarski speaks for me: https://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=13970

I think we’re in a general issue right now where we’ve had a few outflows of rigorous people either getting turned off or fired from that industry sector for being Debbie Downers, and a few inflows of not-rigorous people who are a little excited by chaos or just drawn to a gold rush, but we’re discussing it as if it’s at a peak of rigor, even though, that tweet. We do have several examples of industries that would be this dangerous under this selection filter, and have occasionally become so.

Security, Apple Platforms:

Golden Gate is out, lots more security fixes including one more of those wily Screen Sharing CVE variants (I think this was the one that ended up under active exploitation due to the not-great early public discussion about it, so please take the patch on older OSes even if you aren't ready for 27.0): https://eclecticlight.co/2026/09/14/apple-has-released-macos-golden-gate-and-security-updates-to-tahoe-26-7-sequoia-15-8/

Interesting Paper:

“When responsibility cannot arise: algorithmic mediation and the preconditions of moral imputability” by Åke Elden. As the Germans say, "Tja." https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43681-026-01359-x

Interesting Tool:

Box of Apples is a new macOS VM client from Thijs Xhaflaire, many very cool features, but also appears to be closed source: https://github.com/txhaflaire/box-of-apples

Apple Platforms Security Concept of the Week:

Background Security Improvements: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102657