External Link: What Is Differential Privacy?

Featured articles from around the web. Apple briefly announced “differential privacy” at this year’s WWDC keynote, but didn’t go into details as to exactly what that means. Cryptographer Matthew Green isn’t sure what Apple means either, but he is familiar with the concept of differential privacy, and in a blog post, explains the basics and … Read more

Ars Technica’s Lengthy Review of OS X El Capitan!

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This is … the fourth straight release not to drop support for any older Macs, a refreshing change after several successive versions that kept trimming the support list. Leopard ended support for older G3 and G4 Macs, Snow Leopard dumped PowerPC entirely, Lion excluded 32-bit Intel Macs, and Mountain Lion dropped anything that couldn’t go … Read more

Lightroom 6 arrives

It’s been almost two years since Lightroom 5 was released, which at the time was a major update to the photo editing program’s look and performance. The biggest change in this version of Lightroom is speed. Lightroom 6’s performance is based heavily on your computer’s GPU and processing power, but Adobe is promising speed increases … Read more

iCloud Photo Library: The Missing FAQ

With the release of Photos for Mac in OS X 10.10.3, Mac users have not only a replacement for the much-maligned iPhoto but also access to iCloud Photo Library, an iCloud feature for syncing photos that Apple introduced in iOS 8.1. In theory, this feature should “just work,” magically syncing all your photos across all … Read more