Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Friday, September 20,

24 I'm Brian McCullough today. You might want to hold off on updating to

MacO.S. 15 Sequoia. What exactly is Europe trying to get Apple to do? The AI Energy

Crunch means they're turning 3 Mile Island back on. Could AI usage also mean we use up all

our 5G capacity?

And of course, the weekend long read suggestions.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Some of you should consider pausing on updating to Mac OS 15 Sequoia as it appears

that the new OS has broken security tools made by the likes of Crowd Strike, Sentinel 1, Microsoft

and others. Crowd Strike went so far as to delay support for Sequoia entirely, apparently.

Quoting Tech Crunch.

At this point, it's unclear exactly what is the issue, but it appears to affect several

products made by companies that provide software for Mac OS users and enterprises which has caused frustration among

people who work on and with Mac OS focused security tools. As a developer of

Mac OS security tools it's incredibly frustrating time and again to have to deal with

understandably upset users and understandably blaming your tools for

breaking their Macs when in reality it was Apple's fault all along said

Patrick Wertel the founder of Mac and I.

security startup W. U. and a long-time expert on Mac OS security.

I get it that writing bug-free software is challenging but maybe if Apple

spent less time and money on

marketing and more time on actually testing their software we'd all be better off

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