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Additional mitigations for speculative execution vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs (May 14)
"- Apple has released security updates in macOS Mojave 10.14.5 to protect against speculative execution vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs...

- macOS Mojave 10.14.5 includes security updates for Safari, and the option to enable full mitigation...(see article below)

- Security Update 2019-003 High Sierra and Security Update 2019-003 Sierra include the option to enable full mitigation."

(Also lists "Unsupported Mac models" 2009-2010 MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac mini, Mac Pro that may be able to install security updates, but are "unable to support the fixes and mitigations due to a lack of microcode updates from Intel".)
How to enable full mitigation for Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) vulnerabilities
- This option is available for macOS Mojave, High Sierra, and Sierra after installing security updates. (See section "How to enable full mitigation for MDS in macOS")
- Note the section on Performance impact of disabling hyper-threading.
"Testing conducted by Apple in May 2019 showed as much as a 40 percent reduction in performance with tests that include multithreaded workloads and public benchmarks. Performance tests are conducted using specific Mac computers. Actual results will vary based on model, configuration, usage, and other factors."

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Safari Technology Preview 82 release notes (webkit.org)
(Download available for macOS Mojave and High Sierra.)
Pixelmator Pro version 1.3.4
"Pixelmator Pro 1.3.4 brings the incredible ML Match Colors, which intelligently matches the colors of different images using breakthrough machine learning, a Free Transform tool for freely resizing objects, adjusting perspective, skewing, and distorting, and includes a range of additional improvements and fixes."
Microsoft Office for Mac (365/2019) Version 16.25 (19051201)
- See May 2019 release notes.
Security Updates for Adobe Flash Player, Acrobat & Reader, Media Encoder (adobe bulletins)
All-new Apple TV app available in over 100 countries (apple pr)

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