• Updated 2009 Mac Pro 6-core CPU Upgrades Using Mac Pro 5,1 EFI & Xeon X5690 Westmere CPUs with Dave's later report on swapping in a dual CPU tray and buying another X5690. (Also have upgrade reports from Ben and Jman to pos.)
  
  
• Apple working with Consumer Reports on MacBook Pro battery test results (verge)
  
  
• Introduction to the Mac's Terminal App, Part One (sponsor blog)
  
  
• Apple forum thread on Airpods case battery drain (several pages)
  
  
• Apple's AI team publishes its first research paper (csm)

• (How to) Resolve USB-related alerts in iTunes
  
  
• Get help with AirPlay and AirPlay Mirroring on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
  
  
• (How to) Change or remove your Apple ID payment information

Page of How-To, Troubleshooting & Tips for Mac/OS X/iOS Users from Airplay to Thunderbolt.
  

• Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 45.6 (mozilla.org)
  
  
• Critical security update: PHPMailer 5.2.20 (CVE-2016-10045) (now 5.2.21)
  
  
• Sylvania smart light bulb talks to Siri without a hub (engadget)
  
  
• LG's new levitating speaker promises 10 hours of floating funk (verge)
  
  
• Flight booking systems lack basic privacy safeguards, researchers say (reuters)
  
  
• Best Flagship TVs of 2016 (Consumer Reports)

December 19th-23rd, 2016 News Archive
• 802.11ac Time Capsule/AirPort Base Station Firmware Update 7.7.8
• 802.11N AirPort Base Stations/Time Capsule Firmware Update 7.6.8
• Tip for Can't Boot from External Drives after macOS Sierra 10.12.2 update
• New MacBook Pros Fail to Earn Consumer Reports Recommendation (battery)
• How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists (op-ed)
• Blog about Purgeable Space in macOS
• Cook assures employees Apple committed to Mac, 'great desktops' coming
• Predicting and Preparing for Hard Drive Failures using SoftRAID
• Freeware VM VirtualBox 5.1.12 (includes 3 OS X host related fixes)
• Apple Support/Troubleshooting/How-To Article Updates:
  - About macOS Recovery
  - Apple Web Server notifications
  - How to free up storage space on your Mac
  - How to use the LG UltraFine 4K Display with MacBook or MacBook Pro
  - About Mac notebook batteries (Optimizing, Troubleshooting, Servicing batteries)
  - Get help with video issues on external displays connected to a Mac
  - What to do if iTunes doesn't recognize your iPhone, iPad, or iPod
  - About Search on your Apple TV (4th generation)
  - Get Help with Home Sharing for iTunes libraries
  - How to update the software on your AirPort base station
  - How to Reset the System Management Controller on your Mac
  - Using 4K displays, 5K displays, and Ultra HD TVs with your Mac
  - If you forgot passcode for your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or device disabled
  - Protecting Security Information (about Apple product security key, PGP)
  - About security content of AirPort Base Station Firmware Update 7.6.7 & 7.7.7
  - How to connect devices & displays with Apple Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter

For links to older news pages, see the Archives.