Today, big tech companies including Apple, Pixar, Adobe, Autodesk, and NVIDIA, announced the formation of the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD), which is dedicated to promoting the standardization and ...

Apple has officially deprecated the Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) client in the latest update for Mac computers, and the feature will be “removed in a future version of macOS.” The change will break ...

Sometimes when you buy an Apple product, you may have to immediately update its software before using it. Apple wants to change that as the tech giant has filed for a patent (number US 20230393837 A1) ...

All the patch identifiers begin with CVE-ID and CAN-2005 and can be downloaded from the Apple Web site. Two patches, 1721 and 1722, deal with the Apple Filing Protocol and fix a buffer overflow flaw ...

When I covered the recent update to macOS 15.5 Sequoia (see “Apple Releases iOS 18.5, macOS 15.5, and Other x.5 OS Updates,” 12 May 2025), I referenced a detail from Apple’s enterprise release notes ...

So, why doesn't Apple use SMB/CIFS for its filing system? What advantages, if any, does Apple Filing Protocol offer?<P>It seems to me that Apple is missing a huge marketing opportunity by not ...