As it continues to bolster its smart home experience, the Google Home app is adding support for a “Script Editor” that supports more advanced automation routines. The functionality is rolling out this ...

Mac OS offers AppleScript as a powerful automation tool you can use to share data among applications and turn complex file-management tasks into single-click programs. First implemented in 1992, when ...

Callaia provides analysis and feedback on scripts in seconds. But, as AI models are trained to be, it might be too nice to be truly useful. Every day across Hollywood, scores of film school graduates ...

ClickFix attacks targeting Mac users now use Script Editor instead of Terminal, a shift that sidesteps Apple's latest protections and streamlines the attack. Apple introduced command scanning for ...

Google Home’s script editor has gone live. The script editor will allow you to create more advanced smart home automations. The script editor is now available for all Preview users. Original, June 13, ...

Shortly after the release of macOS 26.4 Tahoe (see “ OS 26.4 Adds AI-Generated Playlist Playground, Separates Family Sharing Purchases,” 25 March 2026), several TidBITS Talk users began reporting ...

A new campaign delivering the Atomic Stealer malware to macOS users abuses the Script Editor in a variation of the ClickFix attack that tricked users into executing commands in Terminal. Script Editor ...

I am trying to schedule a refresh of a YouTube Stream Now stream, and the only way I've figured to do it is via reloading a particular YouTube URL*. I have an always ...

I’ve worked extensively as a script editor, both in production and development. Rather than going into the nuts and bolts of what a script editor does, here are some thoughts about the qualities you ...

The platform’s promised advanced automation tool adds more conditions and starters to let you do more with your smart home. The platform’s promised advanced automation tool adds more conditions and ...