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Microsoft issues emergency update to fix critical IE flaw under active exploit
Memory corruption vulnerability allows drive-by attacks.
The memory-corruption flaw allows attackers to remotely execute malicious code when computers use IE to visit a booby-trapped website, Microsoft said Wednesday. Indexed as CVE-2018-8653, the flaw affects all supported versions of Windows. The vulnerability involves the way Microsoft's scripting engine handles objects in memory in Internet Explorer.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft issues emergency update to fix critical IE flaw under active exploit
Memory corruption vulnerability allows drive-by attacks.
The memory-corruption flaw allows attackers to remotely execute malicious code when computers use IE to visit a booby-trapped website, Microsoft said Wednesday. Indexed as CVE-2018-8653, the flaw affects all supported versions of Windows. The vulnerability involves the way Microsoft's scripting engine handles objects in memory in Internet Explorer.
That explains why my computers rebooted last night.
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Microsoft unveils Windows Sandbox: Run any app in a disposable virtual machine
First leaked a few months ago, the new feature should be coming to insiders imminently.
A few months ago, Microsoft let slip a forthcoming Windows 10 feature that was, at the time, called InPrivate Desktop: a lightweight virtual machine for running untrusted applications in an isolated environment. That feature has now been officially announced with a new name, Windows Sandbox.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft unveils Windows Sandbox: Run any app in a disposable virtual machine
First leaked a few months ago, the new feature should be coming to insiders imminently.
A few months ago, Microsoft let slip a forthcoming Windows 10 feature that was, at the time, called InPrivate Desktop: a lightweight virtual machine for running untrusted applications in an isolated environment. That feature has now been officially announced with a new name, Windows Sandbox.
Every VM is disposable if you don't care about it.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft unveils Windows Sandbox: Run any app in a disposable virtual machine
First leaked a few months ago, the new feature should be coming to insiders imminently.
A few months ago, Microsoft let slip a forthcoming Windows 10 feature that was, at the time, called InPrivate Desktop: a lightweight virtual machine for running untrusted applications in an isolated environment. That feature has now been officially announced with a new name, Windows Sandbox.
I wonder what the licensing implications are, or perhaps there are more limitations that a traditional VM wouldn't have such as no networking or something.
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@Donahue said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft unveils Windows Sandbox: Run any app in a disposable virtual machine
First leaked a few months ago, the new feature should be coming to insiders imminently.
A few months ago, Microsoft let slip a forthcoming Windows 10 feature that was, at the time, called InPrivate Desktop: a lightweight virtual machine for running untrusted applications in an isolated environment. That feature has now been officially announced with a new name, Windows Sandbox.
I wonder what the licensing implications are, or perhaps there are more limitations that a traditional VM wouldn't have such as no networking or something.
There are none, it's a built in application VM, not an OS VM. Windows has always allowed that under the licensing as is.
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Xen Orchestra 5.30
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Windows 10 will make it easier to ¯∖_(ツ)_/¯ and (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
The emoji panel is getting expanded to include symbols and kaomoji.
Kaomoji ("face characters") is, apparently, the name for those complicated faces made up of sequences of Japanese symbols. While some, such as shrugging ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, have become widespread (Slack's /shrug surely having at least some of the blame there), there is in fact a rich variety of faces that are used. So while sometimes you might be table flippingly mad (╯°益°)╯彡┻━┻ other times you might just want to flip the bird ┌∩┐(◣_◢)┌∩┐. If that's all a bit shocking you might be a little surprised (⊙_⊙) and perhaps you'll even run away ε=ε=┌( >_<)┘.
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Linux Mint 19.1 “Tessa” Cinnamon released!
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3669Linux Mint 19.1 “Tessa” Xfce released!
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3671Linux Mint 19.1 “Tessa” MATE released!
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AT&T 5G goes live this week with ridiculously overpowered hotspot
Early 5G compatibility gives us a Snapdragon 855 in a mobile hotspot!
The era of 5G mobile networks is quickly approaching, and while there isn't any smartphone out yet sporting the new network connectivity, AT&T says that "select" early adopters will soon be able to jump on AT&T's mobile 5G mmWave service with a mobile hotspot. AT&T's 5G service kicks in on December 21 in some cities, which AT&T says makes it "the first and only company in the US to offer a mobile 5G device over a commercial, standards-based mobile 5G network."
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Some iPad Pros ship a little bent, and Apple says that’s normal
The quarter-inch-thin device may bend as a result of its manufacturing process.
When The Verge reached out to Apple for comment, the company told the publication that the bending is "a side effect of the device’s manufacturing process and shouldn’t worsen over time or negatively affect the flagship iPad’s performance in any practical way." (The Verge's words.) Apple says the bending happens as a result of a cooling process used on the components when the device is manufactured.
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Start your (machine learning) engines: Amazon’s DeepRacer is almost here
Autonomous vehicle fun for the whole family, coming in March for coders
Sadly, there's one tech toy that Amazon won't be able to sell you for Christmas this year. DeepRacer is an autonomous 1/18th scale race car that was unveiled at Amazon re:Invent in November. But it won't be available until March 2019 at the soonest, so all you can do now is pre-order it on Amazon. It's too bad we'll have to wait, because this car could help developers understand reinforcement learning, a type of machine learning commonly associated with self-driving cars, and it should entertain hackers of all ages.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Some iPad Pros ship a little bent, and Apple says that’s normal
The quarter-inch-thin device may bend as a result of its manufacturing process.
When The Verge reached out to Apple for comment, the company told the publication that the bending is "a side effect of the device’s manufacturing process and shouldn’t worsen over time or negatively affect the flagship iPad’s performance in any practical way." (The Verge's words.) Apple says the bending happens as a result of a cooling process used on the components when the device is manufactured.
I remember hearing about the same thing about one of those iPhone models years ago.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Some iPad Pros ship a little bent, and Apple says that’s normal
The quarter-inch-thin device may bend as a result of its manufacturing process.
When The Verge reached out to Apple for comment, the company told the publication that the bending is "a side effect of the device’s manufacturing process and shouldn’t worsen over time or negatively affect the flagship iPad’s performance in any practical way." (The Verge's words.) Apple says the bending happens as a result of a cooling process used on the components when the device is manufactured.
Calling BS on Apple. Not a good design if it bends before it is even finished being manufactured.
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@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Some iPad Pros ship a little bent, and Apple says that’s normal
The quarter-inch-thin device may bend as a result of its manufacturing process.
When The Verge reached out to Apple for comment, the company told the publication that the bending is "a side effect of the device’s manufacturing process and shouldn’t worsen over time or negatively affect the flagship iPad’s performance in any practical way." (The Verge's words.) Apple says the bending happens as a result of a cooling process used on the components when the device is manufactured.
Calling BS on Apple. Not a good design if it bends before it is even finished being manufactured.
Yeah, for a "high end" device, that's not something that customers are going to be very happy with.
My wife's old iPhone is curved like that, because she sat on it.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Some iPad Pros ship a little bent, and Apple says that’s normal
The quarter-inch-thin device may bend as a result of its manufacturing process.
When The Verge reached out to Apple for comment, the company told the publication that the bending is "a side effect of the device’s manufacturing process and shouldn’t worsen over time or negatively affect the flagship iPad’s performance in any practical way." (The Verge's words.) Apple says the bending happens as a result of a cooling process used on the components when the device is manufactured.
Calling BS on Apple. Not a good design if it bends before it is even finished being manufactured.
Yeah, for a "high end" device, that's not something that customers are going to be very happy with.
My wife's old iPhone is curved like that, because she sat on it.
Put it in the microwave on high for 3 minutes, that'll fix it.
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@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Some iPad Pros ship a little bent, and Apple says that’s normal
The quarter-inch-thin device may bend as a result of its manufacturing process.
When The Verge reached out to Apple for comment, the company told the publication that the bending is "a side effect of the device’s manufacturing process and shouldn’t worsen over time or negatively affect the flagship iPad’s performance in any practical way." (The Verge's words.) Apple says the bending happens as a result of a cooling process used on the components when the device is manufactured.
Calling BS on Apple. Not a good design if it bends before it is even finished being manufactured.
Yeah, for a "high end" device, that's not something that customers are going to be very happy with.
My wife's old iPhone is curved like that, because she sat on it.
Put it in the microwave on high for 3 minutes, that'll fix it.
Let it cool slowly on a flat surface.
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Vultr:
We are currently experiencing a partial outage in our Dallas location. Our network engineers are actively working with our upstream providers to restore connectivity as quickly as possible
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Vultr is back up.
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Hands-on with a $434 replica lightsaber: May the dork be with you
From the archives: It's awesome. It might not be worth $434, but it's awesome.
For those who insist on dressing in their finest Vrogas Vas linens and representing the Jedi Order in our own, simpler galaxy, replica lightsabers are the only way to go. I don't mean the fold-up, whip-out toy sabers that you can buy at Target. For whatever reason, the legal eagles at the Disney/Lucasfilm trust have stood back and let custom saber makers run amok. As a result, you can now buy sabers that purport to be on par with movie set props—and aim to be the coolest dude in line for the next Star Wars film.
