Miscellaneous Tech News
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Google Play apps with 150 million installs contain aggressive adware
Google removes 210 apps after outside researchers report them as abusive.
The 210 apps discovered by researchers from security firm Checkpoint Software bombarded users with ads, even when an app wasn’t open, according to a blog post published by the company on Wednesday. The apps also had the ability to carry out spearphishing attacks by causing a browser to open an attacker-chosen URL and open the apps for Google Play and third-party market 9Apps with a specific keyword search or a specific application’s page. The apps reported to a command-and-control server to receive instructions on which commands to carry out.
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GNOME 3.32 Release
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/03/best-gnome-3-32-features -
It looks like Windows 10 Home can now defer updates for 35 days
Change would give Home and Pro users the same deferral range
The next Windows 10 feature update, version 1903, looks like it's going to give Windows 10 Home users a little more flexibility about when they install updates. All versions of Windows 10 allow for updates to be deferred, waiting a number of days after each update is released before attempting to install it.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
It looks like Windows 10 Home can now defer updates for 35 days
Change would give Home and Pro users the same deferral range
The next Windows 10 feature update, version 1903, looks like it's going to give Windows 10 Home users a little more flexibility about when they install updates. All versions of Windows 10 allow for updates to be deferred, waiting a number of days after each update is released before attempting to install it.
Sure I hear people clamering for this - but I'm just not sure how much difference this will really make to the home users masses.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
It looks like Windows 10 Home can now defer updates for 35 days
Change would give Home and Pro users the same deferral range
The next Windows 10 feature update, version 1903, looks like it's going to give Windows 10 Home users a little more flexibility about when they install updates. All versions of Windows 10 allow for updates to be deferred, waiting a number of days after each update is released before attempting to install it.
If updating Windows wasn't so intrusive and prone to failure I'm sure more people would update. This is just giving MS time to fix any bugs that are found post public release.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
It looks like Windows 10 Home can now defer updates for 35 days
Change would give Home and Pro users the same deferral range
The next Windows 10 feature update, version 1903, looks like it's going to give Windows 10 Home users a little more flexibility about when they install updates. All versions of Windows 10 allow for updates to be deferred, waiting a number of days after each update is released before attempting to install it.
If updating Windows wasn't so intrusive and prone to failure I'm sure more people would update. This is just giving MS time to fix any bugs that are found post public release.
That's assuming they pay attention to people. That update bug that was deleting files was reported to them repeatedly for 3 months before they released the patch. They've really got to completely overhaul their patch processes.
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Google launches the next version of Android—Android Q—in beta
The beta is open to any Google Pixel phone.
On Wednesday, Google released a preview of the next version of Android, codenamed "Android Q." The final release should happen sometime toward the end of the year, but for now we get a work-in-progress build that will get several new versions throughout the year. The highlights for this release include new privacy and security controls, support for foldables, a share menu that actually works, faster app startup, and more.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Google launches the next version of Android—Android Q—in beta
The beta is open to any Google Pixel phone.
On Wednesday, Google released a preview of the next version of Android, codenamed "Android Q." The final release should happen sometime toward the end of the year, but for now we get a work-in-progress build that will get several new versions throughout the year. The highlights for this release include new privacy and security controls, support for foldables, a share menu that actually works, faster app startup, and more.
Hm.... To Beta... or not to Beta, that is the question.
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Steam Link Anywhere lets you take your PC gaming with you
Move comes as Google, Sony expand game streaming options.
The only requirements for today's "early beta" release, according to the announcement, are that "your computer has good upload speed and your Steam Link device has a good network connection." Those are imprecise terms, of course, but Steam's in-home streaming has previously shown a pretty good ability to scale visual quality up and down based on network conditions.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Steam Link Anywhere lets you take your PC gaming with you
Move comes as Google, Sony expand game streaming options.
The only requirements for today's "early beta" release, according to the announcement, are that "your computer has good upload speed and your Steam Link device has a good network connection." Those are imprecise terms, of course, but Steam's in-home streaming has previously shown a pretty good ability to scale visual quality up and down based on network conditions.
This could be decently interesting.
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GNOME 3.32 released & coming to Fedora 30
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Nasty WinRAR bug is being actively exploited to install hard-to-detect malware
19-year-old code-execution flaw exploited within days of being disclosed.
Malicious hackers wasted no time exploiting a nasty code-execution vulnerability recently disclosed in WinRAR, a Windows file-compression program with 500 million users worldwide. The in-the-wild attacks install malware that, at the time this post was going live, was undetected by the vast majority of antivirus product.
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Any Steam game can now use Valve’s low-latency, DoS-proofed networking
43 percent of gamers have enjoyed reduced latency from the network.
At 30 different locations around the world, Valve has established relaying servers that route networking traffic between clients and servers. These relay points provide DoS-resilience in several ways. They're equipped with an aggregate of several terabits of bandwidth, so they can handle a certain amount of flooding in any case. Games can also switch from one relay to another without necessarily interrupting their connection. This switching can be to another relay in the same location or even to another point-of-presence entirely.
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Hands-on: What’s new in Android Q
Lots of little changes in the first beta of Android Q.
A lot of things are half-implemented, inconsistent, or broken, but this is just a beta. Hopefully everything will get fixed in the future, but we'll still point out problems in this release. Compared to the leaked builds of Android Q that came out before this release, there are actually fewer features here in some cases. Google is holding out on us.
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Apple updates $499 iPad Air, $399 iPad mini ahead of services event next week
Apple wants all of the spotlight on its new services and subscriptions next week.
We're one week out from Apple's services-focused event in Cupertino, and the company just announced a pair of devices we've been expecting for quite some time. Apple debuted a new, $499 10.5-inch iPad Air and a new, $399 7.9-inch iPad mini today. Both have familiar designs but also have the company's new A12 Bionic chip.
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Apple Watch accurately spotted heart condition 34% of the time in study
The study doesn’t use the latest watch and is unpublished and not peer-reviewed.
In a large Apple-sponsored study assessing whether the pulse sensor on older versions of the Apple Watch (Series 1, 2, and 3) can pick up heart rhythm irregularities, researchers found that only 34 percent of participants who received an alert of an irregular pulse on their watch went on to have a confirmed case of atrial fibrillation, a common type of irregular heart rhythm.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Apple updates $499 iPad Air, $399 iPad mini ahead of services event next week
Apple wants all of the spotlight on its new services and subscriptions next week.
We're one week out from Apple's services-focused event in Cupertino, and the company just announced a pair of devices we've been expecting for quite some time. Apple debuted a new, $499 10.5-inch iPad Air and a new, $399 7.9-inch iPad mini today. Both have familiar designs but also have the company's new A12 Bionic chip.
hmmmm i might consider the mini....
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https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3072745/76-of-brits-have-no-idea-of-impending-porn-block
Another useless idea going to be implemented by our government. I believe all this is a one way direction of internet control by our government. They must know this can once again be bypassed by vpn. All home ISPs in the uk already have family filter enabled by default when you sign up, the same with mobile company's.
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@StuartJordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3072745/76-of-brits-have-no-idea-of-impending-porn-block
Another useless idea going to be implemented by our government. I believe all this is a one way direction of internet control by our government. They must know this can once again be bypassed by vpn. All home ISPs in the uk already have family filter enabled by default when you sign up, the same with mobile company's.
lol
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Google, Microsoft work together for a year to figure out new type of Windows flaw
Researcher finds building blocks for privilege escalation: Can they be assembled to create a flaw?
One of the more notable features of Google Project Zero's (GPZ) security research has been its 90-day disclosure policy. In general, vendors are given 90 days to address issues found by GPZ, after which the flaws will be publicly disclosed. But sometimes understanding a flaw and developing fixes for it takes longer than 90 days—sometimes, much longer, such as when a new class of vulnerability is found. That's what happened last year with the Spectre and Meltdown processor issues, and it has happened again with a new Windows issue.
