Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17618 for Skip Ahead

2018-03-08 KENNETH 0

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17618 for Skip Ahead Hello Windows Insiders! Today, we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17618 (RS5) to Windows Insiders who have opted into Skip Ahead. What’s new in Build 17618 Sets: Sets is designed to make sure that everything related to your task: relevant webpages, research documents, necessary files, and applications, is connected and available to you in one click. Starting today in RS5 builds, we have turned the Sets experiment back on so any Insider who has opted into Skip Ahead will be able to try out Sets. With Sets, 1st party experiences like Mail, Calendar, OneNote, MSN News, Windows and Microsoft Edge become more integrated to create a seamless experience, so you can get back to what’s important and be productive, recapturing that moment, saving time – we believe that’s [ more… ]

AI Platform for Windows Developers

2018-03-08 KENNETH 0

AI Platform for Windows Developers At Microsoft, we’re making huge investments in AI and Machine Learning across the company. AI capabilities in Office 365 help subscribers with productivity at work, intelligent features in the Photos app for Windows 10 make it easier for people to create videos and search through massive photo collections, and Windows Hello uses AI to recognize your face and get you quickly logged in to your Windows devices. We also use AI to answer your questions when using Bing Search and Cortana, to enable advertisers build deeper connections with customers, and to help security professionals safeguard businesses against modern threats. Microsoft Research continues to drive the state of the art with speech recognition, machine reading and comprehension, computer vision. We’ve scaled AI to tiny devices, and even built AI that can draw! “Intel’s Movidius VPU technology [ more… ]

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Three things you need to know about Windows Developer Day

2018-03-08 KENNETH 0

Three things you need to know about Windows Developer Day We live in an interconnected world and the digital transformation that companies are going through are as unique as the companies themselves. The opportunity to explore new approaches and new technology has never been greater than it is today. With that in mind, I’m privileged to share with you key advancements available in the SDK for the next Windows 10 Update. At the Windows Developer Day event, we focused on three specific areas: Making it easier for desktop developers to modernize their applications Introducing AI for Windows Windows IoT will help you expand into the Intelligent Edge Modern applications for a modern workplace For those of you building new applications for the modern workplace, UWP continues to be our modern native platform and the best path forward. At the same [ more… ]

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USN-3579-3: LibreOffice regression

2018-03-08 KENNETH 1

USN-3579-3: LibreOffice regression libreoffice regression A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 17.10 Summary USN-3579-1 caused a regression in LibreOffice. Software Description libreoffice – Office productivity suite Details USN-3579-1 fixed a vulnerability in LibreOffice. After upgrading, it was no longer possible for LibreOffice to open documents from certain locations outside of the user’s home directory. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that =WEBSERVICE calls in a document could be used to read arbitrary files. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted document, a remote attacker could exploit this to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2018-6871) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 17.10 libreoffice-common – 1:5.4.5-0ubuntu0.17.10.5 To update your system, please follow these [ more… ]

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RHBA-2018:0434-1: oci-umount bug fix and enhancement update

2018-03-07 KENNETH 0

RHBA-2018:0434-1: oci-umount bug fix and enhancement update Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated oci-umount package that fixes several bugs and adds various enhancements is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras. Source: RHBA-2018:0434-1: oci-umount bug fix and enhancement update