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Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22538

2022-01-20 KENNETH 0

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22538 Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22538 to the Dev Channel. TL;DR This build includes some updates to the voice access feature introduced in Build 22518 for Insiders to try! In addition to a good set of changes and improvements, this build includes some good fixes too. Pressing the hardware buttons for volume up/down should no longer cause explorer.exe to crash for some Insiders. As always, please read the list of known issues for this build documented below. What’s new in Build 22538 Updates for voice access We first introduced voice access in Build 22518. Voice access is a new experience to control your PC with just voice. With today’s build, we have some updates for voice access for Windows Insiders to try out. Using touch keyboard [ more… ]

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USN-5240-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

2022-01-20 KENNETH 0

USN-5240-1: Linux kernel vulnerability William Liu and Jamie Hill-Daniel discovered that the file system context functionality in the Linux kernel contained an integer underflow vulnerability, leading to an out-of-bounds write. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or execute arbitrary code. Source: USN-5240-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

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Looking back at Microsoft Edge for developers in 2021

2022-01-20 KENNETH 0

Looking back at Microsoft Edge for developers in 2021 2021 was an eventful year for Microsoft Edge. We built new PWA features that more deeply integrate apps with the operating system, we made PWAs easily available on the Microsoft Store, we included WebView2 by default in Windows 11 with automatic updates, we specified and implemented multiple new web features to make the most out of diverse device capabilities, and released Edge on Linux! With all this, it has never been so easy to build great applications that make the most of Microsoft Edge and open and standard web technologies. Tooling has also been a big focus for us over the past year. VS Code and DevTools became ever more integrated, with several new workflows that meaningfully improve developer productivity and comfort. These are just some of the highlights from the [ more… ]

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USN-5233-2: ClamAV vulnerability

2022-01-19 KENNETH 0

USN-5233-2: ClamAV vulnerability USN-5233-1 fixed a vulnerability in ClamAV. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled memory when the CL_SCAN_GENERAL_COLLECT_METADATA scan option was enabled. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ClamAV to crash, resulting in a denial of service. Source: USN-5233-2: ClamAV vulnerability

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WordPress 5.9 RC3

2022-01-19 KENNETH 0

WordPress 5.9 RC3 The third Release Candidate (RC3) for WordPress 5.9 is here! Thank you to everyone who has contributed thus far toward testing and filing bugs to help make WordPress 5.9 a great release. WordPress 5.9 is slated to land in just one week—on January 25, 2022. You still have time to help! Since RC2 arrived last week, testers have found and fixed two bugs, 14 fixes from Gutenberg. There has been one additional Gutenberg fix today. Testing the release You can test the WordPress 5.9 release candidate in three ways: Option 1: Install and activate the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (select the “Bleeding edge” channel and “Beta/RC Only” stream). Option 2: Download the beta version here (zip). Option 3: When using WP-CLI to upgrade from Beta 1, 2, 3, 4, RC1, or RC2 on a case-insensitive filesystem, please [ more… ]