Hey Cortana, turn up the heat; Cortana now works with more smart home providers and IFTTT

2018-02-17 KENNETH 0

Hey Cortana, turn up the heat; Cortana now works with more smart home providers and IFTTT Cortana helps make your life easier by making it easy to control your smart home devices from afar. Rush out of the house and forget to turn off the lights? No problem, just pull out your phone, open the Cortana app and say, “Hey Cortana, turn off the lights,” and she’ll take care of it for you. Last October we announced you could use Cortana to manage your smart devices through Samsung SmartThings, Nest, Philips Hue, Wink, and Insteon. Today, we are pleased to announce that you can use Cortana to control your favorite smart home devices from ecobee, Honeywell Lyric, Honeywell Total Connect Comfort, LIFX, TP-Link Kasa, and Geeni. You can control these devices using Cortana on Windows 10, iPhone, Android, and the [ more… ]

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USN-3573-1: Quagga vulnerabilities

2018-02-16 KENNETH 0

USN-3573-1: Quagga vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3573-1 15th February, 2018 quagga vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 17.10 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in Quagga. Software description quagga – BGP/OSPF/RIP routing daemon Details It was discovered that a double-free vulnerability existed in theQuagga BGP daemon when processing certain forms of UPDATE message.A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service orpossibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-5379) It was discovered that the Quagga BGP daemon did not properly boundscheck the data sent with a NOTIFY to a peer. An attacker could use thisto expose sensitive information or possibly cause a denial of service.This issue only affected Ubuntu 17.10. (CVE-2018-5378) It was discovered that a table overrun vulnerability existed in theQuagga BGP daemon. An attacker in [ more… ]

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Updated Microsoft Store App Developer Agreement and Microsoft Store Policies

2018-02-16 KENNETH 0

Updated Microsoft Store App Developer Agreement and Microsoft Store Policies The Microsoft Store team has updated the Microsoft Store App Developer Agreement and Microsoft Store Policies as of February 14th.   The new version (8.2) of the Microsoft Store App Developer Agreement is available here. This update is particularly relevant to developers based in New Zealand or Australia who sell apps and/or in-app products. For more info, view the change history. The next time you log in to the Dev Center dashboard, you may be prompted to accept the new agreement, depending on your account location.  We’ve also updated the Microsoft Store Policies, which you can view here. The updated policies clarify the requirements for storing or transmitting personal information, and add a new requirement stating that apps using app-specific authentication can only be published from company accounts. For more info, view the change history.    If you have feedback on the policies, please let us [ more… ]

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Windows Community Standup on February 22, 2018

2018-02-16 KENNETH 0

Windows Community Standup on February 22, 2018 Kevin Gallo, VP of Windows Developer Platform, is hosting the next Windows Community Standup on February 22, 2018 at 12:00pm PST on Channel 9!  Kevin will be joined by Andrew Whitechapel to discuss the latest updates to the application model which will be available in the next update for Windows 10. Andrew and Kevin will discuss multi-instance, broader file access, and UWP console applications. We will also be answering your questions live.   Windows community standup is a monthly online broadcast where we provide additional transparency on what we are building and why we are excited. As always, we welcome your feedback.  Once again, please tune in on February 22, 2018 at 12:00pm PST on https://channel9.msdn.com. Source: Windows Community Standup on February 22, 2018

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#ifdef WINDOWS – One Developer’s Guide to the Surface Hub

2018-02-16 KENNETH 0

#ifdef WINDOWS – One Developer’s Guide to the Surface Hub Building experiences for the Surface Hub requires developers to tailor their apps for the big screen and multiple users interacting with different components at the same time. Gian Paolo Santopaolo came to Redmond all the way from Switzerland to share best practices for developing engaging and natural user experiences for the Surface Hub. He has spent the last 6 years as a Windows MVP, designing and developing natural user experiences for various devices including the Microsoft Surface Hub and Microsoft HoloLens. During this time, Gian Paolo has developed many open source components and helpers to enable developers to build better and more personal UWP apps for every device and scenario. Watch the full video above and feel free to reach out on Twitter or in the comments below for questions or comments. Happy coding! Source: #ifdef WINDOWS – One Developer’s Guide to [ more… ]