Bringing WebVR to everyone with the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

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Bringing WebVR to everyone with the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update Last April, we introduced the WebVR 1.1 API in Microsoft Edge as part of the Windows Creators Update, providing a foundation for developers to create immersive virtual reality experiences with Windows Mixed Reality developer kits. We have been hard at work building on this foundation to provide an end-to-end mixed reality experience with Microsoft Edge, WebVR, and Windows Mixed Reality, in line with our goal to democratize virtual reality this holiday. On October 17th, EdgeHTML 16 will be released with Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, and the era of Windows Mixed Reality begins as headsets and motion controllers become widely available, enabling low-cost, immersive experiences with WebVR in Microsoft Edge. In anticipation of this upcoming release, we’re excited to announce (with big thanks to the community and contributors involved) [ more… ]

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October 2017 security update release

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October 2017 security update release Today, we released security updates to provide additional protections against malicious attackers. By default, Windows 10 receives these updates automatically, and for customers running previous versions, we recommend they turn on automatic updates as a best practice. More information about this month’s security updates can be found in the Security Update Guide. Source: October 2017 security update release

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Windows Developer Day in London – Windows 10 Fall Creators Update SDK Availability

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Windows Developer Day in London – Windows 10 Fall Creators Update SDK Availability Windows 10 Fall Creators Update provides a developer platform that is designed to inspire the creator in each of us – empowering developers to build applications that change the way people work, play and interact with devices. To truly fulfill this platform promise, I believe that our developer platform needs to be centered around people and their needs.  Technology should adapt and learn how to work with us. As we showed at Microsoft Build in May, the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update SDK delivers thousands of new capabilities and improvements that support this promise. Today, at Windows Developer Day in London, we’re celebrating three areas that help you, our developer partners: Create inspiring experiences using the next revolution in technology – Mixed Reality Modernize applications for the [ more… ]

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USN-3441-1: curl vulnerabilities

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USN-3441-1: curl vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3441-1 10th October, 2017 curl vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 17.04 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in curl. Software description curl – HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries Details Daniel Stenberg discovered that curl incorrectly handled large floatingpoint output. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause curl tocrash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrarycode. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.(CVE-2016-9586) Even Rouault discovered that curl incorrectly handled large file names whendoing TFTP transfers. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause curlto crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitivememory contents. (CVE-2017-1000100) Brian Carpenter and Yongji Ouyang discovered that curl incorrectly handlednumerical [ more… ]

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USN-3442-1: libXfont vulnerabilities

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USN-3442-1: libXfont vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3442-1 10th October, 2017 libxfont, libxfont1, libxfont2 vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 17.04 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in libXfont. Software description libxfont – X11 font rasterisation library libxfont1 – X11 font rasterisation library libxfont2 – X11 font rasterisation library Details It was discovered that libXfont incorrectly handled certain patterns inPatternMatch. A local attacker could use this issue to cause libXfont tocrash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitiveinformation. (CVE-2017-13720) It was discovered that libXfont incorrectly handled certain malformed PCFfiles. A local attacker could use this issue to cause libXfont to crash,resulting in a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information.(CVE-2017-13722) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following [ more… ]