#operating-system

#operating-system

If you want to broadcast your gameplay on Twitch, you'll need the proper streaming software to enhance your audio and visuals.Find the ideal Twitch broadcasting software for your needs here.Once you've got all your hardware sorted, it's time to think inside the box.Sure, your stream needs the best PC possible, with powerful processing, a high-end graphics card and as much RAM as humanly possible, as well as a crystal clear microphone and all the trimmings, but if your software isn't capable of transmitting all of that correctly, you may as well be streaming from your smart fridge.

Apple on Monday pushed to some iPhones and Macs its first-ever rapid security fix.This type of patch is supposed to be downloaded and applied automatically and seamlessly by the operating system to immediately protect devices from exploitation, thus avoiding the usual system update cycle that users may put off or miss and thus leave their stuff vulnerable to attack.

Apple has officially announced its next Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) will take place from June 5- June 9, 2023.Here's everything you need to know about the Worldwide Developers Conference - and what products we expect to be announced.Pin WWDC23: What Is The Worldwide Developers Conference?

Apple this week released bug-splatting updates to its operating systems and Safari browser, to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its WebKit browser engine that's reported to have been actively exploited.Updates macOS 13.2.1, iOS 16.3.1,iPadOS 16.3.1,and Safari 16.3.1 fix the flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-23529, which may allow maliciously crafted web content to execute arbitrary code.

An iPhone showing a notification.Source: WebKit Blog.Yesterday, the WebKit team dropped some big news:
iOS and iPad OS 16.4 beta 1 won't just bring support for Web Push, they will also add support for the Badging API and 3rd-party browsers will finally be allowed to add a website to the home screen!

Google Pixel 6a should soon be succeeded by the Google Pixel 7a, which is supposed to be a mid-range Android smartphone.The Pixel 7a, although a serious upgrade over its predecessor, could be the last A series phone from Google.Google should make quite a few hardware and software announcements at this year's Google I/O 2023, scheduled on May 10, 2023.

The full specifications of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 have been leaked online, ahead of its purported July launch.The foldable smartphone is tipped to feature various upgrades, including a new hinge design, brighter display, and more.Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 Rumored Features
According to a new report by tipster Anthony, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 will feature a 7.6-inch AMOLED panel.

A possible Chinese attack campaign on compromised unpatched SonicWall SMA edge devices stayed undetected since 2021 and could persist even through firmware updates.As reported by a new Mandiant research document, a new malware is made of several bash scripts and a single Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) binary file identified as a TinyShell backdoor variant.

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Volkswagen Group is getting on the apps.TikTok, Spotify, The Weather Channel, and more are coming to VW's new in-car app store.If you've long felt like the one thing missing from your Audi was in-car TikTok, fret no more.Volkswagen Group is the latest to join the in-car app party, and it's doing it in a big way.

Samsung launched the Galaxy F14 5G in India last week, and now the phone is available for purchase via Flipkart and the Samsung E-store.With the price starting at ₹12,990, the smartphone arrives as Samsung's budget offering.Despite being a budget device, the brand doesn't skimp on the features.The F14 comes with a large 6,00mAh battery, 5G support, a Full HD+ LCD panel with a 90Hz refresh rate, and more.

The TV measurement conversation is reaching a fever pitch, and Nielsen isn't staying on the sidelines.Nielsen intends to bring Nielsen ONE Ads to this year's upfronts after the ratings giant's cross-screen measurement platform finally hit the market in January.And, yes, Nielsen still plans to measure TV ads using its good ol' audience panels.

Mihir A. Desai is an economist and professor at Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School and the author of "How Finance Works" and "The Wisdom of Finance."America's leading technology firms took two decades to become Big Tech.Now, they should break up their businesses into smaller units.

Cloud slinger Civo has hooked up with Intel to enable Kubernetes to operate in a secure enclave using Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX) and intends to make this available to its public cloud customers.Civo today released an Alpha version of its Kubernetes system operating in a secure enclave, which will form part of its Confidential Computing service built on a hardware-based security solution intended to protect customer data while it is in use.

When the iPhone landed in 2007, Apple's preinstalled apps for weather, stocks and a calculator were pretty basic.Once the more versatile third-party apps hit the scene a year later, it was easy to forget about those default offerings.Over time, though, Apple and Google have added many fresh features to those old apps, and added new offerings.

Ever since the world's first folding phone (the Royole Flexpai) was unveiled, it kicked off a smartphone innovation race that companies like Samsung, Motorola, Huawei, Xiaomi, and Oppo have locked horns in.It also raised some incredibly pertinent questions - will Apple make a foldable too?And when?If patents are any indication, Apple HAS, in fact, been working on a foldable for quite a while now.

The Samsung Galaxy F14 5G has debuted in India and arrives as the successor to the Galaxy F13.The Galaxy F14 gets a large 6,000mAh with 25W fast charging, an improvement over the F13's 15W charging.The smartphone also gets a processor upgrade, with an Exynos 1330 chipset.Samsung Galaxy F14 5G Specifications
The Samsung Galaxy F14 features a 6.6-inch FHD+ IPS LCD panel with an Infinity-V notch.

Apple has released fixes for a total of 33 confirmed vulnerabilities in its latest update to iOS and iPadOs, the mobile operating systems that run on its iPhone and iPad lines, including two series issues that may affect device kernels.The new versions, iOS 16.4 for iPhone and iPadOS 16.4 for iPad, are available to download now through the usual channels.

Cisco this week published its semiannual IOS and IOS XE software security advisory bundle, which addresses ten vulnerabilities, including six rated 'high severity'.The most important are three security bugs that can be exploited by remote, unauthenticated attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition.

In the latest articles, we deployed our NestJS application using AWS.However, we've been exclusively using the HTTP protocol so far.You probably noticed that almost every website nowadays uses HTTPS.And no wonder, because it solves a bunch of problems and makes surfing the internet more secure.In this article, we prepare our architecture to use HTTPS with AWS Certificate Manager.

Electronic data disposal policy

PURPOSE The purpose of this policy is to provide guidelines for the appropriate disposal of information and the destruction of electronic media, which is defined as any storage device used to hold company information including, but not limited to, hard disks, magnetic tapes, compact discs, audio or videotapes, and removable storage devices such as USB flash drives and micro-SD cards.

XML files are used to store data as well as to transmit data in software systems.This article discusses how to read, write, update, and delete data from an XML file in Python.For this task, we will use the xmltodict module in python.What is an XML File?XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is a markup language that is used to store and transmit data.

Folks come to me to ask for help with Git.Sometimes they can't guess what git subcommand they need.(Git 2.37 has 169.)Sometimes they know what subcommand they want, but don't know what flags to use.( git log now has 149 flags and options.)Sometimes they issued a command, and Git didn't do what they expected 😱
Maybe you've had one of those problems yourself.

Eric van Wijk
RHEL 6 & .NET Core 3.1
The current versions of the Azure Pipelines agent across all OSes depend on .NET Core 3.1..NET Core 3.1 no longer ships updates for RHEL 6, including security related patches.We will be updating the .NET Core 3.1 (minor) version to keep it up-to-date for other operating systems.

With so much going on in the city's thriving ecosystem, it is easy to miss some of the happenings in the space.We keep you abreast of the things that you may have missed in NYC Tech News for the week ending 3/18 including the NYC startup fundings, NYC startup exits, and NYC startup events featuring news for Pietra, ReflexAI, Iron Health, and much, much more.

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 3/14/2023 featuring funding details for ReflexAI, Reve Labs, and much more.This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.ReflexAI - $3.3M
ReflexAI, a machine learning and natural language processing platform for training support teams, has raised $3.3M in funding according to a recent SEC filing.

If you're not a gamer, there's a good chance you haven't heard of the Playdate.It's a little yellow gaming console with a crank, that fits in your pocket.Despite what many initially assume, the crank doesn't charge the device, it's used as an analog input to control aspects of the games developed for playdate.

Open source voice assistant software-maker Mycroft disappointed thousands when it announced Friday it will not be sending its Linux-based smart speaker to any more people who backed the product on Kickstarter and Indiegogo.Remaining inventory of the privacy-focused Amazon Echo alternative will go to those who buy the Mark II from Mycroft's website for 171 percent more than early backers pledged.

The Wombat Pine Professional comes from a brand not many of us might know, but the maker does have a long history with Apple.Wombat's parent company, Key Stroke International, used to make keyboards for the Apple IIe four whole decades ago, so even though this looks like a new entrant, it very much isn't.

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iPads can be useful devices for a lot of things, especially out of the house.From working in a cafe, watching films while you travel, editing images on location.But rumours of a new accessory suggests that they could come to have a new use in the home.It's been reported that Apple's developing a docking accessory that would turn the iPad into a smart home display.

The malloc function in C is used to dynamically allocate memory at runtime.This means that you can request memory from the operating system when your program is running, instead of having to specify the amount of memory you need before the program starts.In simple terms, malloc is a function that allows you to create a block of memory of a specified size and returns a pointer to the first byte of that block.

Both Intel and Microsoft seem to be preparing for the as yet unannounced Windows 12.The hardware leaker @leaf_hobby, known for revealing the full specs of Intel's Xeon chips before launch, has published details about Intel's Meteor Lake desktop platform.Intel reportedly mentions internally that its next-gen CPUs will support Windows 12.

Google-owned cybersecurity firm Mandiant reported on Wednesday that it has identified sophisticated malware believed to be of Chinese origin on a SonicWall appliance.The malware, apparently deployed as part of a Chinese campaign, was analyzed by Mandiant and SonicWall's Product Security and Incident Response Team (PSIRT).

BlackLotus, a UEFI bootkit that's sold on hacking forums for about $5,000, can now bypass Secure Boot, making it the first known malware to run on Windows systems even with the firmware security feature enabled.Secure Boot is supposed to prevent devices from running unauthorized software on Microsoft machines.