#operating-systems

#operating-systems

The perfect hybrid machine that's just as good a tablet as it is a laptop still doesn't exist.But throughout last year, companies like Microsoft, Apple and Google continued to improve their operating systems for machines that do double duty.Windows 11 has features that make it friendlier for multi-screen devices, while Android has been better optimized for larger displays.

Apple on Thursday released security updates for its operating systems to patch dozens of vulnerabilities that could expose iPhones and Macs to hacker attacks, including three zero-days affecting the WebKit browser engine.Two of the actively exploited vulnerabilities, CVE-2023-28204 and CVE-2023-32373, have been reported to the tech giant by an anonymous researcher.

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.

Exploring the ways AI can help solve some of today's most pressing challenges
Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is already part of our lives.It's built into the operating systems in our phones, it's the algorithms that define our social media and search feeds, and it detects fraudulent withdrawals from our bank accounts.

The long-rumored Apple mixed reality (MR) headset is expected to finally make its official appearance at next month's WWDC 23 and Apple is in swift preparation.Cupertino filed a wordmark for xrOS - its MR headset's rumored operating system with the New Zealand Intellectual Property Office.xrOS wordmark on the New Zealand Intellectual Property Office
The listing is still pending approval and was filed by Deep Dive LLC which is a known Apple shell company.

vivo sells its smartphones with two different operating systems - OriginOS Ocean in China, and Funtouch around the world.Today the company confirmed its overseas devices will get Funtouch OS 13, based on Android 13.The eligibility list includes over 50 devices from both the vivo and iQOO brands.Major improvements include app pinning to prevent someone else to look at other apps, enhanced control through iManager and a new stabilizer ring in the viewfinder while taking photos.

Today is World Password Day, but yesterday was an inflection point that may force a change to next year's event, perhaps we'll call it "World Passwordless Day" or "Password Memorial Day." Google announced at this year's RSA conference that it's now supporting passkeys across accounts on all its major platforms.

I participated in the PyCascades sprint day yesterday, offering up coverage.pyas a project.I was pretty sure it wasn't beginner-friendly, but the sprint was useful because it pointed out specific ways that it was not, and we fixed some of them.The sprint was all-remote, and we had about a half-dozen people online.

It's the end of the line for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.Both of these older versions of Windows (plus Windows RT) stop receiving all security updates today, over a decade after their original releases.Microsoft will also stop providing Microsoft Edge browser updates for these operating systems in a few days, and the remaining third-party apps that still work will eventually follow suit (Google Chrome support, most notably, ends early next month).

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?

Huawei is still making phones, even if the US-China trade war puts most of the stalwart Android component vendors in a complicated relationship with the Chinese tech company.Huawei's new phones are the flagship Huawei P60 Pro slab phone and a flagship foldable, the Huawei Mate X3.The trade war makes these phones unique in the world of Android.

Given the dynamic capabilities of AWS Systems Manager, management and configuration for Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure is more robust than ever before.Observability is a critical part of infrastructure management-and the AWS Systems Manager makes it easier than ever to install, update, or remove the New Relic infrastructure agent when creating Amazon EC2 instances.

This is part one of a two-part blog post series.In this one, I explore huge type in print, look for similar examples on the web, and try to find out what is it that works well about these designs.In part two, I'll explore how to make huge type on the web work.I've been trying to achieve this type of design often when I worked on my personal projects.

The streaming wars aren't limited to streaming services.TV manufacturers are going toe-to-toe for market share - and the competition is only getting hotter.Roku's recent decision to start making its own smart TVs is a natural next step toward its goal of growing its base of active accounts with an engaging operating system (OS), said CEO Anthony Wood during a fireside chat with a Morgan Stanley investor on Monday.

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The second minor release brings a list of improvements, and fixes for the debugger, test runner, and Python Console.You can update to version 2022.3.2 by using the Toolbox App, installing it right from the IDE, or downloading it from our website.Download PyCharm 2022.3.2The behavior of the Settings Sync plugin has been updated.

Cybersecurity firm Avast has released a free decryptor for victims of BianLian - an emerging ransomware threat that came into the public eye in last year.Victims of BianLian are found in such industries as healthcare, manufacturing, energy, and financial services.Affected parties can download the decryptor to recover their encrypted data - though there could be challenges, according to the Avast researchers.

axum is an async web framework from the Tokio project.It is designed to be a very thin layer over hyper and is compatible with the Tower ecosystem, allowing the use of various middleware provided by tower-http and tower-web.In this post, we will walk through how you can deploy a Rust web server using Axum, Tokio, and GitHub Actions to Heroku for your projects.