HP toner: Purchase from distributor only after B2B registration?

Posted on 2023-11-08 by guenni

Stop - Pixabay[German]Strange development in the area of printer consumables at the manufacturer HP. The fact that ink cartridges from third-party suppliers are blocked by firmware updates is nothing new. I have also discussed ink subscriptions for HP devices here on the blog. The latest twist, which was reported to me by a reader, is that registration with HP is now required to purchase HP toner from a distributor. So to speak authorized buyer, without this label there you can't buy HP toner.

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Firefox 119.0.1

Posted on 2023-11-08 by guenni

MozillaOn November 7, 2023, the Mozilla developers released the Firefox 119.0.1 update. It is a maintenance update that fixes several bugs in 119.0.

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Leak: New Office 2024, new Windows 12 are indirectly confirmed?

Posted on 2023-11-07 by guenni

[German]Rumors about successors to current products such as Windows 11 and Microsoft Office 2021 have been around for some time. Now internal Microsoft documents (screenshots of an Office 2024 preview) and posts on X.com are providing fodder for new speculation that both a Windows 12 and an Office 2024 could be released in 2024. There is also speculation about a successor to Windows Server.

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Shimano is a victim of the Lockbit 3.0 ransomware (Nov. 2023)

Posted on 2023-11-07 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]Japanese manufacturer Shimano is probably familiar to every cyclist. Now the company has become a victim of Lockbit ransomware. At the very least, the Lockbit group has posted a corresponding publication on its leak page and threatened to publish data from November 5, 2023 if no ransom is paid. The creator has not yet commented on this.

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Windows: Three more features are declared as deprecated in Nov. 2023

Posted on 2023-11-07 by guenni

Windows[English]As of November 3, 2023, Microsoft has once again declared three features from Windows as "deprecated" (neowin has noticed this). This means that these functions will no longer be developed and will eventually be removed from Windows 11 (or its successor). In addition to the computer browser driver and service, the WebDAV client and service will probably mean something to some users.

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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

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BlueSky Invite codes to give away

Posted on 2023-11-06 by guenni

[German]I'm at BlueSky (@etguenni.bsky.social) and I have some spare invite codes for BlueSky (the X/Twitter alternative at bsky.app) to give away to my blog readers. Just leave a comment with a valid email address and why you are interested in the respective form field. I will send the codes in a first in first out order. Addendum: The post here is closed, for further invites, see this post.

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Samsung Galaxy A51: Smartphone hangs after update in Odin mode "AVB Fail"

Posted on 2023-11-06 by guenni

[German]It looks to me as if a software update (OTA update) has been "bricking" Samsung Galaxy A51 series devices since the beginning of November 2023. The devices remain stuck in Odin mode with the message "AVB Fail" during or after the software update. Since two blog readers have already reported being affected, I'll summarize some information in one post.

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Fix for Android 14 storage bug on Pixel devices announced within 2 weeks

Posted on 2023-11-06 by guenni

Android 14 users of Google Pixel devices have had an unpleasant experience, if they used multiple profiles. One user profile can then no longer be accessed. Google plans to deliver a fix for this bug within 2 weeks (i.e. by mid-November 2023). The bug and notes on the announcement of the fix are described in the article Android 14 bug locks out users with multiple profiles, threat of data loss.

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New Microsoft Teams 2.0 client mandatory from April 1, 2024

Posted on 2023-11-06 by guenni

Teams[German]At the beginning of October 2023, Microsoft released its new Teams 2.0 client for macOS and Windows in general – after a beta phase that started in spring 2023. There is still a little time to upgrade missing functions and eliminate bugs. But Microsoft already announced at the beginning of November 2023 that the Teams 2.0 client will be mandatory from April 1, 2024 (no April Fool's joke). Currently some users (German, French etc.) are suffering from translation bugs.

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Lego marketplace BrickLink probably hacked

Posted on 2023-11-06 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]The popular online marketplace for Lego® bricks, Bricklink, is suspected to have been the victim of a cyber attack. The marketplace has currently been taken offline and states "Maintenance in progress" on its homepage. Individual accounts are probably posting messages from the hackers. There is a clear warning on the marketplace page that "Stormtrooper" is not a maintenance guy.

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