[German]The US toy manufacturer, Mattel, has filed information about a successful ransomware attack on its corporate IT. This has been revealed in a report send to the US Securities Exchange Commission.
[German]On November 3, 2020 (first Tuesday of the month, Office Patchday) Microsoft released several non-security updates for versions of Microsoft Office that are still supported. Here is a brief overview. Continue reading
[German]Adobe released a security update for Adobe Reader and Acrobat on November 3, 2020 to address serious vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader for Windows and MacOS. Here is some information. Continue reading
[German]Interesting result of a survey of enterprise IT staff conducted by Jamf regarding preferred device usage. More than three-quarters of companies that use Mac and non-Mac devices in parallel consider the Mac to be the more secure device and would like to give preference to this Apple product.
[German]Windows 7 is still running on one in five computers, although the operating system fell out of general support on January 14, 2020. At the end of September 2020 there was a survey on the reasons, the results of which are available.
[German]Google has updated the Google Chrome Browser for Windows, macOS and Linux to version 86.0.4240.18 on November 2, 2020. This update closes 10 security holes, whereby one Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability is already exploited.
[German]There is a bug with the new Google Pixel 5: The battery indicator displays random values, which is extremely stupid, because you can no longer determine how far the device is charged / discharged. The cause of this bug is unknown so far, but the Google developers have at least admitted that the bug is known. Besides, a fix is supposed to be coming.
[German]At the beginning of November 2020, I would like to take a look at the current figures for desktop operating system distribution as of the end of October 2020. In addition, there is a look at the browser shares on the desktop. In October 2020 I had omitted this overview – so I was curious to see what the figures would look like. By the way, this is the last time in this form, since NetMarketShare will cease to operate in its current form.
[German]The head of the Mint project, Clem Lefebvre, announced in the October 2020 news that the Chromium browser (base of Google Chrome) has now been added to the official repositories for both Linux Mint and LMDE (package name in Linux Mint and LMDE is "chromium"). To ensure timely updates, the process of detecting, packaging and assembling new versions of Chrome has been automated (for this purpose a new build server has been procured to go from 6 hours to 1 hour build time). (via)
[German]Well, it's been 41 years since I was working the last time with partial differential equations – never used again since my university time – and the majority of my blog readers won't work in this field. But it is already an exciting topic. Most of the time, super-computers are used on something like this to find solutions. Researchers at Caltech have now used artificial intelligence (AI) for a deep learning method to solve partial differential equations better or faster and have been successful (about 1,000 times faster). The original work can be found here, a review article can be found here. Maybe someone can use it. Otherwise have a good start into this week.
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