[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.
[German]Cyber criminals are successfully attacking businesses, administration and organizations and successfully exploiting vulnerabilities for these actions. The American intelligence service NSA has published a list of the most frequently used attack vectors, exploits and malware by Chinese hacker groups. It might be interesting to take a look at this list, which I received through Check Point, the provider of cyber security solutions.
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[German]Small addendum from October 2020: Microsoft had published some security advices for security updates. They have been left here, I will post them here for security reasons.
[German]Microsoft has now officially confirmed the certificate problem, which I already mentioned here in the blog, as of October 30, 2020 and has given details of when certificates will be lost during a Windows 10 function update.
[German]A brief warning: The criminals behind the emotet malware are now distributing this malware via a mail attachment that appears as a supposed Word update. Microsoft warns about that.
[German]Cybercriminals use an exploit chain to attack a patched 0-day vulnerability in the chrome browser (Edge) and an unpatched 0-day vulnerability in the Windows kernel. The vulnerability has just been disclosed by Google Project Zero.
The developers have released WordPress 5.5.2 as a security and maintenance update on October 29, 2020. In this version 14 bugs are fixed, which are described in the release notes. The update fixes a critical vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to take over a page via a denial of service attack (see also). So you should update as soon as possible – here the blogs were updated immediately after release. Addenum: On October 30, 2020 WordPress 5.5.3 has been released as a bug fix update.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
