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1st August 2019 is an important day in the cryptocurrency industry because as of today, 85% of the total Bitcoin supply has been mined. Now, we can only mine 3.15 million new Bitcoins in the next 120 years. Satoshi Nakamoto, the alleged creator of Bitcoin, did a smart move by limiting the total number of […]
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Xfce 4.14 s with the launch of a final testing build.
This post, Xfce 4.14 inches closer to release, 3 years after development began, was written by Joey Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.
News briefs for August 1, 2019.
Canonical yesterday announced the availability of the Xibo open-source digital signage platform as a snap. From the announcement: "Xibo provides a comprehensive suite of digital signage products, with its Content Management System (CMS) at the heart of this experience-led offering. Xibo for Linux is completely free and natively built for the Xibo CMS, which can be installed on servers or combined with Xibo cloud hosting." You can download the Xibo snap here.
The Chrome team has promoted Chrome 76 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. According to Softpedia News, "Highlights of the Chrome 76 release include Flash plugin blocked by default, Dark Mode support for websites, more improvements to the Payments API to allow merchant websites or web apps to respond when a user changes payment instruments, better support for PWAs (Progressive Web Apps), and the ability to control the 'Add to Home' screen mini-infobar."
Silent macro viruses have been discovered in LibreOffice. The Register reports that there's an "issue where documents can be configured to run macros silently on opening". The vulnerability was reported by Nils Emmerich and assigned CVE-2019-9848. According to The Register, "It appears that the supposedly fixed 6.2.5 is still vulnerable—confirmed by us." There is an updated bug report here. To fix it, "disable LibreLogo immediately if it is present and enabled in your build of LibreOffice."
System76 announces that Pop!_OS 18.10 has reached end of life and will no longer receive security updates. To keep your system secure and up to date, upgrade your OS to version 19.04.
Due to security and privacy risks, the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security is warning government institutions not to use Microsoft Office online or mobile apps. According to The Register, "A report from Privacy Company, which was commissioned by the ministry, found that Office Online and the Office mobile apps should be banned from government work. The report found the apps were not in compliance with a set of privacy measures Redmond has agreed to with the Dutch government."
If Asus 6z vs Xiaomi K20 Pro were to be pitted against each other, who would win? Well, to answer that today we’re going to compare both the phones on the basis of design, UI, hardware, camera and gaming performance. Asus 6z Vs Xiaomi K20 Pro: Design Comparison Both Asus 6z and the Xiaomi K20 […]
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Tata Nexon Electric SUV is among the four electric cars that Tata Motors will launch in India in the coming 12 to 18 months. Tata Motors posted heavy losses of Rs 26,961 crore during its Q3 earnings this year. Thus the launch of the upcoming electric vehicles is expected to revive the company’s winning streak […]
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There are several techniques of encryption that are deployed to secure communication protocols and devices but these techniques aren’t effective if you want to secure a satellite or spacecraft in space. Encryption in space is a tad different than how it is deployed on Earth. One of the reasons why encryption in space is challenging […]
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