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Samsung Z2 to hit Bolivia soon, Samsung SM-Z200M User Manual appears Online

Samsung’s Tizen-powered smartphones are gaining popularity in India, Here’s why!

When Samsung first launched the Samsung Z1 in January 2015, it was no mistake that the budget device was first launched in India. This was as a result of the Korean giant’s recognition of the large population of feature phone users in India. This same pattern had played out when the Samsung Z3 and then the Z2 were launched.

Security updates for Wednesday

Microsoft says its best not to fiddle with its Windows 10 group policies (that don't work)

On Monday, we revealed that a security researcher had used a packet sniffer to show that many settings designed to prevent access to the internet were being ignored with connections to a range of third party servers including advertising hubs.

What's got a vast attack surface and runs on Linux? Windows Defender, of course

Google Project Zero's Windows bug-hunter and fuzz-boffin Tavis Ormandy has given the world an insight into how he works so fast: he works on Linux, and with the release of a personal project on GitHub, others can too. Ormandy's project is to port Windows DLLs to Linux for his vuln tests (“So that's how he works so fast!” Penguinistas around the world are saying). Typically self-effacing, Ormandy made this simple announcement on Twitter (to a reception mixing admiration, humour, and horror):

Hacked in Translation – from Subtitles to Complete Takeover

Check Point researchers revealed a new attack vector which threatens millions of users worldwide – attack by subtitles. By crafting malicious subtitle files, which are then downloaded by a victim’s media player, attackers can take complete control over any type of device via vulnerabilities found in many popular streaming platforms, including VLC, Kodi (XBMC), Popcorn-Time and strem.io. We estimate there are approximately 200 million video players and streamers that currently run the vulnerable software, making this one of the most widespread, easily accessed and zero-resistance vulnerability reported in recent years.

A Samba remote code execution vulnerability

Distributors are already shipping the fix; there's also a workaround in the advisory for those who cannot update immediately.

KDE Plasma 5.8.7 LTS Desktop Environment Released with over 60 Improvements

KDE has announced today the release and immediate availability of the seventh maintenance update to the long-term supported KDE Plasma 5.8 desktop environment. KDE Plasma 5.8.7 LTS is now considered the latest stable and most advanced version of the KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS (Long Term Support) desktop environment, which some of you out there are probably using on your favorite GNU/Linux distributions instead of a short-lived branch like KDE Plasma 5.9 or the upcoming KDE Plasma 5.10 release.

Summer of Coding!

After a month of dread and panicking about the fact that Google Summer of Code results are announced in the middle of exam season... I'm happy to say I'll be doing the Rust plugin for KDevelop!

Qt 5.9 Release Candidate Available For Testing

Qt 5.9.0 RC released

We have released Qt 5.9.0 RC today. You can update it at the top of your Qt 5.9 beta(4) online installation or do clean installation by using qt online installer. Detailed instructions here: https://wiki.qt.io/How_to_get_snapshot_via_online_installer .

The Road to GTK+ 4 Continues, New Milestone Adds Initial OS X and Meson Support

A new milestone was released recently, GTK+ 3.91.0, which adds quite a bunch of improvements and bug fixes, but also some new APIs and compatibility with other supported operating systems besides those based on the Linux kernel. For example, GTK+ 3.91.0 implements initial support for Apple's macOS platform, which will make it possible to run apps written in GTK+ 4 on OS X.

Epiphany Browser Updated for GNOME 3.25.2 with New Shortcuts for Switching Tabs

Ahead of today's GNOME 3.25.2 desktop environment development release, the team of developers behind the Epiphany web browser have released the second milestone towards the Epiphany 3.26 stable series, due out later this year.