Android Leftovers

• Google retracts Android Messages' Dark Mode

• Google removes dark mode from Android Messages

• Google's lifesaving Undo Send feature comes to Gmail for Android

• Snapchat to roll out new design for Android users

• Huawei will bring EMUI 9.0 based on Android Pie at IFA, flagships get first dibs

• The Machine Learning Behind Android Smart Linkify API

• Android Pie: When is my phone getting it?

• Source: Samsung is working on a massive 17" Android tablet, and it's coming to AT&T

• A New-Age Debate: iPhone or Android?

• JBL's Android TV soundbar will sell for $400 in October

Debian GNU/Linux 9 "Stretch" Receives L1 Terminal Fault Mitigations, Update Now

According to the security advisory published on Monday, the new kernel security update addresses both CVE-2018-3620 and CVE-2018-3646 vulnerabilities, which are known as L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF) or Foreshadow. These vulnerabilities had an impact on normal systems, as well as virtualized operating systems, allowing a local attacker to expose sensitive information from the host OS or other guests. "Multiple researchers have discovered a vulnerability in the way the Intel processor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions in combination with handling of page-faults. This flaw could allow an attacker controlling an unprivileged process to read memory from arbitrary (non-user controlled) addresses," reads today's security advisory.

Rugged, sandwich-style Sitara SBC has optimized Linux stack

Forlinx’s sandwich-style, industrial temp “OK5718-C” SBC runs Linux on a “FET5718-C” module with a Cortex-A15 based TI AM5718 SoC. Other features include SATA, HDMI, MIPI-CSI, USB 3.0, CAN, and mini-PCIe. Forlinx Embedded Technology, the Chinese company behind Linux-friendly SBCs such as the TI Sitara AM3354 based OK335xS-II and The Forlinx i.MX6 SBC, has posted details on a new OK5718-C SBC. Like the OK335xS-II, it’s a Sitara based board, in this case tapping TI’s single-core, Cortex-A15 based Sitara AM5718. Like the i.MX6 SBC, it’s a sandwich-style offering, with the separately available FET5718-C module hosting the up to 1.5GHz AM5718.

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