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New Office App For Windows 10 Rolled Out

In their struggle to make Office apps more straightforward to use, Microsoft released a new Office app for Windows 10. The new application is, in reality, an “Office hub” for all the Microsoft office users’ needs. The new “Office hub” makes it easier for users to move back and forth and access productivity apps and the most recent documents people worked on before.

According to Microsoft, the new Office app for Windows 10 was inspired by the web-based variant of the Office suite, Office.com. As the company reported, Office.com also acts as a “hub,” permitting web-based users to access productivity apps and recent documents in just a couple of clicks, thus, easing up the job of users.

Also, recently, Microsoft also implemented new visuals to its Office suite apps, in particular to Microsoft Outlook for iOS, which is now boasting several UI and navigational changes. Also, the company added the new “sensory feedback” in its Outlook variant for iOS.

New Office App For Windows 10 Rolled Out

For the time being, the new Office app for Windows 10 is only available for Windows Insiders. Soon, however, it would come out for every Windows 10 user out there, worldwide, but Microsoft did not reveal when that would be happening. The new “Office hub” application is compatible with any Office 365 subscription, Office 2019, Office 2016 and Office Online, as well.

According to Microsoft, the new Office app for Windows 10 will become available via Microsoft Store. However, starting with the summer of 2019, the new Office application would come out preinstalled on new Windows 10 devices.

In short, Microsoft released a new Office app for Windows 10. The new application is, in reality, an “Office hub” which offers quick access to Office suite programs and recent documents, in a very similar way to what we already have on the web-based version of Office, available on Office.com.

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New Internet Explorer Zero-Day Vulnerability Made Microsoft Release A Security Patch

A couple of days ago, Microsoft released a security patch to fix a new Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability. According to many reports, the IE 0-day security flaw is used massively lately. As Microsoft reported, the credits for discovering and reporting the vulnerability goes for Clement Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group.

As reported by a security advisory published along with the security patch, the new Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability permits cyberattackers to execute malicious code on a victim’s computer. Dubbed as CVE-2018-8653, this security flaw is exploitable in web-based environments where a hacker attracts a visitor on an infected site and then runs malicious code on the user’s PC.

According to Microsoft, the cyberattacker would execute the malicious code under the same privileges the user has on a computer. Therefore, if an Internet Explorer user with limited access is lured on an infected site, the hacker also has to execute the code in a restricted environment, mostly contained to simple operations.

Microsoft Released A Security Patch To Tackle A New Internet Explorer Zero-Day Vulnerability

The situation is challenging for Microsoft. The company already patched other IE 0-day vulnerabilities during the last months, namely, the so-called CVE-2018-8611, CVE-2018-8589, CVE-2018-8453, CVE-2018-8440 security flaws. So, a user who did not update its IE with the previous security patches might be exposed to more than just the recently tackled Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability.

On December 19th, 2018, Microsoft released KB4483187, KB4483230, KB4483234, KB 4483235, KB4483232, KB4483228, KB4483229, and KB4483187 to tackle the new Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability.

As the winter holidays are getting closer and many IT departments in companies around the world might not have the time to install the security patches, Microsoft also published a security advisory with some workarounds for the IT specialists to use to restrict access to the IE scripting engine until they install the recently released updates.

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iPhone Sales Banned In Germany, Too, Over The Qualcomm Dispute

After China banned iPhone 7 and 8 sales after a court judged that Apple infringed the copyright of a  Qualcomm patent, Germany banned iPhone sales, too, over the Qualcomm dispute. The situation is now getting severe for Apple which has also been impacted by the US trade war with China, among other issues regarding its iPhone 2018 models.

According to Engadget, via Reuters, “a court in Munich, Germany ordered an injunction against Apple that will prevent the company from selling some iPhones in the country.” The decision is just a part of the legal conflict between Apple and Qualcomm. However, Apple acknowledged the court’s decision and halted the iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 sales across Germany, but the company also appealed the ruling.

Qualcomm accused Apple of copyright infringement and, so far, the chipset manufacturer won in different jurisdictions across the world, most important being China and Germany, now.

iPhone Sales Banned In Germany, Too, Over The Qualcomm Dispute

According to Qualcomm, iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 are Apple’s devices that use Qualcomm technology, even though the phones boast components produced by Intel and Qorvo. Allegedly, Qualcomm is right about that, and Chinese and German courts already ruled against Apple, forcing the Cupertino-based company to halt iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 sales in Germany, as well as in China.

However, the situation faced by Apple in China, due to its dispute with Qualcomm, is more severe than the case in Germany, Accordingly, in China, Apple must seize the sales of more models, including, besides iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 series, iPhone 6, 6S, and iPhone X, too.

The Qualcomm dispute with Apple affected the Cupertino-based company more than everyone imagined because it came at a moment when the US trade war with China also impacts Apple and its iPhone 2018 models are not boasting the expected sales, and many bugs have been reported by users.

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MX Player 1.10.31 Beta Is Now Available With Changes And Bug Fixes

MX Player is probably the best video player for Android, and it comes with advanced hardware acceleration and subtitle support. Now, it’s time for MX Player 1.10.31 Beta for Android to come out with some changes and bug fixes, plus some new functions for the beta testers to probe.

MX Player – Features

  • Hardware Acceleration – By using the new HW+ decoder, MX Player makes hardware acceleration possible for virtually any video you play with it;
  • Multi-Core Decoding – MX Player is the only Android video player to support multi-core decoding and a benchmark test revealed that MX Player runs by 70% better on dual-core Android devices than it does on single-core ones;
  • Gestures – MX Player is allowing users to use gestures to zoom in and zoom out, or pan and tilt;
  • Subtitle support – This excellent video player for Android enables users to use subtitles, and it also supports subtitle gestures to increase the size of fonts, scroll forward or backward, and so on;
  • Kids Lock – MX Player allows parents to use a feature called Kids Lock to block their kids’ access to other apps on the device when a video is playing;

MX Player Is The Most Popular Video Player For Android

MX Player totals more than 500 million downloads and installs on Android, according to the Google Play Store. Also, it scores an average of 4.5 stars out of 5 from about 7 million reviews on the Google Play Store.

Also, the user reviews are positive, and there are hundreds of millions of happy people who play videos with MX Player, which means that this video player for Android is by far the most popular and appreciated one.

MX Player 1.10.31 Beta Is Now Available With Changes And Bug Fixes

Just recently, MX Player 1.10.31 Beta rolled out with some bug fixes, under the hood changes, and some features, yet not unveiled by the devs, for the beta testers to probe. According to the official release notes, MX Player 1.10.31 comes out with the following:

  • Fixed: Soft navigation buttons are invisible on some devices
  • Fixed: License validation issues on devices with Android 8 and newer versions
  • Fixed: Unable to toggle Background Play from the quick shortcuts
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The State of Jailbreak and the Closing of the Cydia Store

Jailbreak users were surprised to learn that the Cydia Store will no longer offer paid apps and tweaks. Cydia creator Jay ‘’ Saurik’’ Freeman decided to remove PayPal integration and justified the decision in a post on the official Reddit forums.

The main argument for the decision is that the cost to keep the functionality was bigger than the revenue generated from the items that were purchased. The introduction of PayPal integration also created a lot of friction within the community as some users argued that all tweaks and apps for jailbreak devices should be free in the first place.

The announcement will affect developers that relied on paying users for extra money. Saurik noted that the service was successful at first and all the revenue collected was used in order to maintain the servers that host the repositories offered by Cydia.

The Cydia app will remain available for the foreseeable future but some repositories may close since the cost to maintain them is too high in comparison to their popularity.

On the bright side, it appears that there are still chances for the release of a jailbreak iOS 12.1 version. A developer claims that he has managed to successfully jailbreak an iPhone XS Max, managing to defeat the numerous security checks placed by Apple within the software.

It remains to be seen if the developer will release the jailbreak for free or sell it to interested third-party groups. After all, he may want to receive a reward for his efforts. The release of a new jailbreak version would breathe fresh life into a bleeding community as jailbreak users are missing many of the features introduced with the latest version of iOS.

There is also hope that a public jailbreak build will be released by another developer later in the future as he is now focusing on removing the security restrictions that block the installation of jailbreak iOS.

The future looks bright for jailbreak lovers.

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