Ubuntu Kernel Fixes, LibreOffice 6.3 EOL, Sophos Hacked, Feeling VR, Google TAPAS AI Open Sourced
Channel: Category5 Technology TV with Robbie Ferguson
Date: 10/05/2020

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Here are the stories we are following this week in the Category5.TV Newsroom:

00:47 - Canonical has published new Ubuntu Linux kernel security updates for all of its supported releases to patch several vulnerabilities discovered lately by various security researchers.

02:22 - The Document Foundation has announced the release of LibreOffice 6.3.6 as the sixth and final update of the 6.3 series, which will reach end of life at the end of this month.

04:08 - Crypto Corner with Robert Koenig. Bitcoin Halving and China's DCEP Digital Currency.

11:32 - Users of a widely used firewall from Sophos have been under a zero-day attack that was designed to steal usernames, cryptographically protected passwords, and other sensitive data.

14:04 - A new lightweight virtual reality device has been created that would allow users to touch objects at shops and museums without ever having to go there in the flesh.

16:30 - Google has released the code for their internally developed artificial intelligence, Tapas. It can take a natural language question such as “What’s the name of the latest iPhone?” and fetch the answer from a relational database or spreadsheet, and it's now open source.

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