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NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerability update for Ubuntu OS

It was recently discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers incorrectly sanitized user mode inputs. A local attacker could use this issue to possibly gain root privileges. What this means in summary is that NVIDIA graphics drivers could be made to run programs as an administrator. This vulnerability affects the following drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 nvidia-graphics-drivers-304-updates nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 nvidia-graphics-drivers-340-updates nvidia-graphics-drivers-352 nvidia-graphics-drivers-352-updates vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

Halo 5: Guardians Battle Of Shadow And Light Update released

Basin by the 343 Multiplayer team Deadlock by Nokyard & the 343 Multiplayer Team Guillotine by The Psycho Duck & the 343 Multiplayer Team Recurve by The Fated Fire & the 343 Multiplayer Team Fixed an aiming issue that could occur due to variance in controller hardware.

Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” Cinnamon Beta features Cinnamon 2.8, MDM 2.0, Linux kernel 3.19 and Ubuntu 14.04 package base

<li> The Update Manager now also performs more checks than before. </li> <li> Drivers in Driver Manager are now sorted by status and the Driver Manager now indicates if drivers are Open Source or not </li> <li> The Driver Manager features both UI and under-the-hood improvements. </li> <li> The Driver Manager now also loads much faster and detects drivers in the background. </li> <li> When a Broadcom chipset is detected, along with the recommended Broadcom STA drivers, the Driver Manager now also lists B43 installers </li>

Xcode 7.2 beta 4 released includes support for building and debugging apps for tvOS 9.2

<ul> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <em>Watch Framework and Static Library targets do not display a “General” tab. Workaround: Configure general settings manually in the target&#8217;s Info.plist file or in the Build Settings tab</em> </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <em><strong>Xcode Server</strong></em> </p> <ul> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <em>Xcode Server may be unable to join new development teams with versions of OS X Server other than version 4.1.5. Existing team memberships will continue to work correctly</em> </li> </ul>