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32TB of Windows 10 beta builds, driver source code leaked [Updated]
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32TB of unreleased, private Windows 10 builds, along with source code for certain parts of the driver stack, have been leaked to BetaArchive, reports The Register.
The dump appears to contain a number of Windows 10 builds from the development of codenamed Redstone 2. Redstone 2 was released earlier this year, branded as the Creators Update.
Some of these builds are built for 64-bit ARM chips, and some are said to include private debug symbols. Microsoft routinely releases debug symbols for Windows; the symbols contain additional information not found in the compiled Windows binaries that helps software developers identify which functions their code is calling. The symbols normally released are public symbols; while they identify many (though not all) functions and data structures, they don’t contain information about each function’s variables or parameters. The private symbols, in contrast, contain much more extensive information, giving much more insight into what each piece of code is doing and how it’s doing it.
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Microsoft rolls out not one but two bad builds to the Windows Insider program
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Microsoft’s Windows Insider program suffered an awkward setback last night as the company released two different builds—one for desktop users, another for mobile—without apparently meaning to.
In both cases, systems configured to use the fast ring could find themselves downloading and installing Windows releases that weren’t supposed to ship to the general public. For desktop users, the problem is merely an annoyance; the build, taken from a development branch named “RS_EDGE_CASE,” appears to work, broadly speaking, but “may include issues that impact usability of your PC.” Such issues aren’t entirely uncommon on the fast ring, though this time Microsoft warns that such problems may be more numerous than usual. Anyone who installed the build can either roll back to the previous release or wait until Microsoft publishes a new fast ring build. That will happen next week at the earliest, as the company has said it won’t be publishing any new builds this week.
The mobile situation is a little more grave. Again, a build was released from a different development branch—this one named “RS_IoT,” denoting that it’s not even a mobile build at all but rather an Internet-of-Things variant. Unlike the errant desktop build, this build isn’t usable; phones that install it will get stuck in a boot loop, and the only way to restore them is to use the Windows Device Recovery Tool. This will wipe the entire phone and flash it with a working firmware.
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New WikiLeaks dump builds confidence in our side’s hacking skills – Hot Air
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New WikiLeaks dump builds confidence in our side's hacking skills
Hot Air Assuming, of course, that all the infamous hacking behavior really was real bad guys like China, Russia or North Korea and not our own good bad guys pretending to be bad, bad guys hacking our side. Apparently, see, there are electronic fingerprints … |