Yeah, DeX is awesome. Really wish Samsung would bring back Linux on DeX though. With the ability to run full-fledged Linux applications on it, literally enabling the development of Android and Linux apps on their Android devices. Perhaps once stock Android finally catches up, Samsung will bring that back as a 1-up functionality with their implementation...

On a completely seperate thing I see your beloved Samsung DeX is becomming very interesting on Android. I've conversed with you for years now and you have always been a fan of DeX. I'm sending you a PM on who I am on Disqus.

Microsoft Security Copilot arrives in Surface Management Portal, supercharging IT pros by Paul Hill Microsoft Security Copilot, an AI cybersecurity product for threat detection and response, is now generally available for IT pros within the Surface Management Portal (SMP). For those unaware, SMP is a dedicated workspace within the Intune admin center for Surface device data and insights. The integration brings generative AI to Surface device management workflows. This development is an expansion of Microsoft’s Security Copilot’s GA for Entra which was announced at the same time. Microsoft announced four key pillars where Security Copilot can help in Entra: identity insights and investigation, access governance and review, app and resource protection, and monitoring and posture management. With Security Copilot, SMP is enhanced with a conversational AI layer which gives admins easier access and action on data. For example, you could ask things like “Which devices are out of compliance and out of warranty?, “Show devices with TPM disabled and BitLocker off”, or “Estimate carbon emissions from our Surface fleet”. This new feature offers admins tangible benefits like faster resolution, less manual effort, tailored insights, and a stronger security posture. Admins that have tried this in public preview since February reported sharpened decision making. Discussing the integrated nature of Security Copilot and SMP, Microsoft's Rohan Brooker said: “Security Copilot in the Surface Management Portal brings the integrated value of Microsoft Surface hardware, Windows firmware, Intune, and Security engineers operating as one team. Together, they enable signals to move seamlessly from Surface devices into Intune and Copilot’s language model—giving admins richer, real-time context with the tools they already use.” To use this feature, you’ll need to add Security Compute Units (SCUs) and enable the SMP plugin in Security Copilot. While this may already be out of beta, Microsoft still wants to hear what you think, you can use the feedback button in the portal to suggest improvements.

Flameshot 13.0 RC1 by Razvan Serea Flameshot is a free and open-source, cross-platform tool to take screenshots with many built-in features to save you time. Using Flameshot is as simple as launching, dragging the selection box to cover the area you want to capture, making annotations as needed in on-screen and saving the shot to your computer, all with a very simple and straightforward interface. Flameshot allows users to simply upload their screenshots directly to the cloud in order to easily share it with others. You can upload your image directly to Imgur with a single click and share the URL with others. In-app screenshot editing - You can choose to add an arrow mark, highlight text, blur a section (blur or pixelate an area), add a text, draw something, add a rectangular/circular shaped border, add an incrementing counter number, and add a solid color box with Flameshot's built-in editing tools. Command-line interface (CLI) - Flameshot has several commands you can use in the terminal without launching the GUI via a command line interface. The command line interface lets you script Flameshot and use it as the subject of key binds. Flameshot 13.0 RC1 changelog: Breaking Changes Snap packages are likely to be dropped for version 13 unless someone can help with the confinement issue discussed here: #4016 The imgur uploader is disabled by default at compile time. Users that wish to re-enable this can build from source with -DENABLE_IMGUR. We expect this to be a bit controversial but we believe this is the best direction for the project. The goal for Flameshot is to be a lightweight screenshot / annotation program. The imgur uploader is a program in its own right The authors of Flameshot are increasingly privacy conscious. Having a misclick in a screenshot program accidentally upload sensitive data feels very risky. We continue to discuss and iterate ideas for a plugin system. When that is completed users who wish to have an uploader right in their screenshot program can implement this in a plugin We will keep the imgur uploader code in the code base until plugins are ready Please let us know your thoughts either way. This is not a vote, but we are interested in the communities opinion. Flameshot returns exit code 1 if taking screenshot is canceled (e.g., by pressing Esc). This is to make Flameshot easier to integrate into shell scripts. Configuration window tabs were re-ordered according to their importance to users. New Features Flatpak is now verified in Flathub. Package maintainers can compile out the update checker using -DDISABLE_UPDATE_CHECKER. The pixelation feature has been replaced with a new "secure" implementation that only uses pixels outside of the area to be redacted. Pinned images can now be rotated. A grim based screenshot adapter has been added to work with more wlroots Wayland compositors. Users can enable this in settings. Users can symmetrically resize (holding Shift) and preserve aspect ratio (using Ctrl) while resizing. Pinned images can have a transparency effect applied. A grid can be optionally enabled via the sidebar, and users can have their annotations snap to grid. MacOS releases are now natively aarch64 and will not need to run in Rosetta. SingleApplication dependency has moved to KdSingleApplication to work around a Qt SharedMemory bug. New dateformat of %d-%m-%Y has been added. New option to prompt user before exiting has been added to config. JPEG quality option has been added. Enable saving HEIF/HEIC when supported by 3rd party plug-ins. Kde-connect share integration. (needs more testing) Add Shortcut to Cancel current selection using CtrlBackspace Pinned images now have window titled flameshot-pin. Separate tool size for the tools. A new configuration option so that arrows can be drawn in a reversed way (tip to tail). In Wayland fractional scaling situation, screenshot preview size was wrong. Commandline implementation for Windows Makes WebP available for saving screenshots on Windows. Support dark mode in Windows. A config option to disable grim warning notification in Wayland. The "Screenshot Aborted" desktop notification can now be disabled. Recognizing Qtile, Cosmic, river Improved keyboard navigation for the application selector when you press Ctrlo. Add "Open Save Path" to the tray icon menu. Updated Translations Bug Fixes MacOS release are properly notarized for aarch64. MacOS clipboard now supports JPEG. The Flameshot full now captures all regions of all monitors. The "Use last region" is now ignored in modes other than flameshot gui. Fix pin tool wrong offset on Linux. Use native path separator for different OSs. Pinned images scrolling using mouse on macOS 'App Launcher' not listing applications. Flameshot was getting unresponsive if notification daemon was inaccissble. fix missing invert button on configure windows and remove old size indicator. Support for X11 and the standard file picker for Snap. Make loading of languages consistent across invocation types. Tooltips now display the lower-case keybinding to avoid confusion. Copy on double-click config in now respected. English translations not used despite being preferred. Fix Snap to find translation files. Better naming of CLI arguments Better wording of a shortcut description Download: Flameshot 13.0 RC1 | 24.9 MB (Open Source) Download: Flameshot Portable | 53.1 MB Links: Flameshot Home Page | Screenshot Get alerted to all of our Software updates on Twitter at @NeowinSoftware

UniGetUI 3.2.1 Beta 5 by Razvan Serea UniGetUI is an application whose main goal is to create an intuitive GUI for the most common CLI package managers for Windows 10 and Windows 11, such as Winget, Scoop and Chocolatey. With UniGetUI, you'll be able to download, install, update and uninstall any software that's published on the supported package managers — and so much more. UniGetUI features Install, update and remove software from your system easily at one click: UniGetUI combines the packages from the most used package managers for windows: WinGet, Chocolatey, Scoop, Pip, Npm and .NET Tool. Discover new packages and filter them to easily find the package you want. View detailed metadata about any package before installing it. Get the direct download URL or the name of the publisher, as well as the size of the download. Easily bulk-install, update or uninstall multiple packages at once selecting multiple packages before performing an operation Automatically update packages, or be notified when updates become available. Skip versions or completely ignore updates in a per-package basis. Manage your available updates at the touch of a button from the Widgets pane or from Dev Home pane with UniGetUI Widgets. The system tray icon will also show the available updates and installed package, to efficiently update a program or remove a package from your system. Easily customize how and where packages are installed. Select different installation options and switches for each package. Install an older version or force to install a 32bit architecture. [But don't worry, those options will be saved for future updates for this package] Share packages with your friends to show them off that program you found. Here is an example: Hey @friend, Check out this program! Export custom lists of packages to then import them to another machine and install those packages with previously-specified, custom installation parameters. Setting up machines or configuring a specific software setup has never been easier. Backup your packages to a local file to easily recover your setup in a matter of seconds when migrating to a new machine UniGetUI 3.2.1 Beta 5 changelog: Fixed a crash that was triggered when bundles were imported Fixed a scenario where UniGetUI wouldn't resume Improvements to LoadingDialog implementation, prevent deadlocks Asynchronocity improvements: All async void have been migrated to async Task, and uncaught exceptions will be properly handled and won't crash the process Fix issues when logging in to GitHub Fix processes hanging when waiting for input on package operations Improvements to crash handler Improvements to InstallOptionsFactory and to InstallOptions Better unit tests for InstallOptions **Important: ** As of this release, it will not possible to create XML and YAML bundles. Existing XML and YAML bundles can be imported, via internal YAML/XML-to-JSON conversion before deserialization. This feature will be removed in a not-near future. Nevertheless, XML and YAML bundles can be also converted to JSON bundles using an older UniGetUI version. Download: UniGetUI 3.2.1 Beta 5 | 53.2 MB (Open Source) Links: WingetUI Home Page | GitHub | Screenshot Get alerted to all of our Software updates on Twitter at @NeowinSoftware