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Microsoft today released updates to remedy at least 398 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including one weakness that is already being actively exploited and two others that were publicly detailed prior to today.

Google’s new developer identity verification requirements for the Play Store represent a fundamental change in who gets to publish Android apps and under what conditions. The central question facing the Android developer community is whether these measures genuinely improve security for billions of users or whether they erect barriers that disproportionately burden indie developers, hobbyists,…