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The past six weeks have not been pleasant for Microsoft.
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Microsoft Windows Security Updates November 2018 release overview
Microsoft released security updates for all supported operating systems -- client and server -- and other company products on the November 2018 Patch Tuesday.
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A look at HiJackThis Fork
Remember HiJackThis? The program was designed to scan a Windows PC thoroughly for any signs of malicious software, spyware, and other unwanted bits.
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Results of Bitwarden security audit published
Bitwarden hired the German security company Cure 53 to audit the security of Bitwarden software and technologies used by the password management service.
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Google launches advanced online image converter Squoosh
Google's Chrome Developer Conference is in full swing and one of the things that came out of it yesterday was the official unveiling of Squoosh, an online servi
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Two new Firefox Test Pilot projects: Price Wise and Email Tabs
Mozilla launched two new Test Pilot experiments for the Firefox web browser today.
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Debian Project releases Debian 9.6
The Debian Project announced the release of Debian 9.
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Perceptual Ad Blocking Study paints grim picture
Advertisement blockers address a growing number of issues related to online advertisement: from online tracking to sell higher paying ads over saving bandwidth
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Cloudflare launches DNS app for Android and iOS
Cloudflare launched the DNS resolver 1.
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Add AV1 codec support to Windows 10
AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) is an up- and coming open video codec that is backed by a large number of tech companies including Mozilla, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Face
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Thunderbird 52 to 60 update rollout started
The development team behind the email client Thunderbird released Thunderbird 60 in August 2018.
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Latest F.Lux gets grayscale mode
The most recent version of the display manipulation software F.
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Daram Renamer is a great rename tool for Windows with one tiny flaw
Daram Renamer is a free open source program for Microsoft Windows devices to rename any number of files in one swift operation.
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Firefox 64: direct removal of extensions
Mozilla plans to roll out a number of changes in Firefox 64 that are extension related.
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Microsoft confirms File Association bug in Windows 10 version 1803
Microsoft confirmed on November 8, 2018 that the option to set custom file associations is broken for some users on Windows 10 version 1803.
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A look at Fiddler Everywhere preview
Telerik, the company behind the free HTTP debugging application Fiddler, released a preview of Fiddler Everywhere today.
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Microsoft is having Activation Server issues right now
Reports are coming in from all over the Internet that Windows 10 licenses get revoked on some systems currently and that activation is not available either at t
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You can now buy Linux on Microsoft's Store
WLinux is the first commercial version of Linux, more precise the Windows Subssystem for Linux, on the Microsoft Store.
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How to improve the readability of Windows console windows
Windows console windows like the command prompt window use a default size and layout by default on all Windows PCs.
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Mozilla ran a cloud storage download experiment in Firefox
Is it a good idea to integrate options to save Internet files directly to cloud storage providers? That's a question that Mozilla tried to answer in a recent Sh
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Windows 10 version 1903 may feature command prompt zooming
Work on the next version of Windows 10 continues while Microsoft is still preparing Windows 10 version 1809 for a re-release after the botched initial release o
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Microsoft releases Office November 2018 non-security updates
Microsoft released a batch of non-security updates for Microsoft Office yesterday.
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Microsoft Security Advisory for self-encrypting drives
Microsoft published the security advisory ADV180028, Guidance for configuring BitLocker to enforce software encryption, yesterday.
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How to download all Flickr Photos
SmugMug, the new owner of Flickr, announced plans recently to limit free accounts to 1000 photos or videos on the site instead of the previously used threshold
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Opera for Android may block cookie dialogues in latest version
Opera Software published a new version of the company's Opera web browser for Android today.
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Google promises to do more against harmful ad experiences
Google integrated protective features into the company's Chrome web browser last year to deal with abusive experiences on the Internet.
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Automate Mouse and Keyboard Activity with PlayStatic
PlayStatic is a free program for Microsoft's Windows operating system to automate mouse and keyboard activity.
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Microsoft Store remembers App history for local users
Windows 10 users have two options when it comes to user accounts on a system running the operating system: they can use a Microsoft Account or a local account.
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Microsoft's Hotfix service is no longer available
It appears that Microsoft retired the company's Hotfix service for its Windows operating system and Microsoft Easy Fix solutions.
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Browser history sniffing is still a thing
A team of Stanford and UC San Diego researchers published the research paper Browser history re:visited recently in which four new, and working, browsing histor
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Flickr limits free version to 1000 photos
Flickr announced plans to limit free accounts of the photo community severely in the coming months.
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Say goodbye to the old Google Contacts interface
Google announced yesterday that it will shut down the old (classic) Google Contacts interface on February 12, 2019.
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SoundFixer fixes sound issues on YouTube
SoundFixer is an extension for the Firefox web browser that attempts to fix sound related issues on YouTube and select other sites with audio.
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Firefox 65 supports Google's WebP Image format
Firefox 65 will support the WebP image format that Google created for use on the Internet.
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ContextSearch adds a ton of search options to Firefox
ContextSearch web-ext is a browser extension for the Firefox web browser that improves Firefox's contextual search functionality in several ways.
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Configure Chrome to allow site content only on HTTPS sites
Chrome users may configure the web browser to allow site content, e.
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Google sign-ins will require JavaScript soon
Google users who have disabled JavaScript in the browsers that they are using to browse the Internet won't be able to sign-in to their Google accounts anymore s
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Mozilla releases Firefox 63.0.1
Mozilla releases one or multiple minor updates usually after a major release; the release of Firefox 63 is no exception to the rule as Firefox 63.
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Adblock Plus 3.4 promises 50% memory use reduction
Eyeo GmbH, the company behind the widely used adblocking browser extension Adblock Plus, released Adblock Plus 3.
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Windows 10 bug prevents Registry backup creation
Some supported versions of Windows 10 appear to have a bug currently that prevents the successful execution of the Registry backup task that is enabled by defau
