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See allPureVPN Brings Faster Speeds than Ever with its 20Gbps Server Upgrade
PureVPN, a highly-rated VPN provider, has upgraded its server infrastructure in three key locations. The company recently announced that it has added new 20Gbps servers in the United States and the United […]
Windows 11 File Explorer may slow down PCs
Windows 11, which has been released by Microsoft earlier this month, has a number of known issues that affect the performance of certain systems. One major issue affects AMD processors, which may […]
Bethesda removes Games for Windows Live dependency from Fallout 3 GOTY
Microsoft shut down Games for Windows Live on July 1, 2014. More than seven years later, Bethesda, now a Microsoft-owned company, removed the Games for Windows Live dependency from its Fallout 3 […]
Microsoft is testing a fix for AMD's Windows 11 performance issue
Microsoft released a new build to Beta and Release Preview Channels of the company's Windows 11 operating system a few hours ago. The patch includes a huge number of fixes for issues […]
Ubuntu 21.10 Released
The next version of Ubuntu, 21.10 “Impish Indri” has been released, with nine months of support since it is not an LTS release. This version of Ubuntu comes with some new features, […]
How to use winget to install Microsoft Store applications
Microsoft released Windows Package Manager 1.1 earlier this month. The new version of the package manager, known as winget by its users, is available for Windows 10 version 1809 and newer, and […]
WhatsApp says it is rolling out end-to-end encrypted backups for Android and iOS users
WhatsApp has announced that is rolling out end-to-end encrypted backups for users on iOS and Android. The feature was revealed about a month ago, and had been spotted in the beta version […]
Arch Linux vs Ubuntu: which to choose?
Arch Linux and Ubuntu are two major Linux distributions that both get a lot of attention, have dedicated fanbases, and are used base-distributions for other systems that are forked off of them… […]
Brave improves bounce tracking protection with new Debouncing feature
The Nightly version of the Brave desktop browser supports a new privacy feature that Brave calls Debouncing. Debouncing is designed to disarm a tracking method called Bounce Tracking, or Redirect Tracking. Bounce […]
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Windows 11 File Explorer may slow down PCs
Windows 11, which has been released by Microsoft earlier this month, has a number of known issues that affect the performance of certain systems. One major issue affects AMD processors, which may […]
Microsoft is testing a fix for AMD's Windows 11 performance issue
Microsoft released a new build to Beta and Release Preview Channels of the company's Windows 11 operating system a few hours ago. The patch includes a huge number of fixes for issues […]
How to use winget to install Microsoft Store applications
Microsoft released Windows Package Manager 1.1 earlier this month. The new version of the package manager, known as winget by its users, is available for Windows 10 version 1809 and newer, and […]
First Windows 11 update impacts AMD performance issues even more
When Microsoft released Windows 11 last week, AMD published a support article in which it stated that the performance of AMD powered devices was up to 15% worse than on Windows 10 […]
Linux
Ubuntu 21.10 Released
The next version of Ubuntu, 21.10 “Impish Indri” has been released, with nine months of support since it is not an LTS release. This version of Ubuntu comes with some new features, […]
Arch Linux vs Ubuntu: which to choose?
Arch Linux and Ubuntu are two major Linux distributions that both get a lot of attention, have dedicated fanbases, and are used base-distributions for other systems that are forked off of them… […]
FontOnLake Malware Can Target Linux Systems
Documentation released by internet security company, ESET, on October 7th, has given details to what was lesser known malware family that emerged this past May, including details that are very relevant to […]
Disabling the Nouveau open-source Nvidia driver to use the proprietary driver in OpenSUSE Leap 15.3
Recently, I decided that I wanted to give OpenSUSE a try, as it’s been nearly ten years since I ran it on my home system for any longer than an hour or […]
Software
Office 2021 pricing revealed
Microsoft announced Office 2021, a new perpetual version of the company's Office suite, last month. Office 2021 will launch alongside the company's new Windows 11 operating system on October 5, 2021. A […]
Microsoft Office 2021 will be released on October 5, 2021
Microsoft announced a new version of its Office product, Microsoft Office 2021, and a new Long-Term Servicing Channel version, Office LTSC 2021, earlier this year. The company revealed yesterday that Office LTSC […]
What’s new with the Samsung September 2021 security update?
Samsung started rolling out the security update to most of their Galaxy devices from August 30. Google used to be the leader when it came to bringing out updates to their Android […]
Germany is pushing phone makers to offer at least 7 years of updates
The European Commission recently proposed an extension to the support cycle of Android and iOS devices. They've requested a minimum period of five years of updates. Germany's Federal Government is now pushing […]
Companies
WhatsApp Will Consume Your Google Drive Storage Data: Backup Size Feature in the Works?
At the moment, WhatsApp backups won’t count against your Google Drive storage. That may be about to change. It seems there is more bad news for the Facebook-owned messaging app. It seems […]
How useful is Twitter's new "Soft Blocking" feature?
Twitter is rolling out a new feature on the web version of the service that enables users to soft block followers. Basically, what it allows users of the service to do is […]
Skype teases "next version", promises all browser support, forgets Firefox icon
Microsoft revealed its future plans for Skype, the communication service that it acquired in 2011 for $8.5 billion. The next version of Skype will be "improved, faster, reliable, and super modern-looking" according […]
YouTube's experimental desktop video downloading feature is severely lacking
Google is testing a new experimental feature on YouTube currently that gives YouTube premium subscribers options to download videos on the desktop for later viewing. It is unclear how wide-reaching the experiment […]
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Thunderbird 78.3.3 is out. Find out what is new by Martin Brinkmann on 10/17/2020
in Email Thunderbird - End of Support notifications for Windows 7 Pro users by Martin Brinkmann on 10/17/2019
in Windows Windows 7 - Firefox 64: add-ons manager redesign by Martin Brinkmann on 10/17/2018
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