The wait is over and the first "moment" update for Windows 11 is here, delivering users a batch of features Microsoft promised earlier, such as tabs for File Explorer, an improved taskbar, and more. | Continue reading
Oracle has finally released a major update for its virtualization software. VirtualBox 7 is now available for download on all supported platforms, and it brings SecureBoot, TPM 2.0 support, and more. | Continue reading
The Linux Mint team has shown some features it's working on for Linux Mint 21.1 'Vera'. Additions include a new verification tool for checking the authenticity of ISOs and a better USB image writer. | Continue reading
Apple is scrapping plans to produce more iPhone 14 series devices as demand wanes. With winter getting closer, customers in Europe will be facing higher bills and reduced spending on phones. | Continue reading
Google Chrome 106 is landing in the later hours of today. It packs a few new functionalities, experimental capabilities locked behind flags, and also some deprecations for features with low usage. | Continue reading
Google Fiber has declared its plans to extend its internet services to five states: Nevada, Arizona, Idaho, Colorado, and Nebraska in the U.S. The plan is due to complete in the next few years. | Continue reading
An explosion has been reported at Google's data center in Omaha, U.S. Some injuries have been rumored along with outages, but Google is yet to address the claims in a public statement. | Continue reading
Nokia recently sued OnePlus and Oppo for infringing upon its 5G technology patents. Following the court's decision in favor of Nokia, the two Chinese firms have halted all phone sales in Germany. | Continue reading
Google Chrome 104 is landing today. It features a lot of changes, including a Web Bluetooth API that Apple and Mozilla hate. According to the duo, this API will reduce security considerably. | Continue reading
The Indonesian government has blocked multiple companies and services for continuing to operate without registering themselves. Registration would also enforce certain tough regulatory restrictions. | Continue reading
Open-Source code is quite popular as it reduces the software development cycle. However, rampant use of the same is increasing security concerns. Companies must have some policy to deal with risks. | Continue reading
Apple maybe working to finally bring AV1 support to several of its product lines according to the latest leak. This is a feature which has been missing on Apple products for a long time. | Continue reading
China has passed a new policy that requires every website to review and verify real names of those who comment and its content. The information will be sent to the Chinese government if it is illegal. | Continue reading
Microsoft has updated the official Windows Health Dashboard page with a new known issue. According to the company, the latest cumulative updates break Wi-Fi hotspots in Windows 11 and 10. | Continue reading
Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2022 17.3 Preview 2. This is a major release because it is the first version of the IDE to pack native support for ARM64 hardware, but only on Windows 11 for now. | Continue reading
The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal has dealt a heavy blow to Meta in its $400 million acquisition of Giphy, ruling that other regulators were correct to raise their antitrust concerns. | Continue reading
Microsoft has entered into an agreement to acquire Miburo, a company that specializes in assessing threats that originate from rogue foreign nations and international state-sponsored groups. | Continue reading
Tails 5.1 has been released today containing an updated Tor Browser that fixes a JavaScript vulnerability. This update also includes improvements to the Tor Connection assistant among other things. | Continue reading
Apple has outlined the measures that it's taking to protect its customers from fraudulent payments and apps that contravene its policies in general such as those that contain spam or copy other apps. | Continue reading
Apple recently received a patent for a suspiciously-looking iPad running macOS. The operating system is not the only quirk: the described device also has a Surface Book-styled form factor. | Continue reading
Do you know that Microsoft Start has 500 million monthly active users or that Power BI has over 200,000 customers? If not, check out our list of some interesting usage stats about Microsoft products. | Continue reading
So unifi finally released support for WPA3 via controller 6.1.51 and firmware 5.43+ on many of their APs So I was playing with that yesterday. And sure set a ssid to only be wpa3, and phone (iphone XR running 14.4) connected.. So yeah it works - but was wondering how do you know … | Continue reading
Microsoft recently held an AMA session discussing several Windows 11-related questions, including the ability to reposition the taskbar. Long story short, Microsoft thinks it is not important enough. | Continue reading
Intel's Arc GPUs are the first in the market to offer full AV1 support. This means the cards can also encode AV1 content, a feature that is still not available on AMD nor on Nvidia. | Continue reading
The latest cumulative update for Windows 11 finally makes changing the default browser in the operating system much easier. Users now can set their preferred browser as the default with just a click. | Continue reading
It's an excellent memorial. The project currently lists a staggering 70 scrapped products including Silverlight, the Adobe Flash competitor that once powered Netflix in the browser. | Continue reading
While many of Arch's contemporaries have joined the fray, one notable open-source giant has yet to make the leap. Rolling Rhino looks to change that by converting Ubuntu into a rolling release. | Continue reading
According to a new report, UK's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Nadine Dorries met with Microsoft officials and asked them about when they are "going to get rid of the algorithms". | Continue reading
Intel and ARM are vulnerable to the Spectre-BHB flaw, but AMD is apparently troubled by Spectre v2, which it should have fixed back in 2018. AMD has now issued a new fix for the CVE-2017-5715 bug. | Continue reading
Unbeknown to users, TP-Link is apparently sending their data to Avira's servers even when not asked to. The problem, although not new, seems to still be prevalent in certain TP-Link router models. | Continue reading
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority is clamping down on Bitcoin ATMs because they do not implement Know Your Customer (KYC) measures. Those who don't comply will face further action. | Continue reading
All "cryptocurrency transactions" are now illegal in China, ruled the country's Supreme Court. The broad nature of the ruling suggests investing or trading in crypto tokens could be criminal. | Continue reading
Cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin saw a sharp drop in their prices today following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The decline in prices anticipated European stock markets which are all down. | Continue reading
In an effort to gain more market share in desktop OS, Google has introduced Chrome OS Flex, a 'cloud-first' and 'easy-to-manage' operating system to turn your old PC and Mac into a Chromebook. | Continue reading
California's net neutrality laws are here to stay ruled an Appeal's court, delivering a severe blow to leading telcos and Internet Service Providers that had been strongly opposing them. | Continue reading
While it's doubtful you'll see ads in KDE's core applications, it would be possible for distributions that wish to further monetize their work to fork these applications, placing ads in them. | Continue reading
Chrome 97 will be arriving later today. While it features a notable enhancement to communication protocols, it also has a controversial Keyboard API change that is at odds with Apple and Mozilla. | Continue reading
Proton has made enormous strides toward game compatibility through advances in related technologies like DXVK, which enable DirectX 9, 10, and 11 games to run through the Vulkan API. | Continue reading
According to a job listing, Amazon is looking to hire engineers proficient with DXVK, Wine (Proton), and Mesa in order to enable streaming Windows games on its Luna cloud gaming platform via Linux. | Continue reading
The European Commission has taken the decision to start releasing its software under open source licenses. It believes this will benefit society as others can make use of the code. | Continue reading
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After the release of a new Windows 11 build with flat, 2D emoji, Microsoft has confirmed that the OS is not getting 3D emoji at all. The previous promise has been downplayed to be a marketing blunder. | Continue reading
Microsoft had pushed a promotional notification to Windows 11 users which is currently in beta. The notification left Explorer totally unresponsive and crashed the Start menu and Taskbar of Windows 11 | Continue reading
A Parliamentary Committee has asked the Indian government to ban VPN services in the country as VPNs have attributed to a rise in cybercrime. The proposal has been submitted to the government. | Continue reading
The Galaxy Chromebook Go sports a 14-inch LCD display with 1366 x 768 pixels and anti-glare coating. It packs-in Intel's Celeron N4500 processor, 4 GB LPDDR4x RAM, and 32 GB storage. | Continue reading
Billionaire Elon Musk has booked a seat on a Virgin Galactic space flight that offers up to four minutes in zero-G. The ticket aboard Virgin Galactic's rocketplane VSS Unity costs $250,000. | Continue reading
TikTok is going to replace its current content moderation system with a new process that relies heavily on algorithms. The system will be able to delete content right after it is uploaded. | Continue reading
Nintendo's latest console features an 7-inch OLED display. Priced higher than the Switch and Switch Lite, the OLED model will be available on October 8 along with the launch title Metroid Dread. | Continue reading