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6 months
Google 138 point update fixes another 0-day security issue that is exploited in the wild. Time to update Chrome
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6 months
If Google disabled uBlock Origin in Chrome, use uBlock Origin Lite, or another browser.
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6 months
Vivaldi 7.5 launches with tab, ad blocker and other improvements. Tab Stacks, the browser's tab grouping feature, gets better with color and renaming support.
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6 months
Surprise! Microsoft adds two options to join Extended Security Updates on Windows 10 machines. Pay with Microsoft Rewards points (1,000 needed), or sync your Settings to the cloud using Microsoft Backup.
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7 months
Story of Microsoft locking a user account gives a prime example of what you should never do (aka, why you should never upload anything to OneDrive or similar cloud storage services.
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7 months
Windows 10 is getting a native migration option to Windows 11 to ease the transition. But is it any good?
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7 months
Google "strongly encourages" its users to stop using passwords. The company's answer? Passkeys (rising but still low adoption) or social sign ins (convenient but with privacy risks).
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7 months
Amazon has (nearly) doubled the time video ads are shown on Prime Video. From 2-3.5 minutes to 4-6 minutes.
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Google's fight against ad blockers on YouTube enters another round. Users start to see "ad blockers violate" prompts when they try to play videos on the site.
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7 months
Europe just launched DNS4EU, a public DNS resolver with privacy and security options. Is it any good? Our benchmark test comes to a surprising conclusion.
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