Chipp.in Tech News and Reviews
Windows, Security & Privacy, Open Source and more
Google released a security update for its Chrome web browser for the desktop and Android that fixes several security issue. One of the issues is rated high and already exploited on the Internet according to Google. The details: The security update changes the version of the Chrome web browser to the following versions: Google lists…
Mozilla plans to release a new point update for its open source Firefox web browser later today. Firefox 138.0.3 is a non-security update that fixes three issues in earlier versions of the web browser, including one crash issue. If you use Firefox on the desktop only, you may ask yourself if you missed the Firefox…
Microsoft plans to end support for several editions of Windows 10 this October. While customers may subscribe to extended security updates to extend support by one (home) or up to three (business / Enterprise) years, it was unclear how Microsoft would handle support for some of its other products and services running on Windows 10,…
For years, Microsoft has warned Windows 10 customers that the operating system is reaching its end of support in October 2025. Did you know that this is only the cause for specific editions of Windows 10 and that there are numerous other editions that Microsoft will continue to support for years after 2025? Depending on…
The photo hosting and community site Flickr has been a popular option for free and paying users from all over the world to back up their photos to online storage, share them with others, find new photos to download, and to interact with other community members. The site changed its owner years ago and since…
Google Maps is quite the handy helper-app in many parts of the world. While it is not excellent everywhere, many use it to find restaurants, shops, places of interest, or for directions. Soon, Google Maps is getting a new feature that is using Google’s Gemini AI to identify places in screenshots you take so that…
When you use the built-in search in Windows, you may get a variety of resuts, depending on how search is configured. By default, Windows Search runs the search on the Internet as well to return Internet results and local results, including cloud content results. You can turn this off, if you want local-only results. Depending…
Windows 10’s support is going to end in a few months. That is a message that Windows 10 users will see in an ever increasing frequency in the coming months. Note that Microsoft plans to end support for Microsoft 365 apps on Windows 10 on the same day. Just a few days ago, Microsoft added…
Crapfixer is the latest open source Windows tweaker by serial developer Belim. He calls it “the tool Microsoft would build, if they hated bloatware as much as we do”. I have reviewed several of his tools in the past, including the tweaker TidyOS, the app remover NoBloatBox and the tweaker ThisIsNot11. The main idea behind…
Captchas can be quite annoying, especially if your input is not accepted or if they do not work at all. You may now add malicious captchas to the list of annoyances. Proton Mail published one example on X recently. The malicious captcha tries to convince unsuspecting users to run a command on their Windows machines….