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Author: Martin Brinkmann

When I was young, I studied German, History and English at Essen University in Germany. I worked in computer support for several years at the time to help other computer users when they ran into issues. Writing started out as a passion project, as I wanted to help more users and not just the ones that I handled in support. This lead to the founding of Ghacks Technology News in 2005. First, as a side-project, but shortly thereafter as a full-time project as the site's popularity exploded. I sold Ghacks to Softonic some years ago, but stayed on as Editor. You can still read my articles on the site. I do publish on Betanews as well. In recent years, I started to write and publish technology books, including my latest book "Windows 11 From Beginner to Advanced", which is available on Amazon. I'm also a freelance writer for the German publisher Gamestar. Chipp.in is my newest project. I want to use it to talk about my book projects, sell my books directly, and write about technology, as this is what interests me.
Microsoft Edge

Microsoft is moving features into Copilot to extract more money from its customers

Posted on December 6, 2025December 6, 2025 by Martin Brinkmann

Customers all over the world are used to frequent price increases of subscriptions by now. Many online services that require a subscription increase prices regularly, often once per year or every second year. That is bad enough, especially if the service does not get any better because of it. While services argue that inflation and…

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Amazon is disabling apps on Fire TVs now

Posted on December 2, 2025December 2, 2025 by Martin Brinkmann

If you use a Fire TV device by Amazon, then you know that you may install third-party Android apps on the device that are not provided via Amazon’s official App Store. This is an excellent option to install apps that you may want to use, like streaming apps or YouTube frontend clients that get rid…

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Brace yourself, OpenAI to introduce ads into its apps

Posted on December 1, 2025December 2, 2025 by Martin Brinkmann

The free AI ride is as good as over. Free meaning no ads in this case. The writing was on the wall: AI processing, infrastructure and upkeep are expensive and companies can only burn through a specific amount of money before investors demand a return on their investment or they run into payment issues. ChatGPT…

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Gog is having a PC games sale: here are three recommendations

Posted on November 29, 2025November 29, 2025 by Martin Brinkmann

What used to be a once or twice a year occurrence has turned into the opposite. It seems that digital games sales happen every week nowadays, which has turned them from something exciting into something bland and interchangeable. It is the same with sweets for Christmas. They used to be special, but you get them…

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Someone predicted that YouTube would show just a single video on its homepage and it became reality

Posted on November 28, 2025November 28, 2025 by Martin Brinkmann

How many videos do you get when you open the YouTube homepage on your device? When I do open YouTube in any browser I get zero, because I have turned off the YouTube history and Google decided it would push users into signing in to an account by disabling the generic feed of videos that…

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Windows 11

Dell: 500 million Windows 10 PCs can’t upgrade to Windows 11

Posted on November 27, 2025 by Martin Brinkmann

How is the last supported Windows operating system doing after Microsoft ended support for its predecessor Windows 10 a month ago? Not so good, at least according to Dell CEO Jeffrey Clarke. Clarke revealed several information during the company’s latest earnings call. One of them being that Dell believes that there are 500 million Windows…

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Amazon

Amazon may send you ads via WhatsApp: here is how to turn that off

Posted on November 26, 2025November 26, 2025 by Martin Brinkmann

WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging apps out there. One reason why more and more businesses try to establish channels on WhatsApp. Most to reach customers and sell them something. Amazon is no exception to that. Maybe you have noticed already that you are getting ads from Amazon in WhatsApp. Even if not,…

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Windows 11 is removing an option to bypass Microsoft account and internet during setup

How Windows 11’s Point-in-time Restore feature differs from System Restore

Posted on November 25, 2025November 25, 2025 by Martin Brinkmann

You may have heard that Microsoft is working on a new restore feature for Windows 11 called Point-in-time Restore. The backup feature in a sentence: It allows Windows admins to restore the exact previous state of a Windows PC. The main focus is to offer fast restores to a previous system state to allow the…

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Gemini in Gmail may have been enabled by default, and turning it off takes other features with it

Posted on November 22, 2025November 23, 2025 by Martin Brinkmann

If you are using Google’s Gmail email service, you may have stumbled upon Smart Features already, especially if you are using the web-version of the service. Up until recently, Smart Features did not include AI, but this changed in 2025. Now, Google has baked its AI Gemini into the Smart Features of Gmail. Depending on…

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Google Search

Google is starting to show ads in AI Mode

Posted on November 21, 2025November 21, 2025 by Martin Brinkmann

The number one advertisin company on the Internet seems to have found another place to show you ads. Reports are coming in that more and more users are starting to see ads in AI Mode. AI Mode? It is a new option in Google Search that you may use to ask Google’s Gemini AI questions…

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  • January 15, 2026 by Martin Brinkmann Personal Intelligence: Google pivots Gemini towards an all-seeing AI
  • January 14, 2026 by Martin Brinkmann New Year, New Zero-Day: The January 2026 Windows Patch Tuesday Breakdown
  • January 13, 2026 by Martin Brinkmann Firefox 147 Just Dropped: 5 Features That Make It Worth Updating Today
  • January 12, 2026 by Martin Brinkmann WinSlop: The Open-Source Response to Microsoft’s AI Push—Strip the Bloat and Take Back Control of Your OS
  • January 11, 2026 by Martin Brinkmann Slimming Down: How Checkpoint Updates Are Making Windows 11 Faster

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