Windows, Security & Privacy, Open Source and more
If you use Windows 11, you may have noticed that you cannot open HEIC or HEVC media files by default. Windows does not ship with an app that supports the file types by default. While it is possible that the manufacturer of a PC adds support for these file types, there is a good chance…
Mozilla has used Adjust in Firefox for mobile products for years for a very specific purpose: to determine if the installation of the mobile browser originated from an advertising campaign. In other words, Adjust helped Mozilla track conversions of its advertising campaigns. It also send anonymous usage summaries occasionally, according to Mozilla. Starting in Firefox…
When it comes to managing a single Windows device, you often have to juggle between various administrative tools. Two of the most-used ones are the Control Panel and the Settings app. There are dozens more, however, from the Device Manager and Registry to the Task Manager and Group Policy Editor. Super God Mode is a…
An update for the open source cross-platform office suite LibreOffice is now available. LibreOffice 24.8 is available for all supported systems. The new version includes over a hundred improved or new features. Several are important from a security point of view. The details: Several of these options are interesting from an end-users point of view….
Almost a decade ago, Microsoft said that the Settings app of the then-new operating system Windows 10 would replace the classic Control Panel of the operating system. While Microsoft did move some options from the Control Panel to the Settings app over the years, it has, to this day, failed to migrate them all. On…
Opera Software has launched a new Opera One developer update that introduces a new feature in the browser. Called Dynamic Themes, it is adding animation to themes in the Opera browser. Opera explains: The new dynamic Themes are built using the Shaders technology and are rendered using your device’s GPU. You can configure each Theme…
WhatsApp is working on a new feature that is intended to improve the privacy of its users. The main idea adds two new features to the messaging service: Any WhatsApp user may contact any other user on the platform currently. All that is required for that is a phone number. While the contacted user has…
Threat actors have launched another malvertising campaign on Google Search. While that is not really anything to write about anymore in this day and age, this time is special. Not only did the threat actors manage to plant scam ads on Google, they did furthermore impersonate Google’s entire product line and used Google domains for…
Influencers play an important role in marketing today. They tend to have a certain reach that makes cooperations with them attractive to companies. It should not come as a surprise that influencers get offers to test devices. Companies send them the devices free of charge in the hope that they get a review by the…
WhatsApp is working on a new feature that will block messages from unknown accounts. Before you get too excited about it, there is a big but coming up soon. If you are using WhatsApp, you may have experienced your fair share of spam. Be it messages from unknown accounts or even calls. Over the past…