Windows, Security & Privacy, Open Source and more
Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 11 version 24H2 release will block certain tweaking apps from running or making modifications to the system. When you look at Windows development of the past ten years, you may notice a trend: certain options get removed without proper alternative. The release of Windows 11 is a prime example. Suddenly, users could…
If you found great helpful content online, you may want to save it for safe keeping. Screenshots are one option to do that. There are others, including saving the entire webpage to the local system or using tools such as SingleFile. All operating systems support the creation of screenshots natively. On Windows, you’d just use…
Vlogger is the latest AI tool that may generate videos. While there are plenty of tools around, Vlogger seems special. It can take a single input image of a person and generates a video out of it. Apart from generating the video, Vlogger may also create audio. This works well in conjunction with an existing…
Browser extension Limit promises to keep you focused on important tasks by setting time limits for distracting websites. We have all been there probably: you need to focus on “something” important on your electronic devices but are distracted all the time. Notifications, chat messages, a quick browse on YouTube, checking your social media feed, or…
Yesterday, Microsoft announced the price that organizations have to pay to extend Windows 10 support after October 2025. What Microsoft did not say was how much consumers will have to pay to keep their Windows 10 systems supported. The Windows 10 operating system will reach end of support in October 2025. This means, that Microsoft…
Google is working on a new security feature for the Web that aims to protect users against cookie theft malware better. Called Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC), its main purpose is to bind cookies to the user’s device. To better understand this, it is necessary to analyze the current situation. When you sign-in to a…
Mozilla will release another point update for Firefox 124 later today. Firefox 124.0.2 is a bug fix update that addresses four non-security issues in the browser. Apart from a crash on Linux AArch64, it is fixing a video playback issue that is causing video playback on sites such as Netflix to go blank or crash…
When Microsoft released Windows 10 in 2015, it introduced the new Settings app. Back then, Microsoft said that the app would replace the ancient Control Panel in the future. And so it began. The initial version of Settings lacked many options that the Control Panel offered. Users and administrators had to juggle between the two…
Update: A workaround is now available that fixes the issue. If you use Invidious to access YouTube videos, you may have noticed that most (all?) instances are broken right now. Attempts to play YouTube videos are met with error messages. Messages such as “the video returned by YouTube isn’t the requested one” are thrown by…
In the past 20 or so years, browsers have grown significantly. From tools used solely to display webpages to general purpose tools. Yes, you can still open webpages in modern browsers, but that is not all. Nowadays, browsers are used to watch media streams, play highly demanding games, or do your homework. It comes as…