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 Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growthBy Jowi Morales Published 
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 How to get Windows 11 for free (or less than $15) — Get the latest Microsoft OS for less than the price of Windows 10's ESUBy Avram Piltch Last updated 
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 China releases "UBIOS" standard to replace UEFIBy Sunny Grimm Published 
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 Microsoft rushes out emergency Windows 11 patch after botched update breaks RecoveryBy Luke James Published 
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 Windows 11's October update just broke the Windows Recovery EnvironmentBy Hassam Nasir Published 
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 BitLocker reportedly auto-locks users' backup drives, causing loss of 3TB of valuable dataBy Hassam Nasir Published 
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 Optical drive demand surges amid Windows 10 retirementBy Hassam Nasir Published 
 
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 Microsoft will force install the Copilot AI app for users with desktop versions of 365 apps like Word and ExcelBy Jowi Morales Published 
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 Microsoft offers a one-year free Microsoft 365 subscription to college studentsBy Jowi Morales Published 
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 Pilot’s 50 minute in-flight tech support call failed to avert $200 million F-35 fireballBy Mark Tyson Published 
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 Korean Starbucks bans desktop PCs, printers, and office partitionsBy Mark Tyson Last updated 
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 AWS user’s data returned ‘because one human being inside AWS decided to give a damn’By Mark Tyson Published 
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 AWS accused of a ‘digital execution’ after it deleted 10 years of users' data without warningBy Mark Tyson Last updated 
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 Nvidia is giving away free Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions with access to all softwareBy Hassam Nasir Published 
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 User says access to ’30 years of photos and work’ in OneDrive denied by Microsoft, can't get a response after filing form 18 timesBy Mark Tyson Published 
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 Microsoft finally retires Skype after 22 years of serviceBy Hassam Nasir Published 
 
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Browsers
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 The end of EU-imposed cookie consent pop-ups could be nighBy Mark Tyson Published 
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 Edge browser's new Copilot Mode lets you talk to AI about your tabs if you opt inBy Andrew E. Freedman Published 
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 Google is killing the web with AI Overviews – I made an extension to block themBy Avram Piltch Published 
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 Google tools required for classwork are allegedly being used to build data profiles of each studentBy Ash Hill Published 
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 Microsoft click-baits users with useless 'How to Uninstall Microsoft Edge’ instruction docBy Jowi Morales Published 
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 Google may be forced to sell its Chrome browser due to monopoly complaintsBy Matthew Connatser Published 
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 How to stop Chrome from asking for a PIN when autocompleting passwordsBy Avram Piltch Published 
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 Microsoft Edge popup highlights performance-leeching extensionsBy Christopher Harper Published 
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 Firefox user loses 7,470 opened tabs saved over two years after they can’t restore browsing sessionBy Jowi Morales Published 
 
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Operating Systems
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 Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growthBy Jowi Morales Published 
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 How to get Windows 11 for free (or less than $15) — Get the latest Microsoft OS for less than the price of Windows 10's ESUBy Avram Piltch Last updated 
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 Microsoft rushes out emergency Windows 11 patch after botched update breaks RecoveryBy Luke James Published 
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 Windows 11's October update just broke the Windows Recovery EnvironmentBy Hassam Nasir Published 
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 BitLocker reportedly auto-locks users' backup drives, causing loss of 3TB of valuable dataBy Hassam Nasir Published 
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 Optical drive demand surges amid Windows 10 retirementBy Hassam Nasir Published 
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 Microsoft wants you to talk to Windows 11 PCs again — Copilot gets 'conversational' input to complement your mouse and keyboardBy Andrew E. Freedman Published 
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 Commodore needles Microsoft over end of Windows 10, tries to lure disgruntled users to its Linux-based OS Vision 3.0By Mark Tyson Published 
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 How to upgrade to Windows 11 — make your update as painless as possible now windows 10 support has endedBy Les Pounder Last updated 
 
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Programming
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 Developer recreates classic scroller Zaxxon as a UEFI firmwareBy Mark Tyson Published 
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  Hack to the Future — here's how you can write BASIC code on a modern-day PCBy Les Pounder Published 
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 How to make graphical Python apps the EasyGUI wayBy Les Pounder Published 
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 Apple MacBooks have a sensor that measures the angle of the screenBy Mark Tyson Last updated 
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 GitHub folds into Microsoft following CEO resignationBy Sunny Grimm Published 
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 New FPGA-powered 'laptop' is retro-inspired — OneChipBook-12 dev kit with a built-in display and mechanical keyboardBy Kunal Khullar Published 
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 How To Install Python on Windows 10 and 11By Les Pounder Last updated 
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 The BASIC programming language turns 60, a retrospectiveBy Christopher Harper Published 
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 How To Use Lists in PythonBy Les Pounder Published 
 
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Search Engines
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 AI-driven search engine running inside a laundry room aims to rival Google, and you can try it yourselfBy Jowi Morales Published 
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 Much maligned Google Flu Trends service gets an AI rebootBy Mark Tyson Published 
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 Microsoft suffering from outage — Bing, Copilot, and DuckDuckGo inaccessible for several hoursBy Jowi Morales Published 
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Bing AI Finds Its Voice as It Comes to MobileBy Andrew E. Freedman Published 
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Erasing Authors, Google and Bing’s AI Bots Endanger Open WebBy Avram Piltch Published 
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 China Blocks Bing Despite Microsoft's Censorship ComplianceBy Lucian Armasu Published 
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 Micron Buys Out Intel's Stake in Optane-Fabbing PartnershipBy Lucian Armasu Published 
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 Google Makes it Easier to See and Delete Search HistoryBy Nathaniel Mott Published 
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 Google Ad Practices Under Double-Whammy ScrutinyBy Nathaniel Mott Published 
 
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Security software
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 Malware found hidden in SVG image files, can dodge antivirus detection entirelyBy Luke James Published 
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 Microsoft's Smart App Control blocks malware and has 'lighter impact on your PC’s performance'By Hassam Nasir Published 
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 Defendnot tool pitched as 'an even funnier way’ to disable Windows DefenderBy Mark Tyson Published 
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 Florida sees 1,150% increase in VPN usage due to Pornhub blockBy Kunal Khullar Published 
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 BadRAM attack breaches AMD secure VMs using a Raspberry Pi Pico, DDR socket, and a 9V batteryBy Mark Tyson Published 
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 Microsoft Defender can now detect insecure Wi-Fi hotspots and enable a VPNBy Christopher Harper Published 
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 U.S. customers wake up to find Kaspersky antivirus replaced with UltraAVBy Anton Shilov Published 
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 China's Unisoc launches 'world's first' open architecture RISC-V security chipBy Anton Shilov Published 
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 CrowdStrike President graciously accepts Pwnie Epic Fail award at DEF CON hacking conferenceBy Mark Tyson Published 
 
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More about Software
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 Optical drive demand surges amid Windows 10 retirementBy Hassam Nasir Published 
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 Two Nvidia DGX Spark systems combined with M3 Ultra Mac Studio to create blistering LLM systemBy Zak Killian Published 
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 Microsoft wants you to talk to Windows 11 PCs again — Copilot gets 'conversational' input to complement your mouse and keyboardBy Andrew E. Freedman Published 
 
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