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Microsoft has updated its Edge Lifecycle documentation with details about the end of its browser support on Windows 10. The operating system (and a bunch of other products) will receive its final public update on October 14, 2025, but the Extended Security Updates program grants Windows 10 users from one to three years of additional security-only updates. As such, Microsoft will also continue updating the Microsoft Edge browser with fixes, security patches, and new features.

What is Windows going to look like in five years and how are you going to interact with the computer system? 

Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Jurassic World: Rebirth' tops the chart, followed by '28 Years Later'. 'The Pickup' completes the top three.
 
The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only.
 
Downloading content without permission is copyright infringement. These torrent download statistics are only meant to provide further insight into piracy trends. All data are gathered from public resources.

Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 in a couple of months, including the very early versions. Thus users are now having to upgrade their OS to Windows 11 from 10. For those having issues,

Microsoft recently killed a simplified taskbar clock for Windows 11, citing negative feedback from users. As such, Windows 11's clock will remain unchanged, unless you use some custom software to upgrade with additional features. This Windhawk mod might be just what you need.

This week's news recap is here with some bad news for Windows 10 users with AMD's X3D processors, new Windows 11 builds with useful updates, big performance improvements for Microsoft Edge, Mozilla under fire, gaming news, and more.

Almost three weeks ago, Mozilla released Firefox 141 that, among other features like memory optimizations for Linux and a built-in unit converter, brought controversial AI-enhanced tab groups.

A recently fixed WinRAR vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-8088 was exploited as a zero-day in phishing attacks to install the RomCom malware.
 
The flaw is a directory traversal vulnerability that was fixed in WinRAR 7.13, which allows specially crafted archives to extract files into a file path selected by the attacker.

Discover some of the Windows 11 defaults that most regular users never notice from a new setup.
Windows 11 comes with a set of default configurations that sometimes go unnoticed, and in this guide, I'll highlight nine of them.

It is a busy day for Windows 11 Insiders, as Microsoft just dropped a trio of new preview builds in the Dev, Beta, and Canary Channels. Windows 11 build 26200.5742 (Dev) and build 26120.5742 (Beta) are now available for download, with more Control Panel elements making their way to the Settings app in a more modernized form. There are also traditional bug fixes and a redesigned mobile device companion for the Start menu in the Dev Channel. Here are the details.

By Susan Bradley
 
Windows 11 24H2 is a large update that takes some time to install. Don’t do this close to Patch Tuesday.
 
And because new patches are a mere five days away, it’s time to defer everything except critical or emergency patches until I’ve spent the time to understand any side effects. Accordingly, MS-DEFCON goes up to 2.

Ten of 21 known cockatoo species exhibit dance behavior, and one bird executed 17 unique moves.

Snowball the dancing cockatoo gets down with his bad self to the Backstreet Boys.

Microsoft veteran engineer Raymond Chen explains the "app is preventing shutdown" warning that can get in the way.

The company has teased multiple times that the future of Windows will be one where the OS is agentic, capable of handling entire workflows on your behalf, just by asking for it.

Microsoft has published a new video that appears to be the first in an upcoming series of videos dubbed "Windows 2030 Vision," where the company outlines its vision for the future of Windows over the next five years. It curiously makes references to some potentially major changes on the horizon, in the wake of AI.

Microsoft, in March earlier this year, published a new Xbox Game Bar update that changed the look and feel of the application. The app is essentially Microsoft's in-house overlay for Windows for gaming and helps monitor resource usage, as well as capture gameplay screenshots and videos, and more.
 
While it may not matter for everyone as there are several third-party utilities like MSI Afterburner (RivaTuner), as well as ones from AMD or Nvidia, the Game Bar is an absolutely vital component for some of the fastest AMD Ryzen CPUs out there.

For a productivity-focused operating system, Windows 11 has quite a lot of nags and prompts that often irritate users with their uncalled appearances. One of them is the so-called SCOOBE or Second-chance out-of-box experience. It shows up when you log in and won't let you get to the desktop until you get through all the extra prompts Microsoft throws at you. SCOOBE is one of those things I recommend turning off the moment you install Windows 11, and while Microsoft is not removing it, the company makes some useful changes to make it less annoying.

Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? '28 Years Later' tops the chart, followed by 'Thunderbolts'. 'How to Train Your Dragon' completes the top three.

The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only.
 
Downloading content without permission is copyright infringement. These torrent download statistics are only meant to provide further insight into piracy trends. All data are gathered from public resources.

With the support for Windows 10 winding down, Microsoft, AMD, Asus, Dell, among other vendor companies, are urging users to upgrade to Windows 11. For those running older hardware that can not upgrade to the latest Windows OS due to ineligibility, Microsoft officially recommends purchasing a new system, and per the company's suggestion, it is even better if it is a Copilot+ PC.

This week's news recap is here with the 10th anniversary of Windows 10, some Windows 11 editions going six feet under, a drama between Microsoft and LibreOffice, WinUI going open-source, some good gaming news at long last, fresh Windows 11 preview builds, and more.

Drones can now carry significant payloads.

In early 2024, Microsoft moved a useful mouse feature from PowerToys to Windows 11's Settings app, allowing users to toggle the mouse cursor crosshair for better accessibility without resorting to third-party apps. However, shortly after, Microsoft pulled this feature, quoting the need to fix some bugs. Nearly a year and a half later, the mouse crosshair is back in Windows 11.

The Business Court in Brussels, Belgium, has issued an unprecedentedly broad site-blocking order that aims to restrict access to shadow libraries including Anna's Archive, Libgen, OceanofPDF, Z-Library, and the Internet Archive's Open Library. In addition to ISP blocks, the order also directs search engines, DNS resolvers, advertisers, domain name services, CDNs and hosting companies to take action.

Any YouTuber wrongly labeled a teen must provide an ID, credit card, or selfie.
Privacy experts are demanding transparency after YouTube announced it would test using AI to estimate user ages in the US ahead of a wider rollout of the age check system.

Windows 10 is 10 years old now and fast approaching its end-of-life (EoL) date. This deadline will likely impact milions of PCs over the globe as many simply can't upgrade to Windows 11 due to its requirements for processors and the dreaded TPM 2.0. However, there are third-party tools which can unofficially give aging PCs a new lease on life, and one such example is Flyby11. Now, the popular utility has received an update which gives it a new name and some fresh capabilities.

Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'How to Train Your Dragon' tops the chart, followed by 'Lilo & Stitch'. 'Superman' completes the top three.
 
The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only.
 
Downloading content without permission is copyright infringement. These torrent download statistics are only meant to provide further insight into piracy trends. All data are gathered from public resources.