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It seems like every piece of modern software now comes with AI to provide its customers with features of questionable quality, practicality, and security. Mozilla and its Firefox browser are not immune to this widespread use of AI, and the company wants to implement AI for better accessibility.st.

Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga' tops the chart, followed by 'Civil War'. ‘'The Fall Guy' 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.

In this episode of Microsoft Weekly, we look at Recall being ported to unsupported hardware, Settings getting some much-needed improvements and features from the legacy Control Panel, some Microsoft-owned titles getting their last updates, the new CoD coming to Xbox Game Pass on day one, and a lot more.

Late on Wednesday, Microsoft released the regular monthly non-security preview update for Windows 11 22H2 and 23H2. The build numbers for the updates were 22621.3672 and 22631.3672, under KB5037853.
 
When the updates dropped, Microsoft's changelog stated, "Microsoft is not currently aware of any issues with this update." However, since then some people who have installed the updates have reported issues with using the taskbar, including reports of it disappearing.

About a week ago, Microsoft started rolling out Windows 11 version 24H2 to Windows Insiders in the Release Preview Channel, giving them access to the latest features and improvements, including new AI-based stuff, such as Recall. However, the update is rolling out gradually, which means some users may not get Windows 11 24H2 right now. Microsoft has updated the official release notes to clarify that and offered a workaround.

After a five-month police investigation, the alleged 'mastermind' behind a nighttime graffiti attack on the 630-year-old Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul, South Korea, has been arrested. Last December, CCTV footage revealed a figure in black spray-painting the words "free movie" time and again. The damage to the culturally significant building was meant to advertise a pirate video site.

A jealous planet guards its secrets closely?

Earlier this month, Mozilla released Firefox 126.0, a new feature update for all users in the Release channel. It was a big update with plenty of new features, such as new privacy tools, AV1 hardware decode on Apple's M3 Macs, Nvidia RTX Video Super Resolution and RTX Video HDR support, and more. Now, the company has pushed a small bug-fixing update to address some issues.

Microsoft continually updates its Edge web browser every few weeks with new features, bug fixes, and security upgrades. However, the company says it has also been quietly trying to increase the overall performance of Edge in the last few stable versions.

Thanks to a flaw in a decade-old version of the RoboForm password manager and a bit of luck, researchers were able to unearth the password to a crypto wallet containing a fortune.

By Susan Bradley

The May releases are once again a bit of a mixed bag, relatively quiet for consumers but a little bumpy for businesses.

Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'The Fall Guy' tops the chart, followed by 'Civil War'. ‘'Atlas' 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.

Video length: 9m 47s
 
0:00 Welcome to Paul’s Tech News - May 26, 2024
1:50 US to Resume China GPU Tariffs; Container crunch sends freight rates soaring
3:24 RTX 5090 Might Have 16 GDDR7 Modules, “Cinderblock” Cooler from 4090 Ti
4:55 Next-Gen LPDDR6 memory to hit 14.4 Gbps, DDR6 up to 17.6 Gbps
6:04 CAMM2 Standard for Memory is coming to Desktop PCs

TECH BRIEFS

6:56 ASUS ROG Ally X specs: 24GB LPDDR5X-7500, big 80Wh battery
7:41 Cooler Master introduces colored ‘AI Thermal Paste’
8:38 Tesla's gaming computer no longer capable of playing Steam games

Recall, the feature Microsoft announced for Windows 11 at its May 20 event, is certainly an interesting addition to the operating system. Unfortunately, getting your hands on it requires buying one of the recently unveiled Copilot+ PCs with Qualcomm Snapdragon X Series processors. However, as expected, enthusiasts have already backported Recall to existing hardware, even on quite low-powered Windows on ARM devices.

In this episode of Microsoft Weekly, we look at Microsoft's May 20 event and the latest Surface computers, Build 2024 announcements, Windows 11 24H2 arriving in the Release Preview Channel, app updates, and a lot more.

Microsoft a few days back, announced that it was beginning the WHCP hardware certification for the next Windows feature update, version 24H2. This essentially ensures that the Windows 11 24H2 system requirements eligibility of compatible CPUs, and such, are properly maintained by hardware partners like AMD, or Intel, among others. While the system requirements are not expected to change, very old processors would not be able to bypass the Windows 11 24H2 eligibility block as they do not have PopCnt and SSE4.2 instructions.

Around a week and a half ago, Microsoft released Patch Tuesday updates for May as it happened to be the second Tuesday of the month. The update, along with security fixes, also resolved a previous buggy KB5036909 Windows Server update that was leading to NTLM traffic spikes in Domain Controllers (DCs). And in some rare instances, there were LSASS crashes were also happening, which were leading to system reboots and a lot of inconveniences for IT professionals.

A few weeks ago, Microsoft quietly updated its official support page where users can learn about the end of support for old Windows versions, such as Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 (both went six feet under in January 2023). Now, the page prominently features Windows 10, which, albeit still supported, will reach its end of life next year.

Here's what you need to know about how Windows Recall works on Windows 11.

On Windows 11, Recall is a feature that uses AI to record everything you've done on the computer and then makes that information searchable to help you find anything you have done in the past, from a message to a file or folder, a website, and virtually anything. 

Earlier today, Microsoft officially released the next major Windows 11 feature update, version 24H2, to the Release Preview Insider channel with build 26100.712. The release coincides with that of the evaluation ISOs for Windows Server 2025 preview as well as the release of Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024.

Windows 11 already has pretty decent support for compressed files (more improvements are coming with version 24H2). However, it still cannot beat dedicated apps like 7-Zip or NanaZip, which offer better performance and more features. Speaking of features, NanaZip has just received a big new update. Version 3.0 is now available for download with a reworked Windows 11-like UI, Mica, better dark mode, and more.

Check out the new AI features exclusive to Copilot+ PCs with our expert!

Windows 11 version 24H2 is now much closer to its public release. Microsoft shipped the update to testers in the Release Preview Channel, which is the last stage before general availability. Release Preview updates traditionally land much more polished, making the channel appealing to customers who want to try the upcoming features without the risk of encountering heavy bugs.

Stardock has a new version of Fences 5, the app that helps Windows 10 and 11 users keep their desktops clean and well-organized. Version 5.5 is now available for download with a new engine that should improve the experience on multi-monitor systems.

Rufus, which is one of the most popular third-party utilities for creating bootable media, has received the latest update today. The new version, 4.5.2180, is available for download now and is based on the beta that was released earlier this month.