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By Susan Bradley
 
Last week, Microsoft announced that Windows 11 24H2 is now “broadly available.”

Recent Windows 10 Patch Tuesday updates, which were released on January 14, 2025, have a few known issues, some of which are pretty harmless. However, Microsoft now acknowledged a new bug that affects customers with USB DACs (Digital to Analog converters), causing audio devices to stop working.

An improved battery icon is on the way to Windows 11.

Nvidia's new application, which combines the features of GeForce Experience and the legacy Nvidia Control Panel in one thing, has been updated to version 11.0.2.

DeepSeek’s AI models reportedly rival OpenAI’s for a fraction of the cost and compute.

Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Nosferatu' tops the chart, followed by 'Sonic the Hedgehog 3'. 'Kraven The Hunter' 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.

Last week, Donald Trump issued an executive order to temporarily restore TikTok operations in the US, but the ByteDance-owned app hasn't yet returned to Google and Apple app stores.

In this episode of Microsoft Weekly, we look at Windows 11 version 24H2 becoming broadly available, new features for Windows 10 users, some welcome additions to Windows 11 in the latest preview builds, gaming updates, app updates, some fresh reviews, and more.

The recently released Windows 11 build 22635.4805 from the Beta Channel has some interesting stuff inside it. In addition to the officially announced features like Snap improvements and the gamepad keyboard, enthusiasts discovered that Microsoft is working on a rather unconventional new method to share files.

Kiwi Browser, the fully open-source web browser for Android, is packing things up and leaving the tech world. Its founder, Arnaud Granal, announced the browser's departure on the official Discord server and GitHub repo.

Yes, it's possible to change the location to store screenshots on your computer, and here's how.
On Windows 11, you can choose the location to save screenshots automatically, and in this guide, I will explain how to complete this configuration.

On January 14, 2025, Microsoft released the latest security updates for Windows 10 and 11. As usual, all updates come with a short list of known bugs, which sometimes gets new entries as users report their discoveries or Microsoft makes its own. This time, Microsoft acknowledged a bug in Windows 10, but the company says you should not worry about it.

Your Microsoft account will now remain signed in automatically, which could pose a security risk if people don't know about the change.

Microsoft recently announced a price increase for Microsoft 365 apps for regular consumers. The reason? New AI features are now bundled with Word, Excel, Outlook, and other applications. Sadly, though, with the arrival of new AI-powered experiences, Microsoft quietly removed some of the existing and quite useful features.

Microsoft released January 2025 Patch Tuesday updates on Windows 10 under KB5049981 / KB5050008 / KB5049993 / KB5050013, and Windows 11 under KB5050009, KB5050021 last week. Alongside them, the company also released multiple new Recovery updates for Windows 10 as well as for Windows 11.
 
Besides those, the tech giant has released an OOBE (out of box experience) update today for the newest Windows 11 version, 24H2, as well as Windows Server 2025. The update is available under KB5050575 and as is usually the case with such updates, the company has published a general changelog for it without going into any specific details about what it brings.

Mozilla has released another small update for Firefox 134. Version 134.0.2 is now available for download within the browser or the official website, and the update fixes several issues and bugs. Mozilla's engineers resolved problems with crash reports not showing for some locales, non-working anchored HTML links, bugs with developer tools and extension debugging, and more.

Firefox has supported profiles for a very long time. This may come as a surprise to many users, as the visibility of the feature is lacking. Veteran users know that they can run Firefox with the parameter -p to start the profile manager. There is also about:profiles, which can be loaded in Firefox's address bar.

Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Kraven The Hunter' tops the chart, followed by 'Gladiator II'. 'Venom: The Last Dance' 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 a very interesting company. Windows 10 is nine months away from the end of support, but the company is still adding new features to it while also trying to move as many users to Windows 11 as possible.

Microsoft released January 2025 Patch Tuesday updates on Windows 10 under KB5049981 / KB5050008 / KB5049993 / KB5050013, and Windows 11 under KB5050009, KB5050021 this past week. Alongside them, the company also released new Recovery updates for Windows 11 as well as for Windows 10 (find details about the Windows 11 updates in this article).

Microsoft released January 2025 Patch Tuesday updates on Windows 10 under KB5049981 / KB5050008 / KB5049993 / KB5050013, and Windows 11 under KB5050009, KB5050021 this past week. Alongside them, the company also released Recovery updates for Windows 11 and Windows 10 (fixes the ever-installing KB5048239 bug with a new KB5050411 update).

In this episode of Microsoft Weekly, we look at the first Microsoft 365 price increase for consumers, Patch Tuesday updates, a broader Windows 11 version 24H2 rollout, a big drop of new Windows 11 preview builds, and more.

Reported issues could stem from VPN use or creating an account in the US — but sometimes they’re a mystery.

TikTok’s US shutdown last night appears to be affecting users outside the country as well.

Windows 11 version 24H2 is now available to all users with supported hardware. Despite the now-broad rollout, the operating system has a big list of known issues and upgrade blocks that keep certain users from updating due to compatibility issues. Luckily, Microsoft is busy fixing those issues, and one of the recent upgrade blocks has finally been lifted.

Microsoft has released the latest update on the Domain Controller (DC) hardening roadmap. In case you are not familiar with it, hardening essentially refers to the process of securing the operating system by reducing its attack surface and mitigating potential vulnerabilities.