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STALKER 2 has finally arrived, but is it getting good reviews?

A team of hackers from Brazil have taken first place in a hackathon organized by the country's telecoms regulator. The challenge was to develop a solution to prevent non-approved 'pirate' set-top devices from functioning in people's homes. The team say they were able to remotely transfer code which completely disabled a target device. Once implemented, "there will be a general failure in most of the irregular boxes in use," the hacker predicted.

Australia is making waves with its bold move to ban social media for kids under 16, and the UK seems to be eyeing the playbook. The Aussies have proposed legislation that would block under-16s from platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and X. With this legislation, they hope to keep kids safe from the ugly side of the internet (cyberbullying and harmful content). Prime Minister Anthony Albanese summed it up: parents are "worried sick" about what their kids might run into online.

Quick Machine Recovery is a new feature for Windows 11 that helps IT admins fix PCs that are unable to boot.

A massive leak has revealed the inner workings of Graykey, a powerful phone unlocking tool widely used by law enforcement for digital forensics. For the first time, detailed insights have been shared about its capabilities—particularly concerning newer iPhones running iOS 18.

Gravity may not emerge, but some interesting ideas did.

Emergent gravity is a bold idea.

Almost all mainstream browsers these days use Chromium, with Firefox and Safari being the only exception. On the upside, this gives universal compatibility across all browsers. On the downside, one unfortunate change in Chromium affects all browsers at once, and that is exactly what is currently happening to Chrome, Edge, and other Chromium-based browsers.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is pushing to make Google sell its Chrome browser as part of an antitrust case targeting the company’s dominance in online search. This move follows a court ruling in August 2024 that declared that the Mountain View giant had unlawfully maintained its monopoly.

Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Deadpool & Wolverine' tops the chart, followed by 'Megalopolis'. 'The Substance' 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.

Windows 11 version 24H2, which was released on October 1, 2024, is generally considered a solid update with quite a few decent feature upgrades, some welcomed changes, and more (check out our overview here). However, the operating system still requires quite a lot of disk space and comes with many parts that some consider unnecessary, especially when installing Windows 11 24H2 on unsupported hardware.
 
There is now a remedy to that.
 
NTDEV, the maker of the famous tiny11 project, a tool that shrinks the kids Windows 10 and 11, released an updated version of the tiny11 core builder. What is tiny11 core builder? It is a script that lets you shave a lot of parts off the standard Windows 11 image for a very small system installation. The maker of the project positions tiny11 core as a "quick and dirty development testbed" for all sorts of whacky stuff, like running Windows 11 on an iPhone 15 Pro.

This past week, alongside the Patch Tuesday updates for November 2024, the company released its corresponding Setup and Recovery dynamic updates for Windows 11. However, it is also one of those rare times when Dynamic updates for Windows 10 have also been released, and there are several.

This week, Microsoft released its Patch Tuesday update for November 2024. On the Windows 10 side we have KB5046613, KB5046615, KB5046612, KB5046665, and the Windows 11 side we have KB5046617, KB5046633.
 
As often, aside from Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has also released new dynamic updates for WinRE (Windows Recovery Environment), also called Safe OS updates, and Setup updates. We covered the Windows 11 updates earlier today, which you can find in this article here.
 
Interestingly, Microsoft also released Windows 10 Dynamic updates this week, which is very rare as the OS is reaching its end of support (EOS) next year. Speaking of which, these Windows 10 update pages have now been marked with an EOS caution banner.

In this episode of Microsoft Weekly, we look at this month's Patch Tuesday updates, many new preview builds, one dead Insider Channel, gaming news, app updates, and a lot more.

Yes, you can disable thumbnail previews if they're causing problems, or you don't want to use them, and here's how on Windows 11.

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says we'll "come to trust our AI companions with lots of very important information and very important tasks in our lives."

Yesterday, Microsoft released its Patch Tuesday update. On the Windows 10 side we have KB5046613, KB5046615, KB5046612, KB5046665, and the Windows 11 side we have KB5046617, KB5046633.

Microsoft has released Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 11 24H2, 23H2, and 22H2. The 24H2 update is provided via KB5046617, while the 23H2 and 22H2 update is delivered via KB5046633. You will be on build versions 26100.2314, 22621.4460, and 22631.4460, respectively, after applying the update.

It's the second Tuesday of the month, which means it's Patch Tuesday time again. As such, today, Microsoft is rolling out the monthly security update (also called "B release") for November 2024 on Windows Server 20H2 and Windows 10 for the latest supported versions, 20H2, 21H2, and 22H2.

Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Deadpool & Wolverine' tops the chart, followed by 'Joker: Folie à Deux'. 'The Substance' 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 May 2024, VMware made Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro for Mac available for free for personal users, leaving the requirement to purchase dedicated licenses only for commercial customers. Now, a few months later, VMware is making another announcement: It is making its hypervisor software available for free for all, including commercial, educational, and personal users.

You can now open an item as admin using a new shortcut within the Start menu on Windows 11.

Google Chrome's Manifest V3 framework poses a major security threat.

The Snipping Tool is one of Windows 11's best features, and it's getting a big boost soon with a direct keyboard shortcut for text OCR copy and paste.

One of the recent Paint updates introduced a redundant entry for Windows 11's context menu, letting users edit images in Paint without using the "Open with" submenu (currently available only to Windows Insiders, but a stable release is expected soon). Context menus in Windows 11 are already controversial enough, and the latest Paint update does not make things any better. Fortunately, you can remove "Edit with Paint" from Windows 11's context menus quite easily.

In this episode of Microsoft Weekly, we look at new bugs in Windows 11, fixed compatibility issues letting more people update to Windows 11 version 24H2, four new Windows 11 preview builds, more damage to context menus, AI updates, gaming news, and a lot more.