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First, he forgot his PIN — then he started looking for hackers
 
In early 2018, Dan Reich and a friend decided to spend $50,000 in Bitcoin on a batch of Theta tokens, a new cryptocurrency then worth just 21 cents apiece. At first, they held the tokens with an exchange based in China, but within weeks, a broad crackdown on cryptocurrency by the Chinese government meant they would soon lose access to the exchange, so they had to transfer everything to a hardware wallet. Reich and his friend chose a Trezor One hardware wallet, set up a PIN, and then got busy with life and forgot about it.

Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Eternals' tops the chart, followed by ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home'. 'Ghostbusters: Afterlife' completes the top three.

If you closely follow the Microsoft-verse, you know that this was the busiest week of the year so far in terms of the flow of news. This is due to a major acquisition, several Windows updates, and an interesting endeavor from Google. It's possible that you might have missed some events that transpired over the past few weeks, but fret not, we will cover them in our weekly digest for January 15 - January 21.

Activision Blizzard has been in hot water recently due to workplace misconduct allegations, misogynist culture, and more. Multiple lawsuits have been leveled against the publisher and the most recent reports even indicate that almost 40 employees have exited the company since July 2021 and CEO Bobby Kotick's failure to take definitive action.

Axel Springer has lost its copyright infringement lawsuit against Eyeo GmbH, the company behind Adblock Plus. The German publishing house, which owns the Bild and Die Welt brands, among others, claimed that adblockers interfere with the presentation of websites in browsers, thus breaching copyright. In a victory for Eyeo, the Hamburg District Court has dismissed the case.

Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Eternals' tops the chart, followed by ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife'. 'The Matrix Resurrections' completes the top three.

The number of malware infections targeting Linux devices rose by 35% in 2021, most commonly to recruit IoT devices for DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks.

The number of malware infections targeting Linux devices rose by 35% in 2021, most commonly to recruit IoT devices for DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks.

The second week of 2022 has gone by which means that it is time once again to recap everything that happened in the world of Microsoft in the past few days. This week, we have quite a lot of Windows updates content to go through - including some Windows Server concerns -, some Edge enhancements, and Microsoft's endeavors in the retail space, among many other things. Find out about all of this in our weekly digest for January 8 - January 14.

Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Ghostbusters: Afterlife' tops the chart, followed by ‘The Matrix ResurrectionsSpider-Man: No Way Home'. 'Sing 2' completes the top three.

We are at the close of yet another week, which means that it is time to recap what happened in the Microsoft-verse in the past few days. With the holiday season out of the way, the flow of news once again returned to normal and there is lots to cover including an Exchange anomaly, some Windows 11 updates, and a few CES announcements.

Microsoft has updated Edge Stable today to version 97.0.1072.55. This is the first Edge 97 release into the Stable channel.
 
The update brings a large number of fixes and improvements.

Alder Lake Core i5, Core i3, Pentium, and Celeron CPUs round out the lineup.

Intel is giving its desktop processors their first top-to-bottom overhaul in years.

Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'The Matrix Resurrections' tops the chart, followed by ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home'. 'Don't Look Up' completes the top three.

It's the end of yet another week and the start of a new year. Due to the ongoing holiday season, there hasn't really been an influx of news in the past couple of weeks, but that doesn't mean that nothing eventful happened in the latest news cycle. In fact, this week, we received some interesting pieces of information related to Microsoft Edge, Windows 8, and more. Find out in our digest for December 25, 2021 - December 31, 2021.

Now LastPass says some alerts of unauthorized logins that users received were sent in error
 
LastPass says there’s no evidence of a data breach following users’ reports that they were notified of unauthorized login attempts, as reported by AppleInsider. The password manager maintains that it was never compromised, and users’ accounts haven’t been accessed by bad actors.

Microsoft is adding a new feature to Edge, but you're probably not going to like it. The Chromium-based browser now has a games button, because why not?

The feature hasn't made it to the stable channel yet, but according to reddit user, Leopeva64-2, who spotted the option, is available in the Edge Canary Channel.
 
The person also shared some screenshots on the social website to highlight the feature. The toggle for the Games button is located in the Edge > Settings > Appearance page. It is not enabled by default, which is a good thing. Switching it on adds the button to the browser's toolbar. Clicking the said button, displays a modal that pulls content from MSN Games.

Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'The Matrix Resurrections' tops the chart, followed by ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home'. 'Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City' completes the top three.

Coffee is very chemically complex; its different components affect us in different ways.
You’ve probably heard it before: drinking coffee is good for your health. Studies have shown that drinking a moderate amount of coffee is associated with many health benefits, including a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. But while these associations have been demonstrated many times, they don’t actually prove that coffee reduces disease risk. In fact, proving that coffee is good for your health is complicated.
 
While it’s suggested that consuming three to five cups of coffee a day will provide optimal health benefits, it’s not quite that straightforward. Coffee is chemically complex, containing many components that can affect your health in different ways.

In September, Microsoft announced that it is working on an improved, faster, reliable, and super modern-looking Skype. After testing the redesigned app for the past few months, Microsoft recently released the updated Skype app for iOS and Android users. Along with the redesign, this update also includes some new improvements, read about them below.

We are at the end of the week and while it was a relatively slow due to the holiday season, there is still some stuff that is worthwhile to recap in case you haven't been keeping up with our daily coverage. This week, we learned some more about Active Directory (AD) troubles, one of Microsoft's name considerations when christening Cortana, and some interesting stuff about Windows 11 too. Find out more in our recap for December 18 - December 24.

'Wandavision' is the most-pirated TV show released in 2021. The popular Disney+ series decrowned 'The Mandalorian' which topped the chart last year. 'Loki,' another Marvel series, is listed in second place and 'The Witcher' completes the top three.
 
At the end of every year, we take a look at the most-downloaded TV episodes among torrenting pirates.
 
For several years in a row the list was headed by Game of Thrones but that reign came to an end last year after the series ended.

Microsoft Edge may send search results from any search that is run in the browser to Microsoft by default. The feature is not limited to Bing Search, it will inform Microsoft about searches on all search engines, including Google, DuckDuckGo, or StartPage, that users of Edge make, if the setting is enabled.
 
If you are using Microsoft Edge, either as the main browser on the system, as a secondary browser, or only when it is open as the default browser for certain links on the system, then you may want to check the settings of the browser to find out if search data is being sent to Microsoft.

Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' tops the chart, followed by ‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage'. 'French Dispatch' completes the top three.

Microsoft announced earlier today that it will be hosting an all-new "Windows Wednesday" 30-minute live show beginning next year in 2022 on the 5th of January when the pilot episode will be aired.
 
On the show, Microsoft says that it will discuss mostly topics related to development in the Windows environment, but some other stuff may be covered as well. The company says:
 
Some topics we’ll be covering include Windows Terminal, Windows Subsystem for Linux, Windows Sounds, PowerToys, and Fonts, just to name a few.