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Microsoft has released the Windows 11 KB5010386 cumulative update with security updates, performance improvements, and fixes for an LDAP bug.
 
KB5010386 is a mandatory cumulative update as it contains the February 2022 Patch Tuesday security updates for vulnerabilities discovered in previous months.

Arm owner SoftBank will instead spin the business off via an IPO.
SoftBank’s $66 billion sale of UK-based chip business Arm to Nvidia collapsed on Monday after regulators in the US, UK, and EU raised serious concerns about its effects on competition in the global semiconductor industry, according to three people with direct knowledge of the transaction.

Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'House of Gucci' tops the chart, followed by ‘Nightmare Alley'. 'Eternals' completes the top three.

Later this year, Microsoft is planning to launch the first big update for Windows 11. The update is reportedly codenamed "Sun Valley 2," and it is expected to ship with a new Task Manager, improvements to Start Menu and Taskbar, and more

This was an interesting week in the Microsoft-verse with lots of news flowing in from a variety of diverse topics. There was some new information regarding upcoming Windows 11 updates as well as some reports related to cybersecurity. Find out more in our weekly digest for January 29 - February 4!

Disappointed with the lack of US response to the Hermit Kingdom's attacks against US security researchers, one hacker took matters into his own hands.

ESET has released a bunch of product updates across the stack which fix a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability that affected its products. The problem stemmed in the Windows Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI) scanning feature, and the exploitation of it by threat actors could lead to LPE.

Although it's difficult to top last week's roundup containing news about Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard in terms of scale, there was a lot to cover this week in the world of Microsoft. Join us as we recap news about a bunch of Teams enhancements, a new Windows 11 update on the horizon, and some interesting stuff related to Microsoft in the UK, for our weekly digest of January 22 - January 28.

Microsoft changed the rollout status of its Windows 11 operating system to broad deployment on January 26, 2022; the new status means that Windows 11 will be offered to all eligible devices ahead of schedule.
 
Windows 11 was released in October 2021 but offered to select devices only initially. The staged rollout starts with devices that are most likely to experience no or little issues. Microsoft's initial plan was to offer Windows 11 to all eligible devices by mid-2022.

In a blog post published earlier today, Microsoft has confirmed that it’s bringing “new experiences” to Windows 11 next month. According to the blog post, Windows 11 users will finally be able to run Android apps from next month. The company will also bring taskbar improvements, redesigned apps, which include Notepad and Media Player. Although not officially confirmed, all these new changes are likely to be part of the first big update of Windows 11.

RARLAB, the developer of the archiving software WinRAR, released WinRAR 6.1 in January 2022. The new version of WinRAR changes the system requirements, as support for Microsoft's Windows XP operating system has been dropped in the version.

Many developers have ended support for Windows XP for their programs already. Programs such as Firefox, Chrome, Audacity, Sumatra or Dropbox do not support the operating system anymore.

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.