How to Fix a Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
Its appearance is a cause for concern if not consternation. You might be in the middle of working on a project, reaching […]
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Megaupload founder will be extradited to the U.S. to face criminal charges — now-defunct file-sharing website had cost film studios and record companies over $500 million
After a dozen years of court hearings in New Zealand, the country’s justice minister has announced Kim Dotcom will be extradited to […]
Cult Sci-Fi author repackages WordStar 7 DOS — 680MB zip has software, emulators, manuals, and tips squished in
Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning Science Fiction Writer, Robert J. Sawyer, has painstakingly packaged a distribution of WordStar 7.0d for DOS. Sawyer says […]
Microsoft will axe the Paint 3D app soon — will be removed from the Microsoft Store in November, cementing classic Windows Paint’s revival
Paint 3D, which was once billed as the modernized replacement of the classic Microsoft Paint app, is ironically getting the axe just […]
Linux boot time reduced by 0.035 seconds thanks to a one-line kernel patch — aligning the slab in the ACPI code makes Linux boot faster
Linux systems already boot relatively fast, but it’s never fast enough. So, when Linux engineer Colin Ian King (via Phoronix) discovered that aligning […]
Windows Downdate exposes updated OS to old vulnerabilities — vulnerability allows undetectable downgrade attacks to undo security patches
Over the past year, SafeBreach researcher and former Brazilian jiu-jitsu athlete Anon Leviev has developed a proof-of-concept Windows Downdate tool. This tool […]
How to Make Windows 11 Look and Feel Like Windows 10
Nearly three years after it came out and a year before Windows 10 reaches its end of life, Windows 11 still accounts […]
The 5 worst Windows 11 distractions and how to stop them
Using Windows 11 these days is like living with Vince the ShamWow guy as your roommate, and he won’t shut up until […]
Secure Boot key compromised in 2022 is still in use in over 200 models — an additional 300 more use keys are marked ‘DO NOT TRUST’
Software security firm Binarly discovered in 2023 that devices from Acer, Dell, Gigabyte, Intel, and Supermicro had compromised Secure Boot. The cryptographic […]
Microsoft’s EU agreement means it will be hard to avoid CrowdStrike-like calamities in the future
CrowdStrike’s buggy software update and its kernel-level access to Windows lethally combined to cause the massive outage last week. One of the […]