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Zak Killian - Tue, Oct 01, 2024
A new optional Windows Update Preview is apparently causing some percentage of users to lose access to their PCs. This is because the update is making the machines enter a "boot loop", where the system attempts to start, fails, restarts...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Apr 13, 2022
We're roughly half way into April and you know what that meansit's time to patch Windows with this month's Patch Tuesday update (KB5012599 for Windows 10 and KB5012592 for Windows 11), which is doled out on the second Tuesday of every...
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Nathan Ord - Wed, Jul 14, 2021
After last week's out-of-band update to patch the PrintNightmare vulnerability, Microsoft has now released more vulnerability fixes as part of Patch Tuesday. With this update, the Redmond, Washington-based company knocked out a whopping...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jul 07, 2021
As if fussing with a printer is not maddening enough, a recent Windows Print Spooler exploit called 'PrintNightmare' left users vulnerable to remote code execution attacks. Not cool. Fortunately, Microsoft has made rather quick work of...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, May 04, 2021
Somehow or another, Adobe's Flash Player has stuck around way longer than it should have, even though Adobe has already stopped supporting it. Adobe also began blocking Flash content from running in Flash Player this past January and...
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Nathan Ord - Sun, Mar 21, 2021
On Friday, Microsoft released another patch to fix some outstanding issues when printing graphical images inWindows 10. It appears that quality assurance is certainly struggling this month; however, as many users are reporting the update...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Mar 16, 2021
Despite all the advancements made in computing, even today the printer can still an extreme source of frustration. Usually it's because the network refuses to recognize the darn thing, and sometimes it's because the printer obsesses over a...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Feb 18, 2021
If you have any last words for the Adobe Flash Player that is embedded in Windows 10, you better speak up now, because Microsoft has begun throwing dirt on its grave. Or more precisely, multiple users have reported a new Windows patch...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Sep 04, 2020
There is a cumulative update available for Windows 10 that is packed to the rafters with bug fixes and various improvements, and most people are probably unaware it exists. That's because it is currently only available as an optional...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Mar 26, 2020
Microsoft has had more than its fair share ofWindows 10 quality control problemsover the past few months, with one of the most recent ones relating to its Windows Defender anti-malware software. As we reported earlier this week, users...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Oct 19, 2018
Microsoft is still testing its October 2018 Update for Windows 10 after taking it offline to investigate reports of missing files. The issue is purportedly fixed, though Microsoft is not yet ready to start doling it out to the general...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Feb 01, 2018
We don't think that we'd be out of line if we said the revelation of the Meltdown and Spectre chip vulnerabilities and the resultant mitigations have been somewhat of a disaster. It's bad enough that the vulnerabilities exist at all, but...
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Shane McGlaun - Mon, Jan 29, 2018
The two most worrisome vulnerabilities in computers to have surfaced in recent months areSpectre and Meltdown, which were first first disclosed earlier this month. These flaws collectively affect processors from Intel, AMD, and ARM. The...
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Seth Colaner - Fri, Oct 11, 2013
If you’re an avid Facebook stalker, here’s some good news: Facebook is removing the feature that formerly let users prevent others from finding them by searching for their name in the Facebook search bar. If you’ve been successfully avoiding old classmates, a crazy ex, your...
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Seth Colaner - Thu, Sep 26, 2013
In celebration of its 15th birthday, Google announced that it has overhauled its search algorithm. The new tool is called Hummingbird, and its chief feature is conversational search; in other words, when you make a search query, instead of...
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Seth Colaner - Wed, May 22, 2013
Google’s original search engine is very old in terms of tech time, although of course the company has continuously upgraded and tweaked it over the years, improving this algorithm or adding that feature. It’s fitting, then...
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Jennifer Johnson - Wed, Dec 17, 2008
As we mentioned last week, Microsoft confirmed an unpatched bug in Internet Explorer that hackers are exploiting. Now, the company is issuing an emergency security patch for all versions of Internet Explorer. In an advance notification of the patch, Microsoft describes it as protection against...
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