Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Now Windows 10 Has C, B, and D Updates. What is Microsoft Smoking?

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Now Windows 10 Has C, B, and D Updates. What is Microsoft Smoking?

According to Microsoft, Windows 10 has “B,” “C,” and “D” updates—but never “A” updates! These updates are released at different times, contain different things, and are offered to different people. Let’s break all this down.   Read More »


Steam And Epic Are In A Game Store Battle, And Players Win

For the last decade and change, Valve’s Steam has been the de facto standard for digital games on the PC. Want a game? Install Steam and download it. New launchers have risen to challenge Steam lately, but none have been so well-positioned to put up a fight as Epic.   Read More »


Watch Out: Clicking “Check for Updates” Still Installs Unstable Updates on Windows 10

Microsoft hasn’t learned its lesson. If you click the “Check for Updates” button in the Settings app, Microsoft still considers you a “seeker” and will give you “preview” updates that haven’t gone through the normal testing process.   Read More »


How Microsoft Is About to Make Google Chrome Even Better

You’ve probably heard Microsoft will base its Edge browser on Chromium, the open-source project that forms the basis for Google Chrome. That won’t just make Edge better—Microsoft contributing to Chromium means Microsoft’s efforts will make Chrome better, too.   Read More »


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The Best Toy Drones For Under $50

So you’d like to buy a drone for your kids for the holidays… but drones are fragile (and expensive). Those two qualities don’t combine well with kids of any age. What’s a parent to do?   Read More »






FYI / Useful Tips and Headlines


Watch Out: Clicking “Check for Updates” Still Installs Unstable Updates on Windows 10
Microsoft hasn’t learned its lesson. If you click the “Check for Updates” button in the Settings app, Microsoft still considers you a “seeker” and will give you “preview” updates that haven’t gone through the normal testing process.   Read More »


New Android Trojan Steals Your Money Using PayPal’s Official App
There have been some bad trojans found on Android, but this is possibly one of the worst. This new threat automates a PayPal transaction for $1000 and sends it using the official PayPal app—even on accounts with 2FA enabled.   Read More »


The PlayStation Classic Gets Hacked for Easy USB-Based Game ROMs
Sony’s PlayStation Classic mini-console has only twenty games pre-loaded, and there’s no built-in mechanism for adding more. But the system also uses a popular open-source PlayStation emulator to run its ROMs, so an unofficial expansion was more or less inevitable.   Read More »




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