Hello friends! Welcome to Installer No. 43, your guide to the best and Edge-st things in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, so excited you found us, and you can also read all the back issues on the Installer Homepage.) I read about it this week memexes And telepathy And John Lennon’s wristwatchwatching Presumably … Read more
Taking action to fix your Google Chrome browser could be the catalyst that infects your PC with malware. Millions of users have been warned by new research. Experts from cybersecurity firm Proofpoint have discovered a dangerous campaign that masquerades as a fake update in your Google Chrome web browser to force you to download malicious … Read more
Hackers often take advantage of this malicious documents or illegal software as a way to get their malware onto vulnerable devices, but a new Windows bug could let them do this over Wi-Fi. As reported by Forbesthis new Wi-Fi vulnerability (tracked as CVE-2024-30078) affects all versions of Windows and, if exploited, could be used by … Read more
I’ve been a lifelong Windows user, but Microsoft’s foolish push to shove AI into everything is starting to make me feel like I need to bite the bullet and switch to Macs. I grew up using Windows PCs almost exclusively, so I’ve never felt completely at home with macOS. And while Windows 11 has its … Read more
It’s not too wrong to say that Windows 11 adoption hasn’t been as great as Microsoft had initially hoped. Just a month after the operating system’s release, the company began pushing the update to more systems, citing “positive” feedback. And much more recently, in February of this year, Microsoft published an ad explaining why users … Read more
Microsoft has canceled the wide release of Recall – the controversial tool for Copilot+ PCs that takes regular snapshots of a machine to create an overview of everything users do with their machines – and will instead only make it available for the foreseeable future to Windows Insiders. Recall was announced on May 20, when … Read more
Patch Tuesday Microsoft kicked off our summer season with a relatively light June patch Tuesday, releasing updates for 49 CVE-marked security flaws in its products — including a bug that was considered critical, a pretty scary bug in wireless networking, and one that was made public. The one that is publicly known and not yet … Read more
By Sayan Sen New · June 11, 2024 1:21 PM EDT View the full version Microsoft has released the June 2024 Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 11 23H2, 22H2, and 21H2. The update for the 23H2 and 22H2 versions is delivered via KB5039212, while the 21H2 update is KB5039213. You will be on build versions … Read more
Microsoft has promised to make several changes to its upcoming Recall feature after a storm of controversy. It’s just been over a few weeks after the Redmond-based company announced Recall as one of a number of exclusive artificial intelligence (AI) features coming to new Copilot+ PCs, such as the Surface laptop 7 And Samsung Galaxy … Read more
Many who live in Verulam House say the bill is equal to their annual salaries Residents of a tower block claim they are facing ‘bankruptcy’ and homelessness after a council demanded they pay part of a £1.1million bill for new windows. They have been told they would have to pay thousands of pounds for the … Read more