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Hello, We are excited to let you know that we just opened up the subscription to the early access program for Opera GX, a new and special version of our browser made with those of you who play games in mind. While we can’t reveal more about this new desktop browser just yet, we would like to invite you to be among the first ones to get to know Opera GX once it becomes available. Head over to www.opera.com/gx to subscribe now. We won’t keep…Click to expand… Opera GX, Opera’s first gaming browser

Tails 0.17.2 was released: Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 0.17.2, is out. All users must upgrade as soon as possible. Changes: upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.5; stop displaying obsolete context menu entries (‘Open Tor URL’ and friends); hardware support; update Linux kernel to 3.2.41; temporarily drop the Rendition display driver. Bug fixes: use more reliable OpenPGP key servers; keep udisks users (GNOME Disk Utility, tails-persistence-setup) from resetting the system…Click to expand… Tails Release Announcements

Hi @ Wilders I am on Win 11 24 H2 latest version and have just installed Powershell 7.5.2 (In C:\Program Files\PowerShell). I want to create two shortcuts on my desktop (Not Scripts) to run SFC /Scannow and DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth. I have played about and come up with the following:- 1) SFC /SCANNOW TARGET = “C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7\pwsh.exe” -NoExit -command “sfc /scannow” START IN = Empty 2) DISM RESTORE HEALTH TARGET = “C:\Program… PowerShell 7.5.2

There are increasing reports of people suffering “AI psychosis”, Microsoft’s head of artificial intelligence (AI), Mustafa Suleyman, has warned. In a series of posts on X, he wrote that “seemingly conscious AI” – AI tools which give the appearance of being sentient – are keeping him “awake at night” and said they have societal impact even though the technology is not conscious in any human definition of the term.Click to expand… https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c24zdel5j18o

Engineer Sentenced to Prison for Hacking Utility, Disabling Water Meter-Readers Dark Reading Staff 6/16/2017 A Pennsylvania man is sentenced to more than a year in prison after hacking into a remote water meter reading system run by his former employer.Click to expand…

Qualcomm today announced the new Snapdragon W5+ Gen 2 and W5 Gen 2 wearable platforms for premium smartwatches. These new wearable platforms are the first in the industry to offer direct satellite connectivity, allowing users to enjoy two-way emergency messaging directly from the smartwatch even when mobile networks are not available.Click to expand… https://www.neowin.net/news/qualcom…rable-soc-with-direct-satellite-connectivity/

Beta version 0.11.6 of Brave has activated its Brave Payments, which lets you send micropayments to websites as a reward for not hitting you with ads or trackers. https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/01/a…ou-can-support-sites-with-cash-not-ad-clicks/

Minor update (3) for Vivaldi Desktop Browser 5.6 This update includes fixes for the download panel and borders on older Windows. December 20, 2022 https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/minor-update-three-5-6/

8 China cut itself off from much of the global internet for just over an hour on Wednesday. Activist group Great Firewall Report spotted the outage, which it said disrupted all traffic to TCP port 443 – the standard port used for carrying HTTPS traffic. “Between approximately 00:34 and 01:48 (Beijing Time, UTC+8 on August 20, 2025, the Great Firewall of China (GFW) exhibited anomalous behavior by unconditionally injecting forged TCP RST+ACK packets to disrupt all connections on TCP…Click to expand… China cut itself off from the global internet for an hour on Wednesday

By Iain Martin, Forbes Staff and Emily Baker-White, Forbes Staff. Aug 20, 2025 Elon Musk’s AI firm, xAI, has published the chat transcripts of hundreds of thousands of conversations between its chatbot Grok and the bot’s users — in many cases, without those users’ knowledge or permission.Click to expand…

Fort [1] is a simple firewall for Windows 7+. Features: – Filter by network addresses, application groups – Application group speed limits – Stores hourly, daily, monthly and yearly statistics – Graphical display of bandwidth – No alert popups – Based on Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) – Open Source (GPLv3) [1] https://github.com/tnodir/fort

At DEF CON 33, Czech Republic based security researcher Marek Tóth, unveiled a series of unpatched zero-day clickjacking security vulnerabilities impacting the browser-based plugins for a wide range of password managers including: 1Password, Bitwarden, Dashlane, Enpass, iCloud Passwords, Keeper, LastPass, LogMeOnce, NordPass, ProtonPass, and RoboForm.Click to expand… Post disclosure, several password managers remain vulnerable and exploitable to these vulnerabilities today, including:…Click to expand… Researcher Exposes Zero-Day Clickjacking Vulnerabilities in Major Password Managers

By James O’Donnell August 11, 2025 As the line between helping and judging blurs, the cost of errors is steep.Click to expand…

Cloudfare 2025-08-04 We are observing stealth crawling behavior from Perplexity, an AI-powered answer engine. Although Perplexity initially crawls from their declared user agent, when they are presented with a network block, they appear to obscure their crawling identity in an attempt to circumvent the website’s preferencesClick to expand… . We see continued…Click to expand… Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives

The future of Windows is going to be AI with context-awareness, as Microsoft’s Windows chief says. Windows 11 will be able to see your screen just like how you look at the PC. Microsoft won’t say it’s working on Windows 12, as that doesn’t appear to be the focus right now, but future releases of Windows 11 will be multimodal (voice, vision, and screen).Click to expand… … Microsoft confirms “context-aware” AI features for Windows 11 as future, skips Windows 12 mention

Zeljka Zorz, Editor-in-Chief, Help Net Security August 19, 2025 Three families of Android VPN apps, with a combined 700 million-plus Google Play downloads, are secretly linked, according to a group of researchers from Arizona State University and Citizen Lab.Click to expand… Virtual private networks (VPNs) are widely marketed as tools for enhancing privacy,…Click to expand… Android VPN apps used by millions are covertly connected AND insecure

The final release of Sandboxie-Plus version 1.16.2 / 5.71.2 consolidates and builds upon the significant advancements introduced in the recent pre-releases, delivering a more secure, compatible, and modernized sandboxing experience. This version marks a major step forward in platform modernization. The underlying codebase has been updated to the MSVC 2022 toolset, while the user interface has migrated from Qt 5 to Qt 6. These changes provide better performance, improved security, and access… Sandboxie-Plus 1.16.2

This document outlines security updates for Apple products. Xcode 6.0.1 OS X Mavericks v10.9.4 or later 17 Sept 2014 Apple TV 7 Apple TV 3rd generation and later 17 Sept 2014 iOS 8 iPhone 4s and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later, iPad 2 and later 17 Sept 2014Click to expand… http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

Anyone have experience with this one: – home page Softpedia Major Geeks Supposedly a Network Monitor (Graphical) and outgoing firewall. feandur

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CCleaner 6.0.9727 https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner/download v6.0.9727 (12 May 2022) Helping you to keep your PC running fast and smooth Added a new Performance Optimizer feature Scans for apps that run in the background Allows you to sleep apps that aren’t needed, reducing system load Keeps apps asleep while not in use Wakes apps up safely when needed by you or another application Contains a guide and FAQ… Click to expand… CCleaner v6

Overview The ultimate adblock tool. Block ads on YouTube, Facebook, and all other websites for free! AdBlocker Ultimate is designed with a singular purpose: remove all ads so you can focus your attention on the content you want. Features – Blocks all ads on all web pages, even on Facebook and YouTube – Blocks malware and tracking – Improves browser performance by removing unwanted content – No “acceptable” ads or whitelisted websites/ad networks AdBlocker Ultimate is a free…Click to expand… AdBlocker Ultimate MV3 Chrome extension

Orange Belgium informs its customers about a cyberattack 20/08/2025 https://corporate.orange.be/en/node/57971 At the end of July, Orange Belgium detected a cyberattack on one of its IT systems, resulting in unauthorised access to certain data from 850,000 customer accounts.Click to expand… Article in English, French, Dutch. Something companies and organisations in NL could and should learn from!

Sony will join Microsoft and Nintendo in raising US prices across its entire game console lineup, the company announced today. Pricing for all current versions of the PlayStation 5 console will increase by $50 starting tomorrow.Click to expand… https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/202…ndo-in-hiking-playstation-5-prices-in-the-us/

Two former Harvard students are launching a pair of “always-on” AI-powered smart glasses that listen to, record, and transcribe every conversation, and then display relevant information to the wearer in real time. “Our goal is to make glasses that make you super intelligent the moment you put them on,” said AnhPhu Nguyen, co-founder of the startup that’s developing the technology, called Halo.Click to expand… Ardayfio and Nguyen have raised $1 million to develop the glasses led by…Click to expand… Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation