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Microsoft released an update on March 10, 2026 addressing CVE-2026-23673, a local elevation‑of‑privilege vulnerability in the Windows Resilient File System (ReFS) that Microsoft describes as an out‑of‑bounds read which can be abused by an authorized local user to escalate privileges on affected...

Enable and Use Windows 11 Dev Drive (ReFS) for Faster Builds + Defender Performance Mode Difficulty: Intermediate | Time Required: 20 minutes Windows builds can feel slower than they should—especially when your toolchain constantly creates, reads, and deletes thousands of small files (NuGet...

Windows 11’s quietly powerful Dev Drive feature is one of those under‑the‑radar tools that can materially shorten build times and repository operations by changing where — and how — your project files live on disk, and it’s worth a hard look if you do any software development, frequent...