security

Microsoft’s decision to ship a native sudo command in Windows 11 version 24H2 changes a small but stubborn friction point for developers and administrators: one-line elevation from an unelevated console without switching to a permanently elevated session. The feature is simple to use...

Redragon’s latest product drop — a broad lineup of gaming and office peripherals that, according to a TechPowerUp post, even includes an “AI Mouse” — is less a technological leap and more a mirror of the industry’s current marketing choreography: sprinkle “AI” on a product, lean into blurbs...

The shift to permanent remote and hybrid work has forced organizations to rethink how they deliver productivity, collaboration, and security — and the fastest route many companies are taking is through AI-powered tools integrated directly into the employee experience. What began as point...

Google’s long-standing rule — that a primary @gmail.com address is effectively permanent — is finally being loosened: users are being given a way to replace their primary Gmail handle with a new @gmail.com address while keeping the same Google Account, data, inbox and sign-in continuity...

You don't need to switch to Linux to escape subscriptions, telemetry, or vendor lock‑in — a surprisingly large, modern, and usable free‑and‑open‑source (FOSS) ecosystem already runs cleanly on Windows and macOS, and with a little discipline you can eliminate many subscription costs without...

Fresh Windows 11 installs feel great — until you try to get real work done and notice small but persistent gaps: better window management, direct device-to-device syncing, richer phone integration, accurate GPU telemetry and tuning, and per-app network visibility. A compact, well-chosen toolkit...

A new Linux kernel stability and correctness patch was assigned CVE‑2025‑68365 and describes a narrow but important fix in the ntfs3 driver: allocated memory used by ntfs3 was not always zeroed before use, and the upstream remedy is to switch allocation calls from kmem_cache_alloc (or equivalent...

A critical KEDA vulnerability — tracked as CVE-2025-68476 — allows an attacker with the ability to create or modify TriggerAuthentication resources to read arbitrary files from the node filesystem by abusing the HashiCorp Vault service account credential handling in vulnerable KEDA releases, and...

I’ve been using open-source tools to get work done on Windows for years, and a recent roundup that circulated on tech sites made one point crystal clear: a handful of free, community-built apps can replace expensive commercial software and genuinely improve day-to-day productivity. Background /...

Microsoft’s new Security Copilot Dynamic Threat Detection Agent has moved out of the keynote and into customers’ consoles: the agent is now available in public preview and is positioned as a zero‑touch, AI‑driven layer that hunts for false negatives and coverage gaps across Microsoft Defender...

Windows PowerShell 5.1 now halts and asks for confirmation when Invoke‑WebRequest would perform full HTML/DOM parsing that could run scripts embedded in the retrieved page — a deliberate hardening shipped in Microsoft’s December 9, 2025 updates to mitigate a command‑injection / remote code...

A family of popular browser extensions marketed as free VPNs and privacy tools secretly captured and exfiltrated complete conversations with ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude and several other web-based AI assistants—affecting more than eight million installs and creating one of the most...

Microsoft quietly rolled out a trio of dynamic updates in December 2025 that refresh the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) and related setup binaries across multiple supported Windows 11 servicing branches, delivering surgical fixes to the platform’s last‑resort recovery tooling and setup...

Microsoft’s latest clarification removes a key ambiguity in Windows 11’s emerging “agentic” features: AI agents will not be allowed to rummage through your personal files silently — they must request and be granted explicit permission before accessing the six common “known folders” (Documents...

You no longer have to trust random .exe downloads and hope the installer you clicked isn’t a trojan in disguise — modern Windows package managers give you a repeatable, auditable, and substantially safer way to install and update software. Background Package managers centralize and automate...

A critical use‑after‑free defect has been publicly disclosed in the HDF5 library: CVE‑2025‑2913 identifies a flaw in src/H5FL.c (function H5FL__blk_gc_list) that can dereference freed metadata under specific local conditions, creating a realistic denial‑of‑service and memory‑corruption risk for...

Out of the box, that friendly “You’re almost done setting up your PC” prompt is meant to be helpful; in practice it’s the first in a long line of nudges, vendor extras, and optional features that make the first hour with a new Windows PC feel like a cross between a guided tour and a sales...

Brave has quietly opened the next chapter in the browser wars: an experimental, agentic AI browsing mode is available now in Brave Nightly, offering a model-driven assistant that can autonomously browse, act, and complete multi-step tasks inside a purposely isolated profile — but it arrives amid...

A recently recorded vulnerability in the X.Org server and related packages — tracked as CVE-2025-49175 — allows an attacker with local or limited network access to trigger an out‑of‑bounds read in the X Rendering extension’s animated cursor handling, causing crashes and sustained...

ZDNET’s short, pragmatic roundup of “five apps I always install on new Windows PCs” has become one of those compact how‑to pieces that quietly shape many users’ day‑one checklists: the picks — PDFgear, HWMonitor, VLC Media Player, Steam, and Microsoft PowerToys — are small, free utilities that...