security

AlfredCamera turns idle smartphones into working security cameras, but the path from “install and forget” to a safe, reliable PC-based monitoring station requires careful choices — this feature unpacks what Alfred delivers, what it doesn’t, and how to run it on Windows or macOS with minimal...

Forty years after the first Windows shell rolled out of Redmond, the operating system that reshaped personal computing is both an institution and a lightning rod — an evolving platform whose technical legacy, market dominance, and latest pivot toward agentic AI are provoking fresh debates about...

A newly recorded high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-64671, affects GitHub Copilot integrations for JetBrains IDEs and is described as a command-injection flaw that can lead to local code execution under an interactive user account — a class of bug that elevates risk for developer...

Microsoft’s AI push across Windows has reached a critical inflection point — one where bold technical ambition collides with real user expectations, privacy anxieties, and the hard economics of enterprise adoption. The company’s drive to make AI a first‑class part of the operating system — from...

Microsoft has quietly removed one of the most annoying adoption barriers for Smart App Control (SAC) on Windows 11: starting with Insider Preview build 26220.7070 (packaged as KB5070300), SAC can now be switched on or off from the Windows Security app without forcing a clean reinstall of the OS...

Microsoft has quietly removed the long-standing clean install requirement for Smart App Control (SAC), making the Windows 11–exclusive security feature toggleable from the Windows Security app without reinstalling the operating system — a change now rolling out to Windows Insiders and being...

A carefully crafted signed-division bug in the Linux kernel’s BPF implementation — tracked as CVE-2024-49888 — can cause a kernel crash (an OOPS) on x86_64 systems when a BPF program triggers specific signed divide or modulo operations with minimum-integer operands, and the upstream fix now...

curl’s SFTP support shipped with a wolfSSH backend that never performed host‑key verification, creating CVE‑2025‑10966 — a subtle but meaningful libcurl vulnerability that was fixed by removing the wolfSSH backend in curl 8.17.0 and replacing it with safer defaults. Background The libcurl...

Google Assistant is not available as an official native app for Windows, but a well-established community desktop client and a handful of supported workarounds let Windows users run Google Assistant-like voice control on a PC — provided you accept the tradeoffs around security, maintenance, and...

Changing AutoPlay defaults in Windows 11 is a two‑minute fix that can save repetitive clicks when you connect USB drives, phones, SD cards, or insert discs — but the feature sits at the intersection of convenience and security, and understanding both the Settings UI and legacy recovery options...

Sophos has pushed one of the most consequential security integrations of the year into the Microsoft ecosystem: Sophos Intelix for Microsoft 365 Copilot places Sophos X‑Ops threat intelligence — reputation lookups, static and dynamic file analysis, and prevalence context — directly into...

If your PC shows as “incompatible” but you’re determined to run Windows 11, the path forward is clearer — and riskier — than most users realize: Microsoft supplies official upgrade channels for compatible machines, and it also documents limited, unsupported bypasses; the community has wrapped...

The web browser is no longer just a window onto the internet — it is fast becoming an active, context-aware assistant that reads pages, summarizes content, automates tasks and, in some builds, can take multi‑step actions on your behalf. This new generation of AI‑augmented browsers — from...

Microsoft’s new holiday ad asks a simple question with a loaded implication: “what if your computer could talk back?” — and then answers it by putting Copilot front and center in a one‑minute family scene that’s meant to be cozy but landed as anything but unanimous cheer. The commercial, rolled...

Firefox is testing an on‑device backup and restore assistant designed to ease data migration for users moving from Windows 10 to Windows 11 — offering a local “Back up to PC” path (and the existing Sync route) that aims to preserve bookmarks, history, extensions and, optionally, encrypted...

Windows 11’s 25H2 update is less a flashy reboot and more a decisive turn toward intelligent computing — a carefully staged evolution that stitches generative AI, on‑device inference, stronger defaults for security, and practical usability polish into the operating system customers already know...

Microsoft’s latest AI push for Windows — framed in executive posts as Windows “evolving into an agentic OS” and showcased at Microsoft Ignite — touched off an unusually sharp, public backlash that exposed a widening gap between the company’s AI-first marketing and the everyday priorities of...

The eight small, easily overlooked Windows 11 tools Pocket‑lint highlights quietly transform routine workflows into noticeably smoother, more secure, and — in several cases — cross‑device experiences, yet most users never discover them on their own. The list — which includes Universal Clipboard...

A design oversight in the Azure API Management (APIM) Developer Portal lets attackers create user accounts on tenants that administrators have visually disabled signup for — and Microsoft’s public guidance treats this behavior as by design, leaving organizations to rely on configuration changes...

Windows 11’s Settings app hides an odd little toolkit: useful conveniences, accessibility breakthroughs, and developer leftovers live side‑by‑side behind the polished UI. What looks like a tidy control surface is actually a cross-section of Windows history — a mix of modern productivity features...