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Microsoft’s Windows 10 ESU Program: Free, Rewards, or $30 to Stay Secure Until 2027
Windows 10 users now have a clear, albeit time-limited, path to keep their systems patched after the operating system hits its end-of-support milestone on October 14, 2025. Microsoft has opened...
Linux Mint 22.2 'Zara' Beta Debuts Fingerprint Login as Microsoft Lays Out an AI-Powered Windows Future
One day, two dramatically different visions for the desktop. On August 16, while Linux Mint 22.2 "Zara" entered public beta with a polished new fingerprint manager and incremental visual tweaks,...
How Microsoft's Windows 10 Creators Update Rollout Really Unfolded: April 11 Start, Key Features, and the April 4 Myth
Microsoft’s Windows 10 Creators Update didn’t arrive on April 4, 2017, despite what some headlines claimed. The real story is a carefully orchestrated phased rollout that began on April 11—with...
Windows 11 Browser Defaults Face Regulatory Heat as Perplexity Bids $34.5 Billion for Chrome
Microsoft’s latest maneuvers to steer Windows 11 users toward Edge have collided with an audacious $34.5 billion bid for Google Chrome from AI search startup Perplexity, turning the browser wars...
Google Ships Chrome 139 Fix for ANGLE Out‑of‑Bounds Write, Microsoft Edge To Follow
Google has shipped a critical security update for Chrome, version 139.0.7258.127, to plug a dangerous out-of-bounds write flaw in the ANGLE graphics translation layer. Tracked as CVE-2025-8901, the...
Chrome's File Picker Cross-Origin Leak Prompts Emergency Patch for Windows Browsers
A critical logic flaw in Chromium's File Picker—one of the browser's most sensitive UI components—can be weaponized to leak data across origins, forcing Google and Microsoft to ship urgent...
Firefox Nightly 143 Crashes on Older Windows 10: The 'Missing DLL' That Isn't Really a DLL
Firefox Nightly 143 abruptly stopped working on Windows 10 versions older than 1803 in late 2024, leaving testers with a baffling error about a missing DLL that wasn’t actually a DLL at all. The...
Microsoft’s August Patches Slam Shut 107+ Holes, Including Public Kerberos Flaw and Critical GDI+ RCE
On August 12, 2025, Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday arrived with a payload heavy enough to keep IT admins working through the night. The security slate covers at least 107 distinct...
Edge's Copilot-First 'Olympia' Interface Leaks, Signaling a Radical AI Browser Overhaul
Microsoft's experimental push to reimagine the browser as an AI canvas has taken a tangible turn, with early screenshots of a redesigned Edge interface—codenamed "Olympia"—surfacing from Canary...
Microsoft Patches CVE-2025-49736: Android Edge UI Spoofing Bug Allows Credential Theft
Microsoft has released a patch for a UI spoofing vulnerability in its Edge browser for Android, tracked as CVE-2025-49736. The flaw, which Microsoft classifies as allowing an unauthenticated attacker...
Microsoft Flags UI Spoofing Vulnerability CVE-2025-49755 in Edge for Android
Microsoft’s Security Response Center has disclosed CVE-2025-49755, a user-interface spoofing flaw in Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) for Android that could let attackers trick users into handing...
Microsoft Edge Canary Flags Hint at Targeted Chrome-User Prompts, Renewing Privacy Debate
Hidden feature flags discovered inside Microsoft’s Edge Canary builds point to an experiment that would prompt heavy Chrome users to pin Edge to the Windows 11 taskbar, a tactic that has drawn...