Project Silica aims to provide a cheaper, higher-quality alternative for preserving digital content in the long-term Forward-looking: Data storage and archiving technologies are areas of particular interest for companies like Warner Bros., where a significant chunk of the world’s entertainment media is
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Microsoft releases Windows 10 patch that fixes audio issues, also breaks printers
We’ve been here before Facepalm: Can Microsoft release a bug-fixing update for Windows 10 without it causing new problems? Apparently not, it seems, as yet again the company has released a cumulative update that breaks something else. This time, it’s printers that
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This free Windows 10 upgrade offer still works. Here’s why — and how to get it
More than three years after Microsoft’s free upgrade offer officially ended, people are still reporting successful Windows 10 upgrades from older machines. Here’s the latest extremely unofficial report. In January 2017, I wrote a post titled “Here’s how you can
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Mozilla relaunches Test Pilot with a new ‘Private Network’ extension for Firefox
Don’t call it a VPN though. Why it matters: Mozilla is reviving its Test Pilot program and bringing with it a beta version of its Private Network extension. While it functions similarly to a VPN, Mozilla wants to appeal to privacy advocates
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A critical flaw in VLC media player leaves PCs exposed, VideoLAN says otherwise
The issue isn’t reproducible, according to VideoLAN What just happened? Given its popularity, there’s a high chance that you have the VLC media player installed on your PC. Unless you’re running macOS, your Windows, Linux or Unix machine is reportedly susceptible to
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Microsoft: Flash will die on Windows 10’s new Edge in line with Google Chrome
Microsoft updates its plans for Adobe Flash on the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser. Microsoft has detailed how it will follow through with its plan to remove Adobe Flash from its Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser. Not surprisingly, Microsoft will retire
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Windows 10, three years later: Why this is as good as it gets
Based on Microsoft’s own track record, there’s a certain statistic “sweet spot” for Windows releases, and the May 2019 update appears to be it. For experienced IT veterans—and PC enthusiasts—there is a common wisdom about the latency between when a
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The Best Ransomware Protection for 2019
Have you heard about a ransomware attack? Or experience getting a pop-up on your computer screen that someone has access to your computer or to your personal files and demands you to pay for a certain amount to get your
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