Microsoft recently released its January 2025 Patch Tuesday cumulative update, which included security updates for 159 flaws across Windows OS, Microsoft Office, .NET, Azure, Kerberos, and Windows Hyper-V. These included eight zero-day vulnerabilities, of which three are under active exploitation and five are publicly known flaws. “Of the patches released today, 11 are rated Critical, and the other 148 are rated Important in severity. This is the largest number of CVEs addressed in any single month since at least 2017 and is more than double the usual amount of CVEs fixed in January,” Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) program researchers wrote in an analysis ....

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Monday testified as a witness for the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) antitrust case against Google for using its dominance to create a monopoly in the search industry. The DoJ has accused Google of using anticompetitive practices to maintain its monopoly in the search and search advertising markets. This involved the company illegally paying $10 billion per year to smartphone makers like Apple and wireless carriers such as AT&T to remain the default search engine on mobile devices and browsers around the world....

Microsoft is finally rolling out the process of killing support for 32-bit systems on future Windows 10 devices beginning with the next version of Windows 10’s May 2020 Update (version 2004). For those unaware, Windows 10 operating system can run on both 32-bit and 64-bit processor architectures. While 32-bit processors are perfectly capable of handling a limited amount of RAM, 64-bit processors can handle more data at once and are capable of storing more computational values, including memory addresses, as compared to the 32-bit based CPU....

Microsoft has rolled out a major update to its Teams video calls that increases the number of participant views in a call by more than double. Currently, when hosting a video call with Teams, the number of participants is limited to four (or a 2×2 grid) on screen at a time, irrespective of the number of participants in the meeting. However, the new update will now allow nine (or a 3×3 grid) participants on a single screen....

Microsoft backtracks after public outcry, to provide support for Intel’s sixth generation Skylake processors run Windows 7/8.1 PC/laptops After a tremendous public outrage over Microsoft’s decision to exclude Skylake processor run Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 from receiving security updates, Satya Nadela run tech giant has now backtracked and said that will support Skylake PC’s running on Window 7/8.1. Users will remember that Microsoft announced back in January it will stop providing support and security fixes for all PCs running Intel’s sixth generation Skylake processors....

Almost six months ago, Netflix launched its new ad-tier subscription plan. You will be surprised to know that, Netflix Ad Tier now has five million monthly active users. Surprisingly, the ad tier customer numbers have doubled since January 2023. Netflix also revealed that the median age of users on the ad tier is 34. In an official statement, Netflix’s Co-CEO Greg Peters stated that, “The signals are promising: engagement on our ads plan is similar to our comparable non-ads plans....

If you have been sharing your Netflix password with family members who do not reside with you, be ready to pay extra for sharing your account, as the streaming giant is reportedly going to start cracking down on password sharing in 2023. The company announced in its earnings report on Thursday that it was planning to roll out its ‘paid sharing’ scheme ‘more broadly’ on its platform toward the end of the first quarter of 2023....

A new leak suggests that Microsoft’s next major iteration of the PC operating system, Windows 12, may not be a free upgrade, which means it could likely be a subscription-based OS. The leak comes from a German media outlet Deskmodder (via Neowin), who found many such subscription-centric entries in the INI configuration file of the Canary channel build. The additional lines of code suggest a subscription-centric direction for Windows 12 when compared to those in the Windows 11 23H2 Release Preview build using WinMerge....

Website of Amesbury Town Council, United kingdom was hacked and defaced by Moroccan Ghosts today. The defaced website of Amesbury town council (https://www.amesburytowncouncil.gov.uk/) shows a short text message and a Audio message in support of iraq. The Defacement was Announced on official Facebook page of Moroccan Ghosts. Moreover 10 more websites from united kingdom was hacked by Moroccan Ghosts. Don’t be a silent user let us know what do you think about it in comments below 🙂

Speedtest.net is a popular web service around the world that provides free analysis of internet access performance metrics. Now, Ookla, makers of the original Speedtest.net website, has launched a new free VPN service: Speedtest VPN, to spread its reach in the VPN market. For those unaware, a Virtual Private Network (VPN) is an internet security tool that encrypts your device’s internet connection in order to secure your online privacy while browsing the internet....

Plex, one of the most popular global streaming media services, on Wednesday announced a potential data breach involving one of its databases. The company claims that the “impact of the incident is limited” and has advised all its Plex users to change their passwords immediately “out of an abundance of caution”. In a warning letter sent to its users via email, the company said that they detected a suspicious activity in one of the Plex databases on Tuesday and immediately started an investigation....

Semiconductor manufacturer Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., on Thursday, announced the world’s first satellite-based two-way capable messaging solution provided through satellite telecommunications company Iridium for next-generation premium Android smartphones, at the ongoing Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2023 in Las Vegas. The functionality, called “Snapdragon Satellite”, is similar to Apple’s “Emergency SOS” via satellite, which was rolled out alongside the iPhone 14 and iPhone Pro 14 models to text emergency services when you are out of cellular and Wi-Fi coverage....

Microsoft users in Russia are unable to download and install Windows 10 and 11 OS image (ISO) files as well as installation tools from Microsoft’s Russia official website, according to a report by Russian news agency TASS which first shared the problem. As per the TASS agency, it was greeted with an Error 404 message, saying the file or directory was not found when trying to download either OS. However, the download occurs when using a VPN (Virtual Private Network) with the IP address of another country....

At CES 2020, Samsung’s research subsidiary, STAR Labs had unveiled its “artificial human” project called NEON – a computationally created virtual being that looks and behaves like a real human with the ability to show emotions and intelligence. Just one year after debut, Samsung has announced three new commercial products into the real world based on the NEON project. These products are NEON View, NEON Frame, and the NEON Studio, which will be part of the company’s NEON WorkForce and NEON Content Creation services....

TeleMessage, an Israeli software company that sells a modified version of the encrypted messaging app Signal to the U.S. government, has temporarily suspended its services following reports of a significant security breach. According to a report from tech news site 404Media , the app was reportedly compromised, raising concerns about the security of unofficial tools used for classified government communication. TeleMessage allows users to archive messages, including voice notes, from end-to-end encrypted messaging apps like Telegram, WhatsApp, and Signal....

In a move to disengage the public from trading in cryptocurrencies, Singapore’s central bank on Monday issued new guidelines that prohibit crypto firms from promoting their services and products to the public. According to the new guidelines issued by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (“MAS”), which take effect immediately, DPT (Digital Payment Token) service providers will not portray the trading of DPTs in a manner that trivialises the high risks of trading in DPTs, as well as not promote their DPT services in public areas in Singapore or through any other media directed at the general public in Singapore....

The SD card slot introduced in the new 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pro (2021) models is reportedly facing issues, according to multiple complaints on the MacRumors forums . As per the report, while some users pointed out slow transfer speeds as the issues with the 14-inch MacBook Pro (2021) and 16-inch MacBook Pro (2021), some said their MacBook Pro’s SD card reader slot isn’t recognising their SD cards at all....

Skyline Emulator, the popular emulator that ran Nintendo Switch games for Android, is officially shutting down due to the threat of legal action by Nintendo. For those unaware, Skyline is an open-source experimental emulator for Android devices that emulates the functionality of a Nintendo Switch system. It is a Switch emulator that is built by dumping keys from the developer’s own Switches. Skyline team, the developers behind the Skyline Emulator, shared the news via an announcement on the official Discord Server last Friday, and stated that they will be ceasing all further development on Skyline with immediate effect following a DMCA takedown notice from Nintendo against an adjacent project and homebrew software called “Lockpick”....

Have you ever realized how you would look with another person’s face? Face swap is now one of the biggest trends flooding all social media sites. Internet users worldwide are crazily addicted to seeing what their faces looked like when they were babies and what it would be when they are older. Because the camera technologies in our phones have improved massively, there is hardly any part that they left aside....

Cyber Attacks are unwanted and illegal attempts to steal, modify, disable, or destroy data and information through unauthorized access to computing devices. Cyber Attacks target governments, businesses, and individuals. These attacks can render computer information systems, networks, infrastructures, personal computer devices, and smartphones useless. In this article, we have highlighted the true cost of cyber attacks and how they will double down in less than a decade. Cost Of Cyber Attacks To Reach $10....