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Clean Windows XP survived 10 minutes on the internet before being infected - it was hit by malware from russia

YouTuber Eric Parker decided to find out how much time it would take for a "naked" Windows XP to be infected with malware in 2024 if the computer is simply connected to the internet and left idle. Using a virtual machine, Parker created an instance o...

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April's Windows security updates could disrupt VPNs

Microsoft reports that April security updates for Windows may disrupt VPN functionality. The company is working on fixing this issue. “After installing the April 2024 security update (KB5036893) or a previous non-security update, Windows devices may...

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"Disgusting and annoying": Microsoft added Copilot to autorun on Windows 11

The corporation Microsoft has added its AI assistant Copilot to the autostart of Windows 11. This was reported in the MSPowerUser. Initially, Copilot was thrown into autostart in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23615. But the idea was abandoned. How...

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The interface of the "Format Disk" window in Windows, created as a temporary window, has remained unchanged for nearly 30 years

Among developers, there is a common rule - if something works well, don't touch it. Perhaps it is because of this rule that for almost 30 years one of the popular functions in Windows operating systems has not changed - the "Format" command window. A...

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Microsoft will improve text rendering in Chrome on Windows PCs

After several years of complaints, Microsoft has finally made changes to Chromium that should improve text rendering in Google's browser on Windows computers. By default, Chrome uses Skia text rendering with hard-coded values for contrast and gamma, ...

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Windows Subsystem for Linux will get a graphical interface

It should be noted that we are not talking about the graphical interface of Linux in Windows, but about the implementation of some functions of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in the interface of the Microsoft OS. The company has created a grap...

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Microsoft discontinues support for 1024-bit RSA keys in Windows

Microsoft has announced that RSA keys shorter than 2048 bits will soon become obsolete in Windows Transport Layer Security (TLS) to ensure increased security. Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) is an asymmetric encryption system that uses pairs of public a...

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