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Hello Windows Insiders, Today is the day we’re beginning to move to the new Experimental and Beta channels as announced earlier this month. As a reminder, most Insiders, those who are in the Dev and Beta channels today will transition to the new channels over time as follows: Beta Channel > Beta Dev Channel > Experimental For those in the Canary Channel, you will also be transitioned to specific versions of the Experimental channel, depending on whether you are in the 28000 series Canary...

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Symantec Browser Protection extension. Because it is fast and nearly blocks everything I throw at it (it rarely misses a new hosting location of a known payload, but blocks it within minutes after the initial connect) I like it very much. Sadly it refers to a generic Symantext Privacy Policy which more or less states they they comply with every legislation and store the (to Symantec) transmitted data as long as necessary. Nearly a year I go I started my journey to find out how long "as...

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For years, one of the most repeated pieces of security advice has been: “Don’t run Windows as an administrator.” That made perfect sense back in the days of Windows XP, where a single bad executable could take over the entire system without resistance. But fast forward to 2026… we now have User Account Control, SmartScreen, behavior-based detection, exploit mitigations, and much more mature security overall. At the same time, many real-world attacks don’t even need admin rights anymore...

Features of Ashampoo Image Compressor: Reduce Image File Size by up to 80%: Shrinks your image files significantly without compromising on quality. Support for JPG, JPEG, PNG, and WebP: Compresses various popular image file formats. Set Desired Image Quality: Allows you to choose the level of compression to balance quality and size. Easy Output Location Selection: Pick where you want your compressed images to be stored. Drag and Drop Functionality: Simply drag your images into the program...

Full Story: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/16/google-blocked-more-ads-but-banned-fewer-advertisers-as-ai-reshapes-enforcement/

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InfoStealers are scripts and executables that steal session cookies, browser passwords, docx, and generally all files of interest to an attacker. I apply the principle of least privilege for this one. Create accounts for different tasks. For example: home budgeting and banking, shopping, aimless browsing, gaming, work etc. You would keep only related files and passwords in each account. So that the infostealer can only steal a subset of things important to you. And the attack surface is...