Windows 10 is winning in another surprising way
According to the August 2022 Steam market share survey results, users are ditching Windows 11 for Windows 10......»»
Windows is getting its own version of AirDrop
A new feature is coming to Phone Link on Windows PCs -- the ability to seamlessly share files with mobile devices running Android......»»
Cricket physics: Wind tunnel experiments reveal why bowling with a near horizontal arm makes for tough batting
Key to winning a cricket match is tricking the other team's batters—no small feat, as bowlers bowl cricket balls nearly 100 miles per hour. In recent years, a bowling technique that has become popular involves keeping the arm almost entirely horizo.....»»
Cosmic count exceeds expectation: Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on ISS reveals surplus of cosmic rays
Cosmic rays confound scientists once again. The latest analysis of data collected by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) on board the International Space Station has revealed a surprising surplus of cosmic rays made of deuterons—atomic nuclei mad.....»»
Surprising insight into cancer comes from unique plant species with different solutions to evolutionary challenges
A new study, led by experts at the University of Nottingham, has shown that different plant species tackle the same evolutionary hurdle in different ways, and the findings may give insight into aggressive forms of cancer......»»
Microsoft is axing this seven-year-old Windows app
According to a banner that's appeared in-app, Paint 3D won't be available in the Microsoft Store starting on November 4 of this year......»»
Dealing with election anxiety? Psychiatrist explains how to channel your fears, break out of tribal thinking
Instead of excitement about the upcoming election, many of my patients and friends—regardless of political affiliation—report they're terrified at the thought of the "other side" winning. Democrats tell me they fear Donald Trump will end our demo.....»»
Archaeologists conduct first "space excavation" on ISS and discover surprising quirks of zero-G life
New results from the first archaeological fieldwork conducted in space show the International Space Station is a rich cultural landscape where crew create their own "gravity" to replace Earth's, and adapt module spaces to suit their needs......»»
Apple Maps now works in Firefox and Edge for Mac
After initially working on Safari, Chrome, and Edge for Windows, Apple Maps is now working in other browsers, including Firefox and Edge for Mac.Apple Maps in Firefox on macOSIn July, after over a decade of waiting, Apple Maps became available on the.....»»
macOS Sequoia permission prompts ‘a subscription you didn’t buy and can’t cancel’
A new regime of repeating macOS Sequoia permission prompts have been described as “a subscription you didn’t buy and can’t cancel.” An Apple ad once made fun of the endless stream of permission requests in Windows Vista, but some are sugge.....»»
This Windows Update exploit is downright terrifying
A new tool called Windows Downdate can trick your PC into thinking that it's fully patched, all the while exposing you to dangerous vulnerabilities......»»
Researchers calculate up to a billion birds may die in the US each year due to collisions with windows
A team of ornithologists from the Fordham University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the NYC Bird Alliance, Inc, and the Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology has found evidence that far more birds are killed by window collisions than previo.....»»
“Perfect” Windows downgrade attack turns fixed vulnerabilities into zero-days
A researcher has developed a downgrade attack that can make Windows machines covertly, persistently and irreversibly vulnerable, even if they were fully patched before that. A downgrade attack exploiting the Windows Update process The direction of Sa.....»»
Some Trees ‘Hold Their Breath’ during Wildfires
When wildfire smoke is in the air, some trees essentially shut their windows and doors and hold their breath.....»»
Plants show surprising diversity in arid landscape: How livestock grazing impacts drylands
Understanding how plants cope with climatic extremes and grazing pressure is important for reliable predictions about future biodiversity and the functioning of dryland ecosystems......»»
CrowdStrike engages external experts, details causes of massive outage
CrowdStrike has published a technical root cause analysis of what went wrong when a content update pushed to its Falcon sensors borked over 8.5 million Windows machines around the world on July 19, and has confirmed that it has hired two unnamed thir.....»»
The Samsung Galaxy Book4 has a $300 price cut today
The Samsung Galaxy Book4, a Windows 11 Home laptop with access to Microsoft Copilot, is on sale from Best Buy with a $300 discount that drops its price to $600......»»
Researchers unearth MotW bypass technique used by threat actors for years
Threat actors have been abusing a bug in how Windows handles LNK files with non-standard target paths and internal structures to prevent in-built protections from stopping malicious payloads and trick users into running them. “We identified mul.....»»
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Tsung-Dao Lee dies at age 97
Chinese-American physicist Tsung-Dao Lee, who in 1957 became the second-youngest scientist to receive a Nobel Prize, died Sunday at his home in San Francisco at age 97, according to a Chinese university and a research center......»»
Mac and Windows users infected by software updates delivered over hacked ISP
DNS poisoning attack worked even when targets used DNS from Google and Cloudflare. Enlarge (credit: Marco Verch Professional Photographer and Speaker) Hackers delivered malware to Windows and Mac users by compromising th.....»»
Microsoft’s Announces a Surprising Change for Skype
Skype is now ad-free. The post Microsoft’s Announces a Surprising Change for Skype appeared first on Phandroid. Some might call it “hell freezing over” – but kidding aside, it looks like Microsoft is set to remove a.....»»