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A fake ad-blocking browser extension is deliberately crashing Chrome and Edge to trick users into running malware on their own PCs.

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This process is called a clean install, which is ironic as there's nothing particularly clean about it: Microsoft has enshittified Windows Setup.

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Microsoft may give your encryption key to law enforcement upon valid request - here's how to keep it safe ...

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Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.

"It feels like the system is coding with me." This was the comment one of my senior engineers made while we were shipping a critical module for one of our Fortune 500 clients. This comment, although ...

Now that Windows 10 is no longer supported, it's become a more attractive target for hackers. That doesn't mean you need to upgrade right away—here's how to stay protected. When the IBM PC was new, I ...

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