Windows 11 available on October 5
“Today, we are thrilled to announce Windows 11 will start to become available on October 5, 2021. On this day, the free upgrade to Windows 11 will begin rolling out to eligible Windows 10 PCs and PCs that come pre-loaded with Windows 11 will start to become available for purchase.”
Just FYI, end of life for Windows 10 is currently Oct 14, 2025.
Nvidia Geforce Game Ready Drivers 471.96 WHQL
“support for 6 new G-SYNC Compatible displays…Updated scaling resolution in NVIDIA Image Sharpening”
Download | Release Notes
HWiNFO 7.10
A few fixes and improvments, supporrt for new hardware.
Download (I use portable) | Release Info
Google Chrome 93
“The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 93 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux…Chrome 93.0.4577.63 contains a number of fixes and improvements…This update includes 27 security fixes.”
Download | Release Info
Starting from Chrome 93, websites can verify phone numbers from desktop Chrome.
Stuff I bookmarked recently. Some off topic, some not:
Online Trolls Actually Just Assholes All the Time, Study Finds
“New research indicates the internet doesn’t make people act like jerks, but it sure gives the jerks a big megaphone.”
I feel like we all already knew this?
There’s no escape from Facebook, even if you don’t use it
“Facebook may be free, but you pay for it with your privacy. And Facebook keeps raising the price.”
Again…I feel like we all already knew this?
Henrico School Board Pranked
This is the county next to mine. Outstanding work by the kids who pulled this off. If it was up to me you’d get A’s for the year.
For me the HWinfo 7.10 portable version compressed file is 0kb, hope they fix it.