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Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Friday Random Stuff…

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Woohoo! It’s Friday!

Win10 Updated
Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1607: October 27, 2016
Win10 Update History
Latest Graphics Drivers (Windows)
AMD Crimson Edition 16.10.3 Hotfix (10/27/2016)
Nvidia GeForce Game Ready Driver 375.70 WHQL (10/28/2016)

MBRFilter
“a driver that allows the MBR to be placed into a read-only mode, preventing malicious software from writing to or modifying the contents of this section of the storage device.”
Hmmm… Anyone tried this?

Lenovo Computers
Military Warns Chinese Computer Gear Poses Cyber Spy Threat

Off Topic
Video – Gym Wildlife (NSFW)

See ya next week!
beer

Sign Of The Apocalypse

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I…
I, just, can’t, believe it. I agree with Tim Cook on something.

In terms of the balance of privacy and AI, this is a long conversation, but at a high level, this is a false tradeoff. People would like you to believe you have to give up privacy to have AI do something for you, but we don’t buy that. It might take more work, it might take more thinking, but I don’t think we should throw our privacy away. It’s sort of like the age old argument between privacy and security. You should have both. You shouldn’t have to make a choice.

Well said sir. Well said.

Weekend Random Stuff…

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Sorry for the lack of updates, very busy at work.

The next version of Windows 10, Redstone 2, likely to be version 1703 – Claims it will be released March of 2017. Great, looks like I will be doing another reinstall/reset then.

Newegg Now Owned by Chinese Company – I won’t be shopping there anymore. You can’t delete your account but you can change all your info to nonsense.

AMD Gaming Evolved APP By Raptr No Longer Being Supported By AMD – Good riddance.

Notepad++ 7.1 is out.

Patch Tuesday

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Time To Run Windows Update? Not Anymore.
Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users. I did not think I would ever say this. I am recommending that users NOT install Windows updates as they come out any more. As many of you have heard Windows 7 and 8.1 have gone to a “rollup model”. This means all the updates rolled into one. No more picking and choosing. Although there is some guidance for IT guys running WSUS it is not 100% clear how this is going to hit home users. I think the issue is going to take months to sort out and frankly Microsoft has completely lost my trust.
I’ve always run Windows Update manually. Up until today I ran it as patches came out. Now, I will be waiting a week or so and watching to see what the fallout is.
Windows 10 users. By installing Win10 you basically signed into the mess that has become Windows Update. You can of course disable Automatic Updates. You can do so by disabling the Windows Update service, or via Group Policy (this only works for “feature” updates), or by using software such as O&O ShutUp10. I haven’t tried this myself.

Adobe Flash & Reader Updated
APSB16-32 Security Updates Available for Adobe Flash Player
Download for Internet Explorer
Download for Firefox
I’ve been watching to see if/when Google Chrome will be updated for this. Nothing as of this writing. Watch here.

APSB16-33 Security Updates Available for Adobe Acrobat and Reader
Download Adobe Reader or update from within the program (Help > Check for updates).