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Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Tuesday Morning News

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Google Chrome Updated
“The Stable channel has been updated to 92.0.4515.131 for Windows, Mac and Linux…This update includes 10 security fixes.”
Download | Release Info | Android Too

MediaMonkey 5.0.1.2431
“over 200 fixes and improvements.”
200??? That tells me version 5 wasn’t ready for prime time. I’m still using version 4.
Download & Info

Registry Explorer
“Replacement for the Windows built-in Regedit.exe tool”
Thanks to Mick for suggesting this new Cool Tool.
Home | Download

Here’s how police can get your data — even if you aren’t suspected of a crime
“The police are increasingly using tactics like reverse search warrants to grab the data of many people in the hope of finding their suspect among them. You might get swept up in one just because you were in the wrong place at the wrong time or looked up the wrong search term. And you might never know that you got caught in the dragnet.“

Weekend Random Stuff…

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Win10 Preview Update
There a ton of fixes and improvements in this. Might wanna give it a look.
July 29, 2021—KB5004296 (OS Builds 19041.1151, 19042.1151, and 19043.1151) Preview

Wise Disk Cleaner 10.6.1
1. Optimized the cleaning rules of Common Cleaner.
2. Added new actions in Disk Defrag, support Shutdown, Sleep, Hibernation, and Logout.
3. Newly clean up the cache files of iQIYI UWP edition.
4. Added support for cleaning up Thunder’s automatic update files.
5. Fix some known errors.
6. Optimize the operation interface.
Download (I use portable) | Release Info
They also have a new program to check if your rig can do Win11: Checkit

Winaero Tweaker 1.3
A few more Win11 tweaks.
Download & Info
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Weekend Random Stuff…

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Mp3tag 3.08
“Mp3tag is a powerful and easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of audio files.”
Usability improvements, a few fixes, changes, and improvements.
Download | Release Notes

EMDB 4.09
Free movie collection database software.
Download | What’s New

People are getting malware from fake Windows 11 installers
“It’s wild to have to say this, but if you’re planning to install Windows 11, you should get it from official sources. As it turns out, people who are using alternative methods to get Windows 11 are also getting some malware along with it, according to Kaspersky.”
Currently Windows 11 is pre-alpha stage. Not interested.

Thursday Random Stuff…

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Firefox 90.0.2
2 fixes and updates to support DoH (DNS-over-HTTPS) Canada rollout.
Download | Release Notes
Firefox extends privacy and security of Canadian internet users with by-default DNS-over-HTTPS rollout in Canada

Intel Killer Performance Suite 3.0.1571
This download record installs Wi-Fi, Ethernet drivers and Killer Software for the Intel Killer products.
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Intel Wireless Driver Updates
Windows 10 Wi-Fi Drivers for Intel Wireless Adapters v22.60.0
Intel Wireless Bluetooth for Windows 10 v22.60.0

VirtualBox 6.1.24
“This is a maintenance release.”
Download | Release Notes
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Latest Windows Vulnerabilities

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I don’t get into Windows vulnerability issues much here. I find it boring reading, the severity of these issues is often overblown (like everything else), and I used to get paid to protect systems from this stuff. If you like to keep up with such things I recommend BleepingComputer.
Anyway, below are the latest vulnerabilities. The fixes involve you not being able to print (at least remotely), and deleting System Restore points and Shadow volumes and stopping the ability to create them.
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Tuesday News

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Google Chrome Updated
“The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 92 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux”
Chrome Blog: Privacy and performance, working together in Chrome
“That’s why today, we’re making a number of privacy features more accessible, useful and powerful in Chrome — helping you make informed decisions faster, and saving you some battery, too.”
Download | Release Info | Android Too
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Monday Morning News

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Nvidia Geforce Game Ready Drivers 471.41 WHQL
Support for latest game updates for Red Dead Redemption 2 and Chernobylite and 10 other fixes.
Download | Release Notes

Firefox 90.0.1
5 fixes
Download | Release Notes

HandBrake 1.4.0
Many improvements, updated codecs
Download & Info

Notepad++ v8.1.2
10 bug-fixes and improvements
Download & Info

Huge data leak shatters the lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance
“Few pause to think that their phones can be transformed into surveillance devices, with someone thousands of miles away silently extracting their messages, photos and location, activating their microphone to record them in real time.
Such are the capabilities of Pegasus, the spyware manufactured by NSO Group, the Israeli purveyor of weapons of mass surveillance.“