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Windows Updates
Patches for over 50 vulnerabilities for each OS.
Win10 – March 14, 2023—KB5023696 (OS Builds 19042.2728, 19044.2728, and 19045.2728)
Win11 – March 14, 2023—KB5023706 (OS Build 22621.1413)

Firefox 111
Over a dozen security fixes.
Download | Release Notes

Nvidia Geforce Game Ready Drivers 531.29 WHQL
A few game fixes. Fixes for CPU spikes, Adobe app stability, and fixes for a few laptop GPUs.
Download | Release Notes

Wednesday News

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AMD Software Adrenalin 23.3.1 WHQL Drivers
Support for Halo Infinite Ray Tracing Update, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, and 1/2 dozen fixes.
Download | Release Notes

Google Chrome Updated
“Chrome 111.0.5563.64 (Linux and Mac), 111.0.5563.64/.65( Windows) contains a number of fixes and improvements…This update includes 40 security fixes.”
Download | Release Info
Chrome for Android updated too.

Notepad++ 8.5
Freeware feature packed notepad replacement.
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Stealthy UEFI malware bypassing Secure Boot enabled by unpatchable Windows flaw
“Researchers on Wednesday announced a major cybersecurity find—the world’s first-known instance of real-world malware that can hijack a computer’s boot process even when Secure Boot and other advanced protections are enabled and running on fully updated versions of Windows.
Dubbed BlackLotus, the malware is what’s known as a UEFI bootkit.“

Wednesday News

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Audacity 3.2.5
Freeware audio editor.
“This is a hotfix release…Fixes authorization flow for the audio.com sharing service.”
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CPU-Z 2.05
Freeware system info tool. This version has support for new hardware.
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PowerToys 0.68
“Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity.”
2 new utilities and a host of fixes.
Download & Info

Thursday News

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AMD Software Adrenalin 23.2.2 WHQL Drivers
Support for Atomic Heart. Performance increases for Company of Heroes 3, a few other fixes.
Download | Release Notes

Google Chrome Updated
“The Stable channel has been updated to 110.0.5481.177 for Mac and Linux and 110.0.5481.177/.178 for Windows…This update includes 10 security fixes.”
Download | Release Notes
Chrome for Android updated too.

HWiNFO 7.40
New/improved hardware support.
Download (I use portable) | Version History

Patch Tuesday

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Sorry for the delay, long day yesterday.

Windows Updates
Over 30 vulnerabilities addressed in each OS.
Win10 – February 14, 2023—KB5022834 (OS Builds 19042.2604, 19044.2604, and 19045.2604)
Win11 – February 14, 2023—KB5022836 (OS Build 22000.1574)

AMD Software Adrenalin 23.2.1 WHQL Drivers
A ton of game fixes and optimizations. A few other significant fixes.
Download | Release Notes

Google Chrome Updated
“The Stable channel has been updated to 110.0.5481.100 for Windows, Mac and Linux”
A few fixes.
Download | Release Info
Chrome for Android updated too.

Firefox 110
Several new features, improvements, and security fixes. Reading release notes highly recommended.
Download | Release Notes
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Wednesday News

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Nvidia Geforce Game Ready Drivers 528.49 WHQL
New game support, bugfixes.
Download | Release Notes

PowerToys 0.67.1
“This is a patch release to fix issues in v.67.0 to fix some bugs”
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Google Chrome Updated
“Chrome 110.0.5481.77/.78 for Windows, 110.0.5481.77 for Mac and Linux contains a number of fixes and improvements…This update includes 15 security fixes.”
Download | Release Info
Chrome for Android updated too.

Weekend News

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VMware Workstation Player 17.0.1
One security fix + bugfixes.
Download | Release Notes

OBS Studio 29.0.2
“Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.”
Version is a single hotfix release for v29.0.1 which was released earlier in the day and contained many fixes.
Download | Release Info

Intel Killer Performance Suite Updated
“The 34.22.1156 version of Intel Killer Performance Suite package installs the Windows 10 and Windows 11 Wi-Fi, Ethernet drivers and Killer Networking Software for the following Intel Killer products:”
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