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AMD Software Adrenalin 22.10.3 OPTIONAL Drivers
3 fixes. Support for CoD Modern Warfare II, Radeon Boost using Variable Rate Shading in Dying Light 2.
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Nvidia Geforce Game Ready Drivers 526.47 WHQL
6 fixes. Support for and or fixes for several games.
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Intel Graphics Windows DCH Drivers 31.0.101.3790/31.0.101.2114
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Google Chrome Updated
“The Stable channel has been updated to 107.0.5304.87 for Mac and Linux and 107.0.5304.87/.88 for Windows…This update includes 1 security fix.”
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Chrome for Android updated too.

Firefox 106.0.2
5 fixes
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Wise Disk Cleaner 10.9.5
“Fixed an issue that the Chrome cache cannot be cleared in Windows XP.”
Wait. What???
A few other fixes.
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Sysinternals Freeware Updated
Process Explorer v17.0, Handle v5.0, Process Monitor v3.92, and Sysmon v14.11

FileZilla Client 3.62.0
Minor update.
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Google Chrome Updated
“Chrome 107.0.5304.62 for Mac, 107.0.5304.68 for linux and 107.0.5304.62/63( Windows) contains a number of fixes and improvements…This update includes 14 security fixes.”
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Chrome for Android updated too.

O&O ShutUp10++ 1.9.1434
Fixes
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Bob Costas Buried The Yankees This Weekend
“Overall, the Yankees’ Daddy is pretty clearly the Houston Astros…These two teams have played 10 games this year. The Astros have won eight of them. They’ve played 91 innings because there was one extra-inning game. The Yankees have led exactly twice at the end of an inning. Two walk-offs by Aaron Judge, that’s the only time.“

AMD Software Adrenalin 22.10.2 OPTIONAL Drivers
7 fixes.
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Intel Graphics Windows DCH Drivers 31.0.101.3729/31.0.101.2114
A single fix for both versions.
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O&O ShutUp10++ 1.9.1432
A few new features and fixes, support for Win11 22H2.
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VirtualBox 7.0.2
“maintenance release“. A few fixes
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Firefox 106
Several new features including the ability to edit PDFs and to set Firefox to be the default PDF app. 1/2 dozen security fixes.
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Stuff I bookmarked recently. Some off topic, some not:

Google employees joked about how ‘Incognito mode’ is ‘not truly private’
“We are limited in how strongly we can market Incognito because it’s not truly private, thus requiring really fuzzy, hedging language that is almost more damaging…Another employee proposed changing Incognito’s launch screen to say: “You are NOT protected from Google.”
Is anyone really trusting Google anymore?

“Hostile” “Aggressive” “Hurtful” — Gen Z Says They Feel “Attacked” By The Thumbs-Up Emoji
SMH

AC/DC’s BRIAN JOHNSON: These Are The ‘Tracks Of My Years’
“Each week an artist joins host Ken Bruce to pick 10 songs that have soundtracked their life. Johnson’s choices are:”
His list is pretty good.
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Nvidia Geforce Game Ready Drivers 522.25 WHQL
Support for several new games, “also includes significant DirectX 12 performance optimizations which can dramatically improve performance for GeForce 30 Series GPUs.”
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AMD Ryzen Chipset Drivers 4.09.23.507
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Intel Wi-Fi Driver 22.170.0
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Intel Bluetooth Driver 22.170.0
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Google Chrome Updated
“The Stable channel has been updated to 106.0.5249.119 for Windows,Mac and Linux…This update includes 6 security fixes”
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Windows Updates
Over 60 vulnerabilities addressed in both Win10 and Win11.
Win10 – October 11, 2022—KB5018410 (OS Builds 19042.2130, 19043.2130, and 19044.2130)
Win11 – October 11, 2022—KB5018427 (OS Build 22621.674)
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Firefox 105.0.3
“Mitigated frequent crashes for Windows users with Avast or AVG Antivirus software installed”
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Google Chrome Updated
“The Stable channel has been updated to 106.0.5249.103 for Windows,Mac and Linux”
Bugfixes
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Audacity 3.2.1
Bugfixes
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Samsung Magician Software 7.2.0.930
It’s back.
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2022 Fall Foliage Map & Nationwide Peak Leaf Forecast

PowerToys 0.63
“Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity.”
Smaller installer, bunch of fixes.
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AMD Software Adrenalin 22.10.1 OPTIONAL Drivers
Support for Overwatch 2 and 2 small fixes.
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Firefox 105.0.2
A few bugfixes.
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Samsung Magician Software 7.2.0.930
It was downloadable this morning and I installed it. Now it’s gone.
Looks like maybe there was an issue? If you want it give me a shout and I’ll send it to you but I would advise against it at this point.

Loretta Lynn, coal miner’s daughter and country queen, dies at 90
“Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music, has died. She was 90.”
Loretta Lynn – Wikipedia
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Google Chrome Updated
“The Stable channel has been updated to 106.0.5249.91 for Windows, Mac and Linux…This update includes 3 security fixes.”
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GPU-Z 2.50.0
“a lightweight utility designed to give you all information about your video card and GPU.”
Support for new hardware, a few fixes.
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Google Chrome Updated
“The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 106 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux…This update includes 20 security fixes.”
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Wise Disk Cleaner 10.9.3
A few minor fixes and improvements.
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Still hanging around.