July 2016

Microsoft's free upgrade offer to Windows 10 ends on July 29, 2016 and will not be renewed at that time.

The company pushed Windows 10 on devices running Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 in different ways throughout the past eleven months since release.

First, it offered Windows 10 as an upgrade that users had to reserve to get. Later on, it used iterations of the Get Windows 10 App to push the upgrade often aggressively on user system.

Mozilla released the first public Servo Nightly build yesterday for Mac and Linux devices to give interested users options to play around with the new web rendering engine.

Servo is a new browser engine created by Mozilla Research and built by a global community of individuals and companies including Mozilla and Samsung.

Folder Firewall Blocker is a free open source program for Windows devices that lets you block inbound and outgoing connections of every executable file in a specified folder.

One of the shortcomings of the Windows Firewall, and the majority of firewall programs for the matter for Windows, is that you cannot specify paths to block all executable files stored under that path from inbound or outbound Internet connections.

If you wanted to block all programs in the user folder or temporary folder for instance, you would have to specify them one by one in Windows Firewall.

Search engine DuckDuckGo announced the extension of its partnership with Yahoo a moment ago that brings new features to all users of the search engine.

The search engine has partnerships with several companies including Bing, Yandex or Wikipedia that power results or features on the site.

The new partnership allows DuckDuckGo to introduce new features to the search engine. In particular, the following options are provided to all users:

A security researcher discovered a flaw in how Android devices handle full disk encryption which makes it easier for attackers to gain access to the data.

Google started to implement Full Disk Encryption on Android starting with version 5.0. The idea behind the security feature is to protect data on the device from unauthorized access.