[German]Good news for people who are still stuck on Windows 10 version 1909 because something is stuck and the feature update to the successor versions 2004 or 20H2 was denied. It should now work with the feature update, because Microsoft has now removed all upgrade blockers related to Conexant audio drivers for these Windows 10 versions.
[German]Users of systems with AMD Ryzen processors may run into a problem when Windows Update replaces Windows' own NVMe SSD driver with an AMD driver. Subsequently, Windows 10 can no longer boot and throws an INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE blue screen. The issue has been resolved by pulling this AMD driver.
[German]Some Internet users complain that the Microsoft Chromium-based Edge browser has problems with YouTube videos. Can anyone confirm this, that the Microsoft Edge browser hangs or crashes when you let YouTube videos play in full-screen mode in the browser? Microsoft is already investigating the issue and suggesting what to try.
[German]Open source enthusiasts are currently on the barricades, because Audacity has a new management. And this has simply given the audio player a set of functions for telemetry data collection. This does not go down well with the community, which interprets it as getting the "finger". Brief overview of what it's all about specifically.
[German]Various security vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange were discovered by the US intelligence agency NSA and reported to Microsoft. Microsoft closed these vulnerabilities in April 2020 with corresponding updates. As a "reminder for the weekend", we would like to point out that a proof of concept (PoC) has been published for these vulnerabilities. So anyone who is not up to date with the latest patch status should take advantage of the weekend.
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[German]A brief news before we head into the weekend: Microsoft will no longer launch its slimmed-down Windows 10X (and ChromeOS competitor) in 2021, which I had actually expected for the spring release. Instead, they want to focus on the revision of Windows 10 as part of the Sunvalley project. There are even speculations that the plug has just been pulled completely. Here are the latest rumors surrounding this issue.
[German]ACROS Security has released a micropatch for the CVE-2021-26415 vulnerability in Windows Installer. This vulnerability was patched by Microsoft in April 2021 via a security update. The 0patch solution is for people who do not have an ESU license.
[German]Microsoft is responding to the fact that there is no legal basis for data exchange between European customers and the US. Therefore, Microsoft plans to adapt its products so that in the future, at some point, the data of European companies and government agencies will only be hosted on servers that are located in the EU.
[German]Mozilla's developers have released versions 88.0.1 and 78.10.1 of the Firefox browser on 5.Mail 2021. It is a security update, which should eliminate vulnerabilities, but also fixes bugs.
[German]The developers of the Thunderbird email client have released Thunderbird 78.10.1 on May 4, 2021. It is a maintenance update for the 78 main version of the email client, which fixes various bugs and vulnerabilities.
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