[German]Italy's antitrust authority has initiated a formal investigation procedure against the US providers Apple, Google and Dropbox. The proceedings relate to alleged unfair business practices and the possible existence of unfair terms in the terms of contract.
[German]A security researcher points out that so-called custom themes for Wndows 10 are a security risk. These allow to access login data if necessary.
[German]On September 4, 2020, Microsoft released a larger firmware and driver update package for its Surface Book 3. The aim is to improve reliability and stability.
Vivaldi 3.3 on desktop and notebooks comes with a break mode, a new default theme for the private window, clickable sharing of URLs in the address bar, basic domain highlighting, and improved tracker and ad blocker.
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[German]Microsoft released security update KB4484497 for Outlook 2010 on August 11, 2020. However, I got reports, that this security update blocks the execution of macros.
[English]Microsoft has added a way to download arbitrary files in Defender. However, this download feature causes more headaches than enthusiasm among security experts.
[German]Short information for people who want to access Linux Btrfs disks under Windows. Blog-reader Georg S. pointed out to me (thanks for that) that on August 23rd, 2020 version v1.7.4 was released.
[German]Users of the Microsoft Outlook desktop app complain that the family calendar has suddenly disappeared. The cause is currently not quite clear.
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