[German]Users of a Surface Laptop 3 sometimes suffer from sporadic restarts of the device. Microsoft seems to have found the cause and is now testing a fix with Windows Insiders for its effectiveness.
[German]Over the weekend, the news that Microsoft is working on an operating system MeTAOS made the rounds. The abbreviation MeTAOS is a special notation that stands for Meta-OS, i.e. a meta operating system. Here is some information about this topic.
[German]Privatezilla (formerly known as Spydish) is now an open source project. This tool allows a quick check (and control) of the privacy and security settings of Windows 10.
How can Active Directory (AD) users synchronize Microsoft Edge favorites and settings between computers without connecting to Microsoft cloud services?
[German]There is an unpatched vulnerability in a feature in Google Drive. This vulnerability allows attackers to distribute malware via the Google Drive drive.
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[German]Would you like to customize your Windows 10 installation after setup with a script? This seems possible, because a guy has released PowerShell scripts for these tasks. Here are some brief information about that.
[German]Another addendum from this week. Google has released a security update for the Chrome 84.0.4147.135 The Microsoft developers have followed suit and released a security update for the Chromium Edge browser. This raises the browser to version 84.0.522.63.
[German]Microsoft has now disabled the ability for administrators to disable the Defender included in Windows. This is intended to make it more difficult for malware to turn off the virus protection. At the same time, the registry entries and group policies concerned are rendered ineffective.
[German]On August 21, 2020 Microsoft released the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20197 for insiders in the Developer Channel. The announcement with references to the new features was made in the Windows Blog. For example, the disk management has been added to the settings page. Details can be read in the blog post.
[German]In Google's email service Gmail wad a spoofing vulnerability that could have been used to send mail through someone else's account. Google has now eliminated this vulnerability after an exploit became public.
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