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Change These Settings on Your Gaming Laptop to Save Battery and Play Longer
Gaming laptops are a great blend of portability and power, but you can usually only get one or the other at a time. Plug your laptop in and you can have top-notch graphics, but as soon as you unplug, all those polygons will drain your battery faster than you can say “Play of the game.” Fortunately, there are some ways…
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Change These 5 Windows Settings for Maximum Storage
Maximizing storage space helps your Windows PC run more efficiently and smoothly. It also gives you extra drive space for downloading and transferring important files to your computer. You can achieve this by adjusting a few simple settings. Enable Storage Sense to Automatically Manage Drive Space A lot of drive space can be lost to things like temporary files, old…
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Dragging your feet on Windows 11 migration? Rising infostealer threats might change that
With the clock ticking down to the Windows 10 end of life (EOL) deadline in October, organizations are dragging their feet on Windows 11 migration – and leaving their devices vulnerable as a result. New data from threat exposure management platform NordStellar shows that nearly six-in-ten systems affected by infostealers in December last year are still running Windows 10. “The…
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Microsoft’s Next Windows API Change Will Break Some Apps
Microsoft has deprecated the UWP Map control API in Windows. Windows applications using that feature to embed Bing maps will stop receiving updated maps, and they will eventually stop working entirely. Microsoft’s own Maps app might also shut down. Microsoft introduced the MapControl API in Windows 10, which allowed apps to display maps using data from Bing. It was a…
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Critical FortiSwitch flaw lets hackers change admin passwords remotely
Fortinet has released security patches for a critical vulnerability in its FortiSwitch devices that can be exploited to change administrator passwords remotely. The company says Daniel Rozeboom of the FortiSwitch web UI development team discovered the vulnerability (CVE-2024-48887) internally. Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this unverified FortiSwitch GUI password change security flaw (rated with a 9.8/10 severity score) in low-complexity attacks…
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Microsoft celebrates 50 years of adapting to change – Computerworld
In 1995 he set out a roadmap for the IT revolution in his first major text, The Road Ahead. Of the changes to come, he told Time magazine in a 1997 interview, “People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they?” That year he created the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to address health and education…
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How tariffs will change what gadgets cost, and how they’re made
First things first, some exciting news: The Vergecast has been nominated for a Webby Award! This one means a lot to us, especially because it’s an award you get to vote on. We’d be so grateful if you’d go vote for us once, or 40 times, or however many times the site will allow. (Also, honestly, you should listen to…
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How to change region on Steam in 2025
Steam has over 130 million active users and is one of the most popular gaming platforms. However, much of its content is restricted to specific locations. A VPN can spoof your location, allowing you to change your Steam region. We’ve tested 78+ major VPNs for changing locations on Steam to find the most reliable ones. NordVPN is our top recommendation for…
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How to change partition size on Windows 11
UPDATED 3/24/2025: On Windows 11, you can change partition size to either increase the drive size or use the unallocated space to create one or more partitions, and in this guide, I’ll show you how. Regardless of the reason, you can resize a partition on Windows 11 without re-formatting or losing your files using the Settings app with the “Disks…
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You Can Finally Change Your Default Feed on Threads
It finally happened: Threads officially allows you to choose a default feed to see when you open the app, whether that be “Following” or a custom feed you’ve created yourself. This means that when you open Threads, you’ll be able to view posts from the accounts you chose to follow, instead of seeing what the algorithm wants you to. Meta…
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