In the Redmond giant’s latest round of patches, usually released on the second Tuesday of each month in what is known as Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has fixed problems in software including Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilities, privilege escalation security flaws, spoofing bugs, and denial-of-service issues. Products impacted by Microsoft’s December security update include Microsoft Office, Microsoft PowerShell, the Chromium-based Edge browser, the Windows Kernel, Print Spooler, and Remote Desktop Client....

Windows 10 20H1 Build 18963 Users have been asking for it and finally, Microsoft is delivering a GPU temperature section to Task Manager. This allows you to keep tabs on the temp of your dedicated GPU card under the Performance tab. Note that this is only available if you have a dedicated GPU installed and not integrated graphics. If you use the Virtual Desktops feature in Windows 10, you can now rename your sessions versus seeing just “Desktop 1, Desktop 2, etc....

Previously we have seen that Microsoft made many of its popular projects open source including Microsoft web browser Edge, Calculator, vscode, terminal and many more. For the complete list, you can visit opensource.microsoft.com. Now the company that powers most of the Desktop computers has released the public preview of its Windows Defender ATP (Advanced Thread Protection) for multiple Linux distributions. What is Windows Defender ATP? Windows Defender ATP is unified endpoint protection for scanning the server for any post-breach, run automated investigations on system issues and respond to it automatically....

A new report states that Microsoft may be preparing to bundle Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass into a single subscription service. Microsoft has been taking some major moves with its gaming side in recent months, with helping bring games like Cuphead to Nintendo Switch being the latest example of this. As Microsoft prepares to spread the Xbox brand across to multiple pieces of hardware through its xCloud service, there have been plenty of rumors that flesh out some grandiose plans for the company....

Microsoft and Dropbox announced a new partnership between the two companies today and a commitment to bring integration between Dropbox and Office apps on iOS and Android. Currently Office users rely on local storage for saving files or Microsoft’s own OneDrive service for saving and syncing files, but the newly announced partnership will allow Office users to use the popular Dropbox service as an additional storage and syncing option and introduce new features between the productivity apps and syncing service....

The Microsoft Surface Duo is due to hit store shelves later in the year and it is already shaping up to be an interesting device. Here’s what you need to know about the Microsoft phone that could genuinely be a real game-changer. Microsoft’s phone ambitions have not really panned out over the last few years and even the Nokia name was unable to help Windows Phone combat the rise of Android and iPhone....

Microsoft Lumia 640 and 640 XL First, the Lumia 640 is an nice upgrade from the 635. It includes a 1.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon process and 1 GB of RAM — the 635 only includes 512 MB. It’s got 8GB of internal storage that can be expanded up to 128GB with a micro-SD card. The screen is a 5-inch HD with 1280×720, 16:9 IPS 294 PPI display. The rear camera is 8-megapixel, and the front facing one is just 1-megapixel....

The MCU’s Spider-Man 3 will reportedly start filming this summer, shooting in locations that include Iceland, which may hint at the movie’s villain. Tom Holland’s Peter Parker aka Spider-Man joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2016 and has since become a key superhero of the franchise. Not only has he appeared in three team-up movies, he’s lead two solo films of his own - Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Far From Home....

The first Call Of Duty League Hype Battle is coming this weekend, and none other than Michael B. Jordan is set to headline it. The award-winning star of Black Panther and the Creed series recently announced his involvement with the event, right on the heels of entering the world of eSports last month. In celebration of the popular first-person shooter franchise’s success and influence in pop culture all around the world, the Call Of Duty League is beginning a new event at eSports competitions called the Call Of Duty League Hype Battle....

Paramount’s Micronauts picks up Dean DeBlois, of How To Train Your Dragon fame, as writer and director. The live-action Micronauts film has been in the works for years, and at one point they were intended to become part of a Hasbro live-action universe, alongside Transformers and GI Joe. Like most Hasbro properties, the Micronauts started out as a toy line. In this case, they were 3.75-inch tall action figures that were known for an unusually high number of points of articulation....

Microsoft has had to pay for over 1.5 million subscriptions to Ninja’s Mixer stream thanks to a promotion the company began offering as part of a move to generate viewership on the streaming platform. Tyler “Ninja” Blevins announced his decision to leave Twitch, the streaming platform that hosted his rise to fame as a Fortnite player, for Mixer earlier this month, signing an exclusivity deal that is reportedly worth upwards of $10-50 million....

Microsoft’s Edge web browser takes another step away from Internet Explorer with its new logo. Microsoft’s latest browser will be releasing on January 15th, with its logo that will put it more in line with the direction of the Microsoft Office suite of programs. With its new logo, Microsoft aims to make Edge more desirable with a suite of additional new features aimed at corporations. For instance, the update will allow people to use the address bar to do things like define company acronyms and search for floor plans and will be usable on systems running macOS, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10....

We reported on Friday that AOL had informed its corporate employees via email that it would be temporarily disabling the ability to manage meetings with Exchange on iOS devices running iOS 6.1. AOL confirmed that it was working with Microsoft and Apple to fix the “continuous loop” bug, and many had highlighted the problem on Microsoft’s forums. It doesn’t appear Apple addressed the issue with its recent release of iOS 6....

Microsoft is taking on Apple, protesting at the latter firm’s claim to a trademark on the name ‘App Store’. Ballmer’s boys are arguing that the term is generic and competitors should be able to use it. Apple applied for the trademark in 2008. It is to be applied in goods and services, including those for computer software solve via the Internet. The App Store is now available for iOS and OS X devices....

Author J.R.R. Tolkien began to work on a sequel to his highly praised children’s book The Hobbit only a few months after it was published. The sequel was a struggle for him, and it took Tolkien twelve years finish The Lord of the Rings and another six years before it was published. The story – published as three separate volumes – has remained incredibly popular and influential in the years since its publication, inspiring music, books, games, and movies....

Netflix’s gripping serial killer drama series Mindhunter has finally returned for season 2, and we’ve put together a guide to show’s cast, and what the real versions of Mindhunter’s characters looked like. Created by Joe Penhall, Mindhunter is based on a book of the same name written by John E. Douglas, an FBI agent who did pioneering work in the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit in the late 1970s. Douglas is represented in the show by Holden Ford, a young and ambitious agent who works together with his BSU colleagues Bill Tench and Wendy Carr to build a database on serial killers....

Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans were very explicit in naming Avengers: Endgame as their final movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the film itself made that clear by giving both of their characters definitive endings. Gwyneth Paltrow also said she was done with MCU appearances, having been playing Pepper Potts in the franchise since it all began with 2008’s Iron Man, but her character never got an ending like theirs....

Meta said it will now “remove Pages, Groups and accounts representing military-controlled businesses.” The company made a similar statement earlier this year when the military staged a coup and removed democratically-elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi. “This builds on our existing ban on these entities advertising on Facebook, which was announced in February, and the various enforcement actions we’ve taken since then which are outlined below,” said Rafael Frankel, director of policy for Meta in APAC-Emerging Countries, referencing this Meta newsroom post....

Ever since the advent of filmmaking, filmmakers have tried to come up with new and unique ways to distinguish their work from the rest of the pack. A lot of interesting techniques have developed as a result of this desire to constantly be on the cutting edge, but one of the most unusual and least used filmmaking trick has got to be the fourth wall break. For those who don’t know, breaking the fourth wall essentially breaks the suspension of disbelief that the events of the film are taking place in some fictional world by having the characters in said film directly address the audience....

Nokia is one of the beloved smartphone manufacturers which has sold millions of units when it launched its Android-enabled smartphone. However, like any other smartphone, Nokia users have expressed their queries over Nokia restarting and freezing problem which is like an epidemic spread across all smartphones around the world. There are plenty of smartphones with varying degree of specifications which a user can buy as per his/her requirements. A user accomplishes any task on his/her smartphone using apps or services which means, if you are observing Nokia restarting and freezing problem, it has to do something with apps and services which use resources like RAM, ROM, cache memory, etc....