Reports last week pointed to an issue with the manual update for Windows 10 October 2018 Update. Specifically, the update was deleting personal user files such as images and document. While the company acted swiftly to save anymore users from the issues of the October 2018 Update, what about those already affected? Well, Microsoft says it is ready to help affected early adopters. Windows Insider Program head Dona Sarkar took to Twitter to say affected users should contact Microsoft directly....

William Chapman, who represents a number of grooming and abuse victims, called on the companies to better police their platforms. “In the real world, a playground created for children would have to be safe…It would not be sufficient to put up a notice which said: ‘Enter at your own risk’,” he said. Of course, real-world analogies don’t always mesh well with a digital space. A playground, for example, has far less traffic than Google or Bing, which must try to keep an eye on millions of users and trends simultaneously....

Azure IoT platform will provide cloud computing for edge devices and IoT and Red Hat a Kubernetes plugin. Ericsson will provide the 5G network support, with it all running on Nvidia’s EGX platform. “The age of intelligent edge computing has arrived. The world’s largest industries want to have AI computing at the edge, to extract insight from continuous streams of data, and to sense, reason, and act at the point of action,” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to VentureBeat....

Though the titles occupy the same space in the niche AR gaming market, the collaboration in Minecraft Earth is much more present. The game focuses less on collection and more on the community aspects. In the demo, two players worked collaboratively in a world on a table, similarly to Microsoft’s E3 2015 HoloLens demo. They then moved to the stage, experiencing the world to scale. Animals in the game also flocked to the player’s position....

Interestingly, it also has a feature to help those migrating from Microsoft’s Chromium Edge. Mozilla has simplified the process of importing cookies, history, saved passwords and favorites, with users able to utilize its wizard and select ‘Microsoft Edge Beta’ for an automatic transfer. In the privacy arena, Firefox now better hides your identity when voice and video calling, adding support for mDNS ICE to cloak users with a random IP in some WebRTC scenarios....

The problem seemed to be directly linked to AVG and Avast antivirus programs clashing with Firefox 65. Specifically, the error message appeared when an HTTP website was visited. This was happening on all sites, even major services. Users reported seeing ‘Certificate is not trusted because the issuer is unknown’ and that ‘The server might not be sending the inappropriate intermediate certificates’. Mozilla reported the problem on its bug report portal....

Located in Helsinki, Finland, the studio has yet to be given a name. However, it will be led by Marko Lastikka, who has previously worked with EA, Digital Chocolate, and Zynga. It seems Netflix has chosen Finland as one of the bases of its gaming aspirations. Earlier this year, the company bought Next Games, a studio based in Helsinki. Summing up its whole gaming goals, Netflix says it wants to “build a world-class games studio that will bring a variety of delightful and deeply engaging original games…to our hundreds of millions of members around the world....

In the past, scientists would need to conduct invasive tests by implanting electrodes into the brain of a person. A report from The Scientist points to a study posted to the bioRxiv database that shows a new noninvasive scanning method. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) instead charts how oxygenated blood flows through the blood. When brain cells are active, they consume more energy and oxygen, which provides information that allows observers to see and measure brain activity....

Ah, console hacking. Of course, the most popular reason to hack a console is to allow copied games to run. Companies have clamped down on this through the latest generation, and that’s a good thing. Some people still want to hack a machine to change the software is runs. Sure, you may be thinking why, but then why jailbreak an iPhone. A selection of users simply want more freedom. That desire is how the Nintendo Switch can now be hacked to run Linux....

For commercial Windows users, Office 2019 Preview arrived back in April, while personal users will get a release later this year. Now it’s the turn of Apple Mac users for the commercial preview. Like all other Office 2019 versions, it is for users who do not pay to subscribe to the cloud-based Office 365. In a blog post today, Jared Spataro, Corporate Vice President of Office for Microsoft described some changes coming to the suite: “Updates include the roaming pencil case and ribbon customizations across Office apps; focus mode in Word; Morph transitions, in-click sequence, and 4k video export in PowerPoint; new charts and functions in Excel; and focused inbox in Outlook....

Of course, storing data in the cloud is a risky business and Microsoft wants OneDrive users to feel secure. The new feature will be a massive help as it will allow people to restore the service to a previous state. Microsoft will introduce an ability to roll back OneDrive. Users can undo any malware or ransomware attacks by rolling back to an earlier, clean, point. The feature was announced Stephen L Rose, a Senior Product Manager for OneDrive for Business at the SharePoint Saturday San Diego....

Following a few months of research, it seems that the ring does indeed have the capability of detecting the virus early. Developers of the Oura teamed with researchers from West Virginia University’s (WVU) Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute (RNI) and WVU Medicine. In a paper detailing their findings, the researchers say the ring detects COVID-19-related symptoms up to three days early. Furthermore, its results have 90% accuracy. One of the challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic has been diagnosing people fast enough....

“To exploit this bug, a series of actions would need to be taken by a LastPass user including filling a password with the LastPass icon, then visiting a compromised or malicious site and finally being tricked into clicking on the page several times,” explained LastPass in a blog post. “This exploit may result in the last site credentials filled by LastPass to be exposed. We quickly worked to develop a fix and verified the solution was comprehensive with Tavis....

Users will be able to organize tournaments via Clubs, introducing a new, social element within their interest groups. However, the feature has a couple of requirements. Naturally, you have to be an Xbox Insider, but you’ll also need a Windows 10 PC. Tournaments can be arranged via the beta version of the Xbox app. You could see a ‘Create Tournament’ button under the Club tab of the latest release. It’s a bit of hassle, but that’s expected for an early build....

Microsoft Word is the most popular application for digital documents in the world. Used by hundreds of millions of people, Word is simple for beginners but also incredibly complex. If you want to dive down into the app, you can find hundreds of features. There is also a risk of Word documents becoming corrupted, which can happen for a variety of reasons. This essentially means there are errors in the data that stop the Word document from opening....

1 No Upgrades2 Tablet Decline3 Microsoft Surface “At the end of this year we’ll see revenue numbers that are equivalent to 2011,” says Tom Morrod, senior research director at IHS Markit. Those predictions of a new wave of home computing were false. Simply put, home computing is fading away as most users can get their casual computing kicks done on a smartphone. Users no longer need to turn on their PC to search for something when their handset can do the job....

Microsoft names its version with the year, followed by the month the newest build is traditionally finalized. Last year, that meant 1903, but Microsoft chose 2004 to avoid confusion with Windows Server 2003. Of course, Deskmodder’s source comes with the caveat of “If everything goes to plan”. It wouldn’t be the first time Microsoft has run into a bug or driver issue at the last minute. The company is yet to confirm reports of an early release, so take them with a grain of salt....

Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) discovered a phishing attack attempting to mimic US Senate domains: “Last week, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) successfully executed a court order to disrupt and transfer control of six Internet domains created by a group widely associated with the Russian government and known as Strontium, or alternatively Fancy Bear or APT28,” Microsoft Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith wrote in Microsoft’s announcement Monday. “We have now used this approach 12 times in two years to shut down 84 fake websites associated with this group....

In a new interview, Nadella has detailed the one piece of advice that has propelled his business life since. It came from Doug Burgum, current governor of North Dakota and former Microsoft head of Business Solutions. 52-year-old Satya Nadella was still in his 30s when Burgum dropped the following truth bomb: ?(Burgum) said, look, you’re going to work … at Microsoft more time than you are going to even spend with your kids,” Nadella recalled at a Stanford University Graduate School of Business speech in October....

It seems the exploit only occurs on Android, allowing users to access a phone’s system without needing a passcode. With access, anyone can see the device’s photos, contacts, browse, and see onboard data. Florian Kunuschevi discovered the flaw and reported it to Microsoft. Anyone with the phone in hand can receive a Skype call, answer it, and then access various areas of the device (photos, contact, messages, and browser) through sent links....