Category: Software

Raymond Hill, the author of uBlock Origin advanced ad-blocker, published an experimental "uBO Minus" browser add-on that is built around the declarativeNetRequest API of Manifest V3. Unlike the classic uBlock Origin, the new version directly uses built-in browser's capabilities to filter content. It also no longer need a permission to access site data.

Microsoft has released a new firmware update for the Xbox game consoles that brings noise cancellation support in voice chats. This feature allows you to get rid of annoying clicks, background music and breathing sounds. Another new feature in this update is the ability to go to a game from a screenshot or clip shared by your friends.

Microsoft today released a new version 0.62 of their famous PowerToys app set. Besides regular fixes and general improvements, the update includes three brand new tools. If you are reading Winaero, you may be already familiar with them.

There are a huge number of users who ran into trouble with Microsoft Defender. The app started flagging everything that is Chromium based as "Behavior:Win32/Hive.ZY". Even the Edge binaries were marked as infected.

A few days ago, a leak revealed the rebranding of the Game Pass family subscription to Xbox Game Pass Friends & Family. The company today announced it officially and revealed all its options.

A leak reveals that Microsoft is going to launch its Game Pass family subscription under the name Xbox Game Pass Friends & Family. Aggiornamenti Lumia managed to find the logo for the new subscription.

Earlier in May, Microsoft revealed its plans to provide an ad platform for app publishers in the Windows Store. It would allow them to promote their products in search results when the user performs a relevant query. Now the change goes live, and the company invites developers to test it.

Microsoft has started showing native ads for free Outlook users, i.e. for those who do not have a subscription. The ads appear in email folders and look like a regular message with a tiny "ad" badge at the top right corner. The only folder that doesn't show ads is the "Focused inbox".

The PowerToys suite will soon get a new tool, PowerOCR. It will allow you to select any screen part,  OCR everything and put the result into the clipboard.

Looks like Microsoft isn't happy with third-party tools that replace and extend features of its very own Media Creation Tool. So it has silently made a change to servers that host Windows ISO files. The change now affects the popular Rufus tool, which can't now download Windows 8, Windows 10 and Windows 11.