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Sep 9, 202611,941 views6 min read

Windows 10 End of Support: What Happened Next, and Where You Stand in 2026

Windows 10 support ended in October 2025, but free security updates now run to October 2027 - here is how to enrol and what your options are.

Sep 9, 20267,015 views5 min read

Why Microsoft Made Windows 10 Free - and Why It Was Never Really Free

The free Windows 10 upgrade was a migration offer rather than a giveaway - who actually paid for it, and what the bill looks like now that support has ended.

Sep 8, 20261,001 views6 min read

Jellyfin 12.0 Lands With a Faster Library and a New Default Look

Jellyfin's biggest release in years drops the 10.x numbering, speeds up large libraries and breaks a few old clients on the way in.

Sep 4, 2026602 views3 min read

CDs Are Selling Again. Your Laptop Probably Cannot Read One

CD revenue jumped by more than half in the first half of 2026, on machines that mostly cannot read a disc any more.

Sep 4, 2026947 views4 min read

OpenAI Astra Launches: Browser Control and Hidden Reasoning

OpenAI's most capable model yet can operate a browser on its own, and it shows less of its reasoning than the one before it.

Sep 3, 20261,329 views4 min read

Windows Says Virus Protection Is Off. Microsoft Says It Is Not.

Microsoft has confirmed that the "Turn on virus protection" pop-up appearing on Windows 10 and 11 is a false alarm, with no fix released yet.

Sep 3, 2026704 views4 min read

Adobe Is Retiring the App That Replaced Premiere Clip

Adobe shuts Premiere Rush down on 30 September 2026, and the app meant to replace it on Android is still an Early Access beta.

Sep 1, 2026731 views3 min read

Windows 11 Finally Lets You Say No to OneDrive Backup

Microsoft is rolling out an Opt out of backup button that finally lets Windows 11 users refuse OneDrive for good.

Aug 30, 202616,011 views5 min read

Apple's Secret Weapon for Streaming: From WaveOne to PICO

The 2023 acquisition story with its ending attached: Apple published PICO in 2026, and a WaveOne co-founder is on the paper.

Aug 29, 2026957 views6 min read

After Nine Years Frozen, LAME Is Moving Again - What Is in 4.1

The MP3 encoder inside Audacity and most CD rippers is being developed again, and the next release fixes a quality bug that has been wrong for years.

Aug 28, 202610,460 views4 min read

Is AI Enabling Next-Generation Codecs? Three Years On

Neural codecs stopped being theoretical. JPEG AI is a published standard, Apple bought its way in, and AI encoding already runs in your streaming apps.

Aug 18, 20262,498 views7 min read

Copilot Just Took 3.3 GB of Your Windows 10 Drive Without Asking

A Copilot app that installs itself and claims over 3 GB, explained in plain terms, with the removal steps and the settings that keep it away.

Aug 18, 20261,682 views4 min read

ChatGPT Atlas Is Gone - Here Is What to Use Instead

OpenAI retired the ChatGPT Atlas browser on 9 August 2026, and here is what happened to your bookmarks and which browser to move to.

Aug 13, 20261,668 views2 min read

It Is Not Your Download - Why Some APKs Refuse to Open

Why some Android apps install perfectly and then refuse to open, and how to check a file before you download it.

Aug 12, 20262,796 views4 min read

MakeMKV's Site Keeps Going Down - Here's What the Error Means

Why makemkv.com throws Cloudflare errors, what they actually mean, and where to get MakeMKV and its beta key while the site is unreachable.

Aug 10, 20262,202 views7 min read

How to Install an APK Safely on Android (2026)

How to install an APK on Android without taking risks - the checks to run first, the permissions that should stop you, and what Google's September 2026 rules change.

Jul 31, 20262,073 views2 min read

Arc Isn't Finished. The People Who Built It Started Again.

Arc 1.117.0 ships Chromium security fixes only, while Arc's homepage now points to Dia - the browser its team left to build, and one Windows users still cannot install.

Jul 30, 20262,757 views4 min read

Sony's FX5 Just Shrank 16-Bit RAW by 40%. Now Try Opening It on Windows

Sony's new X-OCN C1 and C2 compact RAW modes explained in plain English, plus the free tools that actually open and convert the .mxf files on Windows.