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Reversing blurred pixels to reveal censored content in videos is easier than you think
Viewers of a recent YouTube video by developer Jeff Geerling demonstrated how free software can unmask information hidden behind mosaic censorship. The experiment showed that anyone ...
Microsoft’s worst software flop was secretly lurking in Windows for years
A former Windows developer reveals why Windows was dragging around 30 MB of completely useless data for many years. The data ...
Microsoft made a stunning 50th-anniversary Surface Laptop. Here’s how to get one.
This Surface Laptop is all black with a hint of gold and Microsoft’s original logo, making it a rare gem that’ll be hard to ...
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Rapidly Search and Hunt through Windows Forensic Artefacts
Chainsaw provides a powerful ‘first-response’ capability to quickly identify threats within Windows forensic artefacts such as Event Logs and the MFT file. Chainsaw offers a generic and fast method of ...
Millions of Windows XP disks secretly included Microsoft's failed search assistant to keep pirates at bay — "Bob was actually more useful dead than alive"
Bob resurfaced from Microsoft's Graveyard to pad out the 30MB of free space in Windows XP, keeping pirates at bay.