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Microsoft is rolling out an out-of-band update for Windows 11 version 24H2. Just yesterday, on June 10, 2025, Microsoft released this month's cumulative updates for all of its supported operating systems, including Windows 10. However, some Windows 11 users did not receive it due to a compatibility issue with certain games. Now, Microsoft is addressing the problem. The company is rolling out KB5063060 (build number 26100.4351) to gamers on Windows 11 version 24H2. Today's update is aimed at users who have games with Easy Anti-Cheat, a service that is part of certain games to combat cheaters and improve security. According to Microsoft, the June 2025 security update for Windows 11 version 24H2 has compatibility issues with Easy Anti-Cheat, which, in turn, causes the operating system to restart. Here is what Microsoft says in the release notes: [Fix for incompatibility issue with Easy Anti-Cheat] This update addresses an incompatibility issue where Windows might restart unexpectedly when opening games that use the Easy Anti-Cheat service. Easy Anti-Cheat automatically installs with certain games to enhance security and prevent cheating in multiplayer online PC games. While the issue sounds rough, the bug likely did not affect many users. In the release notes, Microsoft adds that KB5060842, this month's security update for Windows 11, was not available to users with games that utilize Easy Anti-Cheat. Now, however, thanks to KB5063060, they can get the latest security updates and fixes. The update is cumulative, which means it contains all the updates that were released before. Interestingly, this is not the only issue that Windows 11 version 24H2 has with Easy Anti-Cheat. There is a known bug where PCs with Intel Alder Lake+ and vPro chips crash upon launching games that utilize this anti-cheat solution. This compatibility hold remains standing, and Microsoft says you can mitigate it by updating your games to more recent versions with newer Easy Anti-Cheat releases. KB5060842 is now rolling out via Windows Update. It is also available in the Microsoft Update Catalog via this link. Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ | 2025 (till end of May): 2,377 RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend

Microsoft confirmed on Tuesday that it's pushing a revised security update targeting some Windows 11 24H2 systems incompatible with the initial update released during this month's Patch Tuesday. "This update is being gradually rolled out to devices running Windows 11, version 24H2. We've identified a compatibility issue affecting a limited set of these devices," the company said in a Twitter thread. "If your device is affected, you'll receive a revised update with all the June 2025 security improvements in the near term." In a message center update on Tuesday, Redmond added that "the June 2025 security update is fully available for all other supported versions of Windows." Microsoft has yet to disclose the hardware or software configurations affected by the compatibility issue that prompted the release of a revised security update and how the affected PCs were impacted after installing this month's Patch Tuesday cumulative updates. Also, the company didn't share if this was the first time it released a revised Patch Tuesday update to address compatibility issues and if this is something customers can expect from Microsoft in the future. A Microsoft spokesperson was not immediately available for comment when contacted by BleepingComputer earlier today. On Tuesday, Microsoft released security updates (KB5060842 and KB5060999) for 66 vulnerabilities in Windows 11 24H2 and 23H2, including one actively exploited Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) zero-day (CVE-2025-33053) and a publicly disclosed Windows SMB privilege escalation flaw. This month's Patch Tuesday Windows updates addressed ten critical vulnerabilities, eight allowing attackers to gain remote code execution on unpatched devices and two enabling them to escalate privileges. KB5060842 also resolves a Windows Hello issue preventing users from signing in with self-signed certificates and extends system restore points availability up to 60 days on Windows 11 24H2 devices, while KB5060999 fixes a graphics support issue blocking Remote Desktop connections with "session has ended" and "remote desktop connection cannot be established" errors. The same day, Microsoft released the KB5060533 Windows 10 22H2 cumulative update, which brings seconds back to the time shown in the Calendar flyout and fixes an issue causing Hyper-V virtual machines with Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server to freeze or restart unexpectedly. Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ | 2025 (till end of May): 2,377 RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend

Rufus, perhaps the most popular bootable USB media creation utility, has received a significant update with version 4.8. That's because there is a major shift toward faster and more efficient processing of Windows installation media by switching to wimlib for all Windows Imaging (WIM) handlings. The Rufus author says that the change has led to a significant improvement in speed when opening Windows ISOs, and this should be great for such users who tend to work with Windows installation files fairly regularly. Rufus notes that Wimlib’s integration speeds up the Windows ISO processing, reducing waiting times during image analysis. This boost in speed is said to be particularly noticeable when creating Windows To Go drives, although if you have a "crap" drive, it is best not to expect "miracles". For those wondering, Wimlib is an open source library for creating, extracting, and modifying Windows Imaging (WIM) archives, and it is cross platform too. Another key update in Rufus 4.8 is the introduction of file splitting for files over 4GB using the Alt-E key, for managing larger installation files; however, performance gains in this area are still modest when compared to the UEFI:NTFS handling. On the development side, Rufus 4.8 has moved exclusively to Visual Studio binaries. The full changelog is given below: Switch to wimlib for all WIM image processing: Greatly speeds up image analysis when opening Windows ISOs Can speed up Windows To Go drive creation Might help with Parallels limitations on Mac (But Rufus on Parallels is still unsupported) Enables the splitting of >4GB files with Alt-E (But still WAY SLOWER than using UEFI:NTFS) Switch to using Visual Studio binaries everywhere, due to MinGW DLL delay-loading limitations Add more exceptions for Linux ISOs that restrict themselves to DD mode (Nobara, openSUSE, ...) Improve reporting of UEFI bootloaders in the log, with info on the Secure Boot status Fix an issue with size limitations when writing an uncompressed VHD back to the same drive Fix a crash when opening the log with the 32-bit MinGW compiled version Fix commandline parameters not being forwarded to original Windows setup.exe To download Rufus 4.8, head over to Neowin software stories page. You can also download it from the official website or from its GitHub repo. Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ | 2025 (till end of May): 2,377 RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend

Check out these three features you probably didn't know about PowerToys, in addition to its slew of tools. PowerToys has quietly become the Swiss Army knife of Windows 11. However, the best tools aren't always front and center. While many people may know about FancyZones, Color Picker, Peek, and PowerToys Run (being replaced by Command Palette), some capabilities are less known and sometimes buried deeper, unlocked only when you know where to look. After digging into this utility, I found three underrated features worth mentioning, including the ability to back up and restore your custom configurations, plugin support, and logs that always come in handy for troubleshooting problems. In this how-to guide, I'll show you the three (underrated) features available in PowerToys for Windows 11. Secret features available in the PowerToys app These are the three features you wish you had known sooner, which are most specific to the application and outside the regular set of features. 1. Backup and restore PowerToys includes a backup feature that allows you to save and load your custom configurations for the utilities, which can come in handy when switching computers, reinstalling the operating system, reverting to a previous configuration, or sharing your configuration with others. Usually, users miss this feature because they go directly into enabling and configuring the different tools that PowerToys has to offer. To set up a backup of your PowerToys configurations, use these steps: Open Start. Search for PowerToys and click the top result to open the app. Click on General. Click on "Back up and restore your settings." (Option) Click the Location button. (Image credit: Mauro Huculak) Select a folder location to store the backup. Quick tip: Select a folder in your OneDrive folder to allow you to restore settings across devices. Click the "Back up" button to create a backup. (Image credit: Mauro Huculak) Confirm the backup was created successfully under the "Backup information" section. Once you complete the steps, the app will create a backup of your PowerToys setup. If you want to restore your settings, you only need to click the "Restore" button. This option will only work if the settings are different from the configurations available in the backup. If you want to restore your configuration on another computer, make sure to set the backup location before clicking the "Restore" button. While the backup covers most settings, some utilities like "FancyZones" might have their custom layouts stored in specific files (for example, zones-settings.json in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\PowerToys\FancyZones). Although the built-in backup aims to include these, it's good to be aware of their manual location for advanced troubleshooting or if you're experiencing issues with specific utility settings after a restore. 2. Plugins In PowerToys, plugins extend the capabilities of PowerToys Run by providing specific functionalities that integrate seamlessly into its search bar. When you type into the PowerToys Run, various plugins interpret your input and display relevant results. Although the tool comes with its own extensions, you can always add more. For example, on GitHub, you can find the SpeedTest Plugin, which allows you to test your internet connection without having to open third-party websites. To install a third-party extension for PowerToys, use these steps: Open this GitHub page. Click the download button and save the package to your computer. (Image credit: Mauro Huculak) Quick tip: The developer offers downloads for x64 and ARM64 devices. As such, make sure to select the correct installer for your device. Open File Explorer. Open the location where you downloaded the package. Select the SpeedTest-x.x.x-xxx.zip file and click the Extract button. Click the Extract button. (Image credit: Mauro Huculak) Click the Up button in File Explorer. Right-click the SpeedTest-x.x.x-xxx folder and choose the Copy option. Copy and paste the following path in the address bar to access the "Plugins" folder and press Enter: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\PowerToys\PowerToys Run\Plugins\ Click the Paste button in the command bar. (Image credit: Mauro Huculak) Right-click the PowerToys icon in the Taskbar and choose the Exit option. Restart the PowerToys app. Once you complete the steps, you can invoke the tool from the PoweToys Run, which you can access from the System Tray or using the keyboard shortcut you may have assigned. The default shortcut is "ALT + Space." The PowerToys community offers several other plugins you can install and use with the feature. While the above instructions offer an example of how to install plugins, some plugins may have different instructions, especially those that extend the functionality of a specific software. It's important to note that the Command Palette is set to replace the PowerToys Run, but at the time I tested this feature, the third-party plugins weren't working with the Command Palette. 3. Logs PowerToys generates log files to help diagnose issues and provide information about its operations. You can typically find these logs in two locations. The first is the general PowerToys logs location inside the %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\PowerToys folder. Inside this folder, you'll often find subfolders named after specific PowerToys tools, such as FancyZones, PowerToys Run, Image Resizer, etc. Inside these subfolders, you'll find the actual "Logs" folder, which includes logs (usually .txt files) for that specific feature, often organized by date or version number. For low-privilege processes (like preview handlers), you can find the logs inside the %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Microsoft\PowerToys folder. This location is less common for general troubleshooting, but if you're experiencing issues with features that interact with File Explorer's preview pane, you might find relevant logs here. To access the logs, use these steps: Open Start. Search for Run and click the top result to open the app. (Option 1) Type the following path to open the general logs location and press Enter: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\PowerToys Open the folder for the feature and access the "Logs" folder. (Image credit: Mauro Huculak) (Option 2) Type the following path to open the less common logs location and press Enter: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Microsoft\PowerToys Open the folder for a specific tool you're troubleshooting (such as PowerToys Run, FancyZones, etc.). Open the Logs folder. Right-click the log file and open it with Notepad. After you complete the steps, you can review the logs to troubleshoot any problem you may be facing with PowerToys. Do you know another secret feature of PowerToys (outside the long list of obvious tools)? Let me know in the comments. Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ | 2025 (till end of May): 2,377 RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend

Microsoft announced a new feature for its cloud-based video editor, Clipchamp. Now, users can trim and cut unwanted parts of videos by simply deleting portions of the transcript that were generated by Clipchamp's built-in AI-powered transcribe tool. In the announcement post, the company says this tool is quicker and easier to edit than the timeline for videos with a lot of spoken content or dialogue. These include meeting recordings (cut those off-topic discussions or "your mic is off" exclamations or other technical issues), webinars and presentations (remove filler words, trim lengthy Q&A sessions, etc.), and podcasts (good for deleting mistakes or other unwanted content). You can try the new feature by opening a video in Clipchamp and selecting the Transcript tab on the right side of the editor. Click "Generate transcript," and once the app has generated it, select portions of text you want to delete. Image credit: Microsoft Microsoft adds that the Transcript tab will replace the Captions tab in the Property panel. However, the app still allows you to edit and download captions by clicking the CC button. The new transcript editing tool will be available to Clipchamp users with work accounts this month. Later, Microsoft will release the feature to users with personal accounts as well. You can read more about the transcript-based video editing in Clipchamp in the announcement post on the official Tech Community website. In case you missed it, at the beginning of this year, Microsoft announced a series of new features that are coming soon to Clipchamp. They include dark and light mode, improved asset grouping, a cleaner video editor, precise editing with timestamps, and more. Some of those features are already available to users with personal and work accounts. Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ | 2025 (till end of May): 2,377 RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend

There can be a bug with the console’s battery life display. If you’re dealing with what appears to be poor battery life on the Nintendo Switch 2, the company has a support document with steps you can try to fix it. The document spells out what you can try if “the battery amount displayed and the actual remaining battery use don’t match,” according to Nintendo. “For example, you are able to continue using your Nintendo Switch 2 console for a few hours even though the battery charge indicator displays the battery is almost depleted.” Nintendo’s troubleshooting steps include making sure you have an “adequately powerful AC adapter” to charge your system, confirming that your console has the latest system update, and booting the system into recovery mode, which the company says “should reset the battery level meter.” If those steps don’t work and your battery life is still showing incorrectly, Nintendo suggests sending your console in for service. Since last week’s launch, there’s been some chatter about poor battery life, but some of that might just be due to the Switch 2 not having a great battery. On the Switch 2 tech specs page, Nintendo rates battery life from approximately 2 to 6.5 hours, and it notes that those are “rough estimates” and that “the battery life will depend on the games you play.” For comparison, Nintendo rates the Switch and Switch OLED for about 4.5 to 9 hours of battery. The differences are stark in a battery test on YouTube between the Switch 2, Switch OLED, and Switch Lite. With all three running Super Mario Odyssey under similar conditions, the Switch 2 was the first console to power down after about 2 hours and 45 minutes. The next was the Switch Lite, which lasted nearly 30 minutes longer. And the Switch OLED? It lasted for approximately double the time of the Switch 2, finally powering off at just about five hours and 30 minutes. Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ | 2025 (till end of May): 2,377 RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend

When platforms like Facebook and YouTube receive takedown notices from a reputable sender, Japan's CODA for example, the vast majority of requests are usually honored. Yet, the responses from obvious pirate sites and more legally ambiguous platforms couldn't be more varied. Some refuse to act, period. Others have compliance rates higher than Facebook, YouTube, or TikTok. In countries where protection is granted automatically, it’s possible for ordinary people to become copyright owners in a matter of minutes. For the lucky few with a sudden viral video on their hands, a general understanding of the ‘rules’ governing what can, can’t, or should be done next, could be of benefit. What those ‘rules’ cannot do is prevent 500, 1000, or 5,000 unauthorized copies appearing in a matter of minutes. The best on offer in that respect is a potential means to remove them. Mass Takedowns Every Day Japan-based anti-piracy group CODA represents the world’s leading manga publishers. The company’s comprehensive knowledge of ‘the rules’ extends from Japan, to China and the United States, through South America and across Europe. But, preventing content from appearing on all pirate sites is effectively impossible. And once there, pirated copies are consumed in enormous quantities. Along with its animated cousin anime, manga content is pirated to the tune of billions of times every year. When not working on prevention, CODA’s job includes taking pirated content down. In its annual business report published this week, CODA provides relatively rare insight into how three dozen platforms responded after receiving a takedown notice. Covering known pirate sites hosting platforms operating in less clearly defined waters, and household names like Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok, CODA’s report contains some interesting surprises. The Big Picture The data relates to the period April 2024 and March 2025. Takedown requests are reported by the number of URLs requested for removal (URL notifications) and how many were removed in response, for notices mostly based on human-based monitoring. For the 37 platforms mentioned in the report, CODA filed a total of 677,269 requests of which 652,071 were human-generated. Of the 677,269 in total, the targeted platforms responded with 545,870 deletions, for an overall compliance rate of 80.6%. The platforms that received the highest number of URL notifications during the year were: #1 Facebook (social media) 176,610 notifications #2 MP4upload (video hosting) 116,563 notifications #3 Streamtape (video hosting) 75,789 notifications #4 Okru (social media) 38,173 notifications (also known as Ok.ru) #5 Bilibili (manga/anime community) 35,849 notifications. Data source: CODA The platforms that received the lowest number were Internet Archive (111), Iqiyi (54), followed by Instagram, Himado, and Weibo, all with less than 47 notifications each. Takedown Compliance A number of notice recipients achieved a perfect 100% compliance rate. Internet Archive and the others at the bottom of the list responded by taking everything down, albeit after receiving relatively few notices. Perfect scores were also achieved on bigger numbers. Mixdrop, a hosting platform regularly branded a pirate service and blocked by ISPs in some regions, received 6,944 URL notifications and took every piece of related content down. File hosting platform Mega acted similarly, removing 11,066 URLs in response to a request to remove an identical number. When moving on to the bigger numbers, we see the highest compliance rates: #1 MP4upload: 116,563 notifications, 100.00% compliance #2 Streamtape: 75,789 notifications, 100.00% compliance #3 Bilibilitv: 28,485 notifications, 99.99% compliance Data source: CODA Like its counterpart Mixdrop, Streamtape is also considered a ‘pirate’ site by several rightsholders and blocked by ISPs in some jurisdictions. For comparison, Facebook’s compliance rate was 93.97% (from 176,610 URLs), YouTube achieved 97.84% (20,453), while TikTok fell just short of a perfect score with 99.87% (14,328). Why compliance rates are so high at sites with a reputation for piracy is unclear. The likelihood of getting blocked in another region may be a factor, or perhaps by taking content down, there’s a belief that might make them less of a target for enforcement action. The unwelcome prospect of takedown notices being sent to hosting companies can’t be ruled out, since in theory they would have no choice but to take some kind of action, or else face action themselves. For some hosts, however, these rules don’t amount to much; the same applies to some pirate sites. Total Non-Compliance When looking at platforms with low compliance rates there are several that also received a considerable number of notifications. Based on the data, three entities scored 0% compliance, despite receiving a minimum of 11,000 notices. #1 Dramacool: 35,214 notifications, zero deleted (0% compliance) #2 Videokvid: 12,583 notifications zero deleted (0% compliance) #3 9anime: 11,625 notifications zero deleted (0% compliance) Other non-responding platforms include gogoanime, voiranime, anitubebiz, and gogoanime_tv, all with zero deletions and 0% compliance. Compliance Weighed Against Perceived Intent While some of these pirate sites have huge numbers of visitors, they’re no competition for the likes of Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok. So while some achieved the perfect 100%, their overall traffic is lower and the amount of infringing content on their platforms outweighs the volume of licensed/legal content. That’s the all-important ratio that will keep them in the anti-piracy spotlight for many years to come, regardless of compliance, which admittedly may buy some time. How much is impossible to say. CODA’s full 2024 Business Report is available here (PDF, Japanese) with the data featured above starting at page 11 and spanning the next few pages. The single table below shows the same data, with text translated from Japanese. Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ | 2025 (till end of May): 2,377 RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend

Using a neural network trained with simulations of supermassive black holes, astronomers have found that the one at the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, likely rotates at maximum speed. There may not yet be telescopes capable of unlocking all the secrets of supermassive black holes, but AI is now on the case. Recently, an international team of astronomers successfully trained a neural network with millions of black hole simulations to allow it to interpret fuzzy data captured from these enigmatic space objects in real life. Of the various methods for investigating a black hole, the Event Horizon Telescope is the most famous. The EHT isn’t a single instrument but rather a number of radio telescopes around the world that work together like a single telescope. Thanks to the EHT, it’s been possible to obtain images of the supermassive black holes M87 and Sagittarius A*. These are not images in the traditional sense but instead are visualizations of radio waves coming from the black holes. To create these images, supercomputers in different parts of the world processed the radio signals captured by the EHT. But in the process, they discarded much of the information gathered, as it was difficult to interpret. The new neural network, trained by experts at the Morgridge Research Institute in Wisconsin, aims to tap into that sea of data to improve the resolution of the EHT’s readings and make new discoveries. According to a press release from the institute, the artificial intelligence successfully analyzed the once-discarded information and established new parameters of Sagittarius A*, which sits at the center of the Milky Way. An alternative image of the black hole’s structure was generated, with this revealing some new characteristics of the black hole. “Researchers now suspect that the black hole at the center of the Milky Way is spinning at almost top speed,” wrote the researchers in a press release. The new image also also indicates that the black hole’s rotation axis points to the Earth and gives clues as to the causes and characteristics of the disks of material that circulate around the black hole. Astronomers had previously estimated that Sagittarius A* rotates at a moderate to fast speed. Knowing its actual rotational speed is important, since it allows us to infer how the radiation around the black hole behaves and provides clues about its stability. “That we are defying the prevailing theory is of course exciting,” lead researcher Michael Janssen, of Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, said in the press release. “However, I see our AI and machine learning approach primarily as a first step. Next, we will improve and extend the associated models and simulations.” This story originally appeared on WIRED en Español and has been translated from Spanish. Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ | 2025 (till end of May): 2,377 RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend

Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, has announced a tentative start date of June 22 for the company's long-awaited public robotaxi service. According to a post on his social media platform X, the initial launch will be in Austin, Texas. Musk added a significant condition, however, saying "We are being super paranoid about safety, so the date could shift." The service is expected to begin with just 10 to 20 Model Y SUVs operating within a limited area and with remote human supervision. He also mentioned a plan starting June 28 for new Teslas to drive themselves from the factory to a customer's home. This is a moment many are probably waiting for, though it comes with a heavy dose of skepticism. Musk has made grand promises about self-driving before. This robotaxi network brings to mind the bold claims from all the way back in 2019 when the company said a similar service would launch the following year. That evidently did not happen. Federal regulators also have their doubts. Last year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration criticized Tesla for making its "Full Self-Driving" feature sound more capable than it actually is, demanding the company align its marketing with reality. Tesla is also driving into a field that is no longer empty. Waymo, Google's sibling company, is already a major player, offering hundreds of thousands of paid rides per week across Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and even Austin. The company is so far ahead that it has begun testing in Tokyo. But being ahead means Waymo is also the first to face certain dangers. For example, on the evening of June 8, a group of protesters in downtown Los Angeles summoned Waymo vehicles during a demonstration. When the vehicles arrived, they slashed the tires, smashed the windows, and spray-painted the cars before setting three of them on fire. Which raises a thorny question for Tesla: if you can summon a car with no one inside, can you summon it just to destroy it? It's one thing for protesters to stumble upon a robotaxi and vandalize it; it's another for someone to use the app to call a driverless car to a secluded spot for a planned attack. With public sentiment around Musk so divided, especially given his DOGE shenanigans and his recent face off with Donald Trump, that's not just a theoretical problem. We've already seen this hostility play out in attacks where people vandalize Teslas, carving swastikas into them and spray painting slogans like "Burn More Teslas" on walls. Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ | 2025 (till end of May): 2,377 RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend