Network and Beyond NaB

Chrome 101.0.4951.41 for Windows, Mac, and Linux contains several fixes for severe security flaws. Google paid out a total of $29,000 for four of the top six more critical vulnerabilities. Chrome devs discovered the other two in-house. These bugs include the following. https://www.techspot.com/news/94431-google-urges-chrome-100-users-update-101-because.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Notepad++ is an advanced text editor aimed at programmers, web designers, and IT professionals. It has basic IDE features but retains the familiarity of Windows' built-in text editor and very simple word processor. https://www.techspot.com/downloads/2010-notepad.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The premium subscription includes all of the features of the free tier plus access across all of your devices, one-to-many sharing and 1GB of encrypted file storage as well as priority tech support, emergency access, dark web monitoring and a security dashboard. https://www.techspot.com/news/94427-lastpass-discounts-paid-plans-20-world-password-day.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The rumor mill is replete with hints that the next generation of GPUs from AMD and Nvidia are going to be power-hungry and offer a huge leap in performance over the current crop. Some Nvidia offerings might even require 900 watts in certain workloads, and AMD is expected to once... https://www.techspot.com/news/94420-next-gen-graphics-cards-rumored-offer-significant-leap.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Japanese researchers, alongside a company specializing in industrial jewel components, have developed a new method of mass-producing 2-inch diamond wafers. Dubbed Kenzan Diamonds, these could be used to store up to 25 exabytes of data, which is 25 million terabytes or the equivalent of 1 billion Blu-Ray discs. https://www.techspot.com/news/94417-pocket-sized-diamond-wafer-could-store-up-25.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

In addition to the attack's size, the use of HTTPS rather than typical HTTP requests further complicated the issue—the secure protocol results in more resource overhead due to the compute-intensive nature of the secure HTTPS request. According to Cloudflare, the botnet responsible for carrying out the attack represented 6,000 bots... https://www.techspot.com/news/94416-cloudflare-mitigated-one-most-powerful-ddos-attacks-ever.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Portable apps usually offer the same functionality as the regular versions of your favorite software, but without any installers involved. That means you can run them directly from a USB drive or a cloud folder synced across PCs. https://www.techspot.com/article/2368-portable-apps-toolbox/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger