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Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update, released Tuesday, offers a few small bug and compatibility fixes as well as a lighter taskbar. Oh, and there’s one small, tiny extra detail. A “small” number of Windows 11 users will now see “notifications” encouraging them to use other Microsoft products when clicking on the Windows Start Menu. Many Windows users are already decrying the change as just another way Microsoft is trying to shove more native ads into its operating system.How to Hide Your Sensitive Images in Google…

Draft Kings had to put some accounts on ice last month after hackers breached users’ funds through a ‘credential surfing attack.’Photo: Sean M. Haffey (Getty Images)New details about a hack from last month show that tens of thousands of users happily gambling away on DraftKings may have had their personal information stolen thanks to account info purchased off the sports gambling site. In a letter dated Dec. 16 that was apparently sent to users that was first-reported by BleepingComputer, the company said 67,995 people…

Twitter’s security flaw that allowed hackers to steal millions of user records had been patched in August this year, but that hasn’t stopped hackers from releasing that data for free online.Photo: Sergei Elagin (Shutterstock)Twitter’s API once held such an easily exploitable flaw that hackers managed to grab 5.4 million user details. Now, according to reports and mentions from users in hacker forums, there are several million more points of user data floating around on the internet.BleepingComputer reported Monday that…

Screenshot: Lucas Ropek/NeopetsNeopets, the company that sells virtual pets to tweenagers (and also a weird amount of adults), suffered a pretty devastating data breach earlier this year, but a recent update seems to show it was far worse than we previously thought. 02:5710 Horror Docs You Should Watch Part 2Yesterday 6:40PMIn July, the company announced that it had been hacked and that data on its members—believed to be about 69 million people—had potentially been accessed. This week, the company divulged new details…

Photo: FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP (Getty Images)Downloads of the most recent versions of Windows have stopped in Russia, according to a new report from Bleeping Computer. Microsoft hasn’t publicly clarified why this is happening, though we’ve reached out to the company for comment and will update our story if they respond.Over the weekend, Russian Windows users began noticing that they could not download Windows 10 and 11 from the company’s website. Users who tried to get ahold of the programs or updates were met with an error…