Upgrade directly and keep your existing files, apps, and settings. Available for testing today. We’re thrilled to announce that Zorin OS 18 has amassed 1 million downloads in just over a month since its release, breaking all previous records. The … Read more
Pointer Authentication Code, or PAC, is an anti-exploit/memory-corruption feature that signs pointers so their use (as code or data) can be validated at runtime. PAC is available on Armv8.3-A and Armv9.0-A (and later) ARM architectures and leverages virtual addressing in … Read more
A long time ago, somebody asked, “How did the new Windows 95 user interface get brought to the Windows NT code base? The development of Windows 95 lined up with the endgame of Windows NT 3.1, so how did the … Read more
⚡ Experimental Project – Running FreeBSD on WSL2 ⚡ This repository hosts work-in-progress efforts to run FreeBSD inside Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) with minimal to no changes to the FreeBSD base system. The project builds on the open-source components … Read more
Adrian aka Silent aka CookiePLMonster did a deep investigation into how a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2. One reaction I saw to this was “Why is Windows still tinkering with critical sections? … Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutes Table of Contents Introduction Microsoft mitigated many traditional kernel information leaks starting with Windows 11/Windows Server 2022 24H2, including calls such as NtQuerySystemInformation() (when used with the SystemModuleInformation class), by suppressing kernel base addresses unless the caller had the SeDebugPrivilege, typically … Read more
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August 8, 2025 On July 8th, Microsoft released update KB5062554 to the world. It contains no documented changes or features. This update broke the emoji panel’s search functionality for all Windows 10 users. The broken grammar isn’t the bug, that’s … Read more
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C# Math.Pow(-1, 2) doesn’t output correct value on Windows 11 Insider Preview, Canary channel (27881.1000) · Issue #117233 · dotnet/runtime · GitHub {{ message }} You can’t perform that action at this time.