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Microsoft has released Windows 11 24H2 aka 2024 Update, which is the first major update to Windows 11 since they skipped bi-annual release cadence and simply switched to yearly OS upgrades to streamline better quality control.

Windows 11 2024 is focussed on adding Generative AI aka GenAI with Copilot+ PCs with greater than 40 TOPS on NPUs featuring Intel Arrowlake, AMD Zen 5 and Snapdragon X Plus/Elite SoC/CPUs. The update brings super-resolution for Photos app, generative fill/erase in Paint app, Click-To-Do and Recall.

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Microsoft addressed the privacy concerns of the recall feature on Copilot+ with a revamp. The feature requires Device Encryption, TPM 2.0, Kernel DMA protection, Virtualization based Code Integrity, Secure Boot and Bitlocker to view/record with the option to disable the feature if user’s feels unsafe.

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Valve the makers of Steam released a new MOBA-like game called Deadlock which had serious cheating problems, despite being an invite-only beta testing. Valve has now turned the cheaters into frogs. It's an anti-cheat system with conservative to avoid any false positives.

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Razer announced the release of Synapse 4 after a year long beta testing yielding performance improvements of up to 30% with the help of multi-threaded architecture allowing users to create custom macros, settings configuration and
driver installations.

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A high profile vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.9 by RHEL and Canonical affecting widely used print server installed by default on many Linux and UNIX systems. The exploit discovered is a remote code execution vulnerability in the CUPS Print Scheduler allows attackers to run arbitrary code on the system without any user interaction required.