Patch for Windows Defender 0-day could allow attackers to fill hard disk

A patch Microsoft released on Wednesday to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its Defender security engine may cause Windows ...
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Windows is quietly reserving gigabytes of your RAM — here’s how to get it back

Windows looked at my RAM and called dibs before I even opened anything.
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I found the Linux tool that shows what's using your disk space — and lets you clean it up instantly

It takes fifteen seconds to see exactly where your space went.
Hackaday

This Week In Security: Microsoft On Microsoft, Register Your Domains, Linux On ARM, And FreeBSD Joins The File Cache Club

Supply chain attacks continue, with Microsoft’s own open source Azure repositories being automatically disabled by GitHub following a compromise of the packages by the Miasma worm. OpenSourceMalware ...
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Reading zvec at the implementation level: Design and minimal Python implementation of an in-process vector DB

I want to use vector search without setting up an external server. There are surprisingly many requirements like that. When you don't want to bring in Docker at the PoC stage, want to embed search ...

Here’s How to Check If Windows 11 Is Secretly Gobbling Up Your Disk Space

PSA: if you succumbed to the pestering of those warnings Microsoft has been displaying every time you boot your Windows 10 ...
TechSpot

Meta is using old DDR4 memory in DDR5-only AI servers to save on hardware costs

Cutting corners: Faced with rising memory costs, Meta says it is reusing old DDR4 RAM in its servers rather than buying new hardware. The company revealed this week that it is repurposing DDR4 memory ...