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• Microsoft yanks Windows 10 November upgrade from download site

  22-11-2015 22:26
  
  Microsoft last week stopped offering Windows 10's November upgrade as a disk image, shutting down the route many had used to skip the wait as the company slowly rolls out the refresh via Windows Update.
  The .iso files are still available, but when downloaded using Microsoft's Media Creation Tool, they now install the original July 29 edition of Windows 10, not the November upgrade as they did earlier.
  "These downloads cannot be used to update Windows 10 PCs to the November update (Version 1511)
  
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• Microsoft is having a ridiculous 10-cent sale on movies, music, games, and apps

  22-11-2015 19:13
  We’re just a few days from Thanksgiving in the United States as I write this, and as usual, the holiday shopping season is getting underway, complete with the requisite sales. Not to be outdone, on Friday, Microsoft kicked off a ten-day sale during which select hot movies, music, games, and apps are on sale for only ten cents each.
  According to Microsoft, over 1000 items on the Windows Store will be offered at these bargain-basement prices, and it includes a wide range of popular items.
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• Microsoft reveals Black Friday 2015 deals

  22-11-2015 19:12
  
  Microsoft has revealed more than two dozen Black Friday 2015 deals, ranging from big discounts on everything from Windows Surface tablets to Office 365 to Xbox consoles and games.
  MORE: Hottest Black Friday 2015 Microsoft Windows Tablet & PC deals
  Microsoft says the deals go live at 12AM on Nov. 26.
  Among the deals:
  *$200 off the Surface Pro 3 tablet, which brings the 128GB edition with an Intel Core i3 processor down to $700.MicrosoftSurface Pro 3: $300 off the would-be iPad killer for Bla
  
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• Many embedded devices ship without adequate security tests, analysis shows

  22-11-2015 17:46
  An analysis of hundreds of publicly available firmware images for routers, DSL modems, VoIP phones, IP cameras and other embedded devices uncovered high-risk vulnerabilities in a significant number of them, pointing to poor security testing by manufactuers.
  The study was performed by researchers from the Eurecom research center in France and Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany, who built an automated platform capable of unpacking firmware images, running them in an emulated environment and starti
  
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