A fake 7‑Zip installer is spreading, and the malware’s goal is unexpected

Here is what the fake 7-Zip installer does behind the scenes, how it maintains persistence, and what steps to take if you ...
TechRadar

Still using WinRAR? You should probably look out for these potentially dangerous security flaws

Nation-states are using it, and so are financially motivated crooks When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. WinRAR flaw CVE-2025-8088 ...

WinRAR path traversal flaw still exploited by numerous hackers

Multiple threat actors, both state-sponsored and financially motivated, are exploiting the CVE-2025-8088 high-severity vulnerability in WinRAR for initial access and to deliver various malicious ...
PC World

How to quickly compress image files in Windows 11 before sharing

Thanks to the latest Windows 11 update you can now reduce the size of image files before sharing them with one of the neat new applications offered. To do this, right-click on the image file and go to ...
IEEE

Predicting total time to compress a video corpus using online inference systems

Abstract: Predicting the computational cost of compressing/transcoding clips in a video corpus is important for resource management of cloud services and VOD (Video ...
TechSpot

Windows 11's updated File Explorer remains painfully slow despite using twice as much RAM

Facepalm: Users have long criticized Windows 11 File Explorer as inferior to its Windows 10 predecessor. The essential tool suffers from slow launches, sluggish file searches, and delayed right-click ...
Techno-Science.net

How I Used Whisper AI to Make Subtitles for Any Movie (Free & Offline)

I used Whisper AI, OpenAI’s free and offline speech-to-text tool, to generate subtitles for any movie by installing it locally with Python, PyTorch, and ffmpeg. Once set up, you just run a simple ...