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| Microsoft Excel Vulnerability Could Put 120 Million Users At Risk | Fortune | Researchers have discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft Excel, one of the most widely used productivity programs in the corporate world, that could let attackers take over a user’s system and remotely launch malware. | Mozilla's Next-generation Firefox for Android Enters Public Beta | Android Police | The current Firefox for Android browser is feature-packed, with tons of security features and support for extensions, but it has never quite matched the performance that Chrome offers. Mozilla has spent the past few months working on a brand new browser for mobile, nicknamed 'Fenix,' and now it has entered public beta. | Gmail’s API Lockdown Will Kill Some Third-party App Access, Starting July 15 | Ars Technica | Google is locking down API access to Gmail data (and later, Drive data) soon, and some of your favorite third-party apps might find themselves locked out of your Google account data. The new API policy was announced back in October, but this week Google started emailing individual users of these apps, telling them the apps will no longer work starting July 15. | Firefox to Get a Random Password Generator, Like Chrome | ZDNet | Mozilla is adding a random password generator to Firefox. Google added one to Chrome and Chromium-based browsers in the fall of 2018, with the release of Chrome/Chromium v69. The Firefox random password generator is expected to become publicly available for all Firefox users with the release of Firefox 69, scheduled for release in early September, roughly a year after Chrome 69. |
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| The Best Antivirus Software for Windows 10 | MakeUseOf | Are you a Windows user who’s wondering what the best antivirus is for Windows 10? It can get confusing; there are many options out there. How can you decide which Windows antivirus to use? MakeUseOf is going to use data from AV-TEST to help you make your decision. | How to Disable “Reserved Storage” on Windows 10 | How-To Geek | Starting with the May 2019 Update, Windows 10 will reserve about 7 GB of your device’s storage for updates and optional files. This will ensure easy installation of updates in the future—but you can recover that space if you want. |
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