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Mozilla released the first public Servo Nightly build yesterday for Mac and Linux devices to give interested users options to play around with the new web rendering engine.

Servo is a new browser engine created by Mozilla Research and built by a global community of individuals and companies including Mozilla and Samsung.

Folder Firewall Blocker is a free open source program for Windows devices that lets you block inbound and outgoing connections of every executable file in a specified folder.

One of the shortcomings of the Windows Firewall, and the majority of firewall programs for the matter for Windows, is that you cannot specify paths to block all executable files stored under that path from inbound or outbound Internet connections.

If you wanted to block all programs in the user folder or temporary folder for instance, you would have to specify them one by one in Windows Firewall.

Search engine DuckDuckGo announced the extension of its partnership with Yahoo a moment ago that brings new features to all users of the search engine.

The search engine has partnerships with several companies including Bing, Yandex or Wikipedia that power results or features on the site.

The new partnership allows DuckDuckGo to introduce new features to the search engine. In particular, the following options are provided to all users:

A security researcher discovered a flaw in how Android devices handle full disk encryption which makes it easier for attackers to gain access to the data.

Google started to implement Full Disk Encryption on Android starting with version 5.0. The idea behind the security feature is to protect data on the device from unauthorized access.

VimFx is an add-on for the Firefox web browser that adds Vim-style keyboard shortcuts for browsing and navigation to the browser.

First, there was Vimperator, an excellent powerful extension for Firefox that made Firefox behave more like the Vim text editor.

Microsoft Edge, just like any modern browser, comes with options to save account passwords when you enter them on websites.

Microsoft Edge displays a prompt at the bottom of the browser window whenever it recognizes a sign in to a service or website.

You may use it to save the password so that it is filled out automatically when you need to sign in to the site again.

Microsoft Edge saves the site, username and password when you select the yes option, and fills out login information automatically next time you open the sign in page.

Scroll Anchoring is a new feature of Google Chrome 51 and newer that prevents visible jumps of the active page when offscreen content changes.

You may have experienced the following situation when using a browser like Google Chrome: you load a page and some text is loaded quickly. You begin to read the text and scroll a bit or a lot, and suddenly the page begins to scroll automatically as other elements, images or media, are added to the page.

Linux Mint 18 is the latest version of the popular Linux distribution that is a long term support release that is supported until 2021.

Linux Mint 18 is offered in two versions, Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon and Mate that feature different desktop environments. Basically, Cinnamon is more graphics intensive and some default programs may be different as well.

My Activity is a new, centralized service by Google that reveals how much Google knows about you by displaying your Google activity history.

Up until now, when you wanted to know what Google knows about you, you had to use multiple tools to find out about that.

There was one for YouTube videos, another for search, a third for advertisement, a fourth for locations, and so on and so forth.

Symantec is the latest security company shamed by Google for having critical security vulnerabilities in business and consumer products.

Google employee Tavis Ormandy discovered several critical vulnerabilities in Symantec programs that put users and businesses at risk.

The vulnerabilities require no user interaction, affect the default configuration, and take advantage of the fact that the software programs run with the highest privilege levels.

On Windows, some vulnerabilities allow for code to be loaded into the kernel even.

Microsoft announced today the release of a new Windows Insider Build for Fast ring users that removes the Messaging Everywhere feature from the operating system.

Messaging Everywhere allowed users to browse, send and receive Windows mobile text messages on a PC running Windows 10.

Basically, what it did was keep the messages in sync between the PC and the mobile device, so that PC users could browse, read and reply to messages on the PC without using the phone at all.

The following guide walks you through the process of migrating all of your Evernote notebooks to Microsoft's OneNote service.

Evernote's recent announcement that it would limit basic users to syncing two devices, and increase pricing of the service for all paying customers, will certainly lead to users leaving the service behind.

Evernote announced changes for paying and free members of the service in a blog post on the official website yesterday.

The price of Evernote Plus and Premium goes up by $1 and $2 per month respectively, while free users will be limited to syncing data between two devices.

The new pricing structure is already implemented on the site which means that new subscribers will have to pay more for the service.

Facebook released two new browser extensions for Google Chrome yesterday with the aim to improve the share and save experience for users of the site.

Sharing is one of the core features of Facebook, and it is either done manually by users, or by clicking on one of the many share buttons displayed on many websites throughout the Internet.

Microsoft announced today that the much awaited Anniversary Update for Windows 10 will be available on August 2.

The Anniversary Update will introduce a massive set of new features and improvements to Windows 10.

This includes among many other things Linux Bash support, extensions for Microsoft Edge, Windows Ink for better ink support, Cortana updates and improvements, and more.