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Sandboxing is an important security technique that isolates programs, preventing malicious or malfunctioning programs from damaging or snooping on the rest of your computer. The software you use is already sandboxing much of the code you run every day. You can also create sandboxes of your own to test or analyze software in a protected environment where it won’t be able to do any damage to the rest of your system....

Too many browser tabs! It’s a problem everyone has at some point. For all the window-management tricks built into our desktops, we often just use a single browser window packed with tabs. Most of these tricks will work in all browsers, but not every trick has made it to every browser. Use Keyboard Shortcuts RELATED: 47 Keyboard Shortcuts That Work in All Web Browsers Keyboard shortcuts are a very convenient way to manage browser tabs, especially when the tabs become so tiny it’s hard to click them....

True-To-Size TTS stands for “true-to-size.” Online sellers use it to describe items with the typical measurement of a particular size. You can find this specific acronym in buy and sell marketplaces, e-commerce stores, and other online retail environments. It’s generally written in the uppercase “TTS.” TTS gets used in all kinds of clothing, from dresses to shoes. Many people use TTS to make the shopping process more manageable. When a piece of clothing is actually “true-to-size,” you don’t have to go through the trouble of figuring out if it would fit....

“Lite Hash Rate” GPUs Are for Gamers Hoping to make it easier and cheaper for gamers to upgrade their rigs for the latest AAA titles, NVIDIA announced new “lite hash rate” (LHR) versions of existing RTX GPUs. These cards are designed to make it harder to mine for cryptocurrency without reducing gaming performance. This is already the second time in 2021 that NVIDIA has tried this. The company’s plans blew up spectacularly in March of 2021 when the company accidentally unlocked its own software-based anti-mining protections for the RTX 3060 graphics card....

iPhones that use Face ID have a different physical design than iPhones with Touch ID, and it can determine how you use features on your phone. Here’s how to tell the difference—and a list of which iPhone models use Face ID. What Is Face ID? Face ID is a biometric authentication feature that scans your face to verify your identity. It’s useful as a way to avoid repeatedly typing in PIN numbers or passwords to unlock your device, purchase apps, or log into accounts....

Computer RAM is volatile; whatever is stored in it vanishes as soon as the electricity is turned off. Why, exactly, is computer RAM volatile, though? Read on as we investigate the physics of building high-speed computer memory. Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites. The Question SuperUser reader Chintan Trivedi is curious why exactly computer RAM has to be volatile:...

Windows 8.1 is a free upgrade to Windows 8. It’s what the original Windows 8 should have been, with important improvements for both desktop and tablet users. So why are more people using Windows 8 than Windows 8.1? It’s hard not to see this as a failure for Microsoft. Windows 8.1 is the first “new version” of Windows they’ve given out for free to existing users and most Windows 8 users aren’t biting....

Months after making Garuda Linux my daily driver operating system on my desktop PC, I still don’t have any regrets. It’s continued to be everything I look for in a Linux distribution (distro). Here’s why. Undeniable Beauty There’s no shortage of writers, streamers, and podcasters in the Linux world waxing poetic about Garuda’s default theming, particularly the Dragonized edition with its vibrant neon colors. But it was indeed a huge draw for me....

Recent revelations about government surveillance have raised the question: why don’t cloud services encrypt your data? Well, they generally do encrypt your data, but they have the key so they can decrypt it any time they like. The real question is: Why don’t web services encrypt and decrypt your data locally, so that it’s stored in an encrypted form no one can snoop on? LastPass does this with your password database, after all....

Once again there are urgent security patches released for Windows, and this time the problems they fix are “potentially catastrophic” issues with the encryption stack. This is why you should have Windows install updates automatically. It’s possible you leap into action every time you see the security notification, but many people don’t. And, if you do, what’s the point of installing critical security updates manually? Just have them install themselves....