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The promised second summer update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons has been released, and it restores the ability to visit another player’s island in your dreams. Before you can do so, though, you’ll need a Nintendo Online membership. Update Your Game Before you launch Animal Crossing: New Horizons on your Nintendo Switch, be sure you’re connected to the internet to download the latest software update. You’ll need to be running version 1....

LastPass announced the new security problem in a blog post, saying it was possible using information obtained in the August hack. The company explained, “we have determined that an unauthorized party, using information obtained in the August 2022 incident, was able to gain access to certain elements of our customers’ information. Our customers’ passwords remain safely encrypted due to LastPass’s Zero Knowledge architecture.” LastPass didn’t say exactly which “certain elements” of customer information were accessed....

Razer’s Zero-Day Vulnerability The vulnerability was first discovered by Security researcher jonhat and posted on Twitter. It was then tested and verified by Bleeping Computer. The publication was able to confirm that the vulnerability does exist. All you need to do is plug in a razer mouse, dongle, or keyboard. Next, Windows 10 will download and execute RazerInstaller as SYSTEM, which grants full privileges. From there, you can use the elevated Explorer to open Powershell with a keyboard shortcut....

The command we need to use is dpkg –get-selections, which will give us a list of all the currently installed packages. The full list can be long and unwieldy, so it’s much easier to filter through grep to get results for the exact package you need. For instance, I wanted to see which php packages I had already installed through apt-get: For extra credit, you can find the locations of the files within a package from the list by using the dpkg -L command, such as:...

Computers normally run an operating system installed on their hard drives, whether it’s Windows, OS X, or Linux. But they can also boot from removable media devices, allowing you to boot a Linux desktop from a USB drive or CD. Such Linux environments were originally named “live CDs” because they were burnt to a CD, but these days you’ll have better luck if you install them on a USB drive instead....

Mechanical keyboards are all the rage computer enthusiasts and gamers. If you’ve been using a rubber dome or scissor switch keyboard for your whole life, buying a new clicky keyboard might be intimidating, to say nothing of the considerable expense. Even the cheapest models from mainstream suppliers start at around $80, and go well into the hundreds for RGB lights and programmable extras—a lot of dough to drop on something you aren’t sure you’ll like....

Toshiba announced their first Chromebook at CES yesterday, and it’s the first one with a 13.3-inch display, priced under 300 bucks. Haswell processor and nine hours of battery life make it an interesting choice. RELATED: Should You Buy a Chromebook? We haven’t had a chance to get our hands on the new unit yet, so we’re not sure how the keyboard feels or what the display looks like in person....

Uber and Lyft are two very similar services. Both are “ride-sharing” apps you pull up on your phone to quickly get a ride somewhere from driver using their own car. These two services have become more and more similar over the years, but there are still some major differences between them. How Uber and Lyft Work These ride-sharing services work in basically the same way. They allow drivers, who are independent contractors and not employees of Uber or Lyft, to pick you up when you book a ride in the app....

Google TV is the company’s platform for smart TVs and set-top boxes. But wait, didn’t Google already have a TV platform called Android TV? And what about the Google TV app? Let’s dive into another Google naming mess. First and foremost, Google TV is still Android TV. The simplest way to think about Google TV is to imagine Android TV with a fresh coat of paint. Google TV is similar in concept to overlays like Samsung’s One UI....

There are few things as irritating as a Blue Screen of Death, but sometimes there is an easy fix for it like updating the BIOS for instance. If multiple updates are available though, do you do incremental updates or can you just use the latest version directly? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has some helpful advice for a curious reader. 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....

Don’t Discount the Magic Trackpad If you have a MacBook or are considering a desktop machine like the Mac mini or Mac Studio, the Magic Trackpad might just be your best choice. All MacBook owners have one, while iMac customers can upgrade from the Magic Mouse at checkout for an additional $50. If you’re buying a Mac mini or Mac Studio you can add one to your order at checkout for an extra $129....

Image courtesy of EasyDNS, a dynamic DNS service provider. 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 Agz is curious why his ISP just doesn’t give him a fixed IP address: Why indeed? Why not just assign a permanent address to every customer? The Answer SuperUser contributor Flimzy offers some insight into the IP assignment methods:...

Are you one of the people who signed up for Yahoo’s user name wishlist last month? Then you will be glad to know that Yahoo has started mailing out notifications to people regarding the user names they signed up for! If you have not received a notice yet, just keep watching your inbox for the ‘hopefully good‘ news about the user names you wanted. There was some strong competition for particular names and Yahoo has listed the top requests in their blog post....

You can upgrade to the Professional edition of Windows 8 to get advanced features like BitLocker encryption, but other features aren’t available to normal Windows users. They’re only in the Enterprise edition of Windows, which requires a volume-licensing agreement. In Windows 7 and Vista, these Enterprise features were also available in the pricy Ultimate editions of Windows. There’s no Ultimate edition of Windows 8, so these features aren’t even available to enthusiasts....

Google Apps Script is a surprisingly powerful scripting language often implemented using Google Sheets. It allows people to develop lightweight web applications, and those scripts run in the cloud on Google’s servers. This is just scratching the surface of what you can do with Google Apps Script. If there’s something else you want to do, do a Google search for it — it may well be possible. Schedule a Gmail Message RELATED: 10 Tips and Tricks for Google Docs...

RELATED: Everything Online Is Getting Bigger Except Your ISP’s Data Cap In total, 12 states, one district, and parts of two states in the US will avoid data caps until 2023 (or longer if Comcast decides to delay it further). These include Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Vermont, West Virginia, the District of Columbia, and parts of North Carolina and Ohio....

Fonts Anything that’s written in a digital format must use a font. Whether it’s a Word document, a web page, a spreadsheet, subtitles on a video, or any words written down, they all use a font. People with dyslexia often “see” letters swapping places, turning back to front, melting together, or just generally changing in ways that make it difficult or impossible to read. The right font can help stop these problems, or at least alleviate them enough that reading is possible....

If you have to use Internet Explorer for work and need to open a different set of work-specific tabs every day, is there a quick and easy way to do it instead of opening each one individually? 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 bobSmith1432 is looking for a quick and easy way to open different daily sets of tabs in Internet Explorer for his work:...

The default download location on our Windows systems works well enough most of the time without a problem, but what if you want or need to change the location at the system level? Normally your Downloads folder is on the C: drive, within your user folder. If you have a massive boot drive or regularly clean up old, unused downloads, it is probably perfectly fine there. If you hang on to everything you download, or just hate that file path, you might want to move your downloads folder to a different location....

There are so many things a modern computer does that we simply take for granted, but sometimes it is fun to peek under the hood and see how everything works. Today we’re investigating how exactly your computer knows what kind and amount of RAM you have installed. 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....