I replaced Windows 11’s default apps with these open-source tools

Discover five lesser-known open-source apps that significantly improve the clipboard, files, apps, sharing, and media ...
The Hacker News

China-Linked Amaranth-Dragon Exploits WinRAR Flaw in Espionage Campaigns

China-linked Amaranth-Dragon and Mustang Panda target Southeast Asian governments using WinRAR exploit and PlugX phishing ...

7 apps I use to lock down, encrypt, and store my private files - and most are free

VeraCrypt is a free, open-source disk encryption software that is available for Linux, MacOS, and Windows. With VeraCrypt, you create a virtual encrypted disk on your internal drive that can then be ...

What we know about the contents of the recent release of Epstein files

More than 3 million newly-released pages of the Epstein files show more about the life and relationships of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. They also contain unredacted names of his accusers.

New PDF compression filter will save space, need software updates

PDF readers and open-source libraries used in document processing will all need updating to handle the Brotli compression ...
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I ditched WinRAR for this open-source tool and it's not 7-Zip

All the power of 7-Zip, without the 2005 vibes.
Beebom

How to Unzip Files in Windows 11: 4 Simple Methods

ZIP files are great to compress and easily move around large groups of files. However, if you’ve ever downloaded something and received a ZIP file, you might be confused about how to open it. Though ...
GitHub

Cannot open zip file which contains a directory with the same name

It appears that if a zip file's top-level content is a directory with the same name as the zip file itself without the .zip (such as zip files created by Material Files itself!), Material Files gets ...