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Mozilla bypasses Microsoft; GeForce Now leaks upcoming games; AMD Radeon driver enables CPU/GPU OC

Mozilla bypasses Microsoft; GeForce Now leaks upcoming games; AMD Radeon driver enables CPU/GPU OC

September 13, 2021

for Monday September 11.

Mozilla bypasses Microsoft, makes it easier to set Firefox as default browser in Windows — www.neowin.net

Mozilla has circumvented Microsoft's anti-hijacking protections in Windows 10 and Windows 11 in order to allow users a simpler one-click process to change their default browser to Firefox, à la Edge.

PowerToys 0.46.0 Experimental adds Video Conference Mute utility and some fixes

Alongside the stable releases of Microsoft PowerToys, there's also an Experimental release once in a while, this is mainly to test new utilities that are being added to the mix, like today.

GeForce Now leak lists God of War, Demon's Souls, and much more for PC — www.neowin.net

A GeForce Now user may have uncovered a massive number of upcoming unannounced games heading to PC, including titles from PlayStation Studios, Xbox Game Studios, and a lot more publishers.

New compression tech vows "2-3x memory expansion" so you don't need to "Download More RAM" — www.neowin.net

A new general-purpose memory compression technology called Ziptilion, developed by ZeroPoint, can increase the effective capacity and bandwidth of the available physical memory by around "2-3x".

AMD Radeon 21.9.1 driver has support for Windows 11, Deathloop, and much more

AMD's latest driver is packed with new features including Auto Overclocking for all-AMD systems, Windows 11 support, Smart Access Memory for older generation graphics cards, and much more.