One of the least popular new “features” in Windows 10 is the advertising function Microsoft injected directly into the operating system. Ads show up in a number of ways, from promotions of Windows Store apps in the Start menu to pop-up “reminders” that Microsoft’s Edge browser gets better battery life than Google’s Chrome.

OneDrive is baked into Windows 10 and can’t easily be uninstalled, and Microsoft wants to make sure you know that the 5GB of free OneDrive storage can be easily upgraded to significantly more space.

A test version of Windows 10 released Wednesday comes with a feature called "compact overlay window" that will always float atop your other windows. That could be handy for holding Skype video chats, keeping an eye on political hearings and yes, watching Netflix or the big game when you're supposed to be at work.

"We have lobbied and will continue to lobby for first-party console manufacturers to either disallow mouse and keyboard and input conversion devices or openly and easily support mouse and keyboard for all players," he continued. "I encourage you to reach out to the hardware manufacturers and express your concerns (but please do so in a productive and respectful way)."

After version 53, Firefox will require Rust to compile successfully, due to the presence of Firefox components built with the language. But this decision may restrict the number of platforms that Firefox can be ported to—for now.

"The advantage of using Rust is too great,” according to maintainer Ted Mielczarek. “We normally don’t go out of our way to make life harder for people maintaining Firefox ports, but in this case we can’t let lesser-used platforms restrict us from using Rust in Firefox,” he wrote.

Windows will take control of your computer, force-feed it updates, and flip the reset switch automatically -- and there's not a damn thing you can do about it, once it gets started.

With no warning, a prompt pops up on your screen telling you that your Windows 10 laptop is about to restart. Even though you know you're about to lose access to your computer, there's not a damn thing you can do about it -- the buttons are all grayed out.

When I ask my fellow CNET staffers, many of them chime in with stories, too: how Windows decided to reboot in the middle of a liveblog, or an expense report, or while taking notes in the middle of an interview -- or in the airport, right before boarding a plane, without enough power left to actually finish the install.

They found of the 283 apps they analysed, 38 per cent contained malware or malvertising (malicious advertising containing viruses).

More than 80 per cent of the apps want access to your sensitive information, such as user data and text messages, according to the researchers.

Oracle originally planned MD5's deprecation for the current Critical Patch Update (CPU), released this week, which included a whopping 270 security fixes, one of the biggest security updates to date.

In recent years, Oracle has been advising Java developers to use powerful and dedicated code-signing keys instead.

For example, in the 28 days prior to the talk, users had installed 18 billion ("billion" with a "b") packages from the registry, although this translated to "only" about 6 billion downloads. The downloads are substantially lower than the installs because approximately 66 percent of the installs are now being served from the cache.

At over 350,000 packages, the npm registry contains more than double the next most populated package registry (which is the Apache Maven repository). In fact, it is currently the largest package registry in the world.

Microsoft has begun its 2017 with the release of four updates to address security holes in Windows and Office, while Adobe has posted fixes for more than three dozen vulnerabilities in Flash and Reader.

By the way, if you update Reader, bear in mind it comes with a little surprise: a Chrome extension that sends Adobe telemetry.

The issue appears to mostly affect the Apple Watch Series 2, although not every user has experienced problems with the update.

Apple's Apple Watch update woes follow reports that sales of the wearable have slumped dramatically since last year. According to IDC, Apple sold 1.1 million units in the third quarter of 2016, down 71 percent from a year ago. However, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that "sales growth is off the charts."