| Leaks show that Microsoft writes release notes, so why can't it publish them? To be honest, we’re not entirely sure what the cumulative updates contain, and there’s a simple reason for that: while security updates do receive official documentation and enumeration, the non-security stuff is not described by Microsoft at all. When asked about this last month, Microsoft affirmed that it has no plans to tell anyone what’s in the updates.
This is one of my pet peeves and it isn’t limited to Microsoft at all. On the App Store, most of the biggest companies refuse to provide any release notes for the updates to their apps. Facebook is the worst offender, they update their app every two weeks and refuse to say what the updates contain. But this practice has spread to tons of companies that have started doing the same thing. And it’s only the billion dollar companies. The smaller guys always include what they are including in their updates — some of them like Slack and Trello not only include detailed notes about the things they are charging, but they do it in such a fun way that you actually want to read what they are writing. Perhaps this all comes down to the lawyers. Big companies run everything through their lawyers before putting it out to customers, and those lawyers cost a ton of money. Smaller companies don’t bother with all that. Building a PC, Part VIII: Iterating The fun part of building a PC is that it’s relatively easy to swap out the guts when something compelling comes along. CPU performance improvements may be modest these days, but there are still bright spots where performance is increasing more dramatically. Mainly in graphics hardware and, in this case, storage.
This entire series on building a PC is the best on the web. We have always talked about doing our own series on how to build a PC, but the reality is that we would have a hard time doing a better job than Jeff did, so we just haven’t ever done it. That isn’t to say we won’t in the future, in fact it is probably a good idea. But anyway if you are interested in hardware and upgrading your PC, this is a great article. AVG can sell your browsing and search history to advertisers (Wired UK) Security firm AVG can sell search and browser history data to advertisers in order to “make money” from its free antivirus software, a change to its privacy policy has confirmed.
Worth noting here that this isn’t really a change. Almost all free antivirus collects your browsing history and they aggregate it and sell it for research and data purposes, mostly to companies that want information on what people are buying from competition sites. Ever wonder how research firms get sales data for product sales that they shouldn’t have any idea about? Yep. Of course they aren’t the only ones. Loads of browser extensions do the same thing, as we have told you before. They sell the data from every single thing you look at online and you would have no idea if you don’t read the terms of service. But hey it’s free. What do you expect? They need to make money somehow. We use advertising here at How-To Geek to support our free website. Do we like ads? Of course not, nobody does unless it’s halftime at the Super Bowl. But we have to make money, so we use ads that you can clearly see. These guys hide behind lawyers and confusing terms of service. But at least they are better than the crapware vendors. Those guys trick people into installing things they don’t want, spy on everything you browse, insert ads, and then sell your browsing data to the highest bidder. All that data goes to the same places. Maybe not the same companies, but the same people that want to track what people are doing. | 
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