From InfoWorld: Microsoft SmartScreen, the phishing and malware filtering technology built into Internet Explorer, Edge and Windows, has now been updated to block Web-based attacks that silently exploit software vulnerabilities to infect computers.

Such attacks are known as drive-by downloads...

From PC World: Microsoft delved deeper into providing software for Android on Thursday with the launch of Microsoft Apps, a new application that gives users of Google's operating system a one-stop shop to find apps like Word, Cortana and Bing.

Users download the app to their devices, and can then...

From CNET: Apple Pay and Samsung Pay, the competing mobile-payments services, will go head to head next year in the world's biggest smartphone market.

Apple and Samsung said Thursday they had secured separate deals with the China UnionPay bank that will enable their customers in China to add credit...

From InfoWorld: Microsoft reneged on its promise of unlimited OneDrive for Business storage for all organizations, announcing Wednesday that only premium Office 365 subscribers will get access to limitless cloud storage.

While the company never officially said that every paying organization using...

From PC World: Budget PC builders, here's your holiday bonus: Motherboard maker Asrock has just released its “Sky OC” BIOS for its Skylake motherboards, so even folks without pricier CPUs can overclock their chips.

In a blog post on Wednesday, the company called the BIOS "an alternative for users...

From CNET: Riot Games has already told fans that they'd be improving League of Legends with a series of major updates next year, but that's not the only change planned.

On Tuesday, the Californian games studio quietly announced that it was now completely owned by Tencent, an economic giant from...

From ComputerWorld: Microsoft today restarted distribution of Windows 10 previews by delivering the first new build since the November upgrade of five weeks ago.

The new version, identified as build 11082, was offered to Windows Insider participants who have selected the "Fast" ring, or delivery...

From InfoWorld: Angular 2, a re-architected, rewritten version of the popular JavaScript framework also known as AngularJS, goes to a beta release stage today, with general availability planned for early-2016.

The upgrade features enhancements for speed in rendering and updating pages, near-initial...

From ComputerWorld: If there's any company that's been virtually synonymous with growth over the past year or so, it's Slack, and now the team-software vendor is taking a big step to make sure that momentum continues.

The company has established an $80 million fund to provide early-stage...

From PC World: Microsoft has pulled an update to Windows 10 after users reported a wide variety of issues with the upgrade process, according to a post on the company's Answers technical support forum.

The patch, which was the first cumulative update Microsoft made to its mobile operating system...