Epic Games Store Free Game This Week: Caravan SandWitch (August 13–20, 2026)

Caravan SandWitch is free on Epic Games Store through August 20 at 11 AM Eastern. See the claim deadline, PC requirements and two official trailers.

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Caravan SandWitch is free on Epic Games Store through August 20 at 11 AM Eastern. See the claim deadline, PC requirements and two official trailers.

Microsoft is rebuilding Windows 11 AutoPlay with WinUI 3. See what changes, view the dark and light preview screenshots, and learn what Microsoft has—and has not—said about the release date.

A password reset is not enough after a Microsoft 365 email compromise. Follow this ordered plan to stop fraud, revoke sessions, remove hidden persistence, preserve evidence, and restore access safely.

Microsoft corrects a 9.8-rated HPC Pack flaw, AWS works through a Frankfurt facility failure, Threema explains a DDoS outage, OLED burn-in persists, and an electric aircraft demonstrator flies.

Our exact-date Microsoft SUG ledger covers 440 August 11 CVEs: 400 Microsoft-assigned, two MITRE-assigned and 38 Chrome-assigned Edge flaws, including 44 Critical vulnerabilities and three zero-days. Explore every CVE and 61 verified update/package rows.

Daily Florida hurricane-season check for August 16, 2026: The National Hurricane Center says, “Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 7 days.” The current Atlantic outlook lists no disturbances or active tropical cyclones. Conditions can change, so Treasure…

Windows signed you into a blank temporary profile? Save new work before sign-out, identify the loaded profile, preserve the original data, and follow a safe recovery ladder before registry edits or a reset cause permanent loss.

Apple’s reported China AI model, France’s taxpayer-data breach, Google’s coding-focused Gemini 3.7 Flash, and Microsoft’s Windows hotpatch and Secure Boot transition—plus practical steps for the weekend.

Daily Florida hurricane-season check for August 15, 2026: The National Hurricane Center is monitoring two tropical waves: one near the Windward Islands and another in the central tropical Atlantic. Their seven-day formation chances are 10 percent and 20 percent, respectively.…

Microsoft disclosed an important, currently unpatched Defender elevation-of-privilege flaw on August 14. Here’s what ShieldBreak means, how to update Edge and PowerShell 7, and what Windows and Mac users should do now.