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Windows 11 Insiders — what Microsoft calls its beta testers — have been able to try out the company’s latest and greatest OS practically since it was announced (actually, it leaked a little before). But the builds so far have been part of the Dev channel, where Microsoft releases its earliest and buggiest builds for its most die-hard users and developers. I couldn’t reasonably recommend anyone install these builds unless they already knew what they were doing....

TNW Quick Hit: In our continuing coverage of Windows 8 we have kept our eyes peeled for more than potentially faked screenshots. In that vein we are happy today to have found a ratherextensive videothat details the Windows 8 logon process. The build in the video is 7955, in case you were curious. Takeaways? Windows 8’s new elements do borrow from the Metro design ethos that Microsoft currently uses across its Zune and Windows Phone 7 lines....

This past weekend,Shelby.tv, a startup born atTechstarsand General Assembly hosted New York’s first ever video hackathon:Hackday.tv. In case you haven’t yet used Shelby, it’s like watching TV or gazing into a magic ball of all the videos your friends post on Facebook and Twitter. It’s a browser-based service that pulls in videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion and Blip.tv that have been posted by your friends and the people you follow on your social networks....

TLDR:The Winston Privacy Filter cloaks all your home WiFi traffic, blocking ads, trackers and other data collection while encrypting all your web activity to make you virtually invisible online. You might think most of your home WiFi bandwidth is eaten up by media consumption like streaming video, podcasts, or that 6-hour YouTube binge. It plays its part, but what’s actually taking up almost half of your home internet activity is junk you didn’t ask for and, in most cases, really don’t want....

Here’s an interesting little bit ofnewsfor you. We’ve learnt that regulators in France have banned the words ‘Facebook’ and ‘Twitter’ from use on TV and radio. Some people might say that the French have acquired an unfair reputation for being obsessed with frustratingly pedantic rules and regulations, but this latest ruling would suggest that reputations are sometimes earned. French broadcasting regulators have issued the following ruling: TV and radio show hosts must refrain from uttering ‘Facebook’ or ‘Twitter’ unless it’s in direct relation to a specific news story on the subject....