Samsung’s fast, compact USB-C flash drive is just $18 right now
Having a fast flash drive on hand can save you the pain of transferring files over slow Wi-Fi. In fact, it allows you to bypass the need for an internet connection altogether. It just so happens that one of our favorites — Samsung’s Type-C Flash Drive — is on sale right now, with the 128GB model available for a mere $18 on Amazon.
Besides the fact that this modern flash drive is a total steal at this price, this particular flash drive is awesome because, as the name suggests, it has a USB-C connection. That means it’s so easy to back up data from smartphones, tablets, laptops, gaming consoles, and more.
The Samsung Type-C Flash Drive is tiny, too, making it easy to throw into a pocket or purse and take with you anywhere. It’s also built with protection against most dangers, including water, dust, shocks, magnets, extreme temperatures, and X-rays.
With its 400MB/s read speeds, you can transfer massive files to your thumb drive in no time, including those extra-large 4K videos.
Get your very own compact USB-C flash drive for just $18 on Amazon while this deal lasts. If 128GB is too little for you, the 256GB model is also on sale (for just $27, was $35).
Samsung's USB-C flash drive is the best $18 you'll spend this weekBuy now at Amazon 
© 2025 PC World 11:25am  
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7-Zip flaw lets hackers infect your PC with malware. Update ASAP!
Earlier this week, security firm Trend Micro posted a security advisory (spotted by BleepingComputer) about a big vulnerability in 7-Zip, a popular file archiving utility app that’s used by millions around the world.
According to the advisory, the vulnerability — identified as CVE-2025-0411 — makes it possible for hackers to bypass the Mark of the Web (MotW) security feature in Windows and remotely execute code on your PC when extracting from a malware-loaded archive file.
Igor Pavlov, developer of 7-Zip, actually patched the flaw back in November 2024 with version 24.09. However, 7-Zip doesn’t have an automatic update feature, so many users are still using outdated versions of the app that are still vulnerable to this MotW exploit.
If you haven’t updated 7-Zip in a long time, do it now. Head over to the 7-Zip download page and get the latest version, which is 24.09 as of this writing. As long as you’re on that version or later, you’ll be okay.
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Vivaldi 7.1 sets its sync sights on tabs
Vivaldi has taken another slow step toward providing better sync options for users with the ability to push a tab to another device, plus a new weather widget in Vivaldi 7.1.
The update also adds new default search engines — Startpage, Ecosia, DuckDuckGo, and Qwant — as well as the options to adjust the background themes as well as the web widgets.
Many of us at PCWorld like Vivaldi, and switched to it a while back. But Vivaldi’s sync services have been an issue — with a cloud outage cutting access to Vivaldi sync services for days last December, and a more substantial problem: that one configuration of Vivaldi on one browser can’t easily be reproduced on another.
Vivaldi appears to be avoiding the issue by asking you to do the legwork. On one hand, Vivaldi 7.1 does include a new sync feature: Send Tab to Device allows you to instantly share tabs to other devices that are logged in to Vivaldi. That feature doesn’t appear to happen automatically, however, and it’s limited to Vivaldi browsers on PCs. Syncing to the mobile version of Vivaldi will arrive on January 30, Vivaldi said.
Otherwise, Vivaldi’s method of avoiding true syncing is to ask you to “export” features from Vivaldi’s browser. Import Open Tabs is a new feature that allows the Vivaldi browser to slurp up your open tabs that are running on a different browser, like Chrome or Edge. Vivaldi than opens them in its own browser framework, with the idea that you’ll shut down the other browser and continue work on Vivaldi instead.
Finally, the new version adds a weather widget, which takes Vivaldi’s useful sidebar (where you can access web-based email and a list of RSS feeds, for example) and adds local weather to it. This does seem a bit on the superficial side, as most Windows 11 PCs hide a weather widget down in the corner of the screen. However, you can also look up weather in foreign cities, something that Windows’ own weather widget isn’t really designed to do.
The new VIvaldi 7.1 update is available today.
© 2025 PC World 7:05am 
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