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The final free adventure in Minecraft’s New Year’s celebration is now here. Monster Attack: Nian from Next Studio pits you against a giant beast attacking the town. Talk with villagers to find your way, and collect special weapons to defeat your foe. Once the beast is defeated, ride the weapons to victory. To enter the adventure, simply open up the Marketplace on your Minecrafting device and download. Find out more. Continue reading...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 11 Build 22621.1192 (KB5022360) to Insiders in the Release Preview Channel on Windows 11, version 22H2. This month we are making a change in Release Preview to reduce the number of reboots that customer experience when upgrading. Starting this month, when customers upgrade to Windows 11, version 22H2, they will get the January optional quality update (KB5022360) and the .NET update alongside the Feature Update. This means when you upgrade to Windows 11, version 22H2 you will get the feature update with the latest and greatest security fixes for both Windows and .NET– all with only a single reboot! This update includes the following improvements: New! We changed the experience for...

January brings 16 new pieces of Minecraft Realms Plus content. To get your hands on it all, you just need to subscribe to Realms Plus via your Minecrafting device. "This month we’re going to journey to alien dimensions, ride dragon horses, create our own skyblock adventures and more," writes Sophie Austin on Minecraft.net. "Plus, we’ll be discovering some hidden twists along the way." Head over to Minecraft.net to survey the new offerings, find details about Realms Plus and choose your subscription. Continue reading...

If you're a web developer, you may have already heard that some CSS selectors are faster than others. And you're probably hoping to find a list of the better selectors to use in this article. Well, not quite. But bear with me, I promise that by the end, you'll have learnt something new about CSS selector performance. A quick look behind the scenes The way you write CSS selectors does play a role in how browsers render your web pages. Whenever a part of your page changes, the browser engine that's running it needs to take a look at the new DOM tree, and figure how to style it based on the available CSS stylesheets. This operation of matching styles to DOM nodes is called a style recalculation. Without getting into a lot of details, the...

The Minecraft Marketplace is brimming with content to transform you from a farmer to a fighter, a builder to a burrower. Behind every door is a new story. What'll your next story be? Head over to Minecraft.net to explore some of the content bundles available, and be sure to check out the official trailer that gives you a taste of the excitement that awaits. Continue reading...