2026 seems to be a year of rethinking for Microsoft. At first the company planned to improve Windows 11 and make it faster, and now the company wants to give its users control over Windows…
Dutch officials have warned that a high-severity macOS vulnerability that allows attackers to execute malicious code is under active exploitation. “The NCSC has received a notification indicating that active abuse of this vulnerability has been…
Have you ever reached the end of a day spent on your computer and asked, “Where did all that time go?” Between work, surfing the web, and playing games, it’s easy to lose track. ActivityWatch…
Budget PC gamers have had little to celebrate in 2026. Intel may be trying to change that. It’s hard not to feel despondent about the state of PC building right now. Data centers are sucking…
The Steam Deck and other PC gaming handhelds can squeeze a shocking amount of performance out of relatively old integrated graphics hardware. But they’re still essentially tiny little laptops without dedicated GPUs. If you’re developing…
Microsoft has been trying to get users onto Edge for years. In the past, they’ve used dirty tricks like annoying default browser prompts, targeting heavy Chrome users, and dissuading Chrome downloads. The company’s desperation is…
A few months ago, Microsoft redesigned the icons for its Office programs. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and the rest can now be accessed via new, modernized icons. Only the classic Outlook was left out; it still…
Even as someone who viscerally hates “AI” getting stuffed into every aspect of every device and service I use, I can see places where it’s helpful. For example, a conversational interface for my grandmother might…
In February, Mozilla Firefox revealed that the company was adding third-party AI to its browser. This week, the company further revealed that it’s doing so via “AI windows” for ChatGPT and other services. Back in…
Intel currently has a zero percent market share of desktop graphics cards, according to Jon Peddie Research. And that’s hardly the company’s only issue — a few years of bad news was capped off by…