The Linux desktop has continued its slow growth. Linux has been making gains in no small part because of Microsoft Windows' blunders. Users and governments have been losing trust in Windows and ...

Microsoft announced today that it will integrate Sysmon natively into Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025 next year, making it unnecessary to deploy the standalone Sysinternals tools. "Next year, ...

Meta is shutting down Messenger’s stand-alone desktop apps for Windows and Mac on December 15, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday. Starting December 15, users will no longer be able to ...

Update Windows 10 and 11 security now, CISA demands. Updated October 18 with expert comment regarding CVE-2025-24990, which is now confirmed as residing in “legacy code installed by default on all ...

Microsoft has reminded customers today that Windows 10 has reached the end of support and will no longer receive patches for newly discovered security vulnerabilities. However, although support for ...

On May 1st, 1964, two Dartmouth professors by the names of John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz debuted BASIC, a revolutionary programming language credited for expanding computer literacy outside the realm ...

There are brewing legal fights against the Trump administration for language it's posting on federal websites and in government emails blaming the Democrats for the government shutdown. The ...

We did an informal poll around the Hackaday bunker and decided that, for most of us, our favorite programming language is solder. However, [Stephen Cass] over at IEEE Spectrum released their annual ...

Ripple effect: Windows 10 will reach end-of-life status in less than a month, despite its enduring popularity. Microsoft's temporary program to extend security updates for the operating system ...

The technology is one of the strongest examples yet of how artificial intelligence can be used in a seamless, practical way to improve people’s lives. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s ...