How-To Geek on MSN

Windows features secretly eating up your storage: How to reclaim GBs now

Windows reserves part of your drive as Reserved Storage to ensure updates, apps, and temporary files have sufficient space to ...
XDA Developers on MSN

SLC caching made budget SSDs usable, but now it's backfiring

The reasons for these slowdowns can vary depending on the SSD and wider system it's connected to, but for cheaper flash ...
GeekWire

Inside the Windows 1.0 reunion: How a scrappy team shipped the product that changed everything, eventually

Members of the Windows 1.0 team at their 40-year reunion this week. L-R, kneeling/sitting: Joe Barello, Ed Mills, Tandy Trower, Mark Cliggett, Steve Ballmer (holding a Windows 1.0 screenshot) and Don ...
The New York Times

Lando Norris to use No. 1 in 2026: Why the new F1 champ is taking Verstappen’s number

Lando Norris winning the F1 drivers' championship in Abu Dhabi Clive Rose / Getty Images Just a day after winning his first Formula One world championship, Lando Norris faced a big decision for the ...
PCGamesN

Grab a free key for Escape From Tarkov as the extraction shooter finally hits 1.0

For almost ten years now, Battlestate Games has toiled away on Escape From Tarkov with the help of its community. The hardcore, realistic survival FPS game birthed the extraction shooter genre, paving ...
PC Gamer

AMD's graphics driver discovered making 'hundreds' of SSD writes for every mouse move, but it probably isn't actually a problem

A Reddit user has posted an alarming investigation into the disk activity associated with AMD's PC graphics driver. Among other examples of heavy storage traffic, it turns out the AMD graphics driver ...
NPR

SNAP runs out of money Nov. 1. Here's what that means in your state

The federal government shutdown continues without an end in sight. In just a few days, tens of millions of people are at risk of losing federal food and nutrition benefits as a result. This includes ...
Fox News

Trump boards AF1 quickly, using small stairs due to 'increased security measures': WH official

President Donald Trump boarded Air Force One quickly using the small stairs due to "increased security measures" at Palm Beach International Airport on Sunday, a White House official tells Fox News.
CNN

Acetaminophen use during pregnancy not linked to autism, our study of 2.5 million children shows

EDITOR’S NOTE: The views expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writers. CNN is showcasing the work of The Conversation, a collaboration between journalists and academics to provide news ...
The Herald Journal

George Daines wins Cache County executive special election in final round of voting

Pending his swearing in by the Cache County Council on Tuesday, George Daines will be the next Cache County executive after ousting Micah Safsten by 8% in the third and final round of the Cache County ...
The Verge

No, a Windows update probably didn’t brick your SSD

Both Microsoft and Phison couldn’t recreate issues reported on social media. Both Microsoft and Phison couldn’t recreate issues reported on social media. is the Verge’s weekend editor. He has over 18 ...
Vogue

Serena Williams Opens Up About Being on a GLP-1

Greatest-athlete-of-all-time Serena Williams and I have just started talking over Zoom when everything comes to an abrupt halt. “Are you in a car right now and don’t have a seatbelt on?” Williams asks ...