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 ...
HotHardware

Windows 11 Patch Deletes PowerShell 2.0 And One More App Power Users Will Miss

The August 2025 (KB5063878) Windows update caused an issue that prevented non-admin users from carrying out several vital operations due to misbehaving UAC prompts. Microsoft has since released its ...
Rock Paper Shotgun

Balatro's 1.1 update won't come out this year, so developer Localthunk can keep working at a healthy pace

Balatro's free 1.1 update won't release in 2025 as originally planned, developer Localthunk has announced. There's no new release date, but they say the update'll arrive when they've been able to ...
PC World

Windows will soon be jamming to MIDI 2.0’s music services

For many, MIDI means SoundBlaster cards, chiptunes, and WAD files played to the sound of a killer synth score. But Microsoft Windows has begun previewing MIDI 2.0, the first update to the MIDI ...
GitHub

World's Leading Open Source JPEG 2000 Codec

Below is a benchmark comparing time and memory performance for Grok 9.7.8 and Kakadu 8.05 on the following workflows: ...
CNX Software

Google’s Jpegli open-source library can compress high quality images 35% more than traditional JPEG codecs

Google has released the Jpegli open-source library for advanced JPEG coding that maintains backward compatibility while delivering an up to 35% compression ratio improvement at high-quality ...