The company may scale back its AI features or remove branding from apps like Notepad and Paint.

The popular Notepad alternative was hijacked by bad actors for several months in 2025, but the latest update appears to solve ...

Google says it has started enforcing its YouTube Premium requirement for background playback on mobile.

Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by suspected China-state hackers who used their control to deliver backdoored ...

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Microsoft is reviewing its approach to artificial intelligence in Windows 11 following sustained criticism from users over the placement and scope of AI ...

Microsoft is reallocating engineers from new feature development to address significant performance and reliability issues plaguing Windows 11. This "swarming" effort, expected to last through 2026, ...

Notepad++ is a favorite of programmers and other power users, but its auto-update function was compromised for months in 2025 ...

The program is a free text and code editor that's been downloaded millions of times. The compromise began in June and is ...

Microsoft's February 2026 update will deliver an expanded Cross Device Resume, improved voice tools, and QOL fixes.

Microsoft's February 2026 update delivers an expanded Cross Device Resume, improved voice tools, and QOL fixes.

The developer did not specify when they became aware of the attack, but said that “all attacker access was definitively ...