Microsoft offers voluntary retirement to long-serving employees

Microsoft is changing up its annual rewards and performance programs today, and offering long-serving employees in the US the ...

From the Editor’s Desk: Just Make It ⭐️

We are living in an incredible time in which we can suddenly create almost anything without needing to master complex tools.
Opinion

Microsoft attempts to untangle 'confusing' Windows Insider program

Microsoft is giving the Windows Insider program another makeover in the hope of making it less baffling. The Release Preview channel, used by Insiders to check out Windows builds that are close to ...

Microsoft removes unnecessary Windows feature

Microsoft spent the past two years putting Copilot everywhere inside Windows 11. Now it is quietly taking some of it back.
Technobezz

Microsoft Begins Removing Copilot Branding from Windows 11 Apps

Microsoft removes Copilot branding from Windows 11 apps like Notepad and Snipping Tool, shifting focus to enterprise AI while ...

Microsoft Weekly: Microsoft reworks Windows Insider Program and hands out some batteries

Microsoft revamps the Insider program, hands out some batteries, releases new builds, and more in this week's Microsoft ...
The New York Times

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...
TechRepublic

Microsoft: Critical Security Issue Found in Windows Notepad

Microsoft patches CVE-2026-20841, a high-severity Windows Notepad flaw that could allow code execution via malicious Markdown files. Image: Microsoft. Notepad has long been Windows’ quiet utility ...
Lifehacker

Microsoft Just Patched a Major Security Vulnerability for This Popular Windows App

Users could be tricked into running arbitrary code, but the issue was patched last week. February 17, 2026 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Microsoft patched a ...
Futurism

Microsoft Added AI to Notepad and It Created a Security Failure Because the AI Was Stupidly Easy for Hackers to Trick

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Even ...
PC Gamer

Thanks to Microsoft adding all those extra features to Notepad, it now unfortunately sports one more: An exploitation vulnerability with a high security rating

Security A 17-year-old Excel vulnerability is currently being exploited by threat actors, and it's been flagged by the US' cyber defence agency Operating Systems Windows 11 now lets you skip the ...
TechCrunch

Notepad++ says Chinese government hackers hijacked its software updates for months

The developer of the popular open source text editor Notepad++ has confirmed that hackers hijacked the software to deliver malicious updates to users over the course of several months in 2025. In a ...