Software

x64 port of Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a arrives

Dev releases ‘unblockable’ ASCII video stream software, stoking fears of unstoppable ads

Google floats reduced initial 5GB free cloud storage limit, users claim

Backblaze silently redefines 'unlimited' backups and users discover it's not backing up Dropbox and OneDrive

At least 80 different Microsoft Copilot products have been mapped out by expert, but there may be more than 100

Artemis II astronaut finds two Outlook instances running on computers, calls on Houston to fix Microsoft anomaly — puzzled caller describes ‘two Outlooks, and neither one of those are working’

Google is allowing users to change their Gmail address, per official Google support doc

‘LeBron James of Excel spreadsheets’ celebrates 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championships win

Russian media finally admits Putin is under fire from angry citizens, but it's for the recent Roblox ban

Xbox PC and Game Pass titles are coming to Linux through 'Xodus'

Windows 11's built-in weather app, which is a web wrapper, hogs more than 1GB of RAM while idling

VPN provider Windscribe has built a script to block Microsoft's persistent GDID tracking on Windows

Microsoft quietly purges 32GB of RAM recommendations from its website

Microsoft vows to make Windows 11 fly on 8GB RAM amid memory shortage

Valve funding port of Linux RADV Radeon Vulkan driver to Windows

Windows NT 4.0 brought the Win95 UI to servers 30 years ago today

Legendary Windows developer codes Task Manager for the Mac, says Apple’s ‘Activity Monitor blows’

Linus Torvalds rebukes anti-AI stances in the Linux kernel code review process, says 'Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects'

Mind-bending self-replicating GIF code prints an exact copy of itself, is both a program and its own visual output

Daring coder gets Doom running with regular expressions at 180 seconds per frame

Former Epic director is building a European rival to the Unreal and Unity game engines

Developer creates a basic first person shooter game using Gaussian splats, and you can play it for free in your browser

Enterprising developer somehow writes an x86 CPU emulator in plain CSS — no Javascript, no WASM, just stylesheet computing

Developer recreates classic scroller Zaxxon as a UEFI firmware

Hack to the Future — here's how you can write BASIC code on a modern-day PC

How to make graphical Python apps the EasyGUI way

Apple MacBooks have a sensor that measures the angle of the screen