Software

CPU-Z gets biggest update since 2001 with V3 — 100+ health checks, built-in stress testing, and XOC effective clock tracking

Judge clears Nine PBS to retrieve 70 years of archival TV data

Rogue iOS developer creates app that simulates messages sent by carrier pigeon; messages only travel at 100mph

PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct

Vibe-coded app adds a 3D video rental storefront to your Jellyfin HTPC

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

Linux was announced by Linus Torvalds 35 years ago today

Windows veteran's vibe-coded Task Manager now also runs on Mac and Linux

Decades-long Linux ownership dispute effectively dead after Xinuos appeal rejected

Microsoft blames RGB peripherals for crashing Windows 11

25 years after the death of 3dfx, the Voodoo 3 gets a Linux driver update

China reportedly orders state agencies to uninstall its government-only edition of Windows 10

Devs blame Windows for VLC media player bug that causes 33-second delay when playing MP3 files

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

Walk through a 3D cyberpunk city built purely from ASCII characters

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