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Microsoft finally made a bloat-free version of Windows 11, but normal people aren't allowed to use it

Project Zenith sounds really cool, but you need a special PC to run it.
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KongTuke malware on Windows: the fake CAPTCHA and CrashFix scam, what it installs and how to clean a PC

KongTuke is a criminal web traffic network behind fake CAPTCHA pages and the CrashFix browser extension scam on Windows. What ...
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Why Windows 11 still won’t let you name a file CON, and Microsoft’s explanation goes back to MS-DOS

Windows 11 still won't let you name a file CON or NUL. Raymond Chen traces it to DOS 1.0, and our 26H2 test found NUL.txt now ...

I tried Windows 11’s customizable right-click menu – and it’s a much-needed change

The latest Windows Insider build lets you add, remove, and manage commands in the right-click menu so it's less crowded and ...

For those who struggle to keep up with study logs | See your streak and difficult days with color

I can't keep up with my study logs. This is a very common problem for people who have started learning skills for a side ...

PowerShell 5.1 output character encoding varies by command: Only WriteAllText produces UTF-8 without BOM, and Japanese in .ps1 files without BOM causes the n…

PowerShell 5.1, which is included in Windows, uses different character encodings depending on the command used to write files ...
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SilentNet malware: what it is, what it steals, and how to clean a Windows PC

SilentNet is a stealer family tracked on MalwareBazaar, mostly Java .jar files. See what is known, what is not, and how to ...

I put Lenovo’s RTX Spark laptop through a completely bonkers AI coding test – and it passed

Forget ordinary laptop benchmarks - I tested the $4,000 Lenovo RTX Spark with real local AI coding and a brutal battery ...
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The Linux community is fed up with Ubuntu. Here are the distros they're switching to

The Linux community has spoken why they are ditching Canonical's distro.
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New Software Wraps AI Music-Score Edits in Safety Checks Before Anything Changes

SeraEdit packages language-guided MusicXML editing as a validated, reversible transaction that cut measured leakage to zero ...

94% of top PyPI packages feature native Windows on Arm support94% of top PyPI packages feature native Windows on Arm support

Anaconda now hosts 2,500 Arm packages, while NumPy and SciPy publish native wheels to aid data scientists migrating off emulation.
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Copilot Fusion Hits GA: 3 Tiers, 30% Off [2026]

GitHub Copilot Fusion went GA Oct. 28 in VS Code, CLI and JetBrains. Three effort tiers, a 30% discount through Nov. 30 and a ...