Notepad gets new features, while it's clobbered by new bug — highlighting everything that's wrong with Microsoft right now

Notepad gets new features — including a dash more AI – but I'm betting this isn't what most Windows 11 users want ...

The billion-user trust gap: Can Pavan Davuluri fix Windows 11’s ‘agentic’ identity crisis?

Windows 11 has officially surpassed 1 billion monthly active users. According to the company's fiscal Q2 2026 earnings call, the OS reached this goal in just 1,576 days, significantly faster than ...
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New Osiris Ransomware Emerges as New Strain Using POORTRY Driver in BYOVD Attack

Experts uncovered a new Osiris ransomware strain that used a custom POORTRY driver in a BYOVD attack to disable security tools & steal data in 2025.
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Modern Windows Apps Are Too Heavy: 10 Lightweight Alternatives to Make Your PC Run Faster

The new crop of default Windows apps is too resource-hungry and inefficient — ditch them for these lightweight alternatives ...
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gam.cfg

GAM uses a configuration file, gam.cfg, to store the values of the various environment variables and signal files used by Legacy GAM. Configuration files client_secrets.json, oauth2.txt, oauth2service ...