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Thanks to Microsoft adding all those extra features to Notepad, it now unfortunately sports one more: An exploitation vulnerability with a high security rating
By Nick Evanson published
News At least it's easy enough to avoid, until Notepad gets patched to fix the problem.

CachyOS isn't joining new Linux gaming distro collab, says it doesn't think a 'collective with strings attached' is necessary
By Jacob Fox published
News The snappy distro will keep to itself for now.

Microsoft is apparently now going to focus on 'improving system performance, reliability, and the overall experience of Windows' which is better than more AI
By Jacob Fox published
News Could Windows actually get a good update?

Microsoft says the Windows 11 boot failure bug is linked to another buggy update: 'This issue can occur on devices that failed to install the December 2025 security update and were left in an improper state'
By Andy Edser published
News Bugs upon bugs.

A whole bunch of different Linux gaming distros are teaming up to 'improve the open source gaming ecosystem'
By Jacob Fox published
News Open sourcers, unite!

Nvidia GeForce Now is officially on Linux, and after testing it I'm equal parts impressed and optimistic for the future of non-Windows gaming
By Jacob Fox published
News For now only officially on Ubuntu.

France is banning government officials from using Microsoft Teams and Zoom 'amid rising geopolitical tensions and fears of foreign surveillance or service disruptions'
By Issy van der Velde published
news Civil servants will instead have to use the French Visio videoconferencing software.

Microsoft says Windows 11 now has one billion users, 'up 45% year-over-year', which is probably no surprise after Windows 10 was put out to pasture
By Andy Edser published
News It's not like we had too many other options. Yes, I know, Linux.
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