Software

Microsoft reveals how much Windows 10 Extended Security Updates will cost

Nintendo explains how it created Zelda's amazing physics at GDC

Apple's Spatial Personas for the Vision Pro bring your FaceTime callers into the room

Microsoft will erase WordPad with the next Windows 11 upgrade

In a nutshell: Microsoft has made it abundantly clear that WordPad is slated for retirement. A newly published document outlines a specific timeline for the discontinuation of the longstanding software, indicating that its demise may occur sooner than anticipated.

Despite Microsoft's push, Windows 11 and Edge see decreases in user share

Latest Steam survey: Nvidia's mid-range GPUs top the charts, a bad month for AMD

IEEE will no longer accept Playboy's "Lenna" image for image processing research

A hot potato: Simply known as "Lenna," the test image was scanned by Alexander Sawchuk at the University of Southern California's Signal and Image Processing Institute in 1973. It's been used in research papers about image processing since then, but now the time has come to retire this piece of fortuitous standard in digital beauty.

Linux could have been brought down by backdoor found in widely used utility

Why it matters: By happenstance Microsoft researcher Andres Freund found malicious code that could break sshd authentication. If it hadn't been discovered it could have posed a grave threat to Linux. The open source community has reacted to the incident, acknowledging the fortuitous nature of the discovery and how it was fortunately caught early before it could pose a significant risk to the broader Linux community.

Activision Blizzard investigates hacking campaign linked to cheat software

Microsoft Edge could soon let you control how much RAM it uses

US federal agencies must appoint chief AI officers, according to new guidelines

Adobe's new AI aims to become the invisible helping hand for marketing teams and creatives

HWiNFO 8.00 adds a new FPS and system statistics overlay

GPT-4 loses its position as "best" LLM to Claude-3 in LMSYS benchmark

Canva acquires Affinity for $380 million to take on Adobe

MIT researchers showcase novel method for super-fast AI image generation

Uncannily Fast: Generative AI services can produce a high-quality visual patchwork but are usually quite sluggish. Researchers from MIT and Adobe have developed a potential solution to this time-consuming issue, with a new super-fast image generation method with minimal impact on quality. The technique spits out about 20 images per second.

Chrome is getting better text rendering in Windows thanks to Microsoft engineers

Microsoft is quietly installing the Copilot app on Windows PCs

Google's AI-powered search can recommend malicious sites, including scams and malware

DaVinci Resolve 18.6.6 adds support for new video formats

Windows UI for disk formatting was a temporary solution that stuck for 30 years

Apple prepares in-box iPhone software update system for unboxing convenience

Microsoft adds spellcheck and autocorrect to Notepad

Get a Microsoft Office lifetime license for $39, no subscription required

Larian is walking away from Baldur's Gate 3, no DLC, no expansions, no sequel

Wow! Larian Studios stunned the crowd during a panel discussion at the Game Developers Conference. Founder and CEO Swen Vincke revealed that the studio has no interest in expanding upon its massively popular Baldur's Gate 3 RPG. He clarified that fans shouldn't get their hopes up for any DLC, expansions, or a Baldur's Gate 4.