Notepad.exe offers a blank-file-first approach to code editing on Mac

Apple’s long-stalled smart-home refresh is now expected to move forward once the improved Siri reaches production devices.

The United States has told partner nations they must back Washington in the contest with China or accept the fallout.

Microsoft delivered two new dynamic updates, KB5121002 and KB5120250, aimed at recovery components across recent Windows 11 releases and Windows 10 22H2.

Alibaba Group Holding’s open-weight artificial-intelligence models have become the most downloaded in the world, surpassing those from Meta Platforms and Alphabet.

Intel has issued Graphics Driver 32.0.101.8974 for Windows 10 and 11, with the update focused on FPS gains in multiple games.

Anthropic stated that its text watermarking scheme depends on inconsequential words, with other AI model makers expected to adopt comparable methods.

Howard Lutnick has urged the company to avoid Chinese suppliers while it hunts for alternatives to current memory-chip shortages.

Microsoft has started displaying 60-day cutoff warnings on Windows 11 24H2, Windows Server 2022 and Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB 2016, directing users toward an October deadline.

Microsoft is ending an experimental AI feature in the spreadsheet app and steering users toward its other Copilot access points.

Microsoft is disabling a feature in OneNote for the web while keeping the same capability in the Windows desktop app and handling existing Loop content separately.

A cryptography blog post on the end of traditional surveillance reaches the Hacker News front page, highlighting a shift to active device compromise by agencies.

New York City politicians joined musicians and privacy advocates at a press conference to call for tighter limits on biometric surveillance in public venues.

Google now permits removal of the visible watermark on AI-generated content while the invisible SynthID marker stays active for identification.

Microsoft has delivered build 26200.9267 and build 26100.9267 to testers in the Release Preview Channel.

Build 28000.2796 for version 26H1 updates how the system reports file sizes in the Release Preview Channel.

Stratechery's weekly roundup frames persistent capital spending as the central constraint shaping AI development.

OpenAI is projected to more than double its annualized revenue to over $40 billion, driven by consumer subscriptions, enterprise contracts, and its Codex coding tool, even as compute costs mount.

Apple has opened a 20,000-square-foot Advanced Manufacturing Center in Houston, Texas, where small and medium businesses can receive free training on device production processes while the same facility begins Mac mini assembly this year.

Bloomberg reports that artificial intelligence features have produced measurable growth at the employment platform once viewed as vulnerable to obsolescence.

DecryptAds pulls scattered ad and tracking records into one searchable service that anyone can use without cost or account.

An APT group has equipped its government-targeting backdoor with a Windows kernel component that raises the bar for detection.