Microsoft has suspended developer accounts used to maintain multiple high-profile open-source projects without proper notification and no way to quickly reinstate them, effectively blocking them from publishing new software builds and security patches for Windows users. The list of affected … Read more
Microsoft has terminated an account associated with VeraCrypt, a popular and long-running piece of encryption software, throwing future Windows updates of the tool into doubt, VeraCrypt’s developer told 404 Media. The move highlights the sometimes delicate supply chain involved in … Read more
A few years ago I was in a meeting with developers and someone asked a simple question: “What’s the right framework for a new Windows desktop app?” Dead silence. One person suggested WPF. Another said WinUI 3. A third asked … Read more
Yesterday, Microsoft unveiled a sweeping set of changes coming soon to Windows 11 that are designed to address common complaints and issues that people have with the platform. Everything from slow performance to unreliable updates, AI bloat, and excessive ads … Read more
Try it out via this demo, or build and run it on your own CPU or GPU. bitnet.cpp is the official inference framework for 1-bit LLMs (e.g., BitNet b1.58). It offers a suite of optimized kernels, that support fast and … Read more
Copilot’s official Discord channel was locked down after users went haywire with unflattering nicknames targeted at Microsoft Microsoft’s aggressive AI push in Windows 11 through 2025 brought upon themselves the title Microslop. Unfortunately for the company, it’s everywhere on social … Read more
Microscoft’s glass storage method can store 4.8 terabytes of data.Credit: Microsoft Research Researchers at Microsoft have created a data-storage system that can remain readable for at least 10,000 years — and probably much longer. In the digital age, the need … Read more
Microsoft told Windows Latest that the company does not plan to rewrite Windows 11 using AI in Rust, which is a programming language that is more secure than C and C++. But the clarification is not coming out of nowhere, … Read more
November 26, 2025 • Programming What do you think is gonna happen after I press tab when looking at this screenshot? That’s right, its gonna do nothing and suggest something else that it wasn’t any of the 2 initial suggestions … Read more
Microsoft said it has steadily worked over the past decade to deprecate RC4, but that the task wasn’t easy. No salt, no iteration? Really? “The problem though is that it’s hard to kill off a cryptographic algorithm that is present … Read more