VEX helps public-sector security teams prioritize repairs by identifying which vulnerabilities affect their systems.

The letter X can be a lot of things: rebellious, mysterious, religious. For this Word of the Week, we examine its origins and many uses.

GIMP for short, the free, open-source program has endured as one of the best Photoshop alternatives for those who want to edit images without forking out for a hefty monthly subscription fee. The ...

But these mistakes are also easy to fix.

While trickery is old, what’s new is the very high level at which realistic- looking and -sounding “deepfake” photos and videos, synthetic feeds, and fabricated accounts can now be made—and the sheer ...

Asynchronous programming with async and await has existed in .NET for years. Now Microsoft is delivering a new runtime environment for asynchronous execution.

An old book about an even older operating system.

Over the course of nearly 300 posts, Jonathan Bennett set a very high bar for this column, so we knew it needed to be placed in the hands of somebody who could do it justice.

Someone spent a couple of hours with the AI-generated vibe-coded operating system Vib-OS, and it's about as bad as you'd expect, probably worse.

Every now and then, someone brings up the haunting spectre of an AI-focused Windows 12. While recent rumours about the fabled ...

Resistance to operating system age checks coming from *checks notes* open source calculator and OS planning to limit access to Californians altogether.

Abstraction is considered a virtue in software development. However, practice shows that wrong abstractions cause more harm ...