With the rise of AI coding assistants continuing apparently unabated, some project maintainers have begun striking back. Ars Technica reports on projects putting hostile directions into the AGENTS.md ...

I am meeting Mindy Kaling at the office. Only, in a mid-century building at the Los Angeles Center Studios in downtown LA, the vibe is more Sterling Cooper than Dunder Mifflin. (Mad Men actually used ...

Editing your PC's environment variables can save you time in Command Prompt and make your scripts more concise. It also lets you customize where Windows stores certain files. This is what you need to ...

Microsoft has released a security update addressing a remote code execution vulnerability in the modern Notepad app distributed via the Microsoft Store. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-20841, carries a ...

If you use Notepad++, it's time to update. Hackers compromised the free text and coding editor to distribute a malicious update via the auto-update function. Notepad++ developer Don Ho detected the ...

A China-linked threat actor known as Lotus Blossom has been attributed with medium confidence to the recently discovered compromise of the infrastructure hosting Notepad++. The attack enabled the ...

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Tired of all the Microsoft AI slop? You can remove it entirely. Some people love AI. If you're not one of them (or if you have a favorite AI tool that isn't baked into it), using Windows 11 can feel ...

Add Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A viral X post spotlighted RemoveWindowsAI, a GitHub script that disables Windows 11’s AI features. The tool targets Copilot, ...

Microsoft wants to overhaul Windows into an agentic OS, but that’s easier said than done. Microsoft wants to overhaul Windows into an agentic OS, but that’s easier said than done. is a senior ...