"Hi, Joy," a reader wrote. "My brother is not computer savvy but needs something to access the internet, mostly for research and online purchases. What have you found that is easy and not expensive?" ...

Human language may seem messy and inefficient compared to the ultra-compact strings of ones and zeros used by computers—but our brains actually prefer it that way. New research reveals that while ...

Tech Moves covers notable hires, promotions and personnel changes in the Pacific NW tech community. Submissions: [email protected] by Kurt Schlosser on Feb 20, 2026 at 12:00 pm February 20, 2026 at 11 ...

Hackers have revealed that parts of Discord's new age verification system were effectively exposed to the public after the frontend code for third-party vendor Persona was left accessible on the open ...

On November 28 last year, just a day after Thanksgiving, an engineer at xAI earned gushing praise from his colleagues online after posting a photograph of his Tesla Cybertruck with the caption: “Last ...

A critical sandbox escape vulnerability in Grist-Core has been disclosed that allows remote code execution (RCE) through a single malicious spreadsheet formula. The issue was uncovered by Cyera ...

Microsoft announced that the Copilot Studio extension for the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) integrated development environment is now available to all users. Developers can use it to build and manage ...

As 2026 dawned, Meta announced a $2 billion acquisition of Manus, a fast-rising artificial intelligence firm specializing in agentic AI. What promised to be a seamless union of U.S. platform power and ...

Anthropic has released a new AI tool, Cowork, that allows users to collaborate with the AI model Claude directly in their computer files. Not just via text chat. The tool is based on the same ...

Key metrics tracking the development of Bitcoin Core show 2025 was a good year for the blockchain, with more developers contributing more code, says Jameson Lopp. Bitcoin developers working on the ...

The SpacemiT K1 is an 8-core RISC-V processor that has been tapped for several single-board computers, laptops, and tablets in the past two years. It’s not exactly the fastest processor available, ...

Software built into the cameras on iPhones and Android phones makes quick work of decoding QR codes. How do you do that on a laptop or desktop computer? I have a friend who calls me occasionally to ...