The latest Windows 11 Insider build hides more AI upgrades than you think

The latest Windows 11 Insider build quietly adds fresh tools, UI tweaks, and more AI features that hint at where the OS is heading next.

How to turn your Raspberry Pi into the ultimate chess trainer

Picochess is a chess program for the Raspberry Pi that you can use to carry out analyses, train openings, and master games.

Inside the Windows 1.0 reunion: How a scrappy team shipped the product that changed everything, eventually

A core group of early Microsoft developers and business leaders reunited this week, 40 years after releasing Windows 1.0, ...
Thurrott

Windows 10 Consumer ESU Program Licenses Will Support 10 PCs

Microsoft is being a bit more generous than expected with the consumer version of its Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for Windows 10. In a support document spotted by Windows Central, the ...
PC Gamer

There's still no sign of Star Citizen 1.0, but it did just get a revamped referral program so the die-hards can tempt in even more saps

2025 began with Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) CEO Chris Roberts declaring that "we are closer than ever to realizing a dream many have said is impossible" with Star Citizen. As in releasing the thing.
The New York Times

Everything in Trump’s Big Tax and Spending Law, and How Much It Will Cost or Save

The reporters reviewed the hundreds of items in the bill and their corresponding C.B.O. scores. Source: New York Times analysis of Congressional Budget Office estimates. Note: Amounts are net totals ...
Defense One

The Army wants to put $1B into Transformation in Contact 2.0

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.—The Army is doubling down on its Transformation in Contact modernization model, the service’s top operations officer said Tuesday—adding more units into the program and multiplying ...