Microsoft pulls the plug on WordPad, the world's least favorite text editor [Mon Jan 8 2024]

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Goodbye WordPad

Microsoft pulls the plug on WordPad, the world's least favorite text editor

Throwback word processor ditched from clean installs, soon to be removed on upgrade

 
 

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Teardown finds Huawei's 5nm notebook processor was made in Taiwan, not China

Stockpiled TSMC silicon from 2020 shock!

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Huawei finally gives up on US schmoozing efforts

So long, and thanks for all the sanctions as PR and government relations teams decamp

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Mobileye shares crash after warning of automotive customers' chip glut

Self-driving car biz says Q1 orders to drop 50% amid widening operating losses

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Tech support done bad sure makes it hard to do tech support good

Read the manual, they said. If only they'd said it about the right manual

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The executive’s guide to generative AI

Its impact will be huge. Yet, right now, only 15% of business and IT decision makers feel they have expert knowledge in this fast-moving area. (1)

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Ransomware payment ban: Wrong idea at the wrong time

Won't stop the chaos, may lead to attacks with more dire consequences

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After injecting cancer hospital with ransomware, crims threaten to swat patients

Remember the good old days when ransomware crooks vowed not to infect medical centers?

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BreachForums boss busted for bond blunders – including using a VPN

Fitzpatrick faces potentially decades in prison later this month, so may as well get some foreign Netflix in beforehand

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Sandworm's Kyivstar attack should serve as a reminder of the Kremlin crew's 'global reach'

'Almost everything' wiped in the telecom attack, says Ukraine's top cyber spy

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NIST: If someone's trying to sell you some secure AI, it's snake oil

You really think someone would do that? Go on the internet and tell lies?

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Uncle Sam will pay for your big ideas to end AI voice-cloning fraud

The advent of generative AI has made the attack far more pervasive

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Tesla's latest Autopilot safety patch hits 1.6M Chinese vehicles

Perfect timing – now BYD can rub that in Tesla's face along with stealing the global EV sales crown

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Microsoft pulls the plug on WordPad, the world's least favorite text editor

Throwback word processor ditched from clean installs, soon to be removed on upgrade

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Code archaeologist digs up oldest known ancestor of MS-DOS

86-DOS version 0.1-C found and archived – all nine files of it

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Expert sounds alarm bells over upcoming NHS data platform

Research warns not to make the same mistakes as other electronic patient record systems

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Everyone wants better web search – is Perplexity's AI the answer?

'Conversational engine' still hallucinates, cites its sources at least

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Road to Removal: A blueprint for yanking billions of tons of CO2 out of our atmosphere

It'll also cost billions, but perhaps a price worth paying?

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Swarms of laser-flown bots visiting a planet light years away – and more NASA-funded projects revealed

An electric airplane on Mars, micrograv hibernation, and plenty others

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It's been two decades since Spirit landed on the red sands of Mars

Decades, gone in a flash: Longlived mission was almost derailed by file system whoopsie

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SpaceX snaps back at US labor board's complaint, calling it 'unconstitutional'

Remember when Microsoft said that about FTC (and then walked it back)?

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Court orders arbitration for Wipro and ex-CFO who left for Cognizant

India’s IT outsourcers have an exec poaching problem

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