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WordPad is one of the most recent classic Windows apps to be discontinued, so it only makes sense to start the list with it.

It has been a little more than a month since WSL 3.0.1 came out, and it's already changing the way I run my Linux containers.

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Reflection AI has introduced Beam, its first open-weight model. It is a 501B sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 23B active parameters, built for coding and agentic work. Reflection says it matches ...

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The new editor includes several useful tools. Crop helps adjust framing, composition, and aspect ratio, while Enhance ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Over the years, Microsoft has brought several Forza games to PC, including later entries in the Horizon series, but Forza Horizon 2 was one it left behind.

I tried 4 offline password managers so my passwords don't depend on anyone's server. The free one won, and my wallet feels the relief.

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Opening Windows Security the reliable way Everything you need lives in the Windows Security app, which is the built-in front end for Microsoft Defender Antivirus on both Windows 11 and Windows 10.