This obscure Microsoft Word feature makes proofreading documents easy

But when one of my colleagues here at PCWorld introduced me to the Read Aloud feature in Microsoft Word, it changed the whole ...
Tom's Guide

Wordle creator is back with a harder, trickier word game called Parseword: here's how to try it

AI I built a library of 'thinking prompts' for Claude — these are the ones I use most AI I tried the '3-prompt rule' with ChatGPT — the results got dramatically better AI ChatGPT-5.4 is OpenAI’s ...

Cracking the code: How a 'prediction machine' is resurrecting the Singapore Stone

Several years ago, my linguistic research team and I began developing a computational tool we call "Read-y Grammarian." Our ...

Warning: Your AI-Generated Password Is a Major Security Risk. Here’s What to Use Instead

Having trouble coming up with good passwords? Don't rely on AI. Here's why.
Microsoft

Storm-2561 uses SEO poisoning to distribute fake VPN clients for credential theft

Storm-2561 uses SEO poisoning to push fake VPN downloads that install signed trojans and steal VPN credentials. Active since 2025, Storm-2561 mimics trusted brands and abuses legitimate services. This ...

Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories

Researchers say they’ve discovered a supply-chain attack flooding repositories with malicious packages that contain invisible code, a technique that’s flummoxing traditional defenses designed to ...

Turing Award winner Tony Hoare, computing pioneer who invented Quicksort, dies at the age of 92

An obituary of Tony Hoare, a pioneer and one of the greatest programmers in the early history of computing.
WiscNews

On Joe Biden using the N-word

CLAIM: A video from a 1985 hearing exposes Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden for using the N-word, stating: “We already have a n----- mayor, we don’t need any more n----- big shots!” ...