Editor's take: Microsoft is having a tough time leaving Windows Notepad well enough alone. The classic text editor is effectively gone, replaced by a "new" version that keeps accumulating a growing ...

Notepad, one of the oldest and most reliable apps in the Windows ecosystem, has been undergoing some big changes during the Copilot AI era. Unfortunately, one of its new features was prone to a ...

The Federal Trade Commission said this week that web companies will not violate the children's privacy law by collecting personal information from young children in order to determine their ages, ...

After announcing its global mandatory age-verification rollout, Discord has distanced itself from leading third-party age-verification partner Persona following a wave of backlash from users based in ...

PCWorld reports on a critical Microsoft Copilot bug (CW1226324) that allows the AI to scan and summarize confidential Outlook emails, bypassing privacy protections. This vulnerability affects ...

The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has made Aadhaar verification compulsory for users booking train tickets online. Under the revised rules, passengers will be required to ...

Leading officials in the Trump administration have been aware of the skyrocketing use of violent force by federal agents, according to newly unearthed emails, with the trend being known well before ...

Microsoft says a Microsoft 365 Copilot bug has been causing the AI assistant to summarize confidential emails since late January, bypassing data loss prevention (DLP) policies that organizations rely ...

The Trump administration is weighing a new requirement for US banks to verify citizenship information of current and future customers as part of the president’s aggressive immigration crackdown, ...

A new proposal calls on social media and AI companies to adopt strict verification, but the company hasn’t committed to following its own recommendations. AI-enabled deception now permeates our online ...