Microsoft Is Removing Copilot Buttons From These Windows 11 Apps

Last month, Microsoft announced that it planned to remove "unnecessary" Copilot features in Windows 11. The news was a bit ...

Windows 11 is packed with AI now. Here’s how to take back control

Click the three-dot menu > Settings, choose “AI innovations” in the sidebar, then control AI features from here. You won’t ...
PBS

Democratic lawmaker asks judge to remove Trump's name from Kennedy Center

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democratic lawmaker is asking a federal judge to force the Kennedy Center to block and reverse efforts to attach President Donald Trump's name to the historic performing arts venue ...
The Verge

Perplexity’s Personal Computer turns your spare Mac into an AI agent

The AI search startup is positioning the tool as a more secure version of OpenClaw that runs on a Mac. The AI search startup is positioning the tool as a more secure version of OpenClaw that runs on a ...
Ars Technica

Perplexity’s “Personal Computer” brings its AI agents to the, uh, Personal Computer

Last month Perplexity announced the confusingly named “Computer,” its cloud-based agent tool for completing tasks using a harness that makes use of multiple different AI models. This week, the company ...
Lifehacker

Microsoft Just Patched a Major Security Vulnerability for This Popular Windows App

Users could be tricked into running arbitrary code, but the issue was patched last week. February 17, 2026 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Microsoft patched a ...
TechCrunch

The great computer science exodus (and where students are going instead)

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...
Wired

This Chinese Startup Wants to Build a New Brain-Computer Interface—No Implant Required

China’s brain-computer interface industry is growing fast, and the newest company to emerge from the country is aiming to access the brain without the use of invasive implants. Gestala, newly founded ...
TweakTown

Notepad now lets you create tables, but is it one feature too many for this simple app?

TL;DR: Microsoft Notepad for Windows 11 now supports table creation with an easy toolbar grid and enhanced AI-powered Write, Rewrite, and Summarize tools for faster text generation. While these ...
WSB-TV

Sandy Springs man took his computer to Best Buy, but forgot to remove the child porn, police say

SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — Employees at a Best Buy in Dunwoody made a shocking discovery when they found more than a virus on a customer’s computer. Daniel Vandyke, 60 of Sandy Springs, is facing child ...
PC World

Some paid AI features in Notepad are going free for Copilot+ PC users

If you have a Copilot+ PC, you can look forward to free AI features coming to the Notepad app in the near future. These features include AI-generated text (Write), revisions (Rewrite), and summaries ...
Neowin

Snipping Tool, Notepad, and Paint get a bunch of useful new features

Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad, some of the most popular inbox Windows 11 apps, are getting a handful of new features for Windows Insiders. In addition to releasing two new Windows 11 preview ...