PCMag

32 Hidden Windows 11 Features You're Probably Not Using (But Should Be)

Windows 11 is full of powerful features and useful tweaks. Take a tour of these off-the-beaten-path options to customize, ...

How I made my Windows 11 widgets truly useful: 8 simple tweaks to try before you hide them

The Widgets feature can be annoying but it's also able to provide useful news and info. Here's how I tweak it to be less ...
CNET

Thousands of Computer Viruses Are Created Every Day. Here’s How to Protect Your Computer From Cyberattacks

Dianna Gunn built her first WordPress website in 2008. Since then, she's poured thousands of hours into understanding how websites and online businesses work. She's shared what she's learned on blogs ...
The Verge

Now Meta will track what employees do on their computers to train its AI agents

The ‘Model Capability Initiative’ records mouse activity, keystrokes, and screenshots to use as AI training data. The ‘Model Capability Initiative’ records mouse activity, keystrokes, and ...
security

How to Clear Google Search History in 2026 (Step-by-Step Guide)

Clearing your Google search history is extremely simple and doesn’t take more than a couple of minutes. You just need to use the “My Activity” dashboard that’s built into your Google account. We’ll ...
Wall Street Journal

How to Find Out Whether Your Computer Is Part of a Botnet—and What to Do About It

WSJ’s Robert McMillan breaks down why residential proxy software is so bad, and how to check whether the malware is installed on your home network. Photo: Sean Havey The price might be right, but if ...
ABC7

LA Metro limits access to computer systems after detecting 'unauthorized activity'

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Metro says it's working to restore access to its internal administrative computers after the agency's security team discovered "unauthorized activity." The transit system said ...
AppleInsider

Perplexity's Personal Computer lets AI agents access your Mac mini's files

Perplexity is bringing its AI closer to its users, with a new Personal Computer that combines its agentic AI platform with a Mac mini's local applications. This may be too much AI for some people. At ...
Digital Trends

Perplexity’s Personal Computer: What is it, what can it do, and what does it cost?

At its inaugural Ask 2026 developer conference — held inside a former church in San Francisco’s North Beach — Perplexity unveiled Personal Computer, a cloud-based AI agent designed to function as a ...
Palm Beach Post

Palm Beach County deploys AI tool to monitor student computer use

This system scans for signs of potential suicide, school shootings, and bullying on district devices and accounts. Monitoring extends to district accounts logged into on personal devices, raising ...
The Verge

Microsoft’s Copilot Tasks AI uses its own computer to get things done

The AI assistant can do things like turn emails, attachments, and images from your inbox into a slide deck, or offer rundowns on nearby apartment listings. The AI assistant can do things like turn ...