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Windows 11's Start Menu Is Getting Better...But These 3 Launchers Still Run Circles Around It

Microsoft is refining the Start menu in Windows 11, but you can get faster search, deeper customization, and better workflows ...

Microsoft explains why GIFs stopped working in Windows 11 emoji panel, and how to fix it

Have you noticed that GIFs recently stopped working in Windows 11? Microsoft explains why that happened and how to fix it.

Security, Trust & Governance: Securing Software That Increasingly Writes Itself: SD Times 100

Part of the SD Times 100 2026 series. See the full SD Times 100 2026 list for every category and honoree. Application security has spent years maturing around a relatively stable assumption: a human ...
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I enabled Windows 11's hidden speed boost and every app opened noticeably faster

Make Windows faster with this quick upgrade -- every app will open faster.
CNET

If It Has a Screen, It Can Run Doom. How a Game From 1993 Became a Porting Legend

The video game has been part of tech culture since it launched in 1993, with its signature view of a gun centered of the ...

Modern Data & Knowledge Platforms: The Foundation Every AI Strategy Actually Runs On: SD Times 100

Part of the SD Times 100 2026 series. See the full SD Times 100 2026 list for every category and honoree. Every conversation ...
GitHub

Speech To Speech: Build voice agents with open-source models

This starts an OpenAI Realtime-compatible server at ws://localhost:8765/v1/realtime using Parakeet TDT for local STT, an OpenAI-compatible LLM, and Qwen3-TTS for ...

JetBrains' new AI-first 'IDE' JetBrains Air is now on Windows

JetBrains has brought JetBrains Air to Windows, several months after launching it in public preview for macOS.
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These 34 Hidden Features Make Windows 11 So Much Better

Windows 11 is packed with powerful features and hidden settings that many users overlook. Discover these lesser-known tools ...