ACR Stealer campaigns use ClickFix lures, JPEG steganography, and WebDAV to steal browser tokens, passwords, PDFs, and synced ...

From late April 2026 to mid-June 2026, Microsoft Defender Experts observed increased ACR Stealer activity across customer ...

Getting WSL to behave only takes a few tweaks.

Plummer has spent recent months telling Microsoft what they do not want to hear about Windows 11. He argued the OS needs its own Windows XP SP2 moment, a stretch where Microsoft drops new features and ...

Your AI clicks buttons by name, not by guessing pixels on a screenshot — so it's fast (~ms per command), never misclicks when a window moves, and your screen never leaves your machine. An MCP server ...

Dave Plummer’s TinyRetroPad revives classic Notepad simplicity, stripping away AI, telemetry, and unnecessary modern clutter Built in under 3 kilobytes, the new tool highlights growing frustration ...

Editor's take: Dave Plummer started his programmer's career at Microsoft back in the MS-DOS days. He knows a thing or two about code optimization, which is why he is now trying to strip Notepad of the ...

Microsoft's habit of adding unnecessary features to Notepad is a symptom of broader bloating in the Windows codebase. But it is possible to go back to basics with a version of the editor that fits in ...

When you've used Linux for over 20 years, you don't need much hand-holding.

This is the fourth time I rebuilt this library from scratch to find the sweet spot between ease of use (beautiful is better than ugly!), testability (simple is better than complex!) and potential for ...