I had ChatGPT build me a free PDF editor because I didn't trust it to change my files - it worked!

The smartest way to use AI may not be letting it touch your files, but asking it to write software that handles them safely - ...
How-To Geek on MSN

Linux promised freedom, but the command line demands something harder in return

Don't fear the command line if you want to unlock Linux's true potential.
diginomica

Determinism all the way down – how UiPath's market bet and the engine beneath it turn out to be the same idea

UiPath cofounder and CEO Daniel Dines goes deep on the machinery under the platform – the Temporal engine that lets an ...
How-To Geek on MSN

You're using Excel wrong if you're still manually cleaning data—Python does it for you in seconds

Save your clicks with a few lines of Python code.

GitHub confirms 3,800 internal repos stolen through poisoned VS Code extension as supply chain worm hits Microsoft’s Python SDK

GitHub confirmed attackers stole 3,800 internal repositories via a poisoned VS Code extension. The same threat group, TeamPCP ...

Of Notoriety: ‘Frog Prince and Princess’ premiere comes from imagination

In the past three years, I’ve had the honor of being able to try the challenge of script writing for theater works designed for young audiences. It’s stage storytelling, and it takes imagination and a ...
TechCrunch

AI-generated actors and scripts are now ineligible for Oscars

The organization behind the Academy Awards released new Oscar rules on Friday, including several that address the use of generative artificial intelligence. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”

Several times in the last couple of decades, Microsoft has released source code for the original MS-DOS operating system that kicked off its decades-long dominance of consumer PCs. This week, the ...
PC World

Microsoft open-sources 86-DOS 1.00, the ancestor of Windows

Microsoft open-sourced 86-DOS 1.00 source code on GitHub for its 45th anniversary, according to PCWorld, including kernel and PC-DOS development snapshots. This historically significant software, ...
ZDNet

Microsoft finally open sources DOS 1.0 - and it's so much more than the code

PC-DOS 1.00 would lead to Microsoft becoming computing's top dog Microsoft continues to embrace open source. The source code and annotations provide insight into the operating system's earliest days.