Look, Microsoft: sometimes we all make mistakes. Sometimes those mistakes are small, and sometimes they’re huge, multi-year ...

There are more issues than just the encroaching menace of ‘helpful’ AI, though. Feature bloat in general has been a growing ...

While Windows 11 offers a host of great functionality, some settings such as ad personalization, Windows Search results, and ...

The lawmakers say Meta's platforms may be implicated in "about a third of all US scams" and linked to more than $50 billion in consumer losses last year. Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers ...

There is perhaps nothing that has plagued the electronics consumer quite as much as bloatware. It’s omnipresent in most modern operating systems and products, whether it’s extra stuff on Android ...

Upgrading to Windows 11 is still possible even after Windows 10 reached the end of support on October 14, 2025. Although many devices continue to run the retired operating system, switching to Windows ...

Even as someone who viscerally hates “AI” getting stuffed into every aspect of every device and service I use, I can see places where it’s helpful. For example, a conversational interface for my ...

Pre-installed software, often called bloatware, can clutter your Windows 11 experience from the moment you first turn on a new PC. These unwanted applications consume valuable disk space, use up ...

Amazon Ads, the company’s demand-side ad tech business, hosts its annual industry show, called unBoxed, in Nashville this week. The event can be boiled down to one word: simplicity. Some version of ...

If a dystopic voice asking you “to fulfill your mission” of rounding up undocumented immigrants has snuck its way onto your streaming airwaves, you’re far from the only one. The new advertising push, ...

Last year, Meta projected that 10% of its overall annual revenue — $16 billion — would come from fraudulent advertisements on its apps, according to a report from Reuters. The documents accessed by ...