The big picture: Microsoft released its latest Patch Tuesday update this week with 59 hotfixes across Windows, Microsoft Office, Azure, and core system components. The update includes patches for six ...

TL;DR: Windows 11's Notepad app has a security flaw rated as a 'high' severity vulnerability, one that allows for remote code execution. The good news is that it's already been patched by Microsoft, ...

An image authentically shows convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein posing with twin brothers who would later form the Island Boys hip-hop duo. The user's post, which circulated following a fresh ...

Experts are using high-res scanners and 3-D printers to illuminate ancient ailments and injuries. Researchers at the University of Southern California recently conducted virtual autopsies on two ...

The developer of the popular open source text editor Notepad++ has confirmed that hackers hijacked the software to deliver malicious updates to users over the course of several months in 2025. In a ...

NotebookLM’s slide deck update adds prompt-based slide revisions and PPTX export, so you can refine a deck without rebuilding it, then move it into PowerPoint for speaker notes, templates, and final ...

The developer of Notepad++ has reportedly noted that its software update mechanism was covertly hijacked for several months last year, with evidence suggesting the operation was carried out by a ...

More details are emerging daily from the January 30 release of more than three million pages of documents by the US Department of Justice (DOJ), exposing the extraordinary breadth of Jeffrey Epstein’s ...

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Slate’s archives are full of fascinating stories. We’re republishing this article because it remains a reader favorite. It was originally published April 12, 2017. In 2022, the author of this piece, ...