Microsoft Paint is finally getting project files with saved layers

Microsoft continues to upgrade Paint in Windows 11 with more and more advanced features, evolving it into a real tool with ...
Iowa City Press-Citizen

The Iowa Youth Writing Project offers programming despite looming closure. What to know:

Despite its looming closure, the Iowa Youth Writing Project's fall slate is shaping up to be one of the most vibrant. In August, the University of Iowa's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences announced ...
ZDNet

MS-BASIC 1.1 introduced programming to a generation - now you can download it for free

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...
PC World

Microsoft’s first-ever programming language was just open-sourced

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...
MyNorthwest.com

Pentagon halts Microsoft program that used Chinese nationals on defense work

The Pentagon issued a “letter of concern” to Microsoft after the company allowed Chinese nationals to do work for the U.S. Department of Defense. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said this stems ...
CSOonline

Microsoft restricts Chinese firms’ access to vulnerability warnings after hacking concerns

Microsoft has said that it has restricted certain Chinese firms from its cybersecurity vulnerability early warning program after concerns surfaced that information from the system may have been linked ...
Redmond Magazine

Microsoft's Project Ire: The Future of Antimalware is AI-Driven

Microsoft has unveiled Project Ire, a cutting-edge artificial intelligence system designed to autonomously detect and analyze malware. This prototype, announced in early August 2025, aims to redefine ...
Business Insider

He built a side hustle instead of climbing the career ladder at Microsoft. It paid off.

Eduardo Noriega was laid off by Microsoft in May after 17 years with the company. He said job security concerns led him to build a side business while he was still employed. It's become harder for ...
PC Gamer

It looks like Microsoft's cuts got another one: Avalanche has stopped work on its 1970s smuggling sim Contraband to 'evaluate the project's future'

Gaming Industry Before cancelling ZeniMax's Destiny-style MMO shooter, Xbox executives reportedly enjoyed early demos so much that the controller had to be pulled from Phil Spencer's hands Gaming ...
SiliconANGLE

Microsoft unveils Project Ire, an autonomous AI agent that identifies malware at scale

Microsoft Corp. introduced a new artificial intelligence agent on Tuesday that can analyze and classify malware in the wild at scale, without human intervention. The newly minted AI model, named ...
TechRepublic

Project Ire: Microsoft Tests AI That Autonomously Detects Malware

Microsoft on Tuesday introduced Project Ire, an autonomous AI agent designed to reverse engineer software and determine whether it is malicious, without any human guidance or prior knowledge of the ...