Atlas - Ars Technica : Windows

11 august 11h30

New Pass-ta-key attack reveals all the things we didn’t know about passkeys

Dan Goodin Why passkey apps treat Windows differently than other operating systems.

29 july 15h52

Anthropic is finding bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them

Renee Dudley, ProPublica Microsoft is on a mad dash behind the scenes to patch exploits before hackers find them.

23 july 20h47

Microsoft responds to LG monitors installing McAfee ads on Windows

Scharon Harding App is installed through Windows Update when certain LG monitors connect to a PC.

22 july 20h36

Microsoft brings original Xbox backward compatibility to Windows PCs

Kyle Orland First four compatible titles can be run with an 11-year-old graphics card.

15 july 19h59

Windows 0-day drops the same day Microsoft releases record number of patches

Dan Goodin HiveLegacy is a powerful primitive that’s likely capable of other nefarious actions.

26 may 16h24

Windows’ classic 3D Space Cadet pinball is getting a physical re-creation

Kyle Orland But there are some real-world constraints that virtual pinball could easily ignore.

22 april 19h32

Microsoft issues emergency update for macOS and Linux ASP.NET threat

Dan Goodin When authentication fails, things can go very, very wrong.

15 april 19h46

Google releases new apps for Windows and MacOS

Ryan Whitwam Google mostly creates products for the web, but it has some new desktop apps today.

20 march 21h26

Microsoft keeps insisting that it’s deeply committed to the quality of Windows 11

Andrew Cunningham Reducing unnecessary Copilot entry points is one of Microsoft’s action items.

13 march 15h31

Microsoft is working to eliminate PC gaming’s compiling shaders wait times

Kyle Orland Advanced Shader Delivery uses precompiled shaders for console-like load times across PC hardware.

05 march 21h39

MS exec: Microsoft’s next console will play Xbox and PC games

Kyle Orland Project Helix is set to open the closed-console ecosystem, but the details will matter.

17 february 22h45

GameHub will give Mac owners another imperfect way to play Windows games

Kyle Orland GameHub’s existing Windows emulator on Android has its fair share of issues.

29 december 13h00

Remembering what Windows 10 did right and how it made modern Windows more annoying

Andrew Cunningham Remembering Windows 10’s rollout can help diagnose what ails Windows 11.

05 december 17h29

SteamOS tested on dedicated GPUs: No, it’s not always faster than Windows

Andrew Cunningham Ars testing shows SteamOS fares better on iGPUs than powerful graphics cards.

04 december 19h53

Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama.

Kyle Orland Valve tells Ars its trying to unblock limits caused by open source driver issues.

01 december 19h43

Even Microsoft’s retro holiday sweaters are having Copilot forced upon them

Andrew Cunningham Microsoft has not one, not two, but three new sweaters available for 60 to 80.

19 november 20h25

Critics scoff after Microsoft warns AI feature can infect machines and pilfer data

Dan Goodin Integration of Copilot Actions into Windows is off by default, but for how long?

10 november 18h09

New project brings strong Linux compatibility to more classic Windows games

Kyle Orland But author warns that Direct3D 7 is a land of highly cursed API inter-operability.

16 september 18h49

Google’s experimental Windows app is better than Microsoft’s built-in search

Ryan Whitwam Google’s search app comes to Windows.

29 july 16h18

Microsoft is revamping Windows 11’s Task Manager so its numbers make more sense

Andrew Cunningham Changes are rolling out to Windows Insider testers in the Dev and Beta channels.