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Adobe DMCAs third-party project that provides security improvement to Flash
Flash is dead, finally taken out back by Adobe after many years of increasingly insecure and obsolete service. As disliked as Flash was as a technology and advertising medium, though, it was loved as...
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Software was expensive as heck in the 1980s
Inflation and market growth hide from us the true prices of old things, and software is no exception. Rob Griffiths charts the high cost of software in the 1980s. Want to play Ultima, an open-world...
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This 1987 video demonstrates the first version of Adobe Illustrator
Lucky buyers of the first release of Adobe Illustrator in 1987 received a VHS cassette with creator John Warnock's demonstration of the exciting new drawing software. I couldn't afford a Mac or...
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Windows XP Delta Edition revives the world's second-most beautiful OS ever
Windows XP Delta Edition is not one of those web-based aesthetic dream OSes evoking a more perfect inflection point at the cusp of the new millennium. Nor is it a clever theme for Linux evoking a...
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CP/M is now open-source for real
CP/M, the more capable of the two operating systems offered for the popular Amstrad CPC range of home computers, is now unequivocally open-source. Though it has been purportedly open source for some...
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John Carmack describes his programming setup
In this clip, Lex Fridman's interview with John Carmack gets right to the point: his programming setup! I love his thorough attitude toward using debuggers—"your head is a faulty interpreter"—and his...
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At long last, Microsoft takes Internet Explorer out back
Windows users on version 10 or later will have their copies of Internet Explorer disabled in the next update. Attempts to start it will be redirected to the company's replacement browser, Edge. In June...
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The Japanese factory that uses 40-year-old software to design its traditional...
This is fascinating. Miyata Textile Co. is a Japanese company that's been making fabric for a hundred years, and since the 1980s they've been using the same software. They use this four-decades-old...
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Windows 11 now has pop ups straight-up telling users to get rid of Google
Described by The Verge's Tom Warren as "malware-like popups," Windows 11 now instructs users to switch to Bing. The browser wars–and the monopoly-exploiting shenanigans that got Microsoft in legal...
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Judge orders Intuit to stop lying about TurboTax being "free"
Among America's obscenities is the existence of its "tax-filing industry," wherein normal everyday folks pay through the nose to file their taxes. The corporate circus of rent-seeking and regulatory...
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Avast fined $16.5m for selling private user data
Avast, the company built long ago by offering Windows users the privacy and security Microsoft didn't care for, was fined $16.5m for storing and selling customer information without consent. Cory...
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Bazzite is a Linux distro for gaming
Bazzite is a cut of Linux customized to be ready for playing games, including Steam integration and compatibility with popular handhelds. Bazzite comes ready to rock with Steam and Lutris...
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Re:AMP implements classic music player WinAMP on modern Macs
Re:AMP is a modern implementation of the fast, simple, handsome y2k-era music player Winamp, by Alexander Vasilchenko. To whip this llama's ass you'll be needing a Mac. For Windows, check out WACUP. On...
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U.S. sues Adobe over shady subscription plans and hidden fees
Adobe, makers of Photoshop and its Creative Suite of design-related applications, is being sued by the U.S. government over hidden fees in its subscription plans and the contractual obligations it...
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