10 free Windows apps that improved my productivity (and I'd easily pay money for)

LibreOffice is free to download and install for Windows.
PCMag

Anthropic Rolls Out Its Chatbot Claude as a Chrome Extension

The OpenAI rival says the new Chrome extension, Claude for Chrome, will be able to navigate websites on your behalf, fill in ...

Ask Your PDF Files Anything : Adobe PDF Spaces & AI

Learn how PDF Spaces combines AI-driven insights, role-based personas, and seamless collaboration tools to create a smarter, ...

I set up a NAS system at home to keep my data safe - here's my buying advice now

If you're looking to break away from third-party file and directory storage, this NAS from Terramaster might be just what you need.
PC Gamer

Windows 11 is going to start quietly preloading File Explorer in the background to make it faster, which is a good reminder that you should probably try a different file ...

In the latest Windows Insider beta update released November 21, Microsoft announced the arrival of its full-screen Xbox experience for laptops and desktops alongside a number of other new features and ...
PBS

7 things to know about the Justice Department’s Epstein files

NEW YORK (AP) — The clock is ticking for the U.S. government to open up its files on Jeffrey Epstein. After months of rancor and recriminations, Congress has passed and President Donald Trump has ...
The Hill

Trump signs Epstein bill into law, releasing files from DOJ

President Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law, officially directing the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release all unclassified records and documents connected to the convicted ...
Ars Technica

Massive Cloudflare outage was triggered by file that suddenly doubled in size

When a Cloudflare outage disrupted large numbers of websites and online services yesterday, the company initially thought it was hit by a “hyper-scale” DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack. “I ...
The New York Times

Trump Has the Power to Release the Epstein Files, With or Without Congress

The president has reversed himself and encouraged lawmakers to vote for compelling the Justice Department to turn over investigation documents, but he never really needed their approval. By Luke ...
9to5google

Google Drive’s new enterprise migration tool gives Dropbox users an easy out

Given the nature of cloud storage for Google Workspace accounts, data migration is a massive undertaking when there are no official tools to get the job done. The new migration feature is designed to ...
USA Today

IRS Direct File ends. Here are other free or low-cost tax-filing options to consider.

Americans will have one fewer free option to file their taxes in 2026 after the Trump administration killed IRS Direct File. Without it, Direct File supporters said Americans will end up spending more ...
VentureBeat

Why Google’s File Search could displace DIY RAG stacks in the enterprise

To help solve this, Google released the File Search Tool on the Gemini API, a fully managed RAG system “that abstracts away the retrieval pipeline.” File Search removes much of the tool and ...