Unwitting victims are now being tricked into installing malware via Windows Terminal, but some experts say this is old news.

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Tired of all the Microsoft AI slop? You can remove it entirely. Some people love AI. If you're not one of them (or if you have a favorite AI tool that isn't baked into it), using Windows 11 can feel ...

Editor's take: Microsoft is doubling down on its plan to turn Windows 11 into an "agentic AI" platform, and in the process seems determined to strip away the last bits of user agency left in the OS.

Microsoft says Windows PowerShell now warns when running scripts that use the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet to download web content, aiming to prevent potentially risky code from executing. As Microsoft ...

AutoHotkey (AHK) is a free and simple yet powerful Windows scripting language. It doesn’t get a lot of press these days, but Windows geeks used to love writing and swapping AHK scripts. Well, that’s ...

The problem first surfaced on Microsoft's own support forums and quickly spread to Stack Overflow and Server Fault after the October 2025 cumulative update (KB5066835) landed, which appears to have ...

The August 2025 (KB5063878) Windows update caused an issue that prevented non-admin users from carrying out several vital operations due to misbehaving UAC prompts. Microsoft has since released its ...

Microsoft is finally saying goodbye to PowerShell 2.0 — the 14-year-old command-line tool and scripting language that debuted alongside Windows 7 — as part of a broader effort to clean up legacy code ...

You could just spend the day looking at the default settings and color schemes, but that's boring. Here are some ways to customize that are so simple, even I can do it. When you purchase through links ...

PowerShell scripts are used to automate repetitive tasks and make some changes to your system’s configuration. However, we have noticed that at times, Windows can’t run a PowerShell script in Windows ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Update, May 15, 2025: This story, originally published May 14, ...