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Microsoft has officially retired the traditional phone-based activation system for Windows (and MS Office) that served as a ...

TL;DR: Windows 11 Pro keys just dropped to $9.97 (MSRP $199)—the lowest price ever—and gamers are upgrading fast for DirectX 12 Ultimate, Auto HDR, and performance gains.

Microsoft has released Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 11 KB5074109, KB5073455 for January 2026. Here's what's included.

Stop letting automatic updates ruin your workflow. These Registry tweaks help you regain control over Windows update behavior for good.

Browser extensions turned malicious after years of legitimate operation in DarkSpectre campaign affecting millions. The ...

Adriano is GameRant’s Anime Features lead. He has been working on creating anime content for GameRant since November 2021. He enjoys a wide variety of anime, with Shinichiro Watanabe’s Cowboy Bebop ...

Apple released iOS 26.2 on Friday, Dec. 12 and, alongside it, iOS 18.7.3. However, reports emerged that while it was installing nicely on iPhones that couldn’t run iOS 26, nobody else was getting it.

Nearly 3.5 million University of Phoenix students and staff were affected by a data breach involving Social Security numbers ...

Recently, Microsoft altered the behavior of a system service on Windows 11 24H2, 25H2, and Server 2025 such that it will now start by default. What this means is that it may now be constantly running ...