Marshall Gunnell is a Tokyo-based tech journalist and editor with over a decade of experience covering IT, cybersecurity and data storage. Alongside CNET, his work has appeared in ZDNET, Business ...

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.

There are lots of things that have gone viral, for all sorts of different reasons. The latest viral craze struck after a developer released a tool to strip Windows of its AI capabilities, and X is ...

The internet makes connecting with old friends and acquaintances easier than ever, but it also exposes personal information to advertisers, scammers and potential criminals. Hundreds of websites have ...

There is perhaps nothing that has plagued the electronics consumer quite as much as bloatware. It’s omnipresent in most modern operating systems and products, whether it’s extra stuff on Android ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Senior Technology Editor. He has a BFA in Film & TV from NYU, where he specialized in writing. Jake has been helping people with their technology professionally since ...

Microsoft Teams often comes preinstalled and set to launch automatically on Windows 11, even if you never use it. While Microsoft integrates Teams into the operating system, it can be fully ...

EA and Battlefield Studios want players to know they are free to delete the Battlefield 6 campaign from their platform of choice after completing its story mode. While many who hopped into Battlefield ...

Have you ever wondered how much control you really have over your Windows 11 system? Beneath its polished interface lies a maze of pre-installed apps, intrusive tracking features, and bloated settings ...

Apple's iOS 26 has only been out of beta and publicly available for a little over a week now, but it's already dividing iPhone owners. The massive update introduced a controversial new interface ...

At Google I/O 2017, Google showed what quickly became one of its most infamous product teases in history: removing a chain link fence from a picture of a child playing baseball. The pitch was that we ...