Oh so that’s why my health insurance premiums shot up and co-pays doubled this year.

One reason to use Edge: It now teases new Windows features Windows has always struggled to inform you of new features without overwhelming you with ads. I like this new approach.

Microsoft is now tipping new features in an introduction via Microsoft Edge, which is handy as well as necessary. www.pcworld.com/article/3119...

The thing that I've noticed recently is that my physical neighborhood has quieted.

I was out doing yard work yesterday and there was...silence. Hardly any cars, and some of those were EVs. No neighbors working in their yards. No distant sounds of screams of kids playing soccer...or playing.

Live theatre too

NEW: This might be the perfect visual metaphor for the war in Iran.

Courtesy of today’s Virginia Tech Spring game.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

If you are as infuriated as you read this as I am, know that Congress not only has the power to fix the abuse of the Shadow Docket but also that the legislation is already drafted. We just need to get it to the floor. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

A USB C cable where the metal connection got squished by something - probably my chair

You've heard about USB C, but have you heard about USB C♭

I understand why Microsoft has monthly security updates in Windows but man do those take forever to install

I don't know too much about software development, but if I did and I was worried about the "SaaS-pocalypse," I might at least have a conversation about instead shipping a downloadable software package that could be modded, like a PC game.

Why Microsoft is raising laptop prices as Apple makes productivity cheaper Analysts say Apple’s control over chips, memory strategy, and margins gives it pricing power Microsoft and other PC makers lack.

Why is Microsoft raising Surface laptop prices when Apple is effectively lowering them? www.pcworld.com/article/3116...

Tell me this Apple MacBook Neo photo doesn't look AI to you.

Source: www.apple.com/newsroom/202...

Adobe and Canva want their AI agents to replace your creative workflow Adobe Firefly AI Assistant and Canva AI 2.0 use conversational agents to automate creative workflows across all of their respective applications.

Both Adobe and Canva enacted a quiet, profound change this week: they want you to use conversational AI to unleash a flood of agentic AIs across ALL of their suite's apps. From pixels to prompts. www.pcworld.com/article/3116...

BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores.

The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act.

Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.

Netgear, Adtran earn exceptions from FCC's router ban Netgear, one of the most popular consumer router companies, is allowed to develop and sell new consumer routers in an exception to the government's ban on foreign-made routers. Adtran was also named.

Netgear isn't a foreign router manufacturer any more? Apparently not according to the FCC.
www.pcworld.com/article/3114...

@craftcomputing.bsky.social is on the clock

Hands on: Google's new desktop app is just another Gemini portal Google's new desktop app for Windows promises a terrific search experience, so we tested it out for ourselves.

Google released its desktop search app today. Google! Searching on your PC! Well, nah. My expectations were not met. www.pcworld.com/article/3114...

Gemini's Skills are bookmarks for your AI prompts Google's Skills are a new way of "saving" AI prompts to apply later. They're being rolled out in Gemini for Chrome, today.

Google is saving AI prompts as "bookmarks," though not with the same UI. Similar concept though.

www.pcworld.com/article/3114...

The Trump Administration is Using BEAD Funds as a Cudgel. Is that Legal? The Trump Administration is threatening to withhold funds from states that lawfully regulate AI and broadband. Those threats are likely unlawful.

In case you missed it, the Trump administration is illegally threatening to withhold billions in already awarded broadband improvement grants from states that attempt ANY regulation of AI or ANY oversight of price-gouging telecom giants

I'm assuming the new "Blockade" video from the Iranians will make it over here from the Bad Place. It's (once again) catchy af.

Microsoft is jacking up Surface prices. Buy them for cheap, now! Microsoft is raising prices on Surface devices at its Microsoft store. Other retailers haven't received that message, so you have a brief window to buy a cheap Surface before prices increase. We'll sh...

Microsoft is jacking up the price of Surface devices, but retailers haven't received the message yet. If you want to buy a Surface, buy it today, seriously. Like gas prices, they may jump tomorrow. www.pcworld.com/article/3113...

DOLLY PARTON IS WEAK ON ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR EXPORT CONTROLS

Given Trump's history, the poor guy who AI Trump Jesus is laying hands upon will be dead within hours

I honestly have no idea what this will mean for oil or anything else right now. I think this is just Trump's anything you can do, I can do better phase .

Chaos.

Hang it in the Louvre

i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”

I'm out today, but there are some major welcome changes coming to the Windows Insider program: a reduction in channels (sort of) and the end of the staggered feature rollout.

blogs.windows.com/windows-insi...

Hunter Biden has challenged Trump's sons to a cage match. Not a joke.

www.reuters.com/lifestyle/re...

Don't even try to draft our kids to fight in Iran.

Asus raises prices on its new laptops a day after launch Asus told reviewers that its Zenbook A16 laptop, one of the first with the Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite inside it, would be $1,599. A day after the launch, it raised the price. Is that fair, even in t...

Bait and ship? In any event, reviewers weigh price when they assign ratings, or they should. This isn't a good look.

www.pcworld.com/article/3109...

You’re invited. Windows Insiders meetups are back Hi Insiders, It’s Marcus. I lead Design and Research across Windows & Devices, everything from Windows and Windows Cloud to user experience research, and the industrial design behind Surface and Xbox...

Awesome -- Microsoft Windows Insider meetups are back again, and there's one at Microsoft Build. blogs.windows.com/windows-insi...