What Is ActiveX? How It Works and Ensures Computer Security

ActiveX is a Microsoft software framework that enables applications to share data across web browsers, enhancing functionality and security in computing.

Girl Scouts Selling Cookies Outside Cannabis Dispensary Sparks Backlash Forcing Them to Relocate

A New Jersey-based cannabis shop owner is responding to backlash after partnering with a local Girl Scout troop to facilitate ...
Eater

Pudgy, Candy Bar-Loaded Cookies Are the Sweet Center of This Hella Popular Pop-Up

Dianne de Guzman is the regional editor for Eater’s Northern California/Pacific Northwest sites, writing about restaurant and bar trends, upcoming openings, and pop-ups for the San Francisco Bay Area, ...
Willamette Week

We Tried Exploremores, the New Girl Scout Cookie

Exploremores Girl Scout Cookie The Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington sent us a box of the organization's newest fundraising cookie. (Christen McCurdy) It’s that time again. Girl Scouts ...
Townhall

The Language We Use

The language we use to communicate with one another can heal or wound, producing positive or negative results. The latest of many examples is language used by President Trump, members of his ...
PC Gamer

Microsoft says Windows 11 now has one billion users, 'up 45% year-over-year', which is probably no surprise after Windows 10 was put out to pasture

It's not like we had too many other options. Yes, I know, Linux. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.
Windows Central

Austria’s Microsoft ruling signals a new era of liability for cloud platforms in schools

An Austrian privacy regulator has ruled that Microsoft illegally set tracking cookies on a school‑issued device used by a child, even though the issue stemmed from how the school deployed Microsoft ...
Time

Why Aren’t We Using AI to Advance Justice?

Women gather at a neighborhood square in Lilongwe, Malawi, on June 8 Women gather at a neighborhood square in Lilongwe, Malawi, on June 8Zafer Goder—Anadolu/Getty Images In Malawi, one in three women ...
The New York Times

Why Are We Still So Afraid of Using the Grumpy Old Period?

Exclamation marks, ellipses and ‘haha’ can’t fix our growing inability to communicate. By Nitsuh Abebe “How Many Exclamation Points Are Too Many in an Email? A Psychologist Weighs In.” A psychologist!
Bloomberg L.P.

We Can’t Innovate Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis

Optimism, especially about our ability to solve big problems, is in brutally short supply these days. The gloom might be at its worst in the climate change arena, where the Trump administration is in ...
Wall Street Journal

We Could Use a Return to Gallantry

I don’t want to sum up the year, outline hopes for 2026, predict or warn. I want to say we all have to become better people. You won’t get through the future without faith, you won’t get through life ...