Microsoft has included Notepad with Windows for over 40 years. If you are a coder or want to jot down notes, it’s a perfect utility. But as coding technologies become more complex, you’ll want a more advanced text editor.

XDA

4 reasons to replace Notepad with a more advanced text editor

Notepad has glaring omissions when put side by side other advanced text editors.

With Apple Intelligence enabled, it was impossible to make it through a day without needing to recharge. However, with it disabled, the iPhone's battery life returned to its former levels.

ZDNET

The latest iOS 18.3 update was killing my iPhone's battery - until I disabled this popular feature

I noticed a significant drop in my iPhone's battery life after installing iOS 18, and after some digging, I traced it back to a new feature.

Over Christmas, a small group of researchers worked overtime tracking at least 33 browser extensions hosted in Google’s Chrome Web Store that were surreptitiously siphoning sensitive data from some 2.6 million devices.

Ars Technica

Time to check if you ran any of these 33 malicious Chrome extensions

Two separate campaigns have been stealing credentials and browsing history for months.

Improving your privacy is a straightforward process involving just a handful of measures. Here's what they are, and why you should include them in your online privacy checklist.

Tom

Why improving your online privacy is the perfect New Year

Crank up your online privacy with these simple steps

OpenAI has made its ChatGPT Search tool free, accessible to all logged-in users, significantly increasing access to a capability previously exclusive to premium members. https://www.gurufocus.com/news/2634740/openai-expands-chatgpt-search-to-all-users-challenging-googles-dominance

Bypass charging helps extend the lifespan of your smartphone with little to no effort, and it's now available on newer Pixel devices. Here's how the feature works, which Android phones support it, and how to enable it.

Android Authority

Here are all the phones that support bypass charging, and why you should use it

Few phones on the market can draw power directly from the wall, bypassing the battery while charging. But are the benefits tangible enough?

Experts believe that one day, quantum computers could make today’s systems of encryption utterly obsolete. But Google says its new “breakthrough” Willow chip is nowhere near ready for that.

The Verge

Google says its breakthrough quantum chip can’t break modern cryptography

Come learn what a CRQC is — even if Google doesn’t have one yet.

Google has released an update to the Privacy Dashboard for Android devices, bringing a new 7-day view of permissions-related activity.

ExtremeTech

Google Rolls Out Extended Privacy Dashboard View to Android 15 Devices

Android now offers users extended visibility into app permissions usage, enhancing privacy control and security awareness on their devices.

Google Quantum AI founder H. Neven wrote that this chip was so mind-boggling fast that it must have borrowed computational power from other universes, indicating that parallel universes exist and “we live in a multiverse.”

TechCrunch

Google says its new quantum chip indicates that multiple universes exist | TechCrunch

Google announced its latest quantum chip, Willow. But what really caught the industry's attention was a wild claim tucked into the blog post.

Linux Mint is an impressive Linux distribution. The user experience has been getting better with subtle and some significant changes.

It's FOSS

Here's How Linux Mint is Silently Redefining User Experience

A lot of people like Linux Mint. Do you know why? We think it's the user experience.