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Mods help us modify most of our favorite games and add quality-of-life improvements or change how certain mechanics (or everything) work. This can sometimes make an experience more accessible, and ...

My tween-age daughters make me proud in countless ways, but I am still adjusting to the fact that they are not bookworms. I’m pretty sure that two generations ago, they would have been more like I was ...

Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that causes its Defender for Endpoint enterprise endpoint security platform to incorrectly tag SQL Server software as end-of-life. According to a service ...

Equally important, but often overlooked, is the question of a valid license (get a new Windows 11 license for 50% off on the PCWorld Software store): Don’t worry, in most cases, the upgrade from 10 to ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or cloud-hosted AI models without relying on massive general-purpose LLMs. I ...

Supporting some family members with old Intel iMacs that won't get updates anymore and replacing them would be prohibitively expensive for retirees. OTOH, getting a single, used – but beefy enough – ...

The second public beta of iOS 26 is out but it's still prerelease software. It's good to be cautious. Jeff Carlson writes about mobile technology for CNET. He is also the author of dozens of how-to ...

Gone are the days when you could only watch TV by adjusting the "bunny ears" antenna to pick up your local stations. Now, with all the digital streaming services and subscriptions, it's easy to assume ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.