Functionally, plain text excels at writing and storing information without locking it in the document. Plus, the files are tiny so they load instantly, and they don’t break when software changes.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was updated to reflect the person of interest detained Sunday was being released. Saying the “evidence now points in a different direction,” law enforcement officials late ...

A suspicious Visual Studio Code extension with file-encrypting and data-stealing behavior successfully bypassed marketplace review and entered the developer ecosystem. In a suspected test effort, ...

Just started using this extension and for some reason the syntax highlighter trips up over dollar signs, $, in identifiers. Somewhat surprised to see something as basic as identifiers not being ...

After the beginning of the year, Gmail will automatically change to its Standard view. Some visually impaired users prefer the Basic view. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and ...

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through ...

Microsoft has released the source code for the BASIC version it developed in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor, a central component of many early home computers, The Register reports. As far back as ...

In previous versions of Microsoft Outlook (the classic app), you could view the HTML code of an email by opening the email, right-clicking on it, and selecting “View source” from the context menu.

Seacliff, located in Carmel Highlands, California, combines five parcels into a 5.35-acre compound. A sprawling oceanside estate with a Hollywood history has been listed for sale at $91 million in ...

Universal or guaranteed basic income programs are gaining momentum across the country, as local governments and nonprofits experiment with the bold new alternative to traditional welfare models.

As global wealth inequality deepens and automation threatens to usher in a new form of technology-driven unemployment, many nations, from the wealthy and industrialized to the still-developing, are ...

Amazon MGM Studios’ United Artists and Scott Stuber have acquired the rights to the not-yet-titled relaunch of the 1992 erotic thriller “Basic Instinct,” with the original film’s writer Joe Eszterhas ...