Microsoft veteran says the Task Manager was under 80 KB because small was fast and fast mattered

Microsoft veteran Dave Plummer shares why the original Task Manager was lean, fast, and designed to stay calm when Windows ...

Task Manager's creator says it used to be 50 times smaller because 'in that time and place, small was fast and fast mattered'

The Microsoft vet notes that Task Manager is now around 4 megabytes, which is around 50 times bigger. Naturally, Task Manager ...
Ars Technica

Claude Code can now take over your computer to complete tasks

Anthropic is joining the increasingly crowded field of companies with AI agents that can take direct control of your local computer desktop. The company has announced that Claude Code (and its more ...
The Hacker News

North Korean Hackers Abuse VS Code Auto-Run Tasks to Deploy StoatWaffle Malware

The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign, also tracked as WaterPlum, have been attributed to a malware family tracked as StoatWaffle that's distributed via malicious ...
Maine Campus

University of Maine System establishes Mitchell Name Review Task Force, requests public commentary

In early February, a representative from the University of Maine System (UMS) confirmed that a renaming process was being considered for programs associated with former Maine Sen. George Mitchell, who ...
Military Times

Pentagon task force to conduct laser test against drones

A resupply drone takes off during a test flight at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center near Hohenfels, Germany, Feb. 18, 2026. (Sgt. Glenn Brennan/U.S. Army National Guard) The Pentagon’s counter ...
TechCrunch

Cursor is rolling out a new kind of agentic coding tool

As agentic coding spreads, the working life of a software engineer has become dazzlingly complex. A single engineer might oversee dozens of coding agents at once, launching and guiding different ...
Homeland Security Today

Java Productions Wins 5 Year U.S. Coast Guard Program Support Services Task on Oasis

U.S. Coast Guard Chief Warrant Officer DeAnna Melleby, Information Systems Security Officer for the Coast Guard Command, Control, Communication and Information Technology unit at Coast Guard Base ...
KPNX

Waste Management DUI Task Force makes over 100 arrests

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Another successful event at the Waste Management Phoenix Open is in the books. Thousands of people attended the yearly PGA event and the 2026 edition went off without a hitch. And ...
IEEE

AIDoList - AI Powered Task Management System

Abstract: The AIDoList system is an innovative endeavor aimed at revolutionizing the way individuals manage their daily tasks and commitments. This system seeks to develop a state of the-art task ...
techxplore

AIs behaving badly: An AI trained to deliberately make bad code will become bad at unrelated tasks, too

Artificial intelligence models that are trained to behave badly on a narrow task may generalize this behavior across unrelated tasks, such as offering malicious advice, suggests a new study. The ...
ZDNet

Claude Cowork automates complex tasks for you now - at your own risk

Anthropic is launching Cowork for Claude as a research preview. It's built upon Claude Code and can automate complex tasks. However, it comes with security risks. Anthropic is testing a new feature ...