In 1977, Commodore licensed BASIC for $25,000 as a one-time payment, securing perpetual use without royalties.

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Conservative commentator Benny Johnson says the American dream is at risk—not because of policy—but because of a growing lack of "basic human decency and sympathy" from the political left. Johnson ...

Don't miss out on our latest stories. Add PCMag as a preferred source on Google. UPDATE 9/4: The PromptLock ransomware is actually a research project from a team at the New York University Tandon ...

ESET says PromptLock runs gpt-oss:20b locally on an infected device to help it generate malicious code using hardcoded text prompts, though it might be a proof of concept. When he's not battling bugs ...

Nearly five years ago, the Army moved away from the practice of several drill sergeants surrounding trainees and yelling at them to establish dominance at the start of basic training — a practice ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and is sure he began doing so professionally in 2010 or thereabouts. If he was forced ...

The Trump administration told states Friday that it will send every state on Monday their formula funding allocations for before- and after-school programs nationwide—but the funding will come with a ...