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By Make Tech Easier Editorial · Sep 24, 2026

Microsoft warns fake passkey setup requests are being used to compromise work accounts

Sep 24, 2026 The computer driving NASA's Perseverance rover across Mars is a $200,000 version of the chip from the… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
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Sep 24, 2026 Microsoft sealed hundreds of servers in a nitrogen-filled cylinder and sank it 117 feet to the seabed… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
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Jun 10, 2026 In 1843, Ada Lovelace described a brass-and-punched-card engine that could act on symbols as well as… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
Jun 9, 2026 ARPANET sent its first message on 29 October 1969 from a lab at UCLA to a machine at Stanford, and the… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
Jun 9, 2026 In 1995, Microsoft shipped a cartoon-house interface called Bob, led by Melinda French, who married Bill… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
Jun 8, 2026 Apple’s original 1984 Macintosh keyboard had no arrow keys, no function keys, and no numeric pad because… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
Jun 8, 2026 In 1965, Mary Allen Wilkes wrote LAP6 for the LINC computer from her parents' Baltimore home, testing an… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
Jun 6, 2026 In 1969, László Bélády and two IBM colleagues published a paging-machine anomaly showing FIFO could make… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
Jun 2, 2026 In 1964, IBM risked its entire corporate empire on the System/360, a chaotic gamble to make all of its… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
Jun 2, 2026 In 1982, a Soviet pipeline suddenly exploded with the force of a tactical nuclear weapon, and the… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
Jun 2, 2026 In 1988, a graduate student launched an experimental script to measure the size of the internet, and a… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
May 31, 2026 The Voyager 1 spacecraft launched in 1977 is now over 15 billion miles from Earth, and a radio signal… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
May 31, 2026 Every time you book a flight or check a hotel room, your request is routed through a green-screen… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
May 31, 2026 In 1997, a team of engineers hid an entire flight simulator inside the code of Microsoft Excel as an… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
May 31, 2026 A 65-year-old programming language called COBOL still quietly processes over $3 trillion in banking… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
May 30, 2026 Stanford scientists just built a room-temperature quantum device that uses "twisted light" to connect… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
May 27, 2026 When Microsoft was developing Windows 95, developers discovered that SimCity had a severe memory bug… By Make Tech Easier Editorial