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Wispr Flow’s new Notetaker is now available on Mac, adding meeting recording, live transcripts, AI summaries, speaker labels, action items, and searchable meeting history to a product previously centered on voice dictation. The important operational detail is easy to miss: the feature records system audio locally without sending a visible bot into a Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, or Slack Huddle call. That makes it less disruptive than the familiar “AI notetaker has joined” experience...

Windows Server 2022 will leave Microsoft’s mainstream-support phase on October 13, 2026—57 days from August 17, not 60—and administrators should treat the date as a change in support posture rather than an end-of-life event. As Techzine Global reported, the LTSC release will continue to receive free security updates for another five years, through October 14, 2031. Microsoft’s lifecycle record confirms both dates for Standard, Datacenter, Essentials, and Datacenter: Azure Edition. The...

Arctic Wolf Labs says an active phishing operation has compromised Microsoft 365 accounts to quietly read payroll, banking, invoice, and HR correspondence before attempting a direct-deposit fraud. For Windows and Microsoft 365 administrators, the practical warning is clear: an account that shows no password reset, no new registered device, and no obvious mailbox-forwarding rule may still be under active surveillance through a stolen Entra session token. The campaign, described by Arctic Wolf...

PCWorld is right that Microsoft Defender Antivirus has a mechanism for dealing with missed scans, but its Windows 11 registry instructions point readers at the wrong policy branch and blur together two different catch-up scan features. The practical consequence is simple: a user who creates values beneath HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Windows\Windows Security is not configuring the documented Microsoft Defender Antivirus scan policy at all. Microsoft’s current documentation places...

PCCooler’s FC300-CS proposes a more repairable kind of all-in-one Windows PC: a 27-inch display and a separate compute module that can be detached rather than discarded as a single sealed appliance. But the product is still closer to a demonstrated platform than a retail-ready replacement for the iMac or a conventional business AIO, because PCCooler has not published a price, regional availability, module roadmap, or a compatibility promise for future host units. Notebookcheck reported the...

Engadget’s review of HP’s 2026 OmniBook X shows that the 14-inch Windows laptop can deliver unusually strong performance and credible all-day endurance—but the result applies to a very specific, expensive configuration, not to every machine carrying the OmniBook X badge. The review unit used Intel’s Core Ultra X9 processor with 32GB of integrated memory, Intel Arc B390 graphics, a 2TB SSD, and HP’s 3K OLED touch panel. Engadget found it handled heavy browser multitasking, large photo jobs...

Windows can leave a high-refresh display running at 60Hz after a GPU-driver reset, a display reconnection, a change in multi-monitor topology, or a laptop power-state change—and the problem is easy to miss because Windows does not surface a prominent warning when the selected mode changes. How-To Geek documented the issue across those scenarios, including its own test of a monitor reverting from 100Hz after switching temporarily to a TV. The important correction is that this is not one...

Palantir’s second-quarter results give Alex Karp’s rhetoric about a “software revolution” more weight than a typical CEO manifesto: the company reported $1.935 billion in revenue, up 93% year over year, while U.S. commercial revenue rose 149% to $764 million. But the practical lesson for enterprise IT is narrower than the headline suggests. Palantir is arguing that the money in enterprise AI will flow to vendors that can run models against proprietary operational data without surrendering...

Windows 11’s last supported route back to wmic.exe is being removed in the Release Preview update KB5120998, affecting both Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2. Microsoft’s release notes say WMIC is no longer included and is no longer available as a Feature on Demand, which means administrators who treated it as an optional legacy component can no longer rely on reinstalling it through Settings or DISM when a script breaks. The immediate rollout is limited to the Release Preview channel: KB5120998...

Microsoft has delayed Exchange Server Subscription Edition CU1 again and, this time, has removed even the broad H2 2026 target from the table. The Exchange Team says a surge of potential security defects identified through AI-assisted code scanning must be validated, reproduced, fixed, regression-tested, and folded into its monthly servicing work before CU1 can reach what it calls a reasonably stable point. Computerworld first reported the latest delay; Microsoft confirmed the rationale in...

Google Workspace’s Workspace Intelligence is enabled by default for supported tenants, allowing Gemini features to actively retrieve relevant context from Gmail, Drive and Docs, Calendar, and Google Chat. That is a real governance change worth auditing—but it did not arrive quietly this week, and it does not give Gemini blanket access to every company record. Google announced the feature on April 22, 2026, during its Cloud Next event, with rollout to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release...

Using ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini to explain a suspicious message can help a user slow down before acting, but it cannot establish that a text or email is legitimate. That distinction is the missing safeguard in a new Data Doctors column published by WTOP on August 17: an AI chatbot is useful for phishing triage, not an authority that can clear a payment request, account alert, or password-reset notice. Ken Colburn of Data Doctors recommends pasting a suspicious message into a general-purpose...

How-To Geek is right about the core problem: uninstalling a Windows desktop application can leave user-created data, logs, caches, configuration files, services, or registry values behind. But its claim that this routinely turns into “gigabytes of junk” and a progressively “bogged down” registry overstates what the evidence supports. The files are real; the performance diagnosis is much less certain. Microsoft’s own uninstall guidance for Windows 10 and Windows 11 describes the normal...

Windows 11’s Print Management console has reportedly received a WinUI 3 rebuild in the Release Preview channel, but administrators should treat it as an undocumented preview component, not as a completed replacement for the long-standing MMC tool. Windows Latest says it found the new interface in Windows 11 builds 26100.9267 and 26200.9267, released to Release Preview on August 14 as KB5120998 for Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2. Microsoft’s own KB5120998 release notes confirm the builds, the KB...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day message on semiconductors carries a more concrete policy signal than the familiar call for technological self-reliance: India is now funding the less visible parts of chip production—materials, equipment, design tools, packaging, research and training—alongside new plants. But the claim that India already has “three semiconductor fabrication factories” operating needs a careful correction. The three facilities cited by the government as having...

The semiconductor foundry is becoming responsible for far more than printing transistors onto wafers. For the AI accelerators, servers and eventually PCs that depend on them, the decisive manufacturing capability is increasingly the ability to combine a leading-edge logic process, high-bandwidth memory, chiplets, package interconnects and design software into one producible system. That is the useful conclusion behind New Electronics’ overview of changing foundry roles. Its account correctly...

SpaceX and Tesla have selected Grimes County, Texas, for Terafab, a planned semiconductor complex whose first phase carries a stated $16.8 billion investment and a promise of more than 100 million square feet of manufacturing space. The concrete news is the site selection and early construction commitment, announced by SpaceX on August 6 and reported by Reuters: this is no longer only Elon Musk’s March presentation about a future chip empire in Austin. For Windows and PC hardware readers...

Revise is a browser-based AI document editor built around a genuinely useful promise for Word users: it can import a .docx, let GPT, Claude, Gemini, or Grok propose edits as reviewable changes, and export the result back to Word with redlines intact. WindowsReport’s hands-on review found that the workflow preserves much of the familiar document-editing experience rather than forcing users to paste text into a chatbot and reconstruct formatting afterward. The important qualification is that...

Lenovo’s ThinkStation P4 (AMD) workstation is now reaching the market Lenovo said it would enter in August, giving North American buyers a configurable Ryzen PRO 9000 desktop platform aimed at CAD, rendering, simulation, local AI, and software-development workloads. But the newly reported U.S. configurations are materially narrower than the machine Lenovo announced in May: Notebookcheck reports a ceiling of 48GB of GPU memory and 33TB of storage, while Lenovo’s own current product...

Notebookcheck reports that ETA Prime paired Minisforum’s X1 Lite mini PC with ONEXPLAYER’s OneXGPU 2 Radeon RX 7800M dock over OCuLink, installed SteamOS, and obtained the kind of 1440p performance normally expected from a much larger gaming desktop. The video’s reported figures include more than 70 frames per second in Cyberpunk 2077 at 1440p Ultra with FSR 2.1 Quality, more than 100 fps in Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart at 1440p Very High without FSR, and more than 70 fps in Forza Horizon 6...