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X’s new XChat promises “end-to-end” privacy — but its current implementation leaves several simple, well-known privacy protections out in the open, and experts warn that the feature as shipped can expose users to avoidable risks ranging from leaked image metadata to a service operator or insider able to read supposedly private chats. Background X introduced XChat as a major upgrade to Direct Messages: an encrypted chat mode built on a new Rust-based architecture, with support for media...

AI is already everywhere in the enterprise — and the biggest short-term risk may be that most employees don’t even realize they’re using it. Background The conversation about AI risk has, until recently, centered on sophisticated threats: algorithmic bias, model explainability, intellectual property and an emerging patchwork of regulation. Those are real and important. But a quieter, faster-growing risk lives in the day-to-day: shadow AI — AI features embedded in familiar apps and workflows...

Microsoft and Cloudflare’s push to make websites “AI‑search friendly” is more than a product announcement — it’s an attempt to rewire how content is discovered, attributed, and monetized on the web by combining Microsoft’s NLWeb protocol with Cloudflare’s managed AutoRAG pipeline. The idea is simple: let sites answer natural‑language queries themselves (and in a machine‑readable way) so AI assistants stop silently scraping and repackaging content without sending readers back to the creators...

Microsoft has set a hard stop: Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025, and the clock is now counting down for hundreds of millions of PCs still running the decade-old OS. Microsoft is urging users to move to Windows 11 where possible, while offering a limited Extended Security Updates (ESU) bridge for those who need more time. Background / Overview Microsoft’s lifecycle pages and support notices confirm a firm end‑of‑support date for Windows 10: October 14, 2025. After that...

Samsung’s Vision AI Companion arrived at IFA 2025 as a deliberate pivot: a unified, multi‑agent AI hub for smart displays that folds on‑device vision features and third‑party conversational agents into a single, remote‑invoked experience designed for the living room and home office alike. The system — powered by an upgraded Bixby voice layer and integrating standalone agent apps including Microsoft Copilot and Perplexity — will roll out as a staged software update beginning in late September...

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BornCity’s latest dispatch raises a subtle but important question: did Microsoft quietly neutralize the wave of SSD failures reported from Japan after the August 2025 Windows 11 24H2 roll‑out, or did the alarm simply fade after vendors and Redmond concluded they could not reproduce a systemic fault? Background The issue began as a concentrated set of user reports from Japan in mid‑August 2025 alleging that the Windows 11 24H2 cumulative security update (KB5063878, published August 12, 2025)...

Samsung’s latest camera leak for the Galaxy S26 Ultra reads more like a careful revision than a surprise-packed overhaul: expect a continued 200MP main shooter, carry-overs of 50MP periscope and 50MP ultra-wide modules, and one modest but meaningful upgrade — a higher-resolution 3x telephoto lens that finally replaces the aging 10MP unit many enthusiasts have long complained about. Background Samsung has positioned the Galaxy S Ultra line as the company’s showcase for mobile imaging and...

Since March 2025, threat actors have increasingly weaponized ConnectWise ScreenConnect installers — using trojanized, stripped-down ClickOnce runners and other delivery tricks to convert a trusted remote administration tool into a stealthy initial-access vector that drops multiple RATs and establishes persistent, low-noise footholds inside U.S. organizations. Background ConnectWise ScreenConnect (also marketed as ConnectWise Control) is a widely used Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM)...

The S&P 500’s recent ascent has become inseparable from the runaway success of a handful of AI-focused technology giants, and that concentration is reshaping risk, return expectations, and portfolio construction for investors of all stripes. The analysis published by AInvest correctly highlights how NVIDIA, Microsoft, Amazon and other AI leaders now carry outsized influence in the index and argues that investors must decide whether today’s AI premium is a durable re‑rating or a transient...

For more than a decade the cannabis category has been locked out of mainstream digital advertising playbooks—blocked by platform policies, throttled by opaque moderation, and scattered across short-lived social hype cycles—but paid editorial placements on high‑authority cultural publishers give brands a durable, discoverable asset that persists in search, news syndication, and the AI tools consumers rely on today. stupidDOPE positions itself as exactly that kind of publisher: a...

Samsung’s IFA push makes a decisive bet on pluralistic AI: the company is rolling its new Vision AI Companion onto eligible Smart TVs and monitors while opening the platform to multiple third‑party agents — Google’s Gemini, Microsoft’s Copilot, and Perplexity — and positioning those agents as user‑selectable extensions of a broader “AI Home” vision. This is not a small firmware tweak. It’s a strategic shift that turns displays into multimodal, conversational hubs and signals Samsung’s...

The confluence of a looming Windows 10 end-of-support deadline, a broad PC refresh cycle and the early commercial wave of AI-capable PCs has turned routine hardware procurement into a strategic battlefield — and solution providers are answering with integrated, outcome-focused services that package device selection, migration, security and AI readiness into one consultative play. What started as “replace the laptop” conversations has become a far larger debate: which employees need...

Microsoft’s deadline for Windows 10 support is now a calendar item that can’t be ignored: after October 14, 2025, security updates and technical support for Windows 10 stop, and any delay in planning your migration increases your exposure to unpatched vulnerabilities. This feature walks through why the cutoff matters, the practical upgrade routes (standard upgrade vs clean install), the backup steps you should not skip, the real hardware and software compatibility traps to watch for, and...

Microsoft is quietly turning Edge into a research assistant you can talk to: recent Canary builds are testing a multi‑tab summarization feature that lets Copilot read and synthesize content from several open tabs at once — a capability that shifts Copilot from a single‑page summarizer to a multi‑tab research collaborator. Background / Overview Microsoft’s Copilot Mode reimagines the browser as an AI‑first workspace rather than a passive list of pages. When enabled, Copilot can present a...

Windows 11’s inbox app pile just got a new nemesis: Tiny11’s updated builder can now strip Copilot, the new Outlook client, Teams, and a long roster of built‑ins from a Windows 11 image — and the change is explicitly framed as a “25H2‑ready” rebuild that shrinks install size and prevents much of the usual bloat from migrating during upgrades. Background Windows 11 ships with dozens of inbox apps and tightly integrated services that many users never open but that still consume storage...

Google Chrome’s terse banner — “Your browser is managed by your organization” — is both a useful audit cue and a common source of anxiety for home users who didn’t expect any outside control. The message is honest: Chrome has detected at least one non-default policy or managed preference. For enterprise administrators it’s normal. For consumers it’s a flag worth investigating. This feature exists to let administrators centrally enforce settings — from homepage and search provider to...

Flyoobe 1.7 arrives as a decisive answer for users who want a lean, no‑AI Windows 11 from first boot: the update introduces an OOBE page that hunts down and disables Copilot and related AI integrations during setup, ships expanded debloat presets (including GitHub‑loadable profiles), improves driver backup and UI polish, and even adds a nightly channel — but it also sharpens the trade‑offs around unsupported installs, update fragility, and security posture. Background Windows 11’s...

Lenovo's next flagship handheld, the Legion Go 2, arrives as a strikingly ambitious — and expensive — attempt to redefine what a Windows portable can be, pairing a large 8.8-inch OLED, AMD's new Z2 family silicon, and headline-grabbing battery and memory choices that put it squarely in premium handheld territory. Background / Overview Lenovo used IFA 2025 to lift the curtain on the Legion Go 2 after teasing the design as a prototype at CES 2025. The goal is clear: bridge the gap between a...

Microsoft is rolling out a practical but far-reaching tweak to Windows 11 that finally lets supported Copilot+ PCs apply Windows Studio Effects to an additional camera — including many USB webcams — while also shipping on-device “fluid dictation” inside Voice Access and new Copilot-driven hover actions in File Explorer for Insiders on the Dev and Beta channels. These changes move more of Microsoft’s camera, voice, and Copilot intelligence onto the local device, broaden real-world use cases...