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Samsung’s next Edge model is shaping up to be a study in contrasts: a radically slimmer body and a camera island that spans almost the device’s full width, while leaked specs suggest Samsung will push camera resolution parity with its Ultra line by bringing a 200MP main sensor and a newly upgraded 50MP ultra‑wide to the Galaxy S26 Edge — a move that mirrors the S25 Ultra’s recent ultrawide revision and signals a strategic shift in how Samsung differentiates its S‑series variants. Background...

If your Windows 11 laptop’s battery life feels shorter than it should, the usual advice—dim the screen, close background apps, choose a power‑efficient mode—helps, but it may not be the whole story; one often‑overlooked background system, the Windows Search Indexer, can silently chew CPU, disk I/O and RAM and meaningfully shorten runtime. The good news is that the indexer is controllable: you can tune, pause, or disable it when you need maximum battery life, and then restore it when you’re...

The AI you keep open in a browser tab is doing more than answering queries — it's broadcasting something about how you think, what you value, and how you want the world to work. A recent cultural riff that maps people to their preferred models — from OpenAI’s GPT‑5 users to xAI’s Grok fans and the anarchic LLaMA tinkerers — is more than a clever listicle: it crystallizes a shift in how technology mediates identity. The piece that started the conversation is charmingly reductive by design...

Windows 11’s typing ergonomics just got a small but decisive polish: Insiders can now insert an en dash (–) and an em dash (—) with single memorable keystrokes — and that change is already shipping in recent Dev and Beta channel preview builds. This is the kind of tiny usability fix that saves seconds across thousands of typing sessions and removes one of the little friction points that has long frustrated writers, editors, and anyone who composes text without a numeric keypad. Background /...

OpenAI’s decision to publish high‑quality, open‑weight language models has suddenly reframed its relationship with Microsoft — shifting what until recently felt like a settled strategic partnership into a contested terrain of contracts, cloud economics, and platform control. The company’s gpt‑oss family (two models, “gpt‑oss‑120b” and “gpt‑oss‑20b”) was announced and distributed under a permissive Apache 2.0 license and made available through multiple hosting partners — including Hugging...

Microsoft’s recent narrative — that an AI-first Azure is building an unassailable moat while Windows 11 becomes an “AI platform” — is both materially true and rhetorically optimistic; the data underpinning the claim is strong, but the timeline and some headline figures in the popular bull case are conflated, and the pace of integration introduces meaningful execution and product risks investors and IT leaders must weigh carefully. Background Microsoft’s FY25 performance is the clearest...

Microsoft is offering every U.S. college student one year of Microsoft 365 Personal at no cost, a limited-time move that folds the company’s consumer productivity suite and its Copilot AI assistant into a broader education-focused push tied to the White House’s AI Education Task Force and Microsoft’s new “Elevate” initiative. The free 12‑month subscription—normally valued at about $99.99 per year—includes the desktop and web Office apps, Copilot integration, and the familiar 1 TB of OneDrive...

AI chatbots are answering more questions than ever — and, according to a de‑anonymized NewsGuard audit released in September 2025, they are also repeating falsehoods far more often: roughly one in three news‑related replies contained a verifiable false claim during the August 2025 test cycle. Background Chatbot reliability has been a live issue since large language models became widely available. NewsGuard’s AI False Claims Monitor is a monthly red‑teaming program that tests leading consumer...

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...