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Techland has finally published the PC system requirements for Dying Light: The Beast, and the numbers make one thing clear: this spin-off is aiming higher than Dying Light 2 in memory and resolution ambition, while leaning heavily on modern upscaling and frame‑generation toolchains to keep the experience playable for mainstream hardware. Background / Overview Dying Light: The Beast re-centers the series on Kyle Crane and introduces a more visceral, mutated power fantasy built on Techland’s...

Microsoft’s deadline is now fixed: Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025, and the practical choices for organizations are stark — migrate to Windows 11, pay for time‑limited Extended Security Updates (ESU), or accept growing security, compliance and operational risk. The public conversation has turned urgent because the short‑term bills for staying on Windows 10 can scale into the billions for large estates, while the migration itself carries real hardware, application and...

Satya Nadella’s short public playbook — five repeatable prompts he says he uses inside Microsoft 365 Copilot — has done more than offer productivity tips; it has shown, in blunt practice, how an enterprise copilot can change the mechanics of leadership, reduce busywork and compress decision cycles across Microsoft 365 and Windows workflows. The prompts are deliberately simple: they anticipate meeting priorities, synthesize project status, quantify launch readiness, audit time use, and...

Microsoft is quietly rolling out a new clipboard continuity option in Windows 11 that can push what you copy on a PC directly into a linked Android phone’s clipboard — surfacing inside Gboard, Samsung Keyboard and other Android IMEs — via the Phone Link (Link to Windows) bridge in recent Insider Dev builds. Background Microsoft’s clipboard has evolved from a one‑slot convenience into a cross‑device productivity surface over the last several Windows releases. Windows 11 introduced clipboard...

Dr. Eunho Lee’s lab at SeoulTech has published a materials‑first strategy for building artificial synapses—organic, electrolyte‑gated transistors whose engineered side chains dramatically improve ion uptake—and at almost the same moment Microsoft pushed deeper into proprietary AI with two in‑house models, MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview, that aim to reshape how speech and general-purpose reasoning are delivered across Copilot and edge services. Together, these developments point to two...

Alibaba’s Cloud Intelligence unit has moved from a long-term strategic bet to the company’s most visible growth engine, delivering a 26% year-over-year revenue increase to RMB 33.4 billion in the most recent quarter and pushing AI-driven product revenues into sustained triple‑digit growth—momentum the company is backing with a headline RMB 380 billion three‑year investment plan and record quarterly capital spending. Background The numbers announced in Alibaba’s latest reporting cycle mark a...

Microsoft’s public lifecycle clock for Windows 10 is now unambiguous: mainstream support stops on October 14, 2025, and users have a narrow set of practical paths forward — upgrade to Windows 11, buy time with a one‑year consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) plan, shift workloads to cloud or alternative operating systems, or accept growing security and compliance risk. Background / Overview Microsoft’s lifecycle page states plainly that Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14...

Microsoft’s community-driven PowerToys has quietly gained a small but meaningful accessibility weapon: a gliding cursor mode that uses the existing Mouse Pointer Crosshairs to let you lock and nudge the pointer along horizontal and vertical axes and then perform a click — all with a single repeated hotkey press. The feature landed as part of PowerToys v0.94, a release that focuses on usability and quality-of-life improvements such as settings search and shortcut conflict detection, and it...

Microsoft Intune administrators who deploy configuration profiles may encounter the cryptic status "Remediation failed" accompanied by the error code 0x87d1fde8, an Intune deployment dead‑end that can come from multiple root causes — device compatibility, CSP mismatches, assignment mistakes, or transient Intune service bugs — and that demands a systematic troubleshooting approach to resolve reliably. (windowsreport.com, learn.microsoft.com) Background Microsoft Intune reports the error code...

If you’re seriously contemplating ditching Windows and can’t (or won’t) keep both, the choice between Linux and macOS comes down to a handful of practical questions — ecosystem, apps, hardware, cost, and how much control you want over the machine. ZDNET’s “7-step” checklist frames the decision as seven clear questions; this piece expands that checklist into an actionable decision plan, verifies key technical claims, flags important caveats, and gives a migration playbook you can follow...

Microsoft’s push to make AI a built‑in, local capability on Windows has produced a distinct class of machines — Copilot+ PCs — and with them a set of features you simply won’t get on ordinary Windows laptops unless you send your data into the cloud. The features range from turning a few sloppy brush strokes into polished art to indexing a photographic “memory” of your desktop so you can find what you were working on last week. Many of these capabilities are powered by on‑device Neural...

Microsoft and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) have announced a sweeping OneGov agreement that puts Microsoft’s cloud and AI stack — including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Azure services, Dynamics 365, and security tooling — on preferential, government‑wide terms that the GSA and Microsoft say could save the federal government roughly $3.0–$3.1 billion in the first year and deliver multi‑year savings if agencies opt in at scale. Background / Overview The GSA’s OneGov initiative...

Microsoft has pushed a major productivity pivot into the heart of workplace social networking with the general availability of Microsoft 365 Copilot in Viva Engage, delivering context-aware AI summaries, smarter search, and integrated writing assistance designed to help employees “catch up” faster and surface what matters across communities, storylines, and campaigns. Background Viva Engage has long been Microsoft's employee social platform for conversation, recognition, and internal...

OpenAI’s recent recalibration—from boardroom restructures to multi‑cloud infrastructure deals—marks a watershed for the AI economy: the company is no longer only a model-builder, it is shaping the infrastructure, commercial contracts, and governance norms that will determine who wins the next decade of AI. This shift matters for investors because it moves the center of gravity from algorithmic breakthroughs to the physical and contractual scaffolding that enables those models to scale: cloud...

Microsoft Word for Windows has quietly shifted the default lifecycle of new documents: starting with Insider builds identified as Version 2509 (Build 19221.20000), a freshly created document will be saved to the cloud with AutoSave enabled by default, unless the user or administrator changes the setting — a move that transforms “untitled, unsaved” drafts into cloud-backed files from the first keystroke. Background / Overview For decades, Word’s baseline user experience followed a simple...

Microsoft has added a new chapter to Windows update management: Microsoft Intune will gain dedicated Windows Quality Update management policies that let administrators approve, approve automatically, and stage individual quality updates — including non-security preview and out‑of‑band releases — with a public preview expected in January 2026 and a phased rollout beginning in February 2026, according to the current Microsoft 365 roadmap and industry reporting. Background Microsoft has been...

The Department for Business and Trade’s short trial of Microsoft Copilot returned a familiar, measured verdict: staff rated the assistant useful and often satisfying, but the practical productivity gains were modest, uneven, and dependent on use case — and the evaluation stopped short of demonstrating clear financial or environmental benefits. The DBT trial found strong uptake for meeting transcription and summarisation, email drafting, and summarising written communication, with 71.7% user...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT suffered a widespread service disruption on September 3, 2025, that left thousands of users unable to see responses in the Conversations web UI and sparked an immediate wave of troubleshooting, vendor-switching and enterprise planning conversations across technical communities. The company acknowledged the incident on its status page, identified the root cause as a component-level failure affecting the Conversations interface, and declared the issue resolved after engineers...

Microsoft has pushed Microsoft 365 Copilot deeper into the employee experience by making Copilot for Viva Engage generally available to eligible customers, embedding a context-aware generative AI assistant that summarizes conversations, surfaces trends, improves discoverability, and provides dynamic, pre-populated prompts across community feeds and campaigns. Background Viva Engage (previously Yammer) is Microsoft’s enterprise social layer for companywide announcements, communities of...

DeepIQ and OMV Energy have announced a joint effort with Microsoft to deploy agentic AI across OMV Energy’s drilling operations, beginning with a pilot for well construction optimization that DeepIQ says will automate the corporate learning loop and deliver context‑aware workflows for well design and execution. This initiative pairs DeepIQ’s industrial DataOps and generative-AI tooling with Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI capabilities and OMV’s engineering domain expertise, and it is being...