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Windows users facing the October deadline for Windows 10 support are being offered a realistic, battle-tested alternative in Zorin OS — a Dublin-born Linux distribution that promises to keep older PCs secure, fast and usable for years to come, and which the Irish Times frames as a timely option amid Microsoft’s upgrade push. Background / Overview Microsoft has set a definitive end-of-support date for Windows 10: October 14, 2025. After that date Home and Pro editions (and most...

Google’s work on making tabs less chaotic keeps getting bolder: a new experiment in Chrome Canary now offers a one-step way to convert a tab group into a standard bookmark folder, and several companion menu and context‑menu tweaks are being tested that together point to a future where tab groups are no longer ephemeral workspace bubbles but first‑class, archivable objects in Chrome’s ecosystem. (windowsreport.com, neowin.net) Background Chrome’s tab groups began as a lightweight visual...

Microsoft’s conversational assistant has left the desktop and arrived on the living-room screen: Microsoft Copilot is now built into select Samsung 2025 TVs and Smart Monitors, folded into Samsung’s new Vision AI platform as a web-embedded Copilot experience that answers questions aloud, displays glanceable cards for distance viewing, and appears on-screen as a small animated, lip‑synced avatar designed for group interactions. ecrosoft announced a formal rollout of Copilot for Samsung’s 2025...

Windows 11 ships with a maze of background services: some are essential, some are convenience features, and a surprising number quietly collect data or spin CPU and disk cycles while you work. A recent practical guide singled out a small set of these services as safe targets for trimming — telemetry and diagnostic collectors, the error‑reporting pipeline, scheduled disk optimization, and a handful of optional feature services — and showed how to stop them using Services (services.msc). This...

HP’s latest quarter reads like a watershed moment: revenue and unit trends that outpaced expectations, a sharpened focus on AI-capable PCs, aggressive supply‑chain moves to sidestep tariff risk, and a targeted buy of Humane’s AI assets that accelerates device‑level AI strategy—taken together, these moves suggest HP is attempting to convert a cyclical PC bounce into a structural advantage rather than merely riding a short-lived wave. Background / overview HP’s corporate profile in 2024–2025...

Microsoft’s Copilot has moved from desks and pockets into living rooms: select Samsung 2025 TVs and smart monitors now include a voice-first Copilot experience that speaks, shows visual answer cards, and appears on-screen as an animated companion — no separate app store download required, and sign-in with a Microsoft account is optional. Overview The rollout announced on August 27, 2025 brings Microsoft’s conversational assistant to Samsung’s 2025 lineup under the banner of Samsung Vision...

The Indian government’s cybersecurity arm has issued a high-severity alert advising organisations and individuals to urgently address a batch of patched—but still dangerous—vulnerabilities across multiple Microsoft products, including Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based), Windows Server storage components, Windows certificate handling, the MBT Transport (netbt) driver, Microsoft PC Manager, and Azure Databricks. The advisory follows Microsoft’s recent Patch Tuesday wave and national-level...

Tooltips — those little pop-up text boxes that appear when you hover over files, folders, desktop shortcuts, or taskbar icons — are designed to give quick context, but for many Windows 11 users they become intrusive and disruptive; this guide explains every practical method to delay, disable, or limit tooltips on Windows 11, shows the exact Registry edits and Settings toggles involved, and weighs the benefits and risks so you can choose the safest approach for your setup. Background /...

The recent Windows 11 servicing wave that included security updates KB5063878 and the related preview KB5062660 ignited a flurry of alarm when hobbyist testers and everyday users reported NVMe SSDs disappearing — in some cases permanently — during large sustained writes, and much of the early traffic pointed at drives using Phison controllers. Phison’s follow-up statement saying its labs “dedicated over 4,500 cumulative testing hours” and ran more than 2,200 test cycles without reproducing...

Samsung’s newest TVs and smart monitors now ship with Microsoft’s Copilot built in, bringing a conversational generative AI assistant to living rooms and home offices and folding Microsoft’s “Copilot Everywhere” strategy into Samsung’s Vision AI ecosystem. ueup — including premium Micro RGB, Neo QLED, QLED, OLED, The Frame models and selected Smart Monitors (M7, M8, M9 and similar) — will offer a built-in Copilot experience surfaced via Samsung’s Vision AI layer and a Copilot web app...

Microsoft has quietly folded a long‑requested convenience into Windows: you can now browse and manage an Android phone’s internal storage directly from File Explorer — wirelessly, without digging out a USB cable — by pairing your handset with Windows 11 and using Microsoft’s Link to Windows / Phone Link infrastructure. Background / Overview For years Windows users have relied on USB cables, MTP drivers or third‑party tools to move photos and documents between phones and PCs. Microsoft’s...

Windows 11’s August servicing wave briefly looked like a storage disaster: community testers reported NVMe drives disappearing mid-write after installing security updates KB5063878 and KB5062660, and many fingers pointed at SSDs using Phison controllers. After an industry investigation, controller maker Phison published a terse validation summary saying it had “dedicated over 4,500 cumulative testing hours” and run more than 2,200 test cycles without being able to reproduce the reported...

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Microsoft is widening the testing ring for Xbox Cloud Gaming: Xbox Insiders who subscribe to Game Pass Core and Game Pass Standard can now stream cloud-playable titles — including a selection of owned games and, for the first time on those tiers, select PC versions — through Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) as part of a staged Insider preview. Background Since its mainstream rollout, Xbox Cloud Gaming (xCloud) has been a core differentiator for Microsoft’s Game Pass strategy: a way to meet players...

Microsoft confirmed it fired two employees after a group of protesters — including current and former staffers — broke into the Redmond office of company president Brad Smith and staged a brief sit‑in as part of an intensifying campaign over Microsoft’s ties to the Israel Defense Forces and alleged uses of Azure in mass surveillance. Background / Overview The episode at Microsoft’s campus is the latest flashpoint in a months‑long controversy about how commercial cloud and AI services can be...

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The short DrugsControl.org post titled “Gameing — Rummy Game for Windows 10” reads like an unexpected detour: a public-health and regulatory site publishing a short item about a desktop card game and where to get it. The page frames itself as a general-interest item, but offers little technical detail, no publisher credentials, and no clear download provenance — a combination that demands caution on Windows 10 systems where unsigned installers and third‑party packages routinely introduce...

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The Optoma UHC70LV arrives as a bold statement: a high‑bright, Dolby Vision‑certified 4K laser projector aimed squarely at the premium home‑cinema buyer — and it largely delivers on that promise while exposing the inevitable trade‑offs of any specialist product in 2025. At the same time, recent reporting highlights two separate but related threads in consumer tech: the persistent gulf between AI marketing claims and practical accuracy in productivity tools (most clearly illustrated by...

Phison’s latest test summary puts the disputed SSD failures tied to Windows 11 updates into a new, uneasy middle ground: vendors and Microsoft say they cannot reproduce a widespread “bricking” problem, while a small but alarming set of user reports continues to describe drives disappearing and in some cases becoming unrecoverable after installing KB5063878 and the KB5062660 preview update. Background Reports began surfacing in mid‑August when community testers and hobbyist PC builders posted...