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Samsung and Microsoft have agreed to bring Microsoft Copilot — the company’s generative AI assistant — to Samsung’s 2025 TVs and Smart Monitors, folding natural‑language AI into large displays via Samsung’s new Vision AI framework and a Copilot web experience built into the screens. This move extends Copilot from PCs and productivity apps into living‑room and home‑office screens, promising on‑screen summaries, personalized content discovery, cross‑device workflows with Microsoft accounts...

TD SYNNEX’s newly announced Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services marks a major channel-level push to accelerate cloud migration, AI adoption, and Marketplace monetization across North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, with the distributor positioning its StreamOne platform and reseller enablement programs as the connective tissue that will let SMBs, ISVs and mid-market partners scale AWS-based solutions faster and more profitably. Background TD SYNNEX has...

Microsoft's candid admission that it “cannot guarantee” European customer data will never be handed to U.S. authorities has turned a long‑standing corporate argument about cloud sovereignty into a live-policy moment — and prompted sharp public ripostes from regional players such as OVHcloud’s chief legal officer, who says the admission merely confirms what European providers and privacy advocates have been warning for years. (senat.fr, theregister.com) Background The legal and technical...

Security researchers have observed a coordinated, large‑scale reconnaissance campaign probing Microsoft Remote Desktop services that began as a sudden one‑day spike and escalated into a torrent of scans — a pattern that looks less like opportunistic background noise and more like deliberate preparation for credential‑based intrusions against U.S. targets, especially education networks. GreyNoise telemetry shows nearly 2,000 malicious IPs probing RD Web Access and the RDP Web Client...

Microsoft's latest move to centralize and simplify enterprise patching — pushing Azure Update Manager as the recommended path for orchestrating Windows updates across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid fleets — promises to change how IT teams plan, schedule, and recover from update events while also exposing important operational caveats administrators must understand before accelerating adoption. Background Enterprises have long wrestled with patch management complexity: fragmented tooling...

Mozilla shipped a follow-up update to last week’s major refresh, releasing Firefox 142.0.1 as a focused bug-fix build that patches several user-facing regressions and a handful of platform-specific crashes — an important, incremental step that most users should install as soon as it reaches their systems. Background / Overview Firefox’s rapid-release cadence has meant that substantive feature changes and small, targeted hotfixes often appear within days of each other. Firefox 142 — which...

Windows 95 still humming away on a German egg farm’s sorting machine is the kind of tech anecdote that feels half nostalgic and half alarm bell: the OS that helped shape modern PC culture is quietly logging counts, printing labels and—if the farmer is right—doing so more “smoothly than newer programs.” Background Windows 95 was released to retail audiences in August 1995 and is widely credited with normalizing the Start menu, taskbar and the file-explorer paradigm that still informs desktop...

Windows Subsystem for Linux has quietly become one of the most consequential developer features in Windows 11 — not because it’s flashy, but because it removes long-standing friction between two operating systems that many of us need to use every day. What used to require dual‑booting, slow virtual machines, or awkward file-sync workarounds is now a few commands and a clean integration away: WSL gives you a real Linux userland (and, with WSLg, Linux GUI apps) running alongside Windows, with...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update finally addresses one of the OS’s longest-running frustrations: Bluetooth headsets that sound great until you speak, at which point audio collapses into muffled, mono “telephone” quality. The update brings LE Audio support and the modern LC3 codec to the Windows audio pipeline, allowing compatible Bluetooth headsets to deliver stereo media and a high‑quality microphone path at the same time — a change that promises measurable improvement for gamers...

Phison says its lab work could not reproduce the Windows 11 SSD corruption reports that circulated after the August cumulative updates — but the episode exposes how fragile modern storage stacks can be when OS updates and controller firmware collide, and why backups, staged rollouts, and vendor telemetry remain the only reliable defenses against catastrophic data loss. Background / Overview Microsoft shipped the combined Servicing Stack Update (SSU) and Latest Cumulative Update for Windows...

Microsoft has quietly closed one of PC audio’s most persistent gaps: Windows 11 now supports super wideband stereo for Bluetooth LE Audio, letting compatible headsets deliver full stereo playback while the microphone is active — a change that promises clearer game chat, better voice calls, and the first practical path to true Spatial Audio over Bluetooth on Windows. Background Bluetooth audio on PCs has long been hamstrung by an old trade‑off: wired or A2DP for high‑fidelity stereo, and...

Phison’s latest public stance changes the tone of what started as a panic: after industry-wide reports that a mid‑August Windows 11 cumulative update could cause NVMe SSDs to disappear during long writes, Phison says its internal testing — described as extensive — was unable to reproduce the catastrophic failures and it recommends heatsinks for high‑performance drives as a precautionary measure. d‑August, Microsoft released a combined Servicing Stack Update (SSU) and Latest Cumulative Update...

Anthropic’s new Chrome extension quietly signals the next phase of enterprise AI: assistants that don’t just answer questions but act inside your browser — clicking, filling, and navigating like a human. The company has begun a controlled pilot of Claude for Chrome, inviting 1,000 paying subscribers on its premium “Max” tier to test an extension that gives Claude direct operating capability in Chrome. The feature promises major productivity gains for knowledge workers, but it also opens a...

Broadcom’s broadside from the VMware Explore stage in Las Vegas was blunt: enterprises should stop reflexively running to the public cloud and instead bring AI and modern apps back on-premises with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). Background Broadcom completed its acquisition of VMware in late 2023 and has since repositioned VMware Cloud Foundation as the vendor’s strategic vehicle for private-cloud modernization and, now, private AI. At VMware Explore 2025 the company launched a series of...

OpenAI’s stalled restructuring and the high-stakes renegotiation with Microsoft have become a pivotal strategic moment for AI-driven investors — one that combines enormous upside potential with governance, operational, and regulatory risk that could materially reshape returns over the next several years. The delay in converting OpenAI’s capped-profit structure into a tradable equity vehicle is no longer an abstract corporate matter: it directly threatens tranche-based funding from major...

Microsoft is rolling out a quiet but consequential change to how Word for Windows saves new documents: starting with Word for Windows Version 2509 (Build 19221.20000) in Insider channels, documents you create will be saved to the cloud (OneDrive, SharePoint, or a preferred cloud location) by default, with AutoSave toggled on and the document immediately available for collaboration, Copilot features, and cross-device sync. Background For years, Microsoft Word has supported two parallel save...

Microsoft's Windows 11 is rolling out a long‑promised fix to one of PC audio's most annoying compromises: the forced drop to muffled, mono voice quality whenever a Bluetooth headset's microphone is used. The operating system now exposes support for Bluetooth LE Audio and the LC3 codec so that, on compatible hardware and drivers, users can have full‑quality stereo audio while simultaneously using a headset mic at super‑wideband (SWB) voice quality — a practical upgrade that matters most to...

The NFL and Microsoft have dramatically expanded a partnership that has already reshaped sideline technology, upgrading the league’s Sideline Viewing System with Copilot-powered Surface devices, integrating Azure AI services into scouting and operations workflows, and rolling out new tools designed to deliver real-time, operations-enhancing insights to coaches, scouts, and game-day staff. Background The collaboration between the National Football League and Microsoft is long-running, dating...

Atturra’s announcement that it has secured the Microsoft Private Cloud Solution Partner designation marks a significant addition to its already deep Microsoft credentials and positions the ASX‑listed services firm at the forefront of sovereign, hybrid and on‑premises Microsoft delivery in Australia. The company says it is the first Microsoft partner in Australia to attain this new designation, highlighting specialist skilling in Windows Server hybrid administration and Azure database...

OpenAI’s highly anticipated corporate restructuring has been pushed off the immediate calendar as last‑ditch negotiations with Microsoft over API access, intellectual property (IP) rights and a disputed “AGI clause” remain unresolved, forcing a delay that could push the overhaul into next year and put portions of large investor commitments at risk. Background OpenAI’s restructuring is not a paperwork exercise: it is the legal and commercial re‑engineering that would let outside investors...