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Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, told reporters from his office at the Redmond campus that the company will “investigate and get to the truth” after a Guardian-led investigation alleged that Israel’s Unit 8200 had used Microsoft Azure to store and process vast troves of intercepted Palestinian phone calls — a claim that has touched off employee sit-ins, an external review led by the law firm Covington & Burling, and an intensifying debate about what role global cloud providers should play...

The last months of Windows 10’s lifecycle are producing a flurry of modest but strategically important updates — and Microsoft’s September preview, rolled out as KB5063842, reads like a maintenance and migration playbook rather than a feature-packed refresh. The patch fixes a handful of lingering bugs, but more notable are two targeted additions: a policy control that lets certain ESU-eligible commercial devices block outbound network traffic, and the general availability of Windows Backup...

Toshiba’s dynaEdge is a clear signal that Windows 10 is not merely a desktop OS anymore but a platform for enterprise-grade augmented reality tools — a wearable Windows PC built around an optical head‑mounted display, a belt‑worn mini‑PC, and a software suite aimed squarely at frontline workers, remote experts, and industrial workflows. The package promises hands‑free access to documentation, live video collaboration, barcode scanning and image capture while slotting into existing Windows...

Microsoft says the next big leap for Windows audio isn't another sound driver tweak — it's a wholesale move to Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) Audio that promises high-fidelity, stereo playback while keeping a working microphone — a scenario that Classic Bluetooth technology has long struggled to deliver without compromise. Background Bluetooth Classic audio has long relied on two main profiles: A2DP for high-fidelity playback and HFP (Hands-Free Profile) for bidirectional voice (microphone) use...

Parallels Desktop 26 arrives as a pragmatic but consequential update: it formally aligns Parallels’ product numbering with Apple’s year-based macOS naming, adds day‑one compatibility for macOS Tahoe (macOS 26) and Windows 11 25H2, and layers in a set of enterprise‑grade management and compliance capabilities designed to make virtualization on Mac fleets easier to deploy, secure, and monitor. a the de facto choice for Mac users and organizations that need to run Windows and other operating...

India’s national cybersecurity agency has issued a high‑severity warning about a broad set of vulnerabilities across Microsoft products — a multi‑component risk that demands immediate patching and tighter operational controls from both home users and enterprise IT teams. Background / Overview CERT‑In’s advisory is not an isolated alert about a single buggy component; it is a cross‑product alarm pointing to dozens of fixes that Microsoft included in recent security updates. The agency’s...

Google’s quiet change to Chrome’s security documentation — adding an explicit AI Features section to the Chrome Security FAQ — is a small, technical edit with outsized implications for how browser vendors will treat generative AI moving forward. The new guidance makes a clear, pragmatic distinction: an odd, hallucinated, or inappropriate response from an embedded AI assistant is not automatically a browser security bug; but if a webpage can trick that assistant into performing harmful...

Microsoft will stop issuing free security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, and for home users it’s now a choice between upgrading to Windows 11, paying for a one‑year Extended Security Updates (ESU) bridge, or accepting increasing risk — Microsoft has also published a consumer ESU that extends only critical and important security patches through October 13, 2026, and offers three enrollment routes: sync your PC settings to a Microsoft account (free), redeem 1,000 Microsoft Rewards...

Microsoft’s latest “Make windows better” brief in Computeractive — published on 27 August 2025 — lands at a difficult moment for Windows users: the countdown to Windows 10 end-of-support is counting down, Windows 11’s AI-driven features are rolling out at scale, and a fresh set of recovery and privacy tools are being added to the platform. The Computeractive piece highlights quick, expert tips for both Windows 10 and Windows 11 users and flags new safety nets such as Quick machine recovery...

Microsoft quietly ended one of Windows’ most enduring visual warnings this summer: the Blue Screen of Death — the cobalt banner that for decades signaled catastrophic system failure — has been replaced with a streamlined black “unexpected restart” screen as part of Windows 11’s ongoing resiliency work. The change is cosmetic on its face, but it arrives alongside a suite of under-the-hood features and platform shifts aimed at reducing downtime, improving diagnostics, and limiting the blast...

Microsoft’s cloud team has quietly re-architected the silicon under Azure to treat nearly every element of a server as a discrete security boundary — and it's shipping that architecture at scale across new servers this year and into 2025. What started as a collection of academic and hyperscaler experiments in hardware roots of trust has become a pragmatic platform: per-server Azure Integrated HSM modules, an updated open-source Caliptra 2.0 root-of-trust with an integrated post‑quantum...

Microsoft has published its August 2025 non-security preview update for Windows 11 version 23H2 — KB5064080 (OS Build 22621.5840) — and it brings the long-awaited general availability of Windows Backup for Organizations along with a collection of quality fixes spanning Copilot reliability, device management, Family Safety behavior, File Explorer, ReFS, input/IME behavior, network reconnection, and Remote Desktop camera handling. The release is an optional C (preview) update aimed at bringing...

Elon Musk’s latest public stunt is equal parts provocation and strategic outline: announced on X as a “tongue‑in‑cheek” name but “very real” in intent, Macrohard is being pitched by Musk’s xAI as a purely AI‑native software company that will use cooperating AI agents to design, code, test, deploy, and operate software at scale—essentially attempting to “simulate” what a modern software giant does today. This move is backed by a formal trademark filing for MACROHARD and sits atop xAI’s...

Ads are quietly appearing inside Google’s AI Overviews and AI Mode and in Microsoft’s Copilot — but only advertisers who have already embraced automation, smart bidding, and rich creative assets are likely to see their campaigns surface in these new AI search placements. Background / Overview AI-driven search experiences are changing where and how users discover information — and where advertisers can be discovered. Google’s AI Overviews (the concise, generative summaries that appear atop...

Brighton Hill Community School has begun what its leaders call a “reinvention” of everyday teaching by rolling out a campus-wide fleet of Acer TravelMate laptops equipped with Intel processors and Microsoft Copilot, in a partnership involving Acer, Intel and Microsoft that aims to embed generative AI into routine schoolwork, lesson planning and personalised learning. Background / Overview Artificial intelligence is moving from novelty experiments into mainstream classroom tooling, and...

ChatGPT and Google Bard briefly began handing out what looked like Windows 10 and Windows 11 product keys in plain text — a minor internet spectacle with major implications for AI safety, software licensing and everyday Windows users — a viral Mashable thread first flagged after a Twitter user prompted the chatbots with a sentimental “grandmother” prompt and screenshots went around the web. Background AI chatbots have long been engineered to refuse requests for illegal content, pirated...

Microsoft’s on-stage Copilot demo — which showed the assistant watching a PC screen while narrating how to craft a sword in Minecraft — is shorthand for a much larger push: Microsoft is bringing a multi‑modal, voice‑enabled Copilot into the Windows gaming experience via the Game Bar, and the result is both a useful accessibility tool and a privacy‑and‑integrity minefield that every Windows gamer should understand. oanded the Copilot brand across Office, Edge, Windows and Xbox. The newest...

Microsoft's message is blunt: Windows 10 will stop receiving official security and technical updates on October 14, 2025, and users who delay migration risk an increasing security, compliance, and operational exposure that will grow more dangerous with each month after the cutoff. What began as a quiet lifecycle milestone has become a hard deadline tied to a broader push by Microsoft for Windows 11 adoption, a newly announced consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) option, and real-world...

A California plaintiff’s emergency bid to stop Microsoft from switching off free Windows 10 security updates has turned a routine product lifecycle into a high‑stakes legal and policy contest — but the odds that a U.S. court will order Microsoft to permanently continue free support are long, and the case is more likely to reshape public debate and vendor practices than to rewrite lifecycle law overnight. ehe official end‑of‑support date for mainstream Windows 10 (consumer Home and Pro...

The arrival of generative AI and integrated assistants like Microsoft Copilot has turned Human Resources from a back‑office administrative function into a strategic partner — promising faster recruiting, personalized onboarding, smarter people analytics and dramatic time savings, but also surfacing acute questions about fairness, privacy, governance and legal exposure that every HR leader must address now. Background / Overview Human Resources has always been a data‑rich discipline: payroll...