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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...

If you need to burn a playable DVD from a handful of home videos or make archival data discs for long-term storage, the software you choose matters more than most people think — compatibility with players, menu authoring, output quality, and reliability during the burn process are the difference between a disc that works on every living‑room player and a stack of unreadable coasters. This hands‑on feature compares three real-world options for Windows users — one paid, two free — and verifies...

Microsoft’s cloud hardware playbook took a visible step off the x86 roadmap in 2017 when the company publicly embraced ARM-based server designs — demonstrating Qualcomm’s Centriq 2400 on Project Olympus motherboards at the Open Compute Project summit and confirming Azure had ported key server components to run on ARM for internal testing and future deployment scenarios. Background Microsoft’s Project Olympus is an open, modular server reference designed to give hyperscale cloud operators...

Dead by Daylight refusing to start on a Windows PC is one of the most common, frustrating problems players face — and the quick fixes circulating on forums and help sites actually contain a reliable toolbox if you follow them carefully. The practical steps most frequently recommended are: force the game to use DirectX 11 via a Steam launch option, remove a corrupted PersistentDownloadDir folder, reset the Saved/Config data (with backups first), disable an integrated GPU on dual‑GPU systems...

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Microsoft’s president doubled down on a promise to investigate the company’s ties to Israel because a cascade of investigative reporting, a forceful United Nations inquiry, escalating employee activism, investor pressure and fresh allegations about large-scale use of Microsoft Azure by Israeli military intelligence created a reputational and legal crisis that demanded a renewed, externally supervised response. ton The immediate catalyst for the renewed pledge was a set of investigative...

Microsoft’s August cumulative packages for Windows 11 24H2 have been linked by independent testers, hardware vendors and multiple specialist outlets to a reproducible storage regression: certain SSDs (and a smaller set of HDDs) can stop responding or “vanish” from Windows during sustained, large sequential writes, with a real risk of truncated or corrupted data. Microsoft published the combined cumulative package as KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946) on August 12, 2025 and says it is...

BeyondTrust’s release of the 2023 Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report — framed as the 10th‑anniversary edition — is both a retrospective and a warning: the last decade of Microsoft vulnerability disclosures has delivered recurring patterns that disproportionately affect Windows Server environments, identity services, virtualization stacks, and the document/graphics processing code paths that modern enterprises depend on. The report’s stated purpose — to distill a decade of Microsoft security...

Microsoft’s August security rollups have surfaced an unexpected compatibility regression that is blocking common per‑user MSI actions with a UAC elevation gate — and university computer labs are feeling the impact hardest, where standard student accounts now hit Error 1730 when the operating system refuses to allow a secondary MSI to run without administrator consent. Background Secondary MSI installers and per‑user repairs have been a quiet but essential part of Windows application...

Microsoft’s streamlining of its gaming operations has moved from boardroom memo to daily reality at King, the studio behind Candy Crush — roughly 200 roles are reported to have been cut, and multiple independent accounts suggest remaining staff are being pushed to rely on generative AI tools as a matter of policy, with some teams allegedly replaced by the very systems they helped build. (business-standard.com, mobilegamer.biz) Background / Overview King’s Candy Crush is among the...

Employees across industries are telling researchers and reporters the same thing: learning to use artificial intelligence at work feels like another full-time job — and many are quietly overwhelmed — but an often‑overlooked resource can help shrink that curve: your professional network. Background The rush to adopt AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot and other generative systems has transformed everyday workflows, while simultaneously raising new expectations for employee digital fluency...

Not long ago, running a Windows PC without a paid third‑party antivirus felt like leaving your front door open — today, that advice is overdue for a rethink because Windows’ built‑in protections are both better and far more capable than most people realize. Background Windows has a long, sometimes messy, history with malware and with the tools used to fight it. In the early 2000s the platform’s openness and the lack of a strong native anti‑malware engine made third‑party suites essential...

Windows ships with a competent baseline of tools, but for users who prefer transparency, control, and long-term maintainability, the open-source alternatives on this How‑To Geek roster are worth considering — this article examines the nine apps the original author installs on every fresh Windows PC, verifies their core claims, explains the rationale for each pick, highlights important caveats, and offers practical guidance for safe, repeatable installs. Background / Overview The original...