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The NFL’s long-running technology relationship with Microsoft has formally shifted into an “AI-first” phase: a multiyear extension announced on August 20, 2025 upgrades the league’s Sideline Viewing System with Copilot-powered Surface devices, embeds Azure AI into scouting and stadium operations, and positions generative AI as a day‑to‑day assistant for coaches, scouts and front‑office teams. Background / Overview The Microsoft–NFL relationship is not new. Surface devices have been present...

ChatGPT is not a Microsoft product — it was created and is operated by OpenAI — but the relationship between the two companies is deep, strategic, and increasingly intertwined, which explains why ChatGPT often feels like a Microsoft feature inside Windows, Edge, Bing, and Microsoft 365. tl agent built on OpenAI’s family of large language models (LLMs). It was developed by OpenAI as a research and commercial product that can generate text, translate, summarize, code, and perform many other...

Microsoft employees have publicly rebelled against the company after investigative reporting showed that Israeli military units used Microsoft Azure and commercial AI tools at scale to process intercepted communications — a relationship that employees say amounts to complicity in mass surveillance and possible targeting workflows. after a series of investigative pieces and internal leaks described a rapid escalation in the Israeli Defense Forces' use of commercial cloud and AI services...

Dell’s 14‑inch Inspiron 2‑in‑1 is being advertised in reseller channels as a surprisingly well‑spec’d convertible — a configuration that pairs the AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS with unusually large memory and storage (32 GB DDR5 and a 2 TB NVMe SSD), an FHD+ touchscreen with Dolby Vision, AI‑enhanced webcam features, and Windows 11 Pro — but digging into the official product sheets, third‑party analysis, and the seller copy exposes a mix of accurate engineering, aggressive reseller upgrades, and a few...

After nearly a decade of half-finished theming work, Windows 11’s Dark Mode finally begins to behave like a coherent system feature: preview builds now render many of the long‑standing white “flashbang” file‑operation dialogs in dark chrome, while Microsoft simultaneously adjusts the platform’s crash UI — replacing the blue screen with a pared‑back black screen design in recent servicing updates. Background Windows introduced a user‑selectable Dark theme with Windows 10 in 2016, but the...

Microsoft and ASUS have set a firm calendar for the next chapter of handheld PC gaming: the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X will arrive in stores on October 16, 2025, and launch alongside a new Handheld Compatibility Program designed to classify and optimize thousands of PC games for true handheld play. The announcement crystallizes months of leaks and Windows 11 handheld UI work into a concrete retail timeline, a coordinated hardware-software play that blends ASUS’ ROG engineering, AMD’s...

A Southern California resident has filed suit in state court asking a judge to stop Microsoft from turning off routine, free security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 — a legal gambit that reframes a routine product‑lifecycle milestone into a broad debate about forced obsolescence, cybersecurity obligations, and whether a dominant platform can lawfully accelerate customers into a new hardware‑centric, AI‑first ecosystem. Background / Overview Microsoft publicly set October 14, 2025...

Microsoft has confirmed that OneNote for Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025, and Microsoft is urging users and organizations to migrate to the newer OneNote on Windows app now to avoid losing editing and sync functionality when the legacy app becomes read-only. (techcommunity.microsoft.com, support.microsoft.com) Background OneNote has long existed in several forms on Windows: the legacy OneNote for Windows 10 (the UWP app published for Windows 10), the newer OneNote on...

Microsoft’s recent quiet fix to an M365 Copilot logging gap has opened a new debate over cloud transparency, audit integrity, and how enterprise defenders should respond when a vendor patches a service-side flaw without issuing a public advisory. Security researchers say a trivial prompt technique allowed Copilot to summarize enterprise files without producing the usual Purview audit records, effectively creating an invisible file-access channel for insiders or attackers. Microsoft patched...

Microsoft’s August patch cycle went from routine to risky in under a week: an August 12 cumulative rollup introduced a servicing regression that could cause the built‑in Reset and cloud recovery flows to fail, and community reports of SSDs becoming inaccessible under heavy write workloads added a second, harder‑to‑diagnose alarm. Microsoft publicly acknowledged the reset/recovery problem on August 18 and pushed targeted out‑of‑band (OOB) cumulative updates the very next day to restore...

Microsoft’s move to carve a dedicated, controller-first path through Windows 11 has finally surfaced in a hands-on preview: a new Handheld Gaming Mode (sometimes referred to as a gamepad‑optimized UI) is being shown in early footage running on the ASUS‑branded Xbox Ally family, and the changes are more than skin‑deep — they touch boot flow, resource management, input handling, and the core out‑of‑the‑box experience for portable gaming PCs. Early builds and OEM materials suggest the feature...

Microsoft and the NFL have turned a long-running sideline hardware deal into a full-scale, AI-first operational platform: Copilot assistants are being delivered to coaches’ Surface devices, Azure AI Foundry-powered tools are being piloted for scouting and operations, and a hybrid cloud‑plus‑edge architecture is being rolled out league‑wide to support real‑time analytics and fan experiences. Background / Overview The Microsoft–NFL relationship began as a visible sponsorship and hardware...

A small but highly visible standoff at Microsoft’s Redmond campus this week crystallized a wider crisis for the company: employees confronting management over allegations that Microsoft’s cloud and AI technologies have been used by the Israeli military to store and process mass surveillance data on Palestinians — and that those systems may have fed targeting processes used in the Gaza war. The protests, staged by employee-led groups that call themselves No Azure for Apartheid (and related...

Microsoft’s public roadmap for a quantum-safe future marks a decisive shift: the company is moving from research experiments to a staged, product-level rollout of post-quantum cryptography (PQC) across its cryptographic libraries, identity systems, and hardware roots of trust — and it’s asking organizations to begin the migration work now rather than at the last minute. Background Quantum computers pose a credible long-term threat to today’s public-key cryptography: when sufficiently...

Microsoft pushed emergency out‑of‑band updates on August 19, 2025 to repair a serious regression introduced by the August Patch Tuesday rollups that broke Windows’ built‑in recovery tools — restoring Reset this PC, the cloud reimage flow, and certain MDM RemoteWipe operations for affected Windows 10 and Windows 11 builds. Background The regular August 12, 2025 Patch Tuesday cumulative updates shipped security and quality fixes across multiple Windows client servicing families. Within days...

Windows ships with several convenience features turned on by default that quietly share behavioral and system data; disabling a few of them will materially improve your privacy without breaking day-to-day use. The core four I always disable on Windows 11 are Diagnostics & Feedback (telemetry), the Advertising ID, App permissions for devices and sensors, and Location services — steps that mirror practical advice from consumer how‑to guides and privacy roundups. Background Windows 11 balances...

Microsoft’s Copilot for Windows just took a meaningful step toward making file discovery and everyday assistance feel conversational: a staged Insider rollout now brings semantic file search to Copilot+ PCs and a redesigned Copilot home that surfaces recent apps, files and Vision-driven guided help — all packaged in the Copilot app update (version 1.25082.132.0 and higher) distributed through the Microsoft Store to Windows Insiders. mantic search represents a shift from literal, filename- or...

Making Google Chrome the default browser across your devices is one of the simplest changes that delivers the biggest practical payoff: links open the way you expect, bookmarks and passwords follow you, and your browsing sessions stay consistent across platforms. This guide walks through how to make Chrome your default browser on Windows 11, Windows 10, macOS, Android, and iPhone/iPad — with verified step‑by‑step instructions, background on platform quirks, troubleshooting tips, and notes...

Copilot Vision is the clearest sign yet that Microsoft wants your PC to be an active, visual partner — not just a passive tool — and that ambition already makes a meaningful difference in real-world workflows while raising important questions about reliability, privacy, and when to trust a virtual co-pilot. Overview: what Copilot Vision actually is — and why it matters Copilot Vision is the vision-enabled mode inside the Copilot app for Windows that can see the contents of your screen (a...

Microsoft’s long‑running dark‑mode problem is beginning to look less like an unfinished promise and more like a deliberate, staged repair: recent Windows Insider and Release Preview builds contain code that darkens a cluster of previously glaring white file‑operation dialogs, and community screenshots show the change in action — albeit incomplete, gated, and still rough around the edges. Background When Microsoft first shipped a user‑selectable Dark Mode with Windows 10 in 2016 it solved one...