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The NFL’s decision to fold generative AI and Microsoft’s Copilot into its sideline toolkit marks a decisive shift: intelligent assistance is moving from back-office analytics into the heat of game-day decision-making, scouting, and stadium operations in a multiyear expansion of the league’s long-standing Microsoft relationship. This move upgrades the league’s Sideline Viewing System with Surface Copilot+ devices, introduces Azure OpenAI–powered assistants into the Combine and scouting...

Microsoft’s decade‑long Surface presence on NFL sidelines has quietly evolved into an AI‑first operational program: the league’s Sideline Viewing System (SVS) has been upgraded with more than 2,500 Surface Copilot+ PCs and integrated Copilot and Azure AI tooling to give coaches, scouts and club staff conversational, real‑time access to play clips, personnel metrics and Combine analytics. Background / Overview The NFL and Microsoft have worked together for more than a decade, originally...

The NFL’s multiyear extension with Microsoft moves the long-running Surface relationship into an explicit “AI-first” operational phase, deploying Microsoft Copilot and Azure AI across sidelines, scouting, stadium operations, and front‑office workflows to deliver real‑time game insights and productivity gains at scale. view The partnership between the National Football League and Microsoft is not new; it began more than a decade ago with the adoption of Microsoft Surface tablets as the...

CachyOS’s sudden climb to the top of DistroWatch’s popularity chart has turned heads across the Linux community, and for good reason: an Arch‑based, performance‑tuned distribution that combines aggressive kernel and package optimizations with a user‑friendly installer and multiple desktop flavors is not something you see every day. The spike in attention — reflected on DistroWatch, community forums, and the Steam hardware survey — tells a consistent story: CachyOS has carved out a visible...

The NFL has quietly but decisively moved its long-running technology partnership with Microsoft into an AI-first operational phase, extending a multiyear deal that layers Microsoft Copilot, Azure AI, and new Surface Copilot+ devices into sideline workflows, scouting, stadium operations, and fan-facing marketing—an upgrade confirmed by league and vendor statements and widely reported by independent outlets. Background / Overview The NFL and Microsoft have a relationship that began more than a...

Microsoft’s operating system roadmap is at a rare inflection point: with Windows 10 scheduled to reach end of support on October 14, 2025, the company is steering millions of devices toward a new era defined less by big version numbers and more by deep, AI-first integration — and that shift is fueling both realistic planning and fan-made speculation about what a future Windows 12 could look like. Microsoft’s official guidance on end-of-life, its public AI strategy, and a steady stream of...

The August cumulative for Windows 11 24H2 (KB5063878) has been linked by multiple independent testers and specialist outlets to a reproducible storage regression that, under sustained large write workloads, can make some NVMe SSDs — and a small number of HDDs in isolated reports — disappear from Windows and, in a minority of cases, suffer data corruption or permanent loss. Background / Overview The package in question is the August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 version 24H2 (OS...

Microsoft is quietly expanding Copilot's remit inside Windows 11, now testing an AI-driven, semantic file and image search directly inside the Copilot app for Windows Insiders — a change that replaces keyword- and filename-only lookups with natural-language queries and a redesigned Copilot home that surfaces recent apps, files and Vision-powered guided help. Overview Microsoft’s latest Copilot update for Windows 11 — rolling out to Windows Insiders via the Microsoft Store — brings two...

Microsoft’s latest Canary‑channel flight makes one thing painfully clear: the long, awkward coexistence between the old Control Panel and the modern Settings app is finally being resolved in Microsoft’s favor — and the pace has picked up. Build 27928, released to Insiders on August 20, 2025, simultaneously ships a bundle of small but meaningful time, date, language and regional controls inside Settings and temporarily rolls back a visual battery experiment — a clear signal that Microsoft is...

Microsoft’s Copilot is delivering real productivity gains across Word, Teams, Outlook and other Microsoft 365 surfaces — but a recent disclosure shows those gains can come at the cost of auditability: under certain prompting patterns Copilot has produced user-visible summaries and actions without creating the expected Purview audit entries, potentially leaving compliance and forensics teams blind to sensitive data access. Background Microsoft 365 Copilot is deeply integrated across the...

The NFL’s long-running technology relationship with Microsoft has formally entered an AI-first phase, as a multiyear extension folds Microsoft Copilot, Azure AI services, and an expanded Surface device footprint into sideline operations, scouting workflows, broadcast tooling, and front-office systems — a move that promises faster access to game data while raising material questions about reliability, governance, and competitive fairness. artnership between Microsoft and the NFL is not a new...

Agents are only as capable as the tools you give them—and only as trustworthy as the governance behind those tools, and Microsoft’s new Agent Factory guidance in Azure AI Foundry makes that dual imperative the organizing principle for enterprise-grade agentic AI. Background / Overview The Agent Factory series from Microsoft reframes the challenge enterprises face when moving from proof-of-concept agents to production-grade automation: extensibility and governance must travel together. The...

Microsoft’s latest Canary-channel flight sharpens two long-running efforts at once: clearer battery status at a glance, and the slow, methodical migration of legacy Control Panel functionality into the modern Settings app — both arriving in preview builds that continue to reshape how users interact with Windows 11. The headline feature in this round is a redesigned, color-aware battery icon plus an optional taskbar battery percentage toggle; the Settings app continues to absorb small but...

New Windows 11 24H2 cumulative updates released in August have been linked to a worrying, reproducible storage regression that can make some SSDs and a few HDDs vanish from the operating system during heavy, sustained writes — in a number of community tests the failure has led to corrupted or inaccessible data and, in at least one test run, an unrecoverable drive. Background / Overview The incident centers on the August 2025 Windows 11 cumulative/security packages commonly tracked as...

A security researcher’s routine Copilot query revealed a startling blind spot in Microsoft’s logging: under certain prompts, Copilot could return file summaries without leaving the expected Purview audit entry — and, according to the researcher, Microsoft quietly rolled out a fix without issuing a CVE or proactively notifying customers. Background Microsoft Copilot is now embedded across the Microsoft 365 stack — from Outlook and Word to Teams, SharePoint and the suite of Copilot-hosted...

Microsoft pushed an emergency, out‑of‑band cumulative update on August 19, 2025 to repair a high‑impact regression that broke Windows’ built‑in reset and recovery flows — a failure that left some users and IT operations teams unable to run “Reset this PC,” the cloud‑reinstall Fix problems using Windows Update, or complete MDM‑initiated RemoteWipe jobs until fixes were installed. Background / Overview The incident began after the August 12, 2025 Patch Tuesday cumulative updates were broadly...

Microsoft has started rolling out a meaningful update to the Copilot app for Windows Insiders that brings semantic file search (on Copilot+ PCs) and a redesigned Copilot homepage with quicker access to recent apps, files, and Vision-driven guidance — a staged release that promises faster, more natural file discovery while keeping most heavy AI work on-device. Background Microsoft has been steadily folding more AI capabilities into Windows 11 under the Copilot and Copilot+ initiatives for...

Microsoft has shipped Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27928 to the Canary Channel, a fast-moving test drop that continues Microsoft’s phased rollout of Copilot-driven experiences, UI refinements, and a suite of stability fixes — but it also brings the usual Canary trade-offs: experimental features, privacy trade-offs for Copilot capabilities, and a handful of platform-level caveats Insiders and IT pros should treat carefully. Background / Overview Windows Insider Canary Channel builds are...

Windows Insiders received a fresh Canary-channel drop today as Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27928, a focused maintenance and settings consolidation update that both cleans up a handful of pressing stability issues and continues the steady migration of legacy Control Panel capabilities into the modern Settings app. Background What the Canary Channel is — and why it matters The Canary Channel remains the experimental front line of Windows development where the newest...

Microsoft has begun rolling out a targeted update to the Copilot app on Windows that brings semantic file search to Copilot+ PCs and introduces a redesigned Copilot homepage for Windows Insiders, marking a clear step toward tighter on‑device AI integration in Windows. rr channel updates over the summer have steadily introduced Copilot‑related features tied to the company’s Copilot+ PC initiative. These features are being enabled gradually and are frequently gated by device capabilities...