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NVIDIA’s push to put Blackwell-class acceleration into standard racks reached a new inflection point this week with the launch of the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition and a family of factory-validated 2U RTX Pro servers from major OEMs — a move designed to make on‑premises AI and GPU-accelerated workflows viable for smaller enterprises and traditional IT environments. The announcement, unveiled at SIGGRAPH on August 11, 2025, couples a lower-density, air-cooled Blackwell GPU with...

The five technology companies that now steer global digital transformation—Amazon, Google (Alphabet), Microsoft, Apple, and IBM—are not merely the biggest names on the cap table; they are the engines that power cloud infrastructure, enterprise AI, consumer-device ecosystems, and the earliest practical work in quantum computing. This feature examines how each company is shaping the future, what technical breakthroughs and business strategies underpin their leadership, and where the most...

Microsoft Azure’s evolution from a commercial cloud storage service to a platform implicated in large-scale intelligence operations has exposed one of the most consequential fault lines of our digital era: when enterprise-grade infrastructure meets state surveillance, the consequences can be strategic, ethical, and legal—and ripple far beyond data centers. Recent reporting and official reactions have placed Azure at the center of allegations that Israel’s Unit 8200 used Microsoft-managed...

Windows 11’s dark theme has been a work in progress for years; this week’s Insider activity shows Microsoft quietly closing one of the more glaring gaps by pushing dark-mode treatment to additional file operation dialogs — but the rollout is partial, fragile, and currently only reachable to enthusiasts via experimental flags. (blogs.windows.com, windowslatest.com) Background Dark mode has been a marquee personalization option across desktop and mobile platforms for nearly a decade, and...

VirtualBox’s long march into the ARM era has reached a major milestone: version 7.2 delivers true ARM-on-ARM virtualization, a redesigned UI, macOS Metal-backed 3D experiments, and a broad set of stability and compatibility fixes that make this release the most consequential VirtualBox update of the last two years. (forums.virtualbox.org, techspot.com) Background VirtualBox has been a ubiquitous free and open-source virtualization platform for desktop users, developers, and testers for...

A lone California plaintiff has asked a San Diego court to stop Microsoft from cutting off free security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 — a lawsuit that reframes a routine product‑lifecycle decision as a high‑stakes legal, security and policy dispute with potential ripple effects for millions of users and the nascent market for AI‑optimized PCs. osoft’s public lifecycle calendar sets October 14, 2025 as the end‑of‑support (EOL) date for consumer editions of Windows 10 (Home and...

Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday is one of the heavier maintenance cycles of the year: the company released patches addressing well over a hundred vulnerabilities across Windows, Office, Exchange, SQL Server and Azure services, and security teams must triage a short list of immediate priorities — notably a publicly disclosed Kerberos elevation‑of‑privilege bug, a high‑severity Exchange hybrid issue that prompted a CISA emergency directive, and a cluster of Office and graphics RCEs that can...

Microsoft’s latest effort to simplify testing in Azure folds load generation and end-to-end browser testing into a single portal experience: Azure App Testing consolidates Azure Load Testing and Microsoft Playwright Testing into a unified hub in the Azure Portal, promising centralized provisioning, consolidated billing, and AI-assisted test creation and insights. The service aims to remove infrastructure overhead for engineering and QA teams by handling scaling, regional traffic simulation...

“Please update your AMD Radeon driver” is almost always a symptom, not a root cause — a game or app has detected either an outdated or mismatched driver string and refuses to run. The message commonly appears after Windows Update silently replaces a manufacturer-tuned Adrenalin package with a generic driver, when a laptop launches the game on the iGPU instead of the discrete Radeon, or when a game's version-check routine performs a brittle string match rather than a capability check. The...

On a Windows box I reach for a Linux shell first — not because Windows tooling is broken, but because the Unix-style command line gives me the fastest, most portable path from idea to execution. That preference, which many readers will recognize from long years of using bash, zsh, or other shells, is what drives me to install and configure Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on every new Windows machine I own instead of defaulting to PowerShell. The practical reasons are familiarity, tooling...

Windows 11’s latest 25H2 preview builds polish many of the small, everyday interactions that shape how people work on Windows — from tidier context menus and smoother taskbar animations to Start menu reorganizations and File Explorer refinements — all delivered as part of an incremental, enablement-style update that aims to be low-friction for users and IT admins alike. oce since 22H2 has alternated heavier platform updates with lighter, iterative releases. The 25H2 update follows that...

Lenovo’s decision to ship the Legion Go S with SteamOS turns a capable handheld into a fundamentally different user experience — one that trims Windows bloat, favors console-style simplicity, and magnifies what matters most on a small, high-refresh gaming device. Overview Lenovo has released a SteamOS-equipped Legion Go S that pairs an 8-inch, 120Hz touchscreen with AMD’s Ryzen Z2 Go APU, 16GB of RAM in the SteamOS SKU, and a 55Wh-class battery in a lightweight (roughly 1.6 lb / ~730 g)...

The current surge in PC-style gaming handhelds looks strikingly familiar: a democratic, low-cost champion (Valve’s Steam Deck) sparks a boom, long-established OEMs pile in with premium alternatives, and suddenly the market is crowded with devices trying to one-up each other on raw performance and features — a pattern that closely mirrors the netbook craze of the late 2000s and prompts an urgent question: are gaming handhelds destined to become the netbooks of the 2020s, a category that...

Microsoft has opened the door for U.S. government customers to manage on‑premises and third‑party SQL Server instances from the Azure Government portal by making Azure Arc‑enabled SQL Server on Windows available in the US Government Virginia region — but the release is deliberately limited in scope, with several mission‑critical capabilities and licensing options still missing. Background Azure Arc is Microsoft’s hybrid management layer that brings Azure management, governance, and some data...

Today’s Beta-channel drop from the Windows Insider Program lands as a small but significant checkpoint in the Windows 11, version 24H2 servicing stream: Microsoft published Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.5751 (packaged as KB5064071) to Beta Channel Insiders on Windows 11, version 24H2 — a routine cumulative flight intended to continue polishing the 24H2 code line while moving selected AI and quality features closer to mainstream release. Background / Overview Microsoft’s preview...

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5751 (Dev Channel) — what IT should know By WindowsForum Staff — August 15, 2025 Summary Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5751 (KB5064071) to the Dev Channel on August 15, 2025. The flight continues Microsoft’s incremental rollout of Copilot-driven features: Click to Do gains three new selection modes (Freeform, Rectangle, and Ctrl+Click), Snipping Tool picks up a “window mode” screen-record option (Snipping Tool...

Headline: Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5751 (KB5064071) — what’s new, what’s fixed, and what Insiders and IT should do next Byline: Analysis for WindowsForum.com — published Aug 15, 2025 Lead Today Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5751 (KB5064071) to the Dev Channel. The flight continues the 25H2-era Dev Channel pattern: small, targeted UX polish and reliability fixes mixed with incremental Copilot/Copilot+ feature rollouts that are being staged using...

Today’s Beta‑Channel flight brings Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.5751 (KB5064071), a focused incremental update that continues Microsoft’s push to make AI features like Recall and Click to Do more useful and more reliable while tightening up a raft of UI and reliability fixes for Windows 11, version 24H2. The release is small in build delta but significant in scope: it adds new selection modes in Click to Do, continues the phased rollout of Copilot‑centric experiences for Copilot+...

Microsoft has shipped Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.5751 (KB5064071) to the Beta Channel, a modest but meaningful update for Insiders on Windows 11, version 24H2 that refines Click to Do selection, softens some visual chrome in File Explorer, and continues Microsoft’s phased “controlled feature rollout” approach for AI-enabled experiences. The release, published on August 15, 2025, bundles a set of gradual-rollout improvements and fixes for both Click to Do and core shell areas...

Today’s Dev Channel drop for Windows Insiders brings a modest-but-meaningful update: Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5751 (KB5064071) adds targeted improvements to Copilot-era tooling, a handful of UI polish items, and several reliability fixes — while carrying a few known installation and compatibility issues that Insiders and IT teams should note before updating. Background Microsoft continues to iterate on the active Dev Channel stream for Windows 11, version 25H2, using frequent...