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Microsoft’s Copilot 3D quietly ushers a practical form of 3D creation into the browser era, turning single PNG or JPG photos into downloadable GLB models in seconds and placing accessible 3D asset generation squarely inside the Copilot Labs experiment. Background Microsoft has long experimented with consumer-facing 3D tools—most notably Paint 3D and the now-defunct Remix3D—but neither reached mainstream adoption. The new Copilot 3D initiative reframes that effort around generative AI...

Installing antivirus on a new Windows laptop before you do anything else online is one of the simplest, highest-impact steps you can take to protect your files, accounts, and privacy from day one. Modern threats—from commodity malware and sneaky spyware to targeted ransomware and phishing—are everywhere, and while Windows ships with solid built-in defenses, third‑party suites still offer clear advantages in detection, privacy tools, and extras like VPNs and identity monitoring. This piece...

OpenAI’s new open-weight model suite landed squarely in the spotlight — and when I ran the smaller gpt-oss:20b through a real-world school test designed for 10‑ and 11‑year‑olds, the model proved interestingly capable on paper, but ultimately fell short of beating an actual 10‑year‑old at their own exam. Background / Overview OpenAI recently released two open-weight reasoning models — gpt-oss‑120b and gpt-oss‑20b — with a clear aim: make capable reasoning models available for local and...

Microsoft has confirmed that Microsoft Edge and the Microsoft WebView2 Runtime will continue to receive updates on Windows 10 (22H2) through at least October 2028, ensuring that Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), WebView-dependent applications, and Edge-powered experiences like Copilot-related fallbacks remain supported well beyond Windows 10’s operating system end-of-support date. Overview The announcement tightens an important distinction for businesses and consumers planning Windows migrations...

Microsoft’s Copilot on Windows has quietly picked up a major capability: an integrated GPT‑5 “Smart” mode that appears to give many users free access to the model’s deeper reasoning (“Thinking”) pathways — and early tests suggest the Copilot implementation is less stingy with those powerful reasoning calls than OpenAI’s ChatGPT free tier. This is a significant development for Windows users because it brings OpenAI’s latest model into the OS-level assistant with native UI, and it raises...

Amazon’s cash cow is showing fresh cracks: a once unassailable profit engine is stuttering at the quarter when markets are betting everything on artificial intelligence, and that shift has implications for enterprises, investors, and anyone who depends on cloud infrastructure. Background By the end of Q2 2025, the narrative that had sustained Amazon’s valuation for years—AWS as the high-margin engine subsidizing retail and logistics—encountered a much louder market test. AWS’s revenue growth...

Microsoft’s recent performance bragging rights for Windows 11 have reignited an old debate: are holdouts running Windows 10 missing out on a meaningful speed boost, or is this marketing dressed up as engineering? A raft of new benchmarks and a fresh round of commentary — including a summary posted by Neowin — make two things clear: Windows 11 can be measurably faster in specific, well-defined scenarios, but the headline numbers pushed by Microsoft and some commissioned studies are often the...

The week of August 11–17 delivers a crowded roster of new Xbox releases, headlined by EA Sports’ long-awaited Madden NFL 26 and punctuated by a surprise QuakeCon shadowdrop: the remastered Heretic + Hexen pack, now available on Xbox Game Pass. For players still holding onto Xbox One hardware, this week underscores an accelerating industry shift toward current‑gen-only releases—Madden 26 drops Xbox One support for the first time in over a decade—while Game Pass continues to reshape...

The routine posting of “meeting notices” is where civic procedure meets real people — and where a quiet failure in process can become a headline. Overview and context Source item: a GazetteXtra article titled “Meeting notices” (by DAILY TIMES STAFF) was published August 10, 2025 and runs as part of the site’s APG State News feed. The piece compiles local government meeting announcements aimed at citizens and interested parties; many state and territorial filters (U.S. states, territories...

The debate over Windows vs. Linux for your homelab is tired but relevant: for most home lab builders, Linux is the pragmatic default, while Windows remains valuable for specific, compatibility-driven roles. This article synthesizes the common arguments, verifies the major technical claims, weighs trade-offs for common homelab workloads, and offers a pragmatic decision framework so you can pick the right OS for each role in your environment. Background / Overview Linux runs a majority of the...

Microsoft's approaching end-of-support for Windows 10 has sharpened a question many users have been postponing for years: beyond security and features, does moving to Windows 11 deliver a measurable, real-world performance win — or could the upgrade cost you frames, responsiveness, or workflow throughput? A fresh set of independent benchmarks and ecosystem reports from 2025 makes the answer less blanket and more urgent: in many modern scenarios Windows 11 (particularly 24H2) now takes the...

A Southern California resident has filed suit against Microsoft seeking to force the company to continue free security updates for Windows 10 — a legal challenge that crystallizes the technical, economic and environmental frictions surrounding the October 14, 2025 end-of-support milestone. Background Microsoft has scheduled routine support for Windows 10 to end on October 14, 2025. After that date, Microsoft will no longer provide routine security updates, feature updates, or technical...

Windows 11 already includes a small arsenal of productivity tools that, when used together, can shave hours off your weekly workload — and you don’t need to install a single third‑party utility to get started. The Pocket‑lint piece that inspired this roundup highlights five built‑in tools the author relies on: Task Scheduler, Clipchamp, Focus Sessions, Microsoft To Do, and Virtual Desktop. These apps cover automation, documentation, concentration, task management, and workspace organization...

Microsoft has quietly turned the screws on what “free” AI can do on your PC: Copilot for Windows now exposes OpenAI’s GPT‑5 through a new Smart mode — and early tests suggest Microsoft’s free Copilot experience gives users more liberal access to GPT‑5’s “Thinking” (reasoning) path than ChatGPT’s free tier. (news.microsoft.com, windowslatest.com) Background Microsoft and OpenAI launched GPT‑5 in early August 2025, and Microsoft moved quickly to fold the new models into its Copilot ecosystem...

The short answer is: for most home labs, Linux is the better base, but the full story is more nuanced — Windows still earns a place when you need specific application compatibility, native GPU use for desktop tasks, or a familiar GUI for mixed-use machines. The advice in the popular How‑To Geek guide — that Linux dominates server workloads, is leaner, and is usually the right first choice for a homelab — is a good starting point, but it glosses over important technical and licensing details...

A single consumer’s courtroom challenge has transformed Microsoft’s planned Windows 10 sunset from a scheduled lifecycle event into a high-stakes debate about security, forced obsolescence, and how dominant platform vendors manage transitions to AI‑centric ecosystems. The complaint—filed in California and widely reported this week—asks a court to compel Microsoft to keep issuing free security updates for Windows 10 until the OS’s installed base shrinks to a plaintiff‑defined floor, arguing...

Dell’s push into AI-ready PCs — and Haidi Nossair’s argument that this shift is fast becoming a competitive necessity rather than an optional refresh — captures a broader industry inflection where the endpoint is again being recast as strategic infrastructure for the enterprise. The conversation in the UAE and wider Middle East markets, as described by Nossair, is not simply about faster processors or prettier displays; it is about redefining productivity, security, lifecycle planning, and...

Microsoft’s 2025 product sunsetting is not a single headline—it’s a sustained, cross‑product sweep that touches operating systems, developer tools, Office suites, Azure services, and enterprise server products, and it will force choices that range from simple in‑place upgrades to large-scale migration programs for businesses and public sector institutions. The calendar of retirements centers on October 14, 2025—the date Microsoft will end mainstream support for Windows 10—but that date is...

When Microsoft set October 14, 2025 as the end-of-support date for Windows 10, many home users faced a stark choice: upgrade to Windows 11, buy new hardware, or run an increasingly exposed system. Microsoft’s consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program changes that calculation: eligible Windows 10 devices can receive security-only updates for an additional year, through October 13, 2026, via a consumer enrollment process that includes both free and paid options. This feature guide...

Millions of German PCs face a hard deadline: on October 14, 2025, Microsoft will end mainstream support for Windows 10, stopping free security updates and feature patches for Home, Pro, Enterprise, Education and IoT LTSB editions — a shift that leaves a substantial portion of Germany’s installed base exposed unless owners take clear, immediate action. Background Windows 10 has been the dominant desktop OS for many households and organizations in Germany for years. Recent platform-tracking...