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For many long-time Windows users, the tiny "Show more options" link in Windows 11’s abbreviated right‑click menu is more than an annoyance — it interrupts muscle memory, adds clicks to everyday tasks, and compounds into lost minutes across a workday. There are three practical ways to bring the full, classic context menu back: a quick keyboard shortcut, a third‑party shell mod (ExplorerPatcher), or a small per‑user registry tweak that restores the legacy menu by default. Each approach has...

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 announcement isn’t a modest refresh — it’s a full-throttle attempt to reposition Arm-based Windows PCs as contenders in the premium laptop and creator workstation markets, with jaw-dropping headline numbers (up to 18 cores, a record 5.0 GHz boost, an 80 TOPS Hexagon NPU, and 3 nm process claims) and a new enterprise-grade manageability feature called Snapdragon Guardian that leans on built‑in 5G for out‑of‑band access. Overview Qualcomm used its Snapdragon Summit...

Anthropic’s decision to triple its international workforce and quintuple its applied AI team this year marks a dramatic acceleration in the company’s global strategy — a response to surging non‑U.S. demand for its Claude models and a broader shift in the geographic center of generative AI adoption. Background Anthropic launched in 2021 with a mission framed around safety-first large language models, and its Claude family of models has become a core product for enterprises seeking powerful...

Microsoft’s announcement that it has “ceased and disabled a set of services” for a unit inside a foreign defence ministry marks a rare, high-stakes intersection of cloud computing, corporate policy, and wartime intelligence — and raises urgent questions about how global cloud platforms police misuse, enforce terms of service, and manage the downstream human-rights risks of providing near‑limitless storage and AI tools to state actors. Background and overview A joint investigative reporting...

Anthropic’s decision to triple its international workforce and quintuple its applied-AI team before the end of 2025 marks one of the clearest signals yet that the generative-AI market has gone global—and that the company behind Claude is positioning itself to be a dominant international player. Background / Overview Anthropic, the San Francisco–based AI developer founded by former OpenAI researchers, announced on September 26, 2025 that it will dramatically scale its overseas headcount to...

Elon Musk’s public tease has become an actual project: xAI is building “Macrohard,” a self‑described, purely AI software company that aims to run the entire software lifecycle with cooperating AI agents — writing code, testing it, managing releases, and even emulating users — with the stated ambition of replacing human software engineers for many tasks. The reveal, framed on social media as tongue‑in‑cheek, has already generated a trademark filing, a hiring blitz at xAI, and a flurry of...

Microsoft reversed course for millions of users by agreeing to offer truly free Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Windows 10 consumers across the European Economic Area (EEA), removing several enrollment conditions that had provoked consumer groups and regulators — but the concession is limited, timeboxed, and carries caveats that every user should understand before deciding whether to stay on Windows 10 or upgrade to Windows 11. Background / Overview Microsoft has long signaled that...

When Windows refuses to upgrade—stalling at “Checking for updates,” rolling back with an opaque error code, or simply refusing to offer Windows 11 at all—the frustration is immediate and real. The four troubleshooting “secrets” popularized in a recent ZDNET guide—(1) update firmware and drivers, (2) check Microsoft’s release health for safeguard holds, (3) run a disciplined retry with dynamic updates disabled, and (4) analyze Setup logs with SetupDiag—are not just clickbait: they are a...

Cru Uncorked’s experiment—pitting three experienced sommeliers against Microsoft Copilot in a blind, guest‑voted tasting—did more than create a memorable dinner: it crystallized how AI wine pairing performs in the real world, where inventory, storytelling and human judgment matter as much as textbook matches. Background Cru Uncorked is a fine‑dining restaurant in a countryside chateau outside Cleveland with an extensive cellar and a public program of pairing events and blind tastings. The...

Microsoft has set a firm date: routine support for most editions of Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025 — after that date routine security and feature updates, plus standard Microsoft technical support, stop for the mainstream Windows 10 releases; Microsoft has offered a limited one‑year consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) bridge and, under recent pressure from European consumer groups, adjusted enrollment rules so residents of the European Economic Area (EEA) can receive that extra...

Microsoft has quietly pulled off a regional U‑turn: Windows 10 users who live inside the European Economic Area (EEA) will be able to claim an extra year of security updates at no charge, while users in the United Kingdom and many other markets will still face paywalls or product‑tie requirements to keep receiving patches after Windows 10’s October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support deadline. Background / Overview Windows 10 reaches its official end of support on October 14, 2025. After that date...

Crayon’s reported agreement with Zendesk and SoftwareOne’s newly awarded Microsoft Copilot Specialisation mark two linked developments that accelerate the push by distributors and channel players into services-led, AI-enabled customer experience and workplace productivity offers. Both moves reinforce a broader industry trend: distributors are no longer just logistics and licensing engines — they are becoming strategic enablers of SaaS adoption, managed services and Copilot-era...

Apple, Google, and Microsoft are racing to be the platform that powers your next search, email reply, meeting summary, and photo edit — but those conveniences come with sharply different approaches to where and how your data is processed, stored, and potentially reused. A recent ecosystem comparison framed the debate as Apple’s “privacy‑first” on‑device model vs Google’s hybrid power vs Microsoft’s enterprise governance; that framing is a useful starting point, but the technical details and...

Smartphone AI assistants stopped being novelty features years ago; in 2025 they’re the everyday layer that manages messages, plans, travel, photos, and — increasingly — work. What matters now is not just how “smart” a model is on benchmarks, but how each assistant is woven into an ecosystem: where data is processed (on‑device vs cloud), which apps and services it can access, and how it handles languages, images, and real‑time interactions. The practical result is a set of winners depending...

Microsoft has quietly started rolling an AI-powered tidy-up for overflowing photo libraries: the Microsoft Photos app on Windows 11 now includes an Auto‑Categorization feature that automatically groups images into dedicated folders for Screenshots, Receipts, Identity documents, and Notes, and the preview is being shipped to Windows Insiders on Copilot+ PCs. Background / Overview Microsoft has been steadily transforming the Photos app from a basic viewer into an AI-capable productivity...

We are living through a transition where artificial intelligence is no longer an optional feature on phones and PCs — it is the operating system’s new nervous system, shaping how we search, write, translate, create, and even control hardware. The four major ecosystems — Apple Intelligence, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Samsung Galaxy AI / Vision AI Companion — have each taken distinct technical and product paths. This feature compares them side‑by‑side, verifies key technical claims...

Perplexity’s move to open its search stack to developers marks the clearest bid yet by a next‑generation “answer engine” to contest Google’s long‑standing dominance over web discovery, and it comes with a stack of technical, commercial, and legal implications that developers, publishers, and IT teams should evaluate carefully. Background / Overview Perplexity announced a public Search API (branded in earlier releases as “Sonar” / Search API in Perplexity documentation) that exposes its...

ChatGPT Pulse arrives as a quiet — and potentially habit-changing — background assistant that “does research while you sleep,” surfacing personalized updates, meeting prep, reminders, and follow‑ups each morning based on your chats, feedback, and the apps you choose to connect to ChatGPT. Background OpenAI’s new Pulse feature is a deliberate shift from on‑demand chat replies toward asynchronous, proactive assistance: instead of waiting for a query, Pulse continuously synthesizes available...

Microsoft has set a hard calendar for Windows 10’s twilight: routine security updates, quality patches and standard technical support for mainstream Windows 10 SKUs end on October 14, 2025, forcing households, small businesses and large enterprises to choose between upgrading to Windows 11, enrolling eligible devices in Microsoft’s Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, or accepting the growing risk of running an unsupported operating system. Background / Overview Microsoft’s lifecycle...

Microsoft’s decision to cease and disable a set of Azure cloud and AI services to a unit within the Israel Ministry of Defense follows an urgent internal review that found preliminary evidence supporting investigative reporting that alleged the Israeli military stored and analysed large volumes of Palestinian phone-call data on Microsoft infrastructure — a finding that has profound implications for cloud governance, human-rights risk management, and the limits of corporate due diligence...