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Microsoft’s January 13, 2026 cumulative security update—KB5074109 (OS builds 26200.7623 and 26100.7623)—has triggered a wave of stability problems across a wide range of Windows 11 devices, including black screens, failed boots, Remote Desktop authentication errors, and application hangs. While Microsoft lists multiple fixes and mitigations in the official KB article, real‑world reports from users and independent outlets show the update has produced severe side effects on certain hardware...

Microsoft’s January cumulative for Windows 11, KB5074109, has produced a string of painful regressions for some users — most notably rendering the classic Win32 Outlook client unreliable for people who rely on POP profiles or keep PST files inside cloud‑synced folders such as OneDrive. The result: Outlook windows that freeze or refuse to close, sent messages that vanish from Sent Items, repeated re‑downloads of mail, and widespread confusion for home users and IT teams juggling security...

Microsoft’s second emergency update in two weeks is a blunt reminder that even mature platforms can stumble when complex subsystems collide — and for many Outlook users the fallout was immediate, painful, and productivity‑crippling. On January 24, 2026 Microsoft pushed a cumulative out‑of‑band (OOB) update — KB5078127 for Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2 (with companion packages for other branches) — intended to fix a regression introduced by the January Patch Tuesday rollup that caused...

France’s decision to take Mistral’s models into the fold of the armed forces — not to pilot missiles but to transcribe, translate and sift through documents — captures the pragmatic heart of how European public administrations are actually using generative AI: focused, utility-driven deployments that promise time savings, but also raise acute questions about data quality, vendor dependence and governance. rview Europe’s public sector has swung quickly from curiosity to cautious adoption of...

Algolia’s presence at Shoptalk Luxe 2026 crystallizes a clear industry pivot: discovery is moving off the website and into AI-driven, agentic surfaces, and Algolia is pitching itself as the plumbing that will keep luxury brands visible, accurate, and in control as that shift accelerates. //www.algolia.com/about/news/algolia-collaborates-with-microsoft-to-drive-real-time-product-data-to-shopping-experiences) Background / Overview The announcement coming out of Algolia ahead of Shoptalk Luxe...

Final warning: what the “12‑hour validation test” report means — and how to avoid data loss Short version (TL;DR) Neowin reports that Microsoft triggered a 12‑hour “validation test” related to Windows recovery/remediation flows. If the report is accurate and such a test invoked an automated recovery/rebuild path, devices that did not have their local files backed up or synchronized (OneDrive/Windows Backup/File History) risk losing unsynced local data. This is most likely to affect...

Microsoft has pushed a second out-of-band Windows update in January 2026 to fix a critical bug that caused Outlook and other applications to crash or hang when they opened or saved files stored in cloud-backed locations such as OneDrive and Dropbox, compounding a rocky start to the year for Windows update reliability. Background The January 2026 Patch Tuesday release introduced security updates across multiple Windows channels, but several systems began exhibiting severe stability problems...

Microsoft has issued an emergency Windows 11 cumulative update on January 24, 2026 (KB5078127) that restores stability for Outlook and other applications affected by the January 13 security update, addressing crashes and unresponsiveness when opening or saving files stored in cloud-backed locations such as OneDrive and Dropbox. Background In mid-January 2026, Microsoft distributed its regular Patch Tuesday security update (released January 13, 2026, KB5074109) for supported Windows channels...

NVIDIA’s GeForce Game Ready Driver 442.59 is a genuine release from March 2020, originally published as a WHQL-certified package and intended to deliver day‑one optimizations for titles such as Call of Duty: Warzone — but by 2026 the technical and security context around that package has changed dramatically, especially for Windows 7 users, making “discount” or third‑party copies a risky route that requires careful verification, isolation, or an operating‑system upgrade. Background /...

The January cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5074109) introduced a regression that can render the classic Outlook (Win32) client unresponsive for users who rely on POP accounts or store PST files inside cloud‑synced OneDrive folders — Microsoft has acknowledged the problem and recommended temporary mitigations that include using webmail, moving PST files out of OneDrive, or uninstalling the update as a last‑resort fix. Background / Overview Microsoft released the January 13, 2026 cumulative...

Microsoft’s decision to stop routine security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 left millions of machines facing a clear decision: upgrade, pay for a limited Extended Security Updates (ESU) bridge, migrate to another OS, or accept increasing risk — and a growing number of users and small organisations have chosen a different route: third‑party micropatching from 0patch. Background / Overview Microsoft’s lifecycle calendar closed the free support window for Windows 10 (version 22H2...

British banks and finance firms are quietly reshaping their recruitment priorities for 2026 — moving beyond pure data science and cloud expertise to actively recruit behavioural scientists, psychologists, lawyers and ethicists to run and police the AI systems that increasingly power the City. Overview The shift is not a niche curiosity: a recent industry poll reported by the Press Association and widely reprinted in national outlets indicates that 55% of UK financial firms plan to hire more...

British banks and finance firms are quietly reshaping their hiring plans for 2026: the next wave of tech recruitment is not just for data scientists and MLOps engineers, but for behavioural scientists, psychologists, ethicists and legal specialists tasked with steering AI use inside organisations. The shift — signalled in recent industry surveys and accelerated by a high‑profile operational failure traced to an AI “hallucination” — marks a crucial moment for how financial services balance...

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John Donovan’s December 2025 experiment — feeding decades of adversarial material about Royal Dutch Shell into multiple public AI assistants and publishing the divergent outputs — transformed a long‑running supplier feud and documentary archive into a live test of how generative systems handle contested archives, and in doing so exposed a set of practical governance failures that lawyers, platform designers, corporate boards and journalists must now confront.. Background From a supplier...

Microsoft’s cooperation with investigators in a Guam fraud probe by producing BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI has forced a sharp re-examination of how Windows device encryption works in practice — and what “warrant‑proof” encryption actually means for users when recovery keys are backed up to provider services. Background BitLocker is Microsoft’s built‑in full‑disk encryption for Windows that protects data-at-rest by tying volume encryption to protected key material. When configured in...

Microsoft has confirmed it is investigating a troubling boot regression that is leaving a limited number of Windows 11 PCs unable to complete startup after installing the January 13, 2026 cumulative updates—machines hit the early‑boot stop code UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME and require manual recovery until Microsoft ships a targeted fix. Background January’s Patch Tuesday (January 13, 2026) delivered the first major cumulative updates for Windows 11 this year, including the security rollup...

Google’s Gemini has quietly slipped out of the “shiny demo” category and into the daily routines of executives, project leads, and knowledge workers — not by grand pronouncements alone, but through steady product integration, longer context wiwindows, and feature sets that map directly onto real workplace friction points. ) Background: from Bard to Gemini — the brand and product pivot When Google consolidated its AI efforts under the Gemini name in early 2024, it was more than a cosmetic...

The Radeon HD 6470M is effectively a legacy part at this point, and the practical “best” driver for a Dell Inspiron N5110 running Windows 10 is not a single, shiny downloadable package — it’s a conservative, documented workflow that prioritizes stability, provenance, and a clear rollback plan. Multiple vendor and community sources confirm that AMD moved the HD 6000‑series mobile GPUs into a legacy support model years ago, leaving the last official options as the Catalyst 15.7.1 WHQL and the...

Microsoft’s decision to place Azure, GitHub and Microsoft 365 at the core of the Mercedes‑AMG PETRONAS F1 Team marks one of the most consequential tech‑sport alliances in recent Formula 1 history, combining visible livery presence with a multi‑year technical engagement intended to deliver real‑time, cloud‑driven performance gains from Brackley to the paddock. Overview The announcement, made alongside Mercedes’ W17 car launch, establishes Microsoft as a principal partner of the Mercedes‑AMG...