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Windows 11’s next big milestone is shaping up to be less about flashy visual rewrites and more about a strategic, AI-first consolidation: version 26H2 looks set to be delivered as an enablement package in late 2026, turning on months of work already rolled into preview and cumulative updates. The most visible changes put Copilot — Microsoft’s AI assistant — into everyday places: a conversational “Ask Copilot” composer on the taskbar, deeper Copilot hooks inside File Explorer, and a new class...

A Korean news item that asks "Can we really trust Gemini?" — framed around a reported case of a person who allegedly invested 31 million won after following AI-generated recommendations — has reopened a debate that should worry every investor, IT manager and regulator: powerful generative assistants are now giving financial guidance in the real world, but their provenance, accuracy and incentives are nowhere near ready for unsupervised money decisions. Background / Overview The story that...

For millions of people — and especially adults over 50 — chatbots have moved from novelty to everyday tool, but that convenience brings measurable risks: hallucinated facts, privacy exposures, social-emotional dependence, and new forms of scams. The short AOL primer offering “6 simple tips to protect yourself when using chatbots” is useful, but it undersells the technical causes, the institutional responsibilities, and the concrete steps families and caregivers should take to make chatbot...

The Southern District of New York’s recent decision in United States v. Heppner makes plain a critical, immediate rule for defense counsel: when clients go to consumer-grade generative AI for legal strategy, those AI chats can be—and now have been—treated as non‑privileged and discoverable, even when the client later shares the output with counsel. Background / Overview In February 2026, Judge Jed S. Rakoff issued a written memorandum following a bench ruling that thirty‑one documents...

ChatGPT’s mobile app finished 2025 not as a niche curiosity but as a mainstream platform: according to Sensor Tower’s industry analysis, ChatGPT ranked as the second-most-downloaded app worldwide for the calendar year 2025, trailing only TikTok — a shift that helps define 2025 as the year AI assistants moved from novelty to everyday utility. Background The mobile landscape in 2025 looked familiar on the surface — downloads overall were roughly flat compared with 2024 — but beneath that...

Pearl Abyss has published the PC system requirements for Crimson Desert ahead of its March 19, 2026 launch, and the numbers are striking in two ways: the minimum spec is unusually approachable for a modern AAA open‑world title, while the recommended tier still expects mid‑range hardware from the last few GPU generations. The studio’s official materials and storefront pages list Windows 10 64‑bit, 16 GB of RAM across the board, and an SSD requirement with a large install size — but there are...

The way brands win attention in search changed from “who ranks first” to “who the assistants recommend,” and in 2026 that shift makes AI rank trackers and search‑visibility tools indispensable for any serious marketing or SEO program. Background / Overview Search used to be a list of links; today many users get concise, conversational answers from AI systems such as ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews / AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, and Microsoft Copilot. Those assistants synthesize multiple sources...

Wiresoft’s announced move into Saudi Arabia lands squarely at the intersection of two powerful trends: Middle East digital transformation and the global secondary market for perpetual software licenses. The Switzerland-based reseller promises Saudi businesses access to a broad catalogue of one-time-purchase Microsoft products — from Office 2024 and Microsoft 365 Enterprise variants to Windows Server 2025 and SQL Server 2025 — along with CALs, virtualization and design suites, and...

Sony’s PS5 Pro, HyperX’s battery‑marathon headset, Xbox’s updated wireless cans, and a wave of premium sim rigs and retro arcade cabinets are all reshaping how players outfit a modern gaming room — but not every “must‑have” claim on retail pages or roundups stands up to scrutiny. The shopping list TMZ promoted this week spotlights powerful hardware and nostalgic kiosks that promise immersion, portability, and longevity, yet each item brings tradeoffs around compatibility, real‑world...

Artificial intelligence has quietly moved from a classroom novelty to a supervised, curriculum-shaped reality in many UAE schools — but the way it’s being introduced is as notable for what it restricts as for what it enables. Background / Overview The UAE’s national education authorities launched an ambitious push to teach AI across public schools in the 2025–2026 academic year, and private schools have followed by building their own, measured approaches to classroom use. The Ministry of...

For our column this week, Fashionista’s short profile of Serena Page — in which the Love Island USA season‑6 winner confesses to shopping for pinky rings and eyeing a pair of Christian Louboutin ballerina heels while carrying a travel‑size Tower 28 SOS Spray in her purse — is a small, glossy window into a much larger story about modern influencer commerce: authenticity as currency, micro‑moments of aspiration, and the software scaffolding that now connects a celebrity’s wish list to the...

Mozilla’s latest Firefox update delivers what many users asked for: a visible, durable way to say “no” to browser-powered AI — while also shipping a slate of AI features that could change how people read, navigate, and interact with the web. Background / Overview Firefox 148, which began rolling out on February 24, 2026, introduces a dedicated AI Controls section in desktop Settings that centralizes management for the browser’s generative-AI features. The most attention-grabbing item is a...

Windows Insiders who thought the Release Preview channel was the “safe” path to test Windows 11 25H2 got a blunt reminder this week that the modern update pipeline is controlled as much by remote servers as it is by local settings — and when the server flips, clients follow without debate. Background / Overview The incident began when a batch of Windows 11 Insiders in the Release Preview channel saw their machines install builds from the 26200 family as expected — then, inexplicably, the...

Microsoft has quietly moved the ability to rename a local user account out of the venerable Control Panel and into the modern Settings app in the latest Windows 11 Dev-channel preview — a small UI change that reveals a much larger, long-running engineering strategy and raises practical questions for power users, IT teams, and anyone who still relies on legacy workflows. Background For nearly two decades Windows has run with a bifurcated system configuration model: the classic Control Panel...

Microsoft's Japanese arm says it is “fully cooperating” with the Japan Fair Trade Commission after investigators executed an on‑site inspection of Microsoft Japan’s Tokyo offices as part of a probe into whether the company’s cloud‑related licensing and commercial practices steered customers toward Azure and away from rival public clouds. Background The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) has stepped into a story that has been unfolding across several jurisdictions for years: whether dominant...

Microsoft has released an optional, non‑security preview for Windows 11 — KB5077241 — that begins rolling out as build 26200.7922 (25H2) / 26100.7922 (24H2) and brings a small but meaningful set of quality, performance, and usability improvements: a taskbar‑accessible network speed test, native System Monitor (Sysmon) packaged as an optional inbox feature, File Explorer reliability and shortcut fixes, WebP desktop background support, emoji updates, widget and camera tweaks, and a handful of...

Microsoft has quietly shipped a new, purpose-built Windows image — Windows 11, version 26H1 — but unlike prior H1/H2 releases this one is not a general feature update for the existing Windows population; it’s a factory‑installed, hardware‑gated platform image intended to enable next‑generation silicon and will appear only on select new devices. Background / Overview Microsoft’s visible version string moved to 26H1 in Insider Canary builds (Build 28000), and the company’s public guidance...

David Lammy’s recent public push to widen the use of artificial intelligence across England and Wales’ justice system marks a decisive turn in how ministers propose to tackle chronic court backlogs — but it also exposes the reform to an array of technical, legal and ethical risks that have not yet been fully confronted. Background David Lammy, the Secretary of State for Justice and deputy prime minister, used a high-profile Microsoft AI event in London to set out a sharper policy direction...

Japan’s competition watchdog has carried out an on-site inspection of Microsoft’s Tokyo offices as part of a probe into whether the software giant’s local unit improperly shaped cloud contracts and product compatibility to favor Azure — allegations that, if upheld, would add Japan to a growing list of jurisdictions scrutinizing how hyperscalers leverage software ecosystems to capture cloud workloads. Background: why regulators are watching the cloud wars The cloud market is no longer a...

KDE Plasma’s ability to masquerade as Windows 11 is not a parlor trick — it’s a practical, approachable way to make a Linux desktop feel familiar to Windows refugees while keeping the power and polish of Plasma under the hood. The basic recipe is simple: apply a Windows‑style Global Theme, swap the app launcher for a Windows‑like menu widget, and nudge the panel layout to center the launcher. But the devil lives in the details — Plasma 6 compatibility, installation methods, and security...