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Microsoft Edge is quietly retiring its long‑standing Collections feature, and a raft of users — from casual shoppers and students to research teams and managed IT environments — have been caught scrambling to export and preserve data that until now lived comfortably inside the browser. The deprecation first surfaced in Edge preview channels as an in‑product prompt that bluntly states “Collections is being retired,” and it forces a binary choice: move pages to Favorites (losing images and...

NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang stirred the industry with a starkly phrased thought experiment — a single, all‑knowing “God AI” might be possible someday, but it’s so far off that he framed it in “biblical” or “galactic” timescales — and his remarks have refocused attention on the practical realities of the current AI arms race: massive datacenter buildouts, costly GPU roadmaps, and immediate governance choices that enterprises and Windows users must face now. Background The comment that launched...

The Environmental Protection Agency’s January 15, 2026 final rule clarifying how the New Source Performance Standards treat combustion and gas turbines has closed a long‑criticized “nonroad” loophole — and in doing so has put xAI’s Colossus data‑center operations in Memphis squarely under a legal microscope for using large, truck‑sized methane turbines without the permitting and pollution controls typically required of stationary power plants. Background / Overview The EPA’s final rule...

Microsoft has opened the public preview of Windows Azure Mobile Services, a hosted backend platform designed to give app developers a cloud-ready, code-light way to add data, authentication, and push notifications to mobile and Windows Store applications in minutes. Background Windows Azure Mobile Services (announced August 28, 2012) arrived at a time when mobile apps were rapidly shifting from single-device experiences to cloud‑connected services. The offering positioned Microsoft to...

Adblock Plus’s arrival in Microsoft Edge marked a pivotal moment for Windows 10 users: ad-blocking — long a reason many people stayed with Chrome or Firefox — finally came to Microsoft’s newest browser via the Windows Store, shipped with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update and rolled out to consumers in August 2016. This release made Adblock Plus available to hundreds of millions of Windows 10 devices, offered a quick on-ramp for users craving cleaner browsing, and exposed important trade-offs...

Microsoft’s early‑2026 Windows update rollout has a careful framing: it is not a sweeping, feature‑rich new edition of Windows being handed out for free, but a combination of time‑boxed security coverage, platform maintenance, and certificate refreshes that together look like a “free update” only when read through the right lens. What Microsoft actually announced and shipped in late 2025 and January 2026 is a pragmatic mix of consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) enrollment options —...

Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan attended a high‑profile wedding reception in Abu Dhabi on 16 January 2026, appearing as a principal guest at the celebration hosted by Nekhaira Mohamed Rashed Al Shamsi for the marriage of her son, Nasser, to the daughter of Mubarak Mohamed Al Nayeli Al Shamsi — a social occasion held at the Erth Ballroom that drew senior officials, family members and well‑wishers. Background / Overview Weddings in Abu Dhabi — particularly those attended by...

Microsoft's rapid-fire Insider flights landed again on June 30, 2016, when the company pushed Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14379 to the Fast ring for both PC and Mobile — a small-but-significant maintenance release that fixed several user-facing bugs while highlighting some persistent mobile and Continuum limitations that would shape the remainder of the Anniversary Update rollout. Background Windows 10's Anniversary Update cycle (version 1607, codenamed Redstone 1) was a major milestone...

Samsung’s long-running mobile browser has finally stepped onto Windows desktops: Samsung Internet for PC is available as a region‑gated beta that brings cross‑device sync, Samsung Pass integration, and Galaxy AI‑powered helpers to Windows 11 and Windows 10 machines, with initial availability restricted to the United States and South Korea. Background Samsung Internet began life as a mobile‑first browser bundled with Galaxy phones and tablets more than a decade ago. It earned a reputation for...

Vietnam produced a gritty, physically and emotionally draining performance to beat the United Arab Emirates 3-2 after extra time in the AFC U23 Championship quarter-final, booking a place in the semi-finals and extending a remarkable run of form for the South-East Asian side. The tie—decided by a late extra-time strike from Pham Minh Phuc—was a microcosm of modern U23 tournament football: tactical nuance, high tempo, VAR interventions and a momentum rollercoaster that kept both sets of...

Microsoft has begun rolling out a fundamental redesign of the Windows 11 Start menu that replaces the old two‑pane model with a single, vertically scrollable launcher, new “All apps” presentation modes, tighter Phone Link integration, and a series of adjacent taskbar and reliability changes — a staged, telemetry‑driven rollout that arrives in preview form via KB5067036 and entered broader servicing in the November cumulative (KB5068861). Background Microsoft’s Start menu has been one of the...

Microsoft’s new first‑party Slack → Teams migration tool simplifies moving channels — but it won’t bring over your private chats, leaving Slack direct messages (DMs) and group chats stranded unless you take extra steps. This gap is not a bug so much as an architecture and policy decision: Microsoft’s initial rollout intentionally moves only Slack channel content into Teams, and administrators who assumed a full‑fidelity migration (including one‑to‑one and multi‑party DMs) are now facing...

The Environmental Protection Agency’s recent final rule closing a long‑contested regulatory gap has transformed a local dispute over mobile gas turbines into a national story — and cast fresh doubt on whether xAI’s Memphis Colossus data center operated within the law. The EPA’s January 15, 2026, amendment to the New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for combustion and gas turbines clarifies that large, stationary‑functioning turbines — including portable units used long‑term at data...

Battlegrounds Mobile India can be played on a Windows PC today — but only by running the official mobile build inside an Android emulator or by mirroring your phone — and that choice carries clear trade‑offs between convenience, performance, and account safety. rview Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) is distributed by Krafton as a mobile-first product for Android and iOS. There is no supported, standalone Windows client from Krafton; the publisher maintains the game as a mobile title and...

Chrome OS’s momentum is real — especially in education and low-cost hardware — but the case that it will topple Windows across consumers, enterprises, and power users is far from proven, and Microsoft has clear, defensible advantages that keep it comfortably in the fight for the foreseeable future. Background The debate that BetaNews and other outlets have been having — that Chrome OS presents a credible mass-market alternative to Windows — rests on three converging facts: Google has...

Saudi Arabia’s monarch, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, was admitted to King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh on Friday for routine medical examinations and was later discharged after tests described by the Royal Court as “reassuring.” The brief official notice, carried by state media, provided no medical specifics beyond confirming the examinations and his return home — a pattern consistent with how the kingdom frames the health of the custodial monarch. Background King Salman, born...

Morocco’s Soumiya Iraoui added another international medal to her ledger, claiming the bronze in the women’s -52 kg judo event at the Islamic Solidarity Games held in Riyadh, a result that underlines her continued continental dominance and steady presence on the world stage. Background / Overview Soumiya Iraoui has been a fixture of African judo for several years, consistently producing podium results at continental championships and international opens. Her bronze in Riyadh is the latest in...

Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a written message from Sultan Haitham bin Tariq of Oman, delivered in Riyadh by Oman’s ambassador and received on behalf of the Crown Prince by Saudi Deputy Foreign Minister Waleed bin Abdulkarim Al‑Khereiji, in a diplomatic exchange that Riyadh framed as a routine but constructive review of bilateral ties and areas for cooperation. Background Saudi Arabia and Oman share a long history of pragmatic, low‑drama diplomacy in the Gulf, shaped by geography...

GeForce owners around the globe began reporting sudden, severe drops in frame rates and worsened frame pacing after installing Microsoft’s October 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11, and NVIDIA responded by issuing an out‑of‑cycle hotfix driver — GeForce Hotfix Display Driver 581.94 — aimed at restoring performance for affected systems. Background Shortly after Microsoft distributed the October 14, 2025 cumulative update catalogued as KB5066835 (rolling affected branches to OS builds...

GeForce users around the globe reported sudden, severe frame‑rate drops after installing Microsoft’s October 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 (catalogued as KB5066835), prompting NVIDIA to publish an out‑of‑cycle mitigation — GeForce Hotfix Display Driver 581.94 — to restore performance for affected systems. Independent testing and community telemetry showed reproducible slowdowns in certain modern titles (in some test points as large as a one‑third to one‑half reduction in FPS), and...