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NVIDIA’s GeForce Game Ready Driver 536.40 is a WHQL‑certified driver package released to add support for new Ada‑generation hardware and to address targeted game and rendering bugs; it also appears in archived vendor lists as a valid install option for legacy Maxwell cards such as the GeForce GTX 745 on Windows 10 (64‑bit) and Windows 11, but users must balance that compatibility against known stability reports and OEM caveats. Background NVIDIA publishes two main consumer driver families...

Microsoft’s OneDrive folder‑backup behavior has quietly shifted in a way that will matter to almost every Windows 11 user: when OneDrive Backup (the Known Folder Move for Documents, Pictures and Desktop) is active, those folders are relocated under your OneDrive profile and sync to the cloud — and in recent Windows 11 builds Microsoft has made it easier to reverse that change by giving you a choice to move files back to local folders when you turn the backup off. This is a useful tweak that...

Microsoft is now testing a permissioned ability to share your entire desktop with Copilot Vision on Windows 11, letting the AI “see” everything visible on your screen during a session and respond in real time — a change Microsoft says is opt‑in, visible while active, and stoppable at any time. Background Microsoft has steadily expanded Copilot on Windows from a sidebar chat helper into a system‑level, multimodal assistant that can listen, see, and — in controlled ways — act. Copilot Vision...

AI personal‑finance assistants are no longer novelty chatbots — they’re practical tools that can speed budgeting, reconcile statements, summarize dense plan documents, and automate spreadsheet work, but choosing between ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and Anthropic Claude requires matching capabilities to where your data lives, how much auditability you need, and how you plan to verify outputs. Background / Overview The consumer and enterprise AI assistants that matter for personal...

Microsoft’s latest Insider preview delivers a narrow but consequential concession: administrators can now uninstall the consumer Microsoft Copilot app from managed Windows 11 devices — but only under a tightly constrained, one‑time, and conditional policy that preserves Microsoft’s broader Copilot strategy while shifting responsibility for durable removal back to IT teams and device owners. The change answers long-standing calls for control, yet it does not restore full user sovereignty over...

ESW’s announcement that it is launching Copilot Ascend™, a role-based Microsoft Copilot and AI training program designed to move organizations from experimentation to consistent, measurable Copilot use, lands squarely on a practical problem many IT and HR leaders are confronting today: licenses and models exist, but workforce capability and governance do not automatically follow. Background / Overview Microsoft’s Copilot ecosystem has become a platform — not just a feature set — joining...

Red Bull’s latest outline for Red Bull Basement makes a bold promise to student founders and early-stage teams: the Global Winner will walk away with USD 100,000 in equity‑free funding, plus a package of cloud, prototyping credits, mentorship and an industry‑level invitation to GitHub Universe—resources intended to accelerate an MVP into a scalable product without surrendering ownership. This is not a token stipend: the prize bundles cash with cloud infrastructure and development credits...

Michael Burry’s disclosure that he’s taken a short position—via put options—against Oracle has become one of the louder contrarian headlines in the AI‑infrastructure era, and it kicks open a series of deeper questions about corporate strategy, capital structure, and execution risk at one of the enterprise world’s oldest software vendors. The claim, reported in recent market writeups, says Burry has been shorting Oracle for months and is betting that an all‑in push into GPU‑dense cloud...

The PlayStation 3 Eye — a tiny, inexpensive camera originally sold as a motion peripheral for the PS3 — remains one of the most cost‑effective ways to get a surprisingly capable external webcam on a Windows 10 PC, provided you choose the right driver path and follow a careful installation and troubleshooting routine. What started as a gaming accessory now enjoys a second life as a low‑cost webcam for streaming, computer vision projects, and general video chat; this guide explains the...

Microsoft Edge is showing an in‑product warning in preview builds that Collections is being retired, and that message forces a blunt choice: move pages to Favorites (losing images and notes) or export a CSV copy — leaving no way to keep Collections content inside Edge in its original form once the change completes. Background Microsoft introduced Collections to Chromium‑powered Edge as a research and clipping tool that saves web pages, images, notes and allows Office export and cross‑device...

Zorin OS 18’s launch has become the clearest and most quantifiable signal so far that a large number of Windows users are actively testing — and in many cases replacing — Windows installations after Microsoft’s decision to end mainstream support for Windows 10. Within roughly five weeks of its October 14, 2025 release, Zorin Group announced that Zorin OS 18 had been downloaded about one million times, and the project reported that over 78% of those downloads originated from Windows systems —...

ESW’s announcement that it is launching Copilot Ascend™ — a role-based Microsoft Copilot and AI training program aimed at turning experiments into everyday productivity — underscores a growing industry focus on practical, workforce-level AI enablement rather than technology-first proofs of concept. The program, which ESW says combines instructor-led training, hands-on workshops, executive briefings, and adoption guidance for Microsoft 365 apps and Power Platform, is pitched as a turnkey path...

Microsoft has added a host-based integrity check to the Common Log File System (CLFS) driver that attaches HMACs to Base Log Files (.blf) and container files, validates those authentication codes on open, and—after a 90‑day learning period—refuses to parse logfiles that lack valid authentication, a change that hardens the kernel parsing surface but introduces meaningful operational and forensic consequences for administrators and log collectors. Background / Overview The Common Log File...

Concentric AI’s Semantic Intelligence platform can now run its Private Scan Manager inside AWS GovCloud (U.S., giving U.S. federal agencies, contractors, and other regulated organizations a new option to process Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and highly sensitive data inside physically and logically isolated U.S. sovereign regions while leveraging the company’s context-aware AI for discovery, classification, remediation, and GenAI-aware data protection. Background / Overview...

Global PC shipments closed the holiday quarter with a surprise surge, but that uptick masks a brewing supply shock that could make 2026 a far more expensive and volatile year for PC buyers and builders than most expected. Background The fourth quarter of 2025 produced an unexpected gain for the PC market: global shipments climbed roughly 9–10% year‑over‑year to about 76.4 million units, capping a full‑year recovery after several years of softness. That bounce, however, was driven by a...

Microsoft’s latest pitch is blunt: if you want to be ready for the next generation of computing, buy an AI‑powered Windows 11 machine — specifically, a Copilot+ PC — because older “AI” branded laptops may not be capable of delivering the full set of features Microsoft calls the future of the PC. Background Microsoft has spent the last 18 months reframing Windows as an “AI‑first” platform and using that narrative to shift how it positions hardware partners and customers. The company now...

Algolia and Microsoft have announced a collaboration to push real-time, enriched product data — including live inventory, pricing, and normalized product attributes — directly into Microsoft Copilot, Bing Shopping, and Microsoft Edge, a move that reframes product data as strategic infrastructure for the era of agentic, conversational commerce. Background / Overview Shopping discovery is changing fast. The traditional model — consumers landing on a retailer’s site or a marketplace and finding...

Zorin OS 18 has crossed a rare milestone for the Linux desktop: the project reports more than 1,000,000 downloads in just over a month, and the Zorin team says roughly 78% of those downloads were initiated from Windows systems, a directional signal that many Windows 10 users actively tested Linux as an alternative after Windows 10 reached end of mainstream support. Background / Overview Microsoft’s decision to end mainstream support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 created a hard calendar...

The freelance cloud market in 2026 is no longer an academic debate about features — it’s a cashflow calculation: which platform and specialism will deliver the best return on your time and risk? Background / Overview The basic split is familiar but sharpened: AWS continues to lead in sheer ecosystem breadth and the highest peak freelance rates, while Azure offers steadier, longer-term contracts anchored in enterprise adoption and Microsoft stack integration. Those broad conclusions appear in...

NVIDIA’s GeForce driver release numbered 342.01 remains available as an official, WHQL-signed download for Windows 10 (64‑bit), including Spanish-language packages, but it is a legacy-era driver whose use today carries important compatibility, security, and support tradeoffs that every Windows user should understand before downloading or installing. Background / Overview GeForce driver 342.01 was released in December 2016 and is published in NVIDIA’s official driver archive with WHQL...