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Core Keeper’s underground keeps growing — and the next big expansion, Void & Voltage, arrives with a thump on January 28, 2026, bringing a new biome, heavy new weaponry, and a full suite of automation gear that reshapes late‑game goals and cooperative base design. The update also coincides with the debut of a Nintendo Switch 2 edition, meaning the game’s signature eight‑player co‑op and conveyor‑belt chaos are about to hit a wider, higher‑performance audience. This feature unpacks what’s...

AMD’s machine‑learning driven FSR “Redstone” landed as part of the Adrenalin 25.12.1 driver in December 2025, but the full suite of features is explicitly built for RDNA 4 (Radeon RX 9000) silicon — leaving owners of RDNA 3 GPUs watching from the sidelines and asking whether that door might ever be opened. The short answer today is: technically possible in limited ways, unlikely in full form unless AMD approves a targeted pathway — and the reasons are rooted in hardware design, developer...

Fastfetch 2.57 lands with a focused set of desktop-detection, terminal, and Windows changes that together sharpen the tool's cross-platform usability while beginning a deliberate wind-down of legacy Windows support. Background Fastfetch has established itself as a modern, performance-oriented alternative to older "neofetch"-style utilities for producing compact, attractive system information displays in terminals. The project is actively maintained, with releases that frequently mix feature...

Born2Invest’s short how‑tos and product blurbs about AMD drivers, legacy ATI cards, and the Amazon Prime Video Windows app are useful clickbait for casual readers, but a careful technical review finds important gaps, overstated claims, and missing safety guidance that could expose everyday users to unstable installs or unsupported configurations. Background Born2Invest repackaged three disparate topics into eyebrow‑catching headlines: an “AMD A9‑9425 driver” troubleshooting note, an HD 3650...

An all‑AMD dual‑boot powerhouse built by ETA Prime — pairing an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D with an AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and running SteamOS on one NVMe and Windows 11 Pro on the other — shows that the long‑standing assumption “Windows always wins at native 4K AAA” no longer holds as an absolute. In a hands‑on comparison of several modern triple‑A titles at 4K, some games favored SteamOS, others favored Windows, and the deltas were often driven by driver behavior, shader‑caching and...

Microsoft’s next push to make AI useful for organizations isn’t another flashy end-user feature — it’s a measurement platform that promises to turn Copilot adoption into boardroom-ready metrics and actionable operational controls for SaaS teams and IT leaders. Background / Overview Microsoft has expanded its monitoring and reporting capabilities for Microsoft 365 Copilot under the umbrella of Copilot Analytics, a unified analytics experience that merges the Copilot Dashboard, Microsoft 365...

Stripe and Microsoft have teamed up to bring a full, in‑chat checkout experience to Copilot, enabling U.S. users to discover and buy products from merchants such as Etsy sellers, Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie without ever leaving the Copilot conversation—an integration powered by tokenized payments, merchant catalog plumbing and an open interoperability layer called the Agentic Commerce Protocol. Background Microsoft unveiled Copilot Checkout publicly around the NRF 2026 retail...

Shopify’s move to put commerce directly inside AI conversations is more than a marketing line — it’s an architectural bet that the next major retail surface will be agentic, not merely browser-based, and that merchants need a unified plumbing layer to survive and thrive when assistants can buy on users’ behalf. Overview The core announcement is twofold: an open interoperability specification called the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), co-developed with Google, and a set of product changes...

CData’s Connect AI is now plugged into Microsoft Copilot Studio and Microsoft Agent 365, exposing a managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) surface that promises real‑time, semantically aware access to hundreds of enterprise systems — a move that can materially shorten the path from Copilot prototypes to production agents while shifting serious operational and security responsibilities onto IT and procurement teams. Background / Overview Enterprises attempting to deploy agentic AI have...

HP’s move to put Microsoft 365 Copilot on office printers turns a familiar endpoint into an active participant in the document lifecycle — enabling on‑panel summarization, smart filing and translation that promise to shave steps off everyday scanning workflows while keeping scanned content inside the Microsoft 365 estate. Background / Overview HP recently announced "HP for Microsoft 365 Copilot," a new HP Workpath app that integrates Microsoft 365 Copilot capabilities directly into supported...

Microsoft has pushed Copilot from a productivity and search assistant into a full transactional surface: shoppers in the U.S. can now discover, compare and complete purchases inside Copilot with the launch of Copilot Checkout, while merchants get new Brand Agents and Copilot Studio templates to automate catalog, personalization and store operations. Background Microsoft framed this move as part of an “agentic commerce” shift—AI agents that do more than recommend, they can act on behalf of...

Microsoft’s Copilot is removable — but not with a single click that works the same across every PC; you can hide it, uninstall the Copilot app, block it with policy, or go deeper with community tools that strip AI components — each approach carries trade‑offs between simplicity, permanence, and risk. Background / Overview Windows 11 has evolved from a traditional desktop into a platform where AI is increasingly embedded: a consumer Copilot app, taskbar affordances (button and Win+C), File...

PayPal’s new role inside Microsoft Copilot marks a clear shift from standalone payment rails to deeply embedded, agent-driven commerce — shoppers can now search, compare, and complete purchases without ever leaving the Copilot conversational surface, with PayPal powering inventory surfacing, branded or guest checkout, and wallet and card payments as the first major payments partner to go live on Copilot.com. Background AI agents are evolving from helpful assistants into commerce enablers...

Virtual machine hosting has matured from niche lab tooling into the backbone of modern application delivery — and in 2026 the landscape is both broader and more practical than ever for developers, small businesses, and enterprises. This feature surveys nine top VM hosting services, verifies key technical claims, and gives a pragmatic playbook for choosing the right provider. It summarizes the user-supplied overview of virtual machine hosting while updating and cross-checking pricing...

Alaska Air Group is embarking on a sweeping technology overhaul after a string of high-impact outages exposed brittle on-premises infrastructure, overconcentrated cloud dependencies, and the real-world operational costs of modern IT failures — and the company’s public statements, an external audit, and market moves now point to an intentional shift toward cloud-first redundancy as the central pillar of its remediation plan. Background In late October 2025 Alaska Air Group suffered a cascade...

Astra’s new Cloud Vulnerability Scanner arrives as a direct answer to one of cloud security’s most persistent headaches: overwhelming misconfiguration noise and the disconnect between detected issues and real-world exploitability. The product promises continuous, agentless posture monitoring across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, an “offensive-grade” validation engine that confirms exploit paths, and a prioritization model that surfaces a small set of actionable issues rather than hundreds of...

Born2Invest’s two short how‑tos — one claiming a mysterious “New AMD Display Driver 30.0.13000.22008 that doesn’t exist” and another repackaging Ryzen 5 3600 Windows‑10 buying/review copy — are useful as click‑friendly entry points for nontechnical readers, but a closer look shows important factual gaps, unverifiable claims, and missing safety guidance that could leave readers exposed to unstable installs or bad upgrade choices. A careful verification against vendor documentation, community...

A quiet but consequential migration is unfolding across the professional computing landscape: an increasing number of developers, sysadmins, creators, and budget‑conscious IT teams are moving at least part of their workflows off Windows 11 and onto Linux distributions. The reasons are pragmatic rather than ideological — measurable performance gains in CPU‑ and I/O‑bound workloads, clearer privacy controls, lower total cost of ownership on aging hardware, and a maturing compatibility layer...

Algolia’s new pact with Microsoft aims to push real‑time, retailer‑approved product data directly into the emerging frontlines of AI commerce — Copilot, Bing Shopping, and Microsoft Edge — promising fresher product visibility, improved discoverability, and a way for merchants to extend their merchandising influence beyond their own sites. Background / Overview The retail landscape is shifting from property‑centric discovery (searching on a retailer’s website or a marketplace) to agentic and...

Microsoft’s first Windows 11 Insider preview of 2026 quietly introduces a new, narrowly scoped tool for IT: a Group Policy called RemoveMicrosoftCopilotApp that can target and uninstall the consumer Microsoft Copilot app on managed devices — but only when a short list of strict conditions is met, and only as a one‑time, best‑effort removal. Background Microsoft has been threading a difficult needle since it began rolling Copilot into Windows: deliver a consistent AI assistant experience...