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Microsoft’s Copilot has moved decisively from “helpful search companion” to a functioning checkout surface by adding deep payment integrations with both PayPal and Stripe, and packaging the plumbing retailers need to let AI complete purchases on users’ behalf. This is not a minor UI tweak — it’s a foundational step toward agentic commerce, where an AI assistant can discover, recommend, and then execute a purchase in the same conversation without sending the buyer away from the chat window...

If you own a laptop that shipped with an AMD Radeon HD 7670M and you’re running—or planning to run—Windows 10, this is the definitive guide you didn’t know you needed: what the HD 7670M actually is, what to expect on modern Windows 10 systems, how to get the best possible drivers, and the practical tradeoffs when keeping a decade-old mobile GPU alive in 2026. This article distills vendor specs, community troubleshooting, and the current Windows lifecycle into a single, actionable resource...

A short, suspicious instruction — “How To Fix Windows 11 Update Error Please Click The Following Post (rZNeVvHpL2) — Leaders.com.tn” — paired with a buried FCKeditor connector URL that points at n1.trustgo.top is not the sort of thing any Windows user should click without stopping to inspect it. What appears to be a routine help post is a textbook example of how legacy web components and cheaply-registered domains can combine to deliver redirects, malware, or credential-harvesting flows...

Microsoft’s latest Group Policy approach for removing Copilot from Windows 11 solves some immediate problems but creates new operational headaches: the policy frequently behaves like a one‑time uninstall rather than a durable block, leaves multiple Copilot entry points unaddressed, and pushes administrators toward heavier, more brittle controls such as AppLocker and tenant-level settings to prevent re‑provisioning. Background Microsoft has been integrating Copilot into Windows 11 as a...

Microsoft’s latest push turns its Copilot assistant into a full-fledged commerce surface, folding discovery, personalization, and checkout into a single conversational experience and handing merchants a suite of agent templates designed to automate catalog, merchandising, and store operations. Background Microsoft framed the move as an expansion of what it calls agentic AI — systems that do more than recommend, and instead can act on behalf of users and businesses across multi-step...

Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are no longer optional infrastructure — they are the foundation for delivering fast, secure, and resilient experiences across the public web and private applications, and the choices you make about CDN providers in 2026 will materially affect latency, costs, and risk posture for any internet-facing service. Background / Overview The CDN market in 2026 is defined by four clear trends: edge compute becoming table stakes, tighter integration of security (WAF...

A recent wave of community benchmarking — amplified by a TrigzZolt video and summarized across the tech press — has delivered a blunt, attention-grabbing claim: on one commonly used vintage laptop, Windows 11 finished dead last in responsiveness and resource efficiency compared with Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8.1 and 10. The test’s headline conclusion — that Microsoft “may have created the slowest Windows in 25 years” — is provocative, but the data behind it, the conditions that produced it, and...

Microsoft has quietly extended another layer of AI to Windows 11 users — this time in a way that doesn’t strictly require cutting‑edge hardware — while keeping the faster, private, and offline variants reserved for machines with dedicated neural silicon. Background Microsoft’s ongoing strategy for Windows 11 is resolutely hybrid: deliver broadly useful AI experiences to as many users as possible via cloud-backed services, and deliver lower-latency, privacy-preserving variants on machines...

NASA’s NEPP heavy‑ion campaign at Texas A&M has cleared EdgeCortix’s SAKURA‑II accelerator of destructive single‑event effects and recorded only limited, recoverable error modes — a result that moves low‑power, on‑board AI from conceptual promise toward operational plausibility for LEO, GEO and lunar missions. Background / Overview Spaceborne autonomy demands compute that is both powerful and durable. Modern sensor suites, high‑resolution imaging payloads, navigation aids and on‑platform...

Amazon’s corporate ranks are set to shrink again as the company moves forward with a new, phased round of reductions that will begin with separations scheduled for January 26, 2026 and extend through the spring — a process that industry reporting and state WARN filings show will affect thousands of employees in corporate, technical and HR roles even as Amazon redirects capital into large-scale AI and cloud infrastructure investments. Background Amazon’s recent restructuring momentum did not...

Krones’ recent demonstration that digital twins driven by GPU-accelerated simulation, OpenUSD scene composition, and autonomous AI agents can collapse hours-long CFD cycles into operationally useful minutes marks a clear inflection point for beverage-line automation — but the headline “3–4 hours to under 5 minutes” hides important technical trade-offs and procurement caveats that every buyer must understand before betting production on an autonomous twin. Background Krones, the German...

Microsoft’s AI honeymoon is showing early signs of strain: internal sales targets for Azure AI products were reportedly adjusted, customers are favoring generic chatbots over Copilot in some workplaces, and independent benchmarking of “agentic AI” shows the technology still struggles with basic multi‑step office tasks. Background Microsoft entered the generative-AI era from a position of strength. Over the last three years the company has poured capital, engineering talent, and product focus...

Households across the UK and Ireland have been urged to “open windows for 10 minutes a day” as a simple, low‑cost measure to refresh indoor air and reduce condensation, damp and the airborne concentration of respiratory particles — advice that is sound in principle but must be applied with important caveats about outdoor air quality, severe weather and the needs of vulnerable occupants. Background Public messaging that distilled ventilation to a single, memorable instruction — open your...

Alienware’s surprise push into radically thinner and more affordable gaming laptops marks a clear pivot: the company is broadening the definition of what an Alienware PC can be, and doing so at a time when Windows 11’s refresh cycle and the end of Windows 10 support are nudging many users toward new hardware. Overview Dell’s Alienware brand used CES 2026 to preview two important expansions to its laptop lineup: an ultra‑slim gaming family offered in 14‑ and 16‑inch sizes, and a new...

Elon Musk’s latest legal salvo has unspooled a new layer of irony into the long, tangled story of OpenAI and Microsoft: court exhibits unsealed in a high‑profile lawsuit show Musk not only criticized the Microsoft–OpenAI alliance in public, but privately urged OpenAI to move its compute from Amazon to Microsoft back in 2016 — even referring to Jeff Bezos in dismissive terms — and later helped arrange Azure access that became central to OpenAI’s rise. What was once a friendly nudge now sits...

Amazon's Prime Video arriving as a native app on Windows 10 — and the resurfacing of legacy GPU driver updates like Nvidia's GeForce Game Ready 382.53 for Windows 8.1 — represent two very different but intersecting threads in the PC ecosystem: one is about modern platform convenience and content delivery, the other about maintaining compatibility and stability for older hardware. Both stories matter to Windows users because they touch on where we consume media and how we keep our systems...

Amazon’s latest sprint to be seen as a front‑rank AI company isn’t a publicity stunt; it’s a full corporate reorientation that stitches together custom silicon, massive data‑center builds, strategic partnerships and product packaging — and the market is beginning to reward that bet even as the scale of the gamble makes the risks starkly visible. Background / Overview The past 18 months have been a turning point for Amazon. Once defined in headlines by Prime shipping and marketplace scale...

Microsoft Edge’s Immersive Reader — long prized as a minimalist, distraction‑free reading surface — is being reimagined so Copilot’s AI sits front and center, and the change matters more than a visual tweak: it reframes reading as an interactive AI experience rather than a pure comfort mode. Overview Microsoft is testing a redesigned Immersive Reader layout in Edge Canary that places Copilot actions — Summarize, Explain, and Chat with Copilot — directly in the reader toolbar, pushing...

Backblaze’s recent quarters make a simple, high‑stakes claim: double down on B2 Cloud Storage growth to offset slower momentum in legacy backup, and use improving margins to bridge the firm to positive free cash flow. The evidence is unambiguous — B2 is accelerating and management is pushing product and go‑to‑market moves (including B2 Overdrive) to capture AI and data‑intensive workloads — but the calculus isn’t purely technical. Backblaze must defend price-sensitive customers against...

Microsoft’s denial that it “killed” the Office brand landed fast and blunt: the company says nothing fundamental changed for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint — what changed was a hub and the way Microsoft is slapping Copilot branding across entry points. That clarification follows a week of viral screenshots, social noise and one-liners that mistook an app-level rename for the end of a 30‑year brand, and it exposes a recurring problem: Microsoft’s naming and packaging have become a liability as...