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The ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 and HD 3470 remain common legacy entries in the laptop and small-form-factor GPU market, but the practical reality for Windows 10 users has narrowed: these cards’ hardware specifications are firmly documented, their driver support has been in a legacy state for years, and trusting third‑party repackages or undocumented driver claims now carries real security and stability risk. Background / Overview The Mobility Radeon HD 5470 and HD 3470 are entry-level...

Scality’s ARTESCA+ Veeam converges backup software and backup storage into a single software appliance, promising faster time-to-protection, a smaller attack surface, and an easier path to immutable, on‑prem S3-compatible backups for branch, edge, and mid‑market sites. The offering bundles a Veeam Backup & Replication instance inside Scality ARTESCA on the same validated x86 host, with a guided assistant that configures S3 buckets, enables Object Lock and versioning, and hands off...

The Fallout crossover is live in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Warzone — and if you want the free Sturmwolf 45 SMG and the premium Ghoul operator as fast as possible, the shortest path is a focused XP sprint that stacks every legitimate multiplier and repeatable objective available. Background / Overview Season 01 Reloaded introduced the Call of Duty x Fallout crossover, bringing Fallout TV-show operators (Lucy, The Ghoul, Maximus), a Vault‑themed Nuketown variant, and an event pass with...

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Microsoft has begun turning Copilot from a conversational assistant into a direct checkout lane—rolling out Copilot Checkout in the United States with an ecosystem-first, consent-based approach that stitches product discovery, catalog ingestion, and tokenized payment flows into an in-chat purchase experience. Early partners include PayPal, Shopify and Stripe, and Microsoft is shipping merchant tooling—Brand Agents and Copilot Studio templates—to help retailers present brand-voiced shopping...

Microsoft’s new Copilot Checkout flips a familiar shopping pattern: rather than redirecting a customer from a conversation to a retailer’s site, the purchase completes inside the AI assistant itself, turning discovery and checkout into a single, uninterrupted flow that Microsoft says will help convert intent into transactions faster and with less friction. Background Microsoft unveiled Copilot Checkout at NRF 2026 as part of a broader retail push that bundles conversational shopping, catalog...

Microsoft and PayPal have quietly turned Copilot from an adviser into a checkout lane: Copilot Checkout now lets U.S. shoppers complete purchases inside a Copilot conversation — without being redirected to a merchant’s website — with PayPal, Stripe and Shopify providing the payment and catalog plumbing that makes in‑chat shopping possible. Background Copilot Checkout arrives at the center of a fast‑moving industry shift often called agentic commerce — the idea that AI agents should do more...

Lenovo’s CES reveal centered on a bold pivot: a system-level AI agent called Qira that the company says will follow users across laptops, smartphones and prototype wearables, performing authorized actions and preserving context as interactions move from device to device. Background / Overview Lenovo introduced Qira on the Tech World stage at CES in Las Vegas as the centerpiece of a broader “Smarter AI for All” strategy that ties new AI-capable laptops, refreshed Motorola phones, enterprise...

Windows Update's well‑intentioned drive to keep systems secure often collides with real work: interrupted presentations, lost progress, and machines rebooting at the worst possible moment — and many of the most effective ways to regain control live in the Registry. This feature walks through the safest, most reliable registry hacks for taming disruptive Windows updates, verifies key claims against official and independent documentation, explains how to test and undo each change, and...

Beautiful Windows Elgin’s pivot from a local drapery studio to a national, woman‑owned e‑commerce fabric retailer signals a quietly consequential shift in how specialty textiles reach designers, small brands, and DIY makers across the United States. Background Beautiful Windows Elgin began life as a South Carolina showroom and custom drapery operation and now advertises an online catalog of designer fabrics sold by the yard with nationwide shipping—a change that transforms a traditionally...

Raycast’s latest Windows beta update ships a built‑in Run command that explicitly targets the age‑old Win+R workflow, delivering a modern, discoverable, keyboard‑first replacement that blends the classic one‑line launcher semantics with a richer UI, history, and extension-driven actions. Background The Run dialog (Win+R) is one of Windows’ oldest productivity primitives: a tiny, keyboard‑centric launcher that power users and administrators have relied on since Windows 95. Its appeal is...

Die Debatte um die Aktivierung von Microsoft Copilot im Schweizer Parlament macht deutlich, wie schnell technische Innovationen politische Institutionen vor Fragen zu Governance, Verantwortung und digitaler Souveränität stellen — und wie sehr der Erfolg solcher Projekte von klarer Führung, kompetentem Rollout und transparenter Kommunikation abhängt. swissAI begrüßt grundsätzlich den Einsatz generativer KI als Effizienztreiber, kritisiert aber die Art der Einführung und fordert politische...

Microsoft’s Copilot Checkout is live in the U.S., and PayPal is one of the primary payment engines powering in‑chat purchases — a move that accelerates the shift from link‑based discovery to agentic commerce where AI agents discover, decide and complete purchases without redirecting shoppers to merchant websites. Background Copilot Checkout is Microsoft’s new in‑chat checkout capability that surfaces product recommendations inside Copilot conversations and presents a native “Buy” path so...

Scality and Veeam have collapsed two historically separate stacks—backup software and backup target—into a single, validated software appliance that runs Veeam Backup & Replication inside Scality ARTESCA on a single x86 host, promising faster time-to-protection, a smaller attack surface, and simpler operations for branch, edge, and mid-market sites. Background / Overview Scality’s ARTESCA is positioned as an S3 object store purpose-built for backup: compact to deploy, hardened for...

When Windows users boot their PCs and find their Desktop, Documents or Pictures folders suddenly empty and replaced by a small shortcut reading “Where are my files?”, the culprit is increasingly familiar: OneDrive’s folder backup and sync features have quietly moved those files into the cloud. What looks like data loss is usually an interaction between Known Folder Move (KFM), Files On‑Demand, and OneDrive’s backup controls — a combination that can be confusing, aggressive, and, in some edge...

Advertisers who believe they’ve fully stepped away from X (formerly Twitter) may still be sending budget to the platform without realizing it — because X quietly opened much of its ad inventory to programmatic buyers and major demand sources like Google Ads can purchase that inventory indirectly. This is not hypothetical: industry consultants and reporting show programmatic pathways, supply‑side partnerships, and automation defaults that together create a practical loophole for brands trying...

A quiet but consequential Outlook update has left some Windows users unable to open messages protected with Microsoft’s “Encrypt Only” setting, turning sensitive emails into unreadable attachments and forcing administrators and senders into an urgent triage mode until a permanent fix ships. Background: what landed and where it hit On January 5, 2026 Microsoft acknowledged a regression in the Classic Outlook (Win32) client delivered via the Current Channel update Version 2511 (Build...

Mizuho Americas and NPower have quietly turned a pilot into a noteworthy first-year outcome for New York’s entry-level tech ecosystem, launching Path2TECH: Networking & Systems Administration (NetSA) as a free, blended asynchronous 26-week pathway designed to move underemployed young New Yorkers into systems and network roles. The program — seeded by a three-year FutureReady grant from the Mizuho USA Foundation — couples employer-aligned curriculum, vendor certifications, and an...

The AMD Radeon HD 3450 is effectively a legacy device on modern Windows releases, and the practical reality for users trying to run it under Windows 10 is that official vendor support ended years ago — Windows Update will usually supply a basic, Microsoft‑signed display driver (version 8.970.100.9001 in AMD’s guidance), while full Catalyst packages were never released for Windows 10 and any attempt to force newer or non‑OEM packages carries real risk. Background The Radeon HD 3450 launched...

Windows 11 ships with a deceptively simple tool that quietly solves a surprising number of everyday problems: Live Captions. Flick it on with Windows + Ctrl + L and your PC will generate on‑screen subtitles for almost any audio playing on the machine — from browser videos and podcasts to Zoom calls and local media — and it does so on your device, without streaming your audio to the cloud. What began as an accessibility feature has become one of the most useful, low‑friction productivity...