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Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer an experimental sidebar trick — it’s a multi‑modal assistant baked into Windows, Edge, macOS, mobile apps and Microsoft 365 that can see your screen, speak with you, generate images, work directly with your files and connect to your Gmail or Google Calendar — and there are practical ways to get more value from it right now. Background Copilot began as Microsoft’s answer to the wave of generative AI tools: a chat interface that could help you draft text...

IO Interactive has published the first official PC system requirements for 007 First Light ahead of its May 27, 2026 launch and confirmed a close technical partnership with NVIDIA that brings DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation to the PC build — a combination that promises substantial performance gains for RTX owners, but also raises practical questions about memory budgets, driver maturity, and real‑world latency/artifact trade‑offs. Background / Overview 007 First Light is IO Interactive’s...

Disabling Windows updates is a straightforward way to regain control over when your PC downloads patches and restarts, but it’s a choice that carries immediate convenience and long-term risk in equal measure; this feature story explains every practical method, the technical trade-offs, and a safe, test-first plan for any user who truly needs to stop automatic updates on Windows 10 or Windows 11. Background / Overview Windows Update exists to deliver security fixes, driver updates, and...

A new, faint UI cue in a Windows 11 Insider build suggests Microsoft is testing a tighter Copilot tie‑in inside File Explorer — an invisible button that appears when you hover over a blank spot in the navigation bar and which, according to strings found in preview code, may be labeled "Chat with Copilot" with an option to detach the Copilot interface from File Explorer into a floating pane. This discovery, visible only to Windows Insiders in preview builds and not yet functional, is the...

Microsoft and PayPal’s new in-chat checkout capability turns a conversational assistant into a commerce platform, and it could alter how consumers discover, evaluate, and buy products online by collapsing the traditional “search → browse → buy” funnel into a single agentic interaction. Background Microsoft has rolled out Copilot Checkout, an in-chat shopping and payment flow embedded in Microsoft Copilot, that allows U.S. users to discover products, view details, and complete purchases...

Hytale’s hardware targets are refreshingly pragmatic: a small base install, support for older GPUs and integrated graphics at minimum settings, a clear 1080p/60 recommended tier for mainstream players, and a distinct “creator/streamer” spec that pushes toward modern CPUs, abundant RAM and NVMe storage for stable high-resolution capture. Background Hytale has re-entered public view with a detailed hardware guidance sheet intended to help players and creators plan ahead for Early Access. The...

Microsoft's quiet retreat from one of the small conveniences that made desktop Windows feel like a living jukebox has landed with a thud for anyone still ripping CDs: Windows Media Player's online album-lookup service has stopped returning metadata, leaving freshly inserted discs labelled “Unknown album” and forcing users to type track names by hand or find new tooling to restore what used to happen automatically. Background Windows Media Player (WMP) has carried CD lookup functionality...

A clever but risky tweak discovered by enthusiasts can flip Windows 11 onto Microsoft’s new “native NVMe” I/O path and, in many configurations, produce measurable SSD performance gains—particularly in random I/O—by forcing the operating system to use the in-box NVMe driver instead of the legacy SCSI translation path. The change is implemented with a few registry DWORDs or equivalent PowerShell commands; it replicates an opt‑in server feature introduced with Windows Server 2025 and can unlock...

Microsoft’s Copilot is now not just an assistant for answers — it’s a checkout lane. The company announced Copilot Checkout, a new in-chat purchasing experience that lets U.S. users discover products, view details, and complete purchases without leaving the Copilot conversation. The rollout attaches branded checkout flows to product recommendations in Copilot, with payments handled via integrations with PayPal, Stripe, and Shopify, and initial retail partners including Urban Outfitters...

Microsoft and PayPal have quietly turned Copilot into a checkout lane: shoppers in the United States can now discover, decide and pay for items without leaving the Copilot conversation, thanks to a PayPal-powered integration that supplies inventory surfacing, branded in-chat checkout, guest checkout and card acceptance through PayPal’s agentic commerce services and store sync. Background / Overview Microsoft's Copilot Checkout is the next step in the fast-growing trend commonly called...

Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly shifted from assistant to checkout clerk, Google’s Gemini features are seeding deeper into Gmail and Workspace, Elon Musk’s Grok faces a severe moderation probe over image misuse, OPPO’s Reno 15 Pro lands with flagship-grade cameras and battery life, and RayNeo continues to push compact AR optics — a single news cycle that underlines how AI, commerce, and immersive hardware are colliding across consumer and Windows ecosystems. Background / Overview The last...

The week’s vulnerability roundup from Cyble landed as a blunt reminder that 2026 opened with a sustained, high-pressure tempo for defenders: 678 newly tracked CVEs, nearly 100 with public Proof‑of‑Concept (PoC) code, and multiple high‑impact items already flagged by national authorities — a combination that compresses windows for safe remediation and increases the risk of opportunistic exploitation. Background / Overview Cyble’s intelligence brief — and the community chatter that followed —...

Anthropic’s decision to donate the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to a new Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation marks a decisive step toward industry-standard plumbing for “agentic” AI — the class of systems that act autonomously by connecting models to tools, data stores and services. The move bundles MCP with two other donated projects — Block’s goose agent framework and OpenAI’s AGENTS.md — into a single, vendor-neutral home backed by some of the largest cloud and platform...

If you own a SAPPHIRE Radeon X1650 Pro and are running Windows 10, the short, practical reality is this: the X1650 Pro is a legacy GPU from the mid‑2000s and there is no modern, AMD‑maintained “Windows 10 native” driver that adds contemporary features or WHQL guarantees; your safest and most reliable options are to accept Microsoft’s signed legacy driver delivered through Windows Update, or to perform a carefully controlled manual install of an archived Catalyst/legacy package — and only if...

Google Search and Microsoft Bing both pushed another week of tectonic shifts: renewed ranking volatility in Search; Google quietly expanding and hardening AI answer infrastructure (including new hires and policy nudges); Microsoft moving from discovery to in-chat commerce with Copilot Checkout and Brand Agents; advertising policy updates that open narrow new ad categories; and a sharp, visible example of how AI-driven discovery can collapse a business model — Tailwind’s dramatic engineering...

Microsoft has quietly turned Copilot into a checkout lane: users in the United States can now complete purchases directly inside Copilot conversations through a new in-chat checkout experience called Copilot Checkout, a move that folds discovery, cataloged inventory, and tokenized payments into a single conversational surface. Background Microsoft’s announcement places Copilot squarely in the center of a fast-growing industry trend often called agentic commerce — where AI agents not only...

Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly become a checkout lane: shoppers in the United States can now complete purchases directly inside Copilot conversations, and Stripe says it is one of the payment engines powering the new Copilot Checkout experience. This move stitches Microsoft’s conversational AI, merchant catalogs and tokenized payment plumbing into a single in‑chat purchase flow that promises lower friction for buyers and a new distribution surface for merchants—but it also raises immediate...

Microsoft and PayPal have taken conversational commerce from demonstration to checkout-line reality: shoppers can now discover, decide, and pay for products directly inside Copilot with the launch of Copilot Checkout, powered in part by PayPal’s new agentic commerce services. Background Microsoft’s Copilot has steadily evolved from an assistant for productivity into a multi-surface platform for discovery and transactions. The latest step — Copilot Checkout — embeds a branded, shoppable...

Microsoft's latest flirtation with renaming — the appearance of a product page that calls the familiar Office app "The Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly Office)" — has set off predictable outrage, fresh confusion, and a broader conversation about the real costs of sloppy or opportunistic rebranding in tech. What looked like a sudden erasure of the Office name was actually a long, incremental shove: Microsoft has been layering the Copilot label across its ecosystem for years, and this...

Sectigo’s migration to single‑purpose public roots is no longer an abstract industry update — it’s an active, time‑bound infrastructure change that requires immediate attention from anyone who runs TLS, S/MIME, or code‑signing certificates issued by Sectigo. The vendor has already begun issuing certificates from the new Sectigo Public roots (R46/E46 and the R36/E36 subordinate CAs), cross‑signing those roots for legacy compatibility, and setting a firm migration window that will leave...