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In mixed-platform workplaces the ability to reach across the Windows–Mac divide without losing performance, keyboard fidelity, or security is no longer a convenience—it's a business requirement, and the right remote access strategy can make the difference between a seamless distributed workflow and a day of frustrated support tickets. Background Modern offices rarely, if ever, run a single operating system. Creative teams favor macOS for color-accurate screens and GPU-accelerated creative...

Dragos’ 2026 Year‑in‑Review makes bluntly clear what industrial defenders have long feared: adversaries are no longer content to merely probe and persist inside industrial networks — they are mapping control loops, handing off footholds to specialized operators, and increasingly engineering ransomware and destructive operations that translate digital access into real‑world disruption. The report, released February 17, 2026, documents a measurable maturation of OT threat ecosystems in 2025...

The leaked files published this week show that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement dramatically increased its use of Microsoft’s Azure cloud during the second half of 2025 — more than tripling stored volumes on Azure in six months and expanding the agency’s consumption of Microsoft productivity and AI tools — raising hard questions about how commercial cloud platforms, resellers and third‑party integrations are shaping a sweeping interior‑enforcement campaign. Background In 2025 the...

Auni’s rapid climb to 3,500 business sign-ups inside three months is a clear signal that Kenyan micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are not just curious about AI — they’re ready to use it as part of their everyday commerce. The Nairobi startup Fastagger built Auni as a lightweight, Microsoft Azure–backed mini app inside Safaricom’s M-Pesa Business Super App. Auni turns M-Pesa PDF statements into structured dashboards with on-device optical character recognition (OCR) and pruned AI...

Windows 10 users who think “it still boots, so I’m fine” are being handed a quietly serious maintenance problem: Microsoft is replacing the Secure Boot certificates that have underpinned Windows’ pre‑boot trust model since 2011, and machines that don’t receive the new certificates will continue to boot but will enter a degraded security state — unable to receive new boot‑level protections, revocation updates, or mitigations for newly discovered pre‑OS threats. com] Background / Overview...

Windows 11 can be maddening, especially when a fresh reinstall still leaves you with hiccups—but with the right safety net and methodical tuning, you can wrest control back and turn Microsoft’s general-purpose OS into a pragmatic, low-noise gaming platform. XDA’s recent walkthrough — a hands-on account of repeated reinstalls, frustration, and eventual tuning — lays out a practical toolkit of tweaks that prioritize responsiveness and consistency over chasing synthetic FPS numbers. Those...

Millions of Windows 10 users are being urged to act now after security researchers and national incident response teams flagged a pair of escalating threats: a widespread fake browser update campaign delivering remote-access malware and an ongoing stream of high‑severity Windows vulnerabilities that can be chained into full system compromise. Background The story has two running threads that intersect: social‑engineering campaigns that trick users into installing malicious software, and...

The tech industry’s loudest promises about artificial intelligence as a climate savior have collided with a damning new analysis: a coalition of environmental groups says most corporate claims that AI will cut emissions are unproven, while independent studies and energy agencies offer a far more nuanced — and anxious — picture of AI’s net climate impact. The claim that AI is an unalloyed “win” for the planet now sits alongside hard evidence that generative AI and the data centers that power...

Andy Jassy’s warning on Amazon’s latest earnings call was blunt: the single biggest long-term risk to Amazon’s retail dominance isn’t Walmart or Alibaba — it’s the rise of horizontal AI agents that aim to become consumers’ new “front door to commerce.” What sounded at first like a tactical quip about product accuracy has rapidly become an existential industry conversation about who owns the shopping moment, how transactions are routed, and whether the multibillion-dollar retail-media model...

The European Parliament has quietly moved to disable built‑in artificial‑intelligence features on the work devices it issues to Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), citing cybersecurity and data‑protection risks tied to cloud‑connected assistants and summarizers — a move that crystallizes a growing tension between convenience and sovereignty as governments grapple with how to use generative AI safely in public institutions. Background The change was communicated in an internal email...

Microsoft’s neat framing is simple and urgent: the era of “better answers” — where large language models serve mainly as glorified search-and-summarize tools — is yielding to something fundamentally different, and that difference matters more for business outcomes than model accuracy alone. The new frontier is agentic systems of work: ensembles of planner and worker agents that can plan, act, verify, revise, and deliver end-to-end outcomes inside the tools people already use every day. This...

Microsoft’s DTECH 2026 messaging is blunt: the utility sector is past the era of proof‑of‑concepts and into a phase where AI, unified IT/OT data, and partner-driven architectures must deliver repeatable operational outcomes — not pilots. Across the show floor and Microsoft‑led sessions, the narrative coalesced around three tightly linked priorities: build trusted, governed data foundations that span IT and OT; embed agent‑enabled AI into operator workflows with clear human oversight; and...

Mistral AI’s acquisition of Koyeb is more than a typical startup buyout — it’s a deliberate, fast-moving step toward assembling a full-stack AI infrastructure that combines model development, sovereign compute, and serverless deployment under one roof. The deal, announced February 17, 2026, folds Koyeb’s serverless platform and engineering team into Mistral’s expanding Mistral Compute initiative and signals the company’s first acquisition as it races to own both the brains and the plumbing...

When an activist hedge fund calls a toilet maker “the most undervalued and overlooked AI memory beneficiary,” it’s a headline-grabbing turn of phrase — but the story beneath the quip is rooted in hard engineering, razor-thin market niches, and a classic activist playbook. London-based Palliser Capital has disclosed a top‑20 stake in TOTO Ltd. and published a value‑enhancement presentation arguing that the company best known for the Washlet bidet is sitting on a materially undervalued...

PTC’s move to make Windchill and Codebeamer available in Microsoft’s mission cloud environments up to Department of Defense Impact Level 6 marks a meaningful step in modernizing engineering pipelines for the defense industrial base, but it also raises a new set of operational, security, and programmatic questions contractors must answer before moving classified engineering work to the cloud. Background / Overview PTC announced that its flagship Windchill product lifecycle management (PLM)...

Ericsson and Microsoft have announced a joint integration that embeds advanced 5G management capabilities into Windows 11, promising enterprises an easier, more secure, and more automated way to deploy and operate 5G‑connected laptops at scale. Background The move builds on several years of trials and incremental feature work across Microsoft, Ericsson, and leading communications service providers (CSPs). Enterprise use of cellular‑connected PCs has long been hampered by manual provisioning...

Microsoft has quietly shipped the upgrade Windows musicians have waited decades for: a modern, multi-client MIDI stack that brings MIDI 2.0 support, faster and lower‑jitter transports, and—most importantly—the ability for one physical MIDI device to talk to multiple applications at the same time. This change, delivered as the new Windows MIDI Services suite and rolling out to retail Windows 11 24H2/25H2 via a staged Windows Update, finally removes a longstanding Windows limitation that...

Windows 11’s new Windows MIDI Services finally delivers on promises that have been decades in the making: native MIDI 2.0 support, a reworked MIDI 1.0 stack with modern conveniences, built-in multi-client access to ports, automatic translation between MIDI 2.0 and 1.0, loopback/app-to-app routing, high-resolution timing and scheduling, and a new USB MIDI 2.0 class driver — all intended to make music creation, live performance, and hardware/software integration smoother on Windows PCs...

Microsoft’s February cumulative update for Windows 11, KB5077181, intended to deliver security fixes and a handful of quality improvements, has sparked a fresh wave of community concern after gamers on multiple subreddits reported a new, rhythmic in‑game stutter that began appearing immediately after installing the patch. Early evidence points to an interaction with Windows’ Fullscreen Optimizations (FSO) and the compositor/graphics stack rather than a universal performance regression, but...

Every time a company announces a new data center or a chat window suggests “Draft with Copilot,” an invisible ledger updates: more compute, more cooling, more capital — and, increasingly, higher costs passed beyond the hyperscalers to ordinary electricity customers and hardware buyers. The argument that “if you don’t like AI, just don’t use it” has become hollow for many consumers who never clicked an AI prompt but are still seeing the ripple effects in their bills and on store shelves...