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Microsoft is using the regular Windows Update channel to rotate Secure Boot certificates on existing devices so that systems that rely on the original 2011 Microsoft Secure Boot certificates do not slip into a degraded security state when those certificates begin to expire between June and October 2026. The rollout is deliberate and telemetry‑gated: replacement certificates and updated boot components are being delivered inside standard Windows cumulative updates and targeted first at...

Sohini Desai’s Baffler dispatch is less a prediction than a status report: agentic AI—the class of autonomous assistants that do things, not just write things—is being sold as convenience, framed as inevitability, and built on a bargain the public never signed. The trade Desai describes is simple and stark: give platforms administrative access to your digital life, and they’ll promise to do your living for you—plan, buy, message, schedule—while they turn your attention, relationships, and...

Michigan State University’s student-run AI Club has become a surprising — and instructive — bellwether for how tomorrow’s workforce is learning to live with generative artificial intelligence: enthusiastic about the tools, pragmatic about the limits, and deliberate about teaching both techniques and ethics. mpus pivot toward practical AI Since the public debut of ChatGPT in November 2022, generative AI has accelerated from a technical curiosity into a mainstream productivity platform that...

Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI, told the Financial Times that "we're going to have a human‑level performance on most, if not all, professional tasks" and predicted that most white‑collar tasks — the work people do sitting at a computer as lawyers, accountants, project managers or marketers — will be fully automated by AI within the next 12–18 months. Background / Overview The remarks, published and amplified across the tech and business press, crystallize a provocative thesis: the...

Aramco and Microsoft signed a non‑binding Memorandum of Understanding on 12 February 2026 to explore a suite of industrial artificial intelligence initiatives designed to accelerate the Kingdom’s energy‑sector digital transformation, strengthen data sovereignty, and scale a national talent pipeline for AI and cloud skills. Background and overview The MoU — announced by Saudi Aramco on 12 February 2026 — formalizes an extension of a multi‑year relationship between the world’s largest...

Cheap download listings and one-line blog fixes promising “GeForce 8600 GT drivers for Windows 10 — solved” sound attractive, but for anyone who actually installs kernel-mode graphics drivers on a modern PC, the question isn’t marketing copy — it’s provenance, compatibility, and recoverability. Background / Overview The GeForce 8600 GT is a mid‑2000s GPU that once delivered solid value for mainstream desktops. Over the last decade NVIDIA moved older product families into archived, legacy...

Microsoft is turning up the default security posture in Windows 11 with a pair of features designed to make low-level tampering harder and make application behavior more visible to users and administrators: Windows Baseline Security Mode (BSM), which enables runtime integrity safeguards that prefer signed code by default, and User Transparency and Consent, a mobile-style permission and installer prompt system that surfaces when apps and agents request sensitive access. These changes are...

OnePlan’s February 2026 product update delivers a clear, practical set of enhancements aimed at reducing everyday friction for enterprise portfolio teams: no‑code Work Plan automations and stricter baseline governance to protect schedule integrity, a centralized Plan Files App with Microsoft Teams integration to shrink context switching, financial controls such as Combined Cost Types and daily status locks for tighter month‑end accuracy, faster scenario modeling in Portfolio Modeler...

Linux’s moment of plausibility for mainstream PC gaming didn’t arrive as a sudden coup — it emerged from a sequence of engineering wins, commercial signals, and calendar pressure that together made gaming on Linux a realistic choice for far more players than ever before. e we were, and what changed The raw numbers still favor Windows overwhelmingly, and that matters. Valve’s Steam Hardware & Software Survey for January 2026 shows Windows 11 at 66.71% and Windows 10 at 27.79%, leaving Linux...

After three months with the ROG Xbox Ally X, the headline is simple: as a piece of portable gaming hardware it is a genuine leap forward—delivering sustained, high-frame-rate play and flexible docking options—but as a Windows 11 handheld it also exposes the platform’s fragility. The Ally X pairs flagship-grade internal components (an AMD Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme–class APU, up to 24 GB of LPDDR5X, a 1 TB M.2 SSD and an ~80 Wh battery) with a 7-inch 120 Hz IPS display and Xbox-style ergonomics...

The University of Manchester’s decision to roll out full Microsoft 365 Copilot access and training to its entire campus community—some 65,000 students and staff, with the programme due to complete by summer 2026—has crystallised a national debate about the role of large technology providers in public higher education. The announcement, described by the university and Microsoft as a “world‑first” move to give universal Copilot access, promises clear benefits: coordinated AI literacy...

GovCIO’s Kearneysville hiring blitz for a Journeyman Windows System Administrator puts a familiar, high‑stakes mix of legacy Windows operations, enterprise virtualization, and DoD‑grade security squarely in the spotlight — a hybrid role that demands hands‑on Windows Server and VMware experience, active or transferable Secret clearance, and the kind of automation and compliance know‑how that large federal programs increasingly require. Background Over the past five years federal contractors...

Aramco’s new memorandum of understanding with Microsoft signals a decisive push to move industrial artificial intelligence from experimental pilots into core, operational systems across the energy giant’s global footprint — a plan that foregrounds sovereign-ready cloud infrastructure, edge computing, and large-scale workforce upskilling as the pillars of a next-phase digital transformation. (arabianbusiness.com) Background Saudi Aramco and Microsoft signed a non-binding MoU on February...

Microsofts Copilot hat in den letzten Monaten eine Wandlung durchlaufen: vom eingebetteten Assistenten in Office‑Apps hin zu einer plattformweiten, handlungsfähigen AI‑Schicht, die Unternehmen als eine Art „unternehmensweites Betriebssystem“ für Wissen, Automatisierung und Agenten‑Orchestrierung einsetzen können. BornCity beschreibt diese Entwicklung als Sprung vom reaktiven Chatbot zum aktiven Arbeitspartner — mit neuen Agenten, Actions, Copilot Studio und Governance‑Werkzeugen, die Copilot...

Aramco’s announcement on February 12, 2026 that it has signed a non‑binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Microsoft to expand industrial artificial intelligence (AI) across its operations represents a deliberate pivot from experimentation to large‑scale, cloud‑anchored deployment — one that promises faster operational decisioning, broader skills development inside the Kingdom, and the possibility of commercializing Saudi‑developed industrial AI. The deal frames four priority pillars...

Microsoft has quietly begun a phased rollout that updates the digital certificates used by Secure Boot on Windows devices — a preemptive, ecosystem-wide refresh meant to prevent an impending expiration of long-lived 2011-era certificates and to preserve the integrity of boot‑time protections going forward. Background Secure Boot is a UEFI firmware standard that prevents unsigned or tampered code from loading during the earliest stages of system startup. It is one of the foundational...

Microsoft has quietly folded a longtime defender's toolkit into the core of Windows 11: Sysmon (System Monitor) is now available as a built‑in, optional Windows feature in Insider Preview builds, and Build 28020.1611 (KB5077221) also brings a small but practical OneDrive sharing polish and a corrected desktop watermark for Insiders. This Canary‑channel flight signals a meaningful operational shift for security teams, while the OneDrive change tightens the integration between cloud storage...

Saudi Aramco’s memorandum of understanding with Microsoft — announced alongside a Boston Consulting Group study showing that roughly four in ten Saudi organizations now qualify as AI Leaders — marks a decisive moment in the Kingdom’s industrial and national push to move artificial intelligence from experimental pilots into large-scale, operational reality. Background Saudi Arabia’s push to integrate AI at scale has for several years been a pillar of Vision 2030. That strategy pairs massive...

Oglethorpe University’s upcoming On Mutual Ground conversation, “Ethics and the Future of AI,” is a timely microcosm of a national reckoning: students and campus leaders are trying to translate the abstract ethics debates about generative AI into classroom practice, institutional policy, and career readiness. The Feb. 26, 2026 event will bring together Dr. Edward L. Queen of Emory University and Avoilan Bingham of Drive Capital and Atlanta Tech Week to speak directly with students about the...

Linux’s moment of plausibility for mainstream PC gaming has arrived not because one hero fixed every problem, but because a handful of engineering wins, ecosystem signals and market forces have removed many of the old, practical barriers that kept most gamers tethered to Windows. The question today is no longer strictly “can Linux run my games?” but “what would it take for me to live without Windows?” — and for many players, the answer is finally becoming “not as much as it used to be.”...