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PhysicsX’s platform is proof that the most consequential engineering bottleneck of the last century—time—can be reframed as a software problem, not a materials one. Background PhysicsX began as the kind of contrarian idea that turns up where elite engineering meets modern AI: a London-founded startup led by former Formula 1 engineers and AI researchers, built to move physical design from slow numerical solvers into near-instant inference. Backed by major strategic and financial investors...

Saudi Aramco and Microsoft have signed a non‑binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore a broad suite of digital initiatives aimed at accelerating industrial artificial intelligence (AI), strengthening digital sovereignty, and building a measurable skills pipeline across Saudi Arabia — a deal framed as a move to shift AI from pilots into production-grade operations across one of the world’s largest energy companies. Background The MoU formalises an extension of a multi‑year...

Nixxes Software and Kojima Productions have published the PC system requirements and a full feature list for Death Stranding 2: On the Beach ahead of its March 19, 2026 PC launch, revealing an accessible set of performance targets, cross‑vendor upscalers plus frame generation, a new “Portable” preset for handhelds, and a mandatory 150 GB SSD install. Background / Overview Death Stranding 2: On the Beach arrives on PC almost a year after its PS5 debut, but this release is far from a straight...

If your Windows desktop has become a sameness machine—static wallpaper, predictable taskbar, and the same Start menu—you’re not alone. A new generation of lightweight, community-driven customization tools can make Windows feel like an entirely different operating system: a top-mounted status bar like macOS, a dashboard of live widgets, a mod store that lets you surgically change the taskbar and Start menu, and animated, interactive wallpapers that breathe life into your lock screen. These...

Windows 11’s MIDI support leap is the biggest music-creation upgrade the platform has seen in decades: Microsoft has shipped a new, in-box Windows MIDI Services stack that brings full MIDI 2.0 support to Windows while simultaneously modernizing and repairing long-standing pain points in MIDI 1.0 on the platform. Background / Overview MIDI has powered electronic music for over forty years. The original MIDI 1.0 specification, released in 1983, defined a compact byte-stream protocol and a...

Microsoft is quietly rolling out a user-facing control to stop AI assistants from reading app windows directly from the Windows 11 taskbar — a small setting with outsized implications for privacy, IT management, and how people will interact with on-device AI going forward. Background Microsoft’s Copilot and the broader “Copilot Vision” experience have been evolving rapidly throughout 2025 and into 2026. What began as a conversational assistant integrated into Windows has expanded to include...

Microsoft’s decision to hand the reins of Xbox and Microsoft Gaming to an AI executive — Asha Sharma — landed like a splash of cold water across the gaming community, and her very first promise in an internal memo did more than soothe nerves: it drew a clear line between innovation and artistic integrity by vowing to “not chase short‑term efficiency or flood our ecosystem with soulless AI slop.” Background Asha Sharma’s appointment as Executive Vice President and CEO of Microsoft Gaming...

当 AI 成为“会花钱的代理人”，支付体系的下一场战争已经不再是科幻：一边是通过联盟与传统金融体系嫁接的开源规范，另一边是从发币、建链到钱包、结算全栈自建的垂直战术；两条路径都在争夺一个简单但价值万亿的问题——AI 代替人类付款时，钱从哪根管子里流过去，谁来收过路费。月内，围绕“agentic commerce（代理式商务）”的基础设施建设进入白热化阶段。Google 在 2025 年 9 月发布了名为 Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) 的开放协议，并宣称有超过 60 家支付与技术公司参与支持，目标是为 AI 代理发起的交易建立“可验证的授权、意图与问责”机制；Google 将 AP2 作为 A2A（Agent‑to‑Agent）与 MCP（Model Context Protocol）生态的一部分，强调对传统支付体系的兼容性与开放性。 几乎在同一赛道上，Stripe 与 OpenAI 在 2025 年 9 月推出了面向 AI 平台与商户的 Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP)，并率先将其实现在 ChatGPT 的...

Microsoft is about to move one of Teams’ most sensitive AI inputs — your voice — from a buried settings page into the flow of a live meeting, and that simple UX change has immediate technical upside, broad administrative implications, and material legal risk for organizations that aren’t prepared. Background / Overview Microsoft’s “express voice enrollment” pushes voice-profile creation into the in‑meeting experience so that unenrolled enterprise users can register a voice profile simply by...

Microsoft’s Copilot is now quietly drawing on your activity across other Microsoft services — Edge, Bing, MSN and more — to “seed” its memory and personalize conversations, and that collection is controlled by a new, buried toggle you should know how to find and turn off. ([windowslatest.com]test.com/2026/02/19/copilot-quietly-pulls-your-data-from-other-microsoft-products-including-edge-and-msn-but-you-can-opt-out/) Background / Overview Microsoft built Copilot to be more than a one‑off chat...

David Lammy’s decision to publicly back a faster roll‑out of artificial intelligence across England and Wales’ courts — coupled with a record funding settlement for 2026/27 — marks a pivotal moment in the justice system’s attempt to fix chronic backlog problems, but it also raises urgent questions about reliability, oversight and the risks of delegating sensitive tasks to generative models. Background: the crisis that forced a rethink The criminal courts in England and Wales have been...

Anthropic’s latest push into the workplace is not another flashy chatbot — it’s a practical redesign of how an AI assistant plugs into the systems people already use every day, and that shift changes the calculus for enterprise IT, legal, and productivity teams alike. Background Anthropic introduced Claude Cowork as a workplace-focused agent designed to function as a "thinking partner" inside established productivity stacks. The company’s February product updates expand Cowork’s reach by...

Saudi Aramco’s recently announced memorandum of understanding with Microsoft marks a deliberate push to move industrial artificial intelligence (AI) from pilot projects into production-grade operations across one of the world’s largest energy companies — and to do so on cloud infrastructure that explicitly targets sovereignty, scale and a measurable national skills pipeline. Background / Overview Aramco and Microsoft signed a non‑binding MoU in February 2026 that frames a multi-year...

Microsoft’s green light for Everfox’s Trusted Thin Client (TTC) to operate across Azure clouds marks a practical turning point for agencies and enterprises wrestling with the complexity of multi‑classification access in the cloud — but it’s not a drop‑in solution and comes with operational tradeoffs that IT leaders must evaluate before committing to broad deployment. Background / Overview Everfox, the high‑assurance cybersecurity vendor born from the legacy of Forcepoint Federal, announced...

Microsoft’s MWC 2026 push for telecoms is less about splashy roadmaps and more about plumbing: a tightly integrated stack that stitches cloud, sovereign edge, unified data, and agentic AI into operational fabrics telecom operators can actually run and measure for profit and resilience. m] Background / Overview Telecom operators face an urgent imperative: deliver ultra-low-latency services, monetize differentiated 5G/edge offerings, and shrink operational cost and failure rates — all while...

Cenibra’s decision to replace a decade‑old SAP Identity Management deployment with Microsoft Entra ID Governance did more than avoid an end‑of‑maintenance cliff—it rebuilt the company’s identity control plane around automation, risk‑driven decisions, and a modern Microsoft ecosystem. In Wave 1 of the project Cenibra connected more than 80 systems (including SAP and long‑standing legacy apps), preserved continuity for roughly 2,400 users, and reported a 46% operational gain in identity...

Microsoft’s move to make truly disconnected, on‑premises cloud and AI feasible at enterprise scale is no longer a roadmap aspiration — it’s shipping. Azure Local’s disconnected operations and Microsoft 365 Local’s disconnected mode are now generally available, and Microsoft is extending Foundry Local to bring large, multimodal models inside sovereign, air‑gapped environments. This set of announcements reframes the company’s sovereignty play: hyperscaler capabilities, policy‑driven...

The U.S. Coast Guard has formally chosen PRATUS® as its enterprise incident management platform, a decision that signals a major step in the Service’s Force Design 2028 modernization strategy and reshapes how the Coast Guard will coordinate large-scale events and multi-jurisdictional responses. The cloud-native, Microsoft 365–integrated platform will enter service with an Initial Operational Capability (IOC) posture to support the FIFA World Cup 2026™ and other high-profile national events...

Winux’s latest build, labeled 11.26.03 and stamped “Pre‑March 2026,” is now publicly available — a 6.2 GB ISO that packages a Windows‑like KDE desktop, a 6.17 kernel, Android Play Store support, bundled proprietary apps (OnlyOffice, Microsoft Edge), and the PowerTools customization suite — but the distribution’s checkered history and lingering technical and legal concerns mean this release deserves cautious scrutiny before anyone installs it on a production machine. (notebookcheck.net)...

If your mouse pointer winked out of existence while you were trying to triage an overflowing inbox this week, you were not alone — Microsoft has publicly acknowledged a bug that makes the mouse pointer (and sometimes the text cursor) disappear when hovering over the classic Outlook desktop app, and the company's interim advice reads like a perfect distillation of "classic Windows" troubleshooting: click an email, alt-tab into PowerPoint, or reboot and hope for the best. Background / Overview...