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If you’re hunting for a cheap download of GeForce GTX 1050 drivers for Windows 7 64‑bit — or trying to get the NVIDIA Control Panel working on Windows 11, 10, 8.1 or 7 — this guide explains exactly what you need, why “discount” driver pages are risky, and how to safely download, verify, install, and troubleshoot NVIDIA drivers for legacy and modern Windows releases. Background / Overview The GeForce GTX 1050 is a member of NVIDIA’s Pascal‑era GeForce 10 Series and remains widely used in...

Microsoft quietly put a small but remarkably useful tool out to pasture: Steps Recorder (historically PSR.exe), the tiny troubleshooting utility that produced compact, annotated step-by-step archives used by help desks and system administrators for nearly two decades. What looked like a minor housekeeping decision—consolidating inbox capture tools—creates a practical, operational gap for organizations that relied on PSR’s structured output and low-bandwidth workflows. Background Steps...

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Wesfarmers’ decision to move from pilots to a formal, multi‑year strategic partnership with Microsoft signals a clear bet: embed Microsoft Cloud and generative AI across the group’s retail brands to lift frontline productivity, tighten supply‑chain operations and experiment with so‑called agentic commerce — while relying heavily on Microsoft’s engineering, governance and skilling resources to do it at scale...

Microsoft’s Defender researchers have pulled back the curtain on a quiet but powerful marketing vector: seemingly harmless “Summarize with AI” and “Share with AI” buttons that surreptitiously instruct chat assistants to remember particular companies or sites, creating persistent, invisible biases in future recommendations. Background / Overview Modern conversational assistants—consumer chatbots, enterprise copilots, and embedded AI sidebars—are useful because they remember. Memory features...

Microsoft’s pivot toward “AI self-sufficiency” is no accident — it is a deliberate, well-funded strategy to rewire how the company builds, hosts and ships the generative AI capabilities that now sit at the center of Office, Windows and Azure. Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s Chief AI Officer, has publicly framed that shift as a move to reduce reliance on any single external lab, even as the company preserves deep ties with OpenAI under a reworked commercial arrangement. The result is a...

Microsoft has quietly changed the behavior of its long‑running Media Creation Tool (MCT): the official Windows 11 installer generator is now shipping images that include the latest Patch Tuesday cumulative baseline, meaning freshly created USB media will often require far fewer post‑install downloads than in previous months. The February 2026 update to the MCT packages Windows 11 build 26200.7840 (delivered as KB5077181 on February 10, 2026), making it the most practical route for a clean...

Microsoft’s warning that the Secure Boot certificates issued during the Windows 8 era are being retired in 2026 is not a hypothetical maintenance note—it’s a scheduled refresh of the cryptographic trust anchors that run before Windows even starts, and it has meaningful operational and security consequences for consumers, enterprises, and anyone who manages firmware or recovery media. Background / Overview Secure Boot is a UEFI firmware feature that enforces a cryptographic chain of trust...

Microsoft’s Canary channel just received another terse but consequential preview: Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1611 lands with a small set of visible fixes and a major operational shift for defenders — Sysmon (System Monitor) is now available as a built‑in, optional Windows feature — alongside a nicety for OneDrive sharing and a corrected desktop watermark. The new Sysmon experience is disabled by default and must be explicitly enabled by administrators; once activated it behaves...

Microsoft’s latest security pivot for Windows 11 is both philosophical and practical: the platform will soon enable a new Windows Baseline Security Mode (BSM) that moves runtime integrity protections toward a default, system‑enforced posture, and a companion User Transparency and Consent model that brings smartphone‑style permission dialogs and auditable consent trails to desktop apps and agentic AI workflows. These paired changes are designed to make stealthy modifications and unattended...

Microsoft’s recent guidance on Copilot Studio agent security is both a wake-up call and a practical roadmap: as organizations race to embed AI agents into workflows, a predictable set of misconfigurations—broad sharing, weak or maker-owned authentication, HTTP request misuse, dormant artifacts, and hard‑coded secrets—are creating high‑value attack paths that traditional controls and perimeter defenses typically miss. lot Studio agents are no longer curiosities; they are operational tools...

When Microsoft gave Microsoft 365 Copilot agents a simple, standard way to connect to tools and data using the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the payoff was immediate: answers sharpened, delivery accelerated, and new development patterns emerged—alongside a single, unavoidable question: if agents can speak to more systems, how do we make sure only the right voices are heard and nothing sensitive leaves the room...

Microsoft has quietly started rolling out a Windows 11 update that brings Bluetooth LE Audio-powered audio sharing to compatible PCs — a feature that can broadcast a single PC’s audio stream to two Bluetooth accessories at once and that lays the groundwork for Auracast-style broadcasting and super wideband voice improvements in calls and gaming. Background Bluetooth LE Audio and the related Auracast broadcast model represent one of the most significant upgrades to wireless audio in a decade...

The short disclaimer on royaldutchshellplc.com — “This is not a Shell website” — is more than a legal hedge: it is the hinge of a public experiment that mixes satire, archived grievances, and generative AI outputs, and it forces a practical question for IT and communications teams alike: what happens when modern AI copilots ingest contested archives and then produce legally‑tinged assessments that are published as evidence? rview RoyalDutchShellPlc.com and related pages have long hosted an...

Royal Dutch Shell’s long shadow across the 20th and 21st centuries is no longer a private ledger of corporate decisions; it has become public material for historians, shareholders, litigants—and now generative AIs. The result is a blunt, inconvenient question for the board at Shell’s next AGM: given the weight of archival documents, admissions and public inquiries that tie parts of the group to morally compromised episodes—ranging from hazardous industrial practices and admitted...

Anthropic’s Cowork arriving on Windows is not just another app release — it is a watershed moment in the race to put agentic AI on the desktop, and it forces IT teams, security officers, and software vendors to confront what “automating work” really means when an assistant can read, write, and reorganize your files on command. The Windows port brings what Anthropic calls “full feature parity” with the macOS research preview — file access, multi‑step task execution, plugins, and Model Context...

Saudi Aramco and Microsoft have taken a formal—but non-binding—step toward scaling industrial artificial intelligence across the Kingdom by signing a Memorandum of Understanding that centers on Azure-based deployments, sovereign-ready infrastructure, and large-scale workforce skilling. The MoU frames a two-track strategy: accelerate the technical migration of validated AI into operational environments while building local capabilities, governance controls, and commercial models to export...

Microsoft quietly marking Steps Recorder (PSR) for retirement felt, to many IT pros and help-desk veterans, like the quiet removal of a scalpel from the toolkit: surgical, simple, and suddenly missed when it mattered most. Microsoft formally listed Steps Recorder (psr.exe) as deprecated in late 2023 and began showing an in‑product deprecation banner in Windows 11 starting with updates in early 2024, recommending inbox alternatives such as Snipping Tool, Xbox Game Bar, and Clipchamp instead...

PCMag’s security reviews and lab-test coverage make one point very clear: antivirus is no longer a single-number contest between scanners — it’s a layered decision about detection, usability, privacy, and cost that must be matched to how you actually use Windows. Background / Overview PCMag’s Security Reviews and Lab Tests category collects hands‑on reviews, lab‑test summaries, and buyer guidance that reflect how mainstream consumer and enterprise anti‑malware products performed in...

Microsoft’s Media Creation Tool has quietly become a more practical option for clean Windows 11 installs — and not by cosmetic change, but because Microsoft has shifted which backend image the tool downloads so freshly created media land closer to the current patched baseline. Background For years the Media Creation Tool (MCT) has been the simplest, officially supported route for users to download a Windows ISO and create bootable installation media on Windows hosts. Its appeal is...