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Finland’s small-business sector is moving from curiosity to practical use of artificial intelligence, with recent reporting claiming a dramatic year‑on‑year jump in adoption among SMEs — a shift that promises productivity gains but also raises urgent questions about skills, governance, and data security for the country’s most resource-constrained firms. The story is especially marked by strong uptake among younger entrepreneurs and firms in the Helsinki region, and by widespread use in...

Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 team has pushed the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for ERP from a narrow, tool-based prototype into a dynamic, analytics-ready runtime—a move that promises to make Dynamics 365 applications agent‑friendly, extensible, and more tightly governed. The company announced a public preview of the dynamic Dynamics 365 ERP MCP server and confirmed a separate MCP server for analytics will enter public preview in December 2025, positioning MCP as the integration fabric...

Sorry, I could not generate a response at this time. Source: Crikey How Australia's national security chief used AI to write speeches and 'personnel communications'

Rockstar Games has opened the gates to Los Santos for everyone this week — making GTA Online free-to-play on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S for one week beginning November 11, 2025 — a move that arrives hot on the heels of yet another delay to Grand Theft Auto VI and a string of employee protests and layoffs that have left the studio under intense scrutiny. Background What happened, in plain terms Rockstar confirmed a time-limited free trial of GTA Online on next‑gen consoles, explicitly noting...

The PlayStation 5 has cleared a major commercial milestone: Sony’s latest financial report shows the PS5 has now sold 84.2 million units worldwide, a tally that — by Sony’s own accounting and industry tallies — puts the PS5 ahead of every Xbox console released to date and inside the top ten of all-time best‑selling consoles. Background / Overview Sony reported the updated figure as part of its most recent financial results, which covered the quarter ending September 30, 2025. That quarter...

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PCMag UK’s roundup of the best gaming desktops for 2025 crystallizes a simple truth: prebuilt rigs now cover a wide, practical spectrum — from highly affordable, quietly capable 1080p machines to compact, blisteringly powerful SFF workhorses that can swallow an RTX 5090 — and the right choice depends as much on space, upgrade intent and noise tolerance as raw frame-rate numbers. Background / Overview PC gaming in 2025 is defined by three converging trends: the dominance of single, very...

Microsoft has shipped Visual Studio 2026 — a major IDE revamp that folds GitHub Copilot into the core workflow, refreshes the UI, and rethinks extension compatibility and update delivery to make upgrades less disruptive and more iterative. Background Visual Studio’s evolution over the last several years has been steady: incremental performance tuning, tighter integration with GitHub and Azure, and a growing set of AI-driven helpers in Copilot. The 2026 release (internally tracked as version...

The bargain tile on a retail page — “alfani HP 14‑dq3110nr 14" HD Laptop Intel Celeron N4500 1.1GHz 4GB RAM 64GB eMMC Windows 11 Home S Mode Jet Black” — and the quiet praise for The Apartments’ In And Out Of The Light from a Brisbane‑based critic could not be more different in subject, yet they converge on the same theme: value for attention. One is a compact Windows machine pitched at budget buyers and students; the other is an underappreciated album that offered a rare musical consolation...

Windows 11 has finally taken the lead in the global Windows desktop market, crossing the majority threshold while Windows 10’s installed base continues a marked decline as Microsoft’s end‑of‑support deadline reshapes upgrade decisions worldwide. Background The competition between Windows 10 and Windows 11 has been the defining product lifecycle story for Microsoft in 2024–2025. For most of the last decade Windows 10 dominated the desktop landscape; 2025 became the year that momentum shifted...

Microsoft's plan to make Windows "agentic" — where the operating system can proactively act on your behalf using AI agents — went from corporate roadmap to frontline controversy in a single X post from Windows president Pavan Davuluri, and the reaction has been blunt: large swaths of users say they don't want an AI‑first Windows. The commentariat's fury is about more than a single phrase; it's the culmination of organizational changes, aggressive feature pushes (Copilot Voice, Copilot...

Circularo’s announcement that it has achieved ISO/IEC 27017 certification for its cloud-hosted eSigning platform is a meaningful signal to customers and procurement teams: the company says its cloud deployments on Microsoft Azure (EU and UAE regions) and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in Saudi Arabia are covered by the certification, and it frames the accreditation as a complement to its existing ISO/IEC 27001 posture and eIDAS‑compliant trust services. Background / Overview ISO/IEC 27017...

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Meta has quietly replaced the native WhatsApp client on Windows 11 with a WebView2-wrapped instance of web.whatsapp.com — a change that crashes the promise of a lightweight, integrated Windows experience and leaves users facing significantly higher memory use, degraded notifications, and a more sluggish interface. Background From web wrapper to native and back again WhatsApp’s long Windows story has been a series of technical reversals. The desktop client started as a web wrapper, moved to...

Prisma AIRS 2.0 signals a pivotal shift in how enterprises must think about agentic AI: not as a feature to bolt on, but as a distinct class of identity, data flow and runtime behavior that demands lifecycle security from design through live execution. Background / Overview Autonomous AI agents are moving from experiments into production across industries — writing code, orchestrating systems, and making decisions in real time. These agents live at the intersection of users, applications and...

Microsoft has shipped .NET 10 — an LTS release Microsoft calls “the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release of .NET yet” — and the ecosystem around it (Visual Studio, C# tooling, and conference content) shipped in lockstep during .NET Conf 2025. Overview .NET 10 is a major Long‑Term Support (LTS) release with a three‑year servicing commitment that Microsoft states will last until November 10, 2028. The release is positioned as a cross‑cutting performance and...

FreeXP is the kind of Linux distribution that aims squarely at one audience: people who want to try Linux but don’t want to leave the Windows interface behind. It wraps Debian stability and the Q4OS utility stack in a convincing Windows-themed shell — available as FreeXP (XP-like) and Free10 (Windows 10-like) live images — giving newcomers a low-friction path to explore Linux without confronting an unfamiliar desktop paradigm. Background / Overview FreeXP is not a Microsoft product. It’s a...

From the moment I unboxed the ROG Xbox Ally X, I reached for the settings I knew would shape my handheld experience: performance, display fidelity, battery life, and the small annoyances Windows 11 can bring to a device designed for pure play. Pocket‑lint’s quick checklist of “five settings I changed immediately” is a pragmatic starting point — disabling taskbar Widgets, turning off Night Light, calming or cutting RGB, crafting a performance profile, and tuning VRAM and quick‑access...

Microsoft’s July 22, 2025 preview cumulative (KB5062663) for Windows 11 surfaced as a compact but consequential quality rollup — delivered for both servicing families as OS Builds 22621.5699 and 22631.5699 — that fixes a handful of high‑impact reliability problems, bundles a servicing‑stack update, and reiterates a platform‑level warning about expiring Secure Boot certificates that administrators must treat as urgent. Background / Overview Microsoft’s servicing model in 2025 continues to...

Microsoft’s September preview update for Windows 11, KB5065790 (Build 22631.5984), is routine on the surface—a compact, non‑security “C” release with a handful of reliability fixes—but it carries a far more consequential follow‑on: Microsoft warns that Secure Boot certificates issued around 2011 will begin expiring in mid‑2026, and that devices which do not receive the replacement 2023 certificate family before those cutoff dates could lose the ability to receive pre‑boot security updates...