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Microsoft’s November Patch Tuesday rollup for Windows 11 version 23H2 — released as KB5068865 and moving affected devices to OS Build 22621.6199 — delivers a mix of security and quality fixes, and one networking change that deserves close attention from administrators: a tightened parsing rule in HTTP.sys that corrects lenient handling of HTTP/1.1 chunk extensions and adds a registry toggle for backward compatibility. The update is available through Windows Update and the Microsoft Update...

Microsoft’s November 11, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 — KB5068865 (OS Build 22631.6199) — closes a subtle but important standards-compliance gap in the Windows HTTP stack (HTTP.sys), aligning chunked-transfer parsing with RFC 9112 and giving administrators an explicit registry toggle to phase in the change where legacy proxies or appliances might otherwise break production traffic. Background / Overview Microsoft bundles monthly cumulative updates to deliver security fixes...

Samsung’s Vision AI Companion turns the living room television into an active, conversational hub — not just for streaming, but for language translation, gaming optimization, smart‑home control and multi‑agent AI assistance that brings Microsoft Copilot and Perplexity directly to the screen. Background / Overview Samsung formally introduced Vision AI Companion at IFA 2025 as the company’s next major push to embed generative AI in the home display. The new capability extends Bixby into a...

Microsoft and Rumo say a new Copilot-powered mobile app has slashed the average time it takes a Brazilian train driver to find an operational procedure from roughly four minutes to just three seconds—saving weight in operators’ backpacks, eliminating millions of printed pages, and delivering what Microsoft frames as measurable ROI in under two months. Background For decades, frontline transport crews have relied on paper procedures and radio calls to resolve operational questions—an approach...

Oxfordshire County Council has moved from pilot to full rollout with Microsoft Copilot, claiming major time savings, a £3.3m net present value identified in its proof of concept, and a programme of engagement and governance designed to make AI adoption practical, safe and organisation‑wide. Background / Overview Oxfordshire’s programme is a high‑profile example of a local government body treating generative AI as a strategic, enterprise change programme rather than an isolated IT project...

Microsoft's public pivot into "humanist superintelligence" crystallizes a growing tectonic shift in corporate AI strategy: build systems that can outperform humans in narrow but high‑value domains — starting with medical diagnostics — while promising containment, auditability, and human control. The new MAI Superintelligence Team, led by Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, is simultaneously a technological bet, a governance posture, and a piece of strategic positioning in a crowded field...

Generative assistants like Microsoft Copilot have become indispensable productivity tools — and that very usefulness is what makes them one of the most consequential insider‑risk vectors modern organizations must face. Overview Copilot and similar GenAI assistants are designed to fetch, synthesize, and present enterprise information from across Microsoft 365 (mail, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, calendars and more) so users can get faster answers, drafts, and summaries. That capability...

TomTom and Microsoft have quietly rewired a familiar part of the car — the voice assistant — into something closer to a conversational co‑pilot, pairing TomTom’s navigation and in‑vehicle software with Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI stack to deliver an in‑car AI assistant that can hold multi‑turn conversations, handle complex routing and POI requests, and control vehicle functions through natural speech. This ties TomTom’s Digital Cockpit to Azure OpenAI (with supporting Azure services) and...

Rooftops & Alleys: The Parkour Game has arrived in its 1.0 form and, as FileHippo’s listing makes clear, the site is acting purely as an informational index rather than the canonical distribution channel — the page points users toward its Safe Downloader instead of a direct publisher-signed installer, while editors praise the game’s movement-focused design and flag a handful of evolving technical and customization gaps. Background / Overview Rooftops & Alleys is an indie parkour title...

Microsoft has shipped November’s Patch Tuesday for Windows 11: the combined monthly cumulative for the current servicing baselines arrives as KB5068861 for Windows 11 versions 25H2 and 24H2, and Microsoft’s Release Preview channel received the focused preview package KB5067112 for 23H2 — together they deliver a mix of security fixes, reliability patches, and small but visible user‑facing polish such as the refreshed Start surface, a new colorful battery icon (with optional percentage), and a...

Microsoft has pushed the redesigned Start menu to the broad Windows 11 population as part of the November 11, 2025 Patch Tuesday cumulative update (KB5068861), bringing a long‑requested single, scrollable Start surface, multiple All‑apps views, tighter Phone Link integration, and a raft of complementary Copilot+ and system improvements — while keeping the rollout deliberately staged to avoid breaking millions of desktops. Background Microsoft first shipped the code for the new Start...

1Password’s desktop app can now act as the system-level passkey manager on Windows 11, letting the vault you trust create, store and surface passkeys directly inside the operating system’s authentication flow — provided you run the MSIX build of 1Password and a supported Windows 11 release. Background / Overview Passkeys are a FIDO/WebAuthn‑based replacement for passwords: the device creates a cryptographic private/public key pair, keeps the private key securely on the device, and the...

Microsoft’s November Patch Tuesday for Windows 11 ships as KB5068861 (build family in the 26200 series) and delivers a compact but consequential mix of user-facing polish and reliability fixes—most notably a redesigned, more customizable Start menu, a refreshed taskbar battery icon with an optional on‑tray percentage, and a long-awaited repair to a Task Manager shutdown bug that could leave background processes running after the window was closed. These changes arrive as part of Microsoft’s...

Microsoft has quietly seeded a new "Haptic signals" settings surface into Windows 11 Insider preview builds, signaling that the OS is preparing to offer system-level haptic feedback for compatible trackpads, mice, and other haptic-capable peripherals — a change that could reshape desktop interaction by adding tactile confirmation for actions like snapping windows, aligning objects, and crossing drag boundaries. Background Microsoft’s platform-level work on haptics is not new: documentation...

Microsoft has published KB5070186 — a Safe OS (WinRE) Dynamic Update for Windows 11, version 24H2 and 25H2, and Windows Server 2025 — dated November 11, 2025, that refreshes the Windows Recovery Environment used by Reset, Automatic Repair, and cloud reinstall flows; the package is available through Windows Update, the Microsoft Update Catalog, and WSUS, and when applied it sets the WinRE image version to 10.0.26100.7149. Background / Overview Windows uses a compact, pre‑boot runtime called...

Microsoft’s November 11, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 (KB5068865, OS Build 22621.6199) delivers a targeted networking fix for the HTTP.sys request parser and exposes an important compatibility and security decision for administrators: the update tightens HTTP/1.1 chunk extension parsing to conform to RFC 9112 and ships an explicit registry toggle to enable strict behavior on servers that process HTTP traffic through HTTP.sys. Background Microsoft’s monthly cumulative updates...

Microsoft issued a small hotpatch today — KB5068966 — for supported Windows 11/Server branches, advancing eligible devices to OS Build 26200.7092 and 26100.7092 and, in Microsoft’s terse public notes, delivering “miscellaneous security improvements to internal OS functionality” with no documented issues at the time of publication. Background / Overview Hotpatching is Microsoft’s low‑disruption delivery channel for narrowly scoped security and quality fixes that can be applied to...

Microsoft’s November cumulative for Windows 11, identified as KB5068861 and published on November 11, 2025, is rolling out to the 25H2 and 24H2 servicing families and advances affected systems to OS Builds 26200.7171 (25H2) and 26100.7171 (24H2); the update packages the latest servicing‑stack improvements, security hardening, and a set of visible UI polish items that began shipping in October preview builds. Background / Overview Microsoft’s servicing model for Windows 11 in 2025 combines...

Microsoft published KB5069341 on November 11, 2025 — a Safe OS Dynamic Update for Windows 11, version 23H2 — that refreshes the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) payload and supporting pre‑boot binaries, installs as part of the monthly servicing flow or via the Microsoft Update Catalog, and sets the WinRE target version to 10.0.22621.6197 while replacing the prior Safe OS DU that Microsoft shipped earlier. Background Microsoft uses “Dynamic Update” packages in two narrow but critical...

Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) has won a marquee Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract from NTPC Ltd for a 1×800 MW supercritical thermal unit at the Darlipali Supercritical Thermal Power Project (Stage‑II) in Sundargarh district, Odisha — a deal valued at over Rs 6,650 crore (approximately Rs 66.5 billion) with a 48‑month completion target from the Notification of Award issued on 6 November 2025. Background BHEL and NTPC sit at the heart of India’s conventional power...