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Nebius has launched Token Factory, a production-grade AI inference platform that promises enterprises a turnkey way to deploy, fine-tune, and run the world’s leading open-source large language models at scale — positioning itself as a direct challenger to Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud while promising performance, governance, and model portability that organizations have been demanding. Background / Overview Nebius emerged from the restructuring of an international...

The race to leave Windows 10 behind is a strategic litmus test for IT teams: a mix of security, procurement, user experience and long-term platform planning that no organization can ignore. Recent industry reporting—drawing on Lakeside Software telemetry and practitioner experience—lays out nine practical, data‑driven actions IT leaders should use right now to finalize their post‑Windows 10 strategy and turn risk into measurable outcomes. These steps are grounded in endpoint telemetry...

Microsoft’s abrupt end to native Android app support in Windows 11 has left users hunting for practical, reliable alternatives — and there are solid paths forward. The Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) and the Amazon Appstore on Windows were officially marked deprecated, with Microsoft confirming that support and distribution would cease on March 5, 2025. That doesn’t mean Android apps vanish from the PC, but it does change the toolbox: Google’s Play Games for PC is the sanctioned route...

Microsoft has quietly flipped the visible Windows version string to Windows 11, version 26H1, but the change is not the next mass-market feature drop — it’s a platform-focused engineering branch aimed squarely at enabling new silicon, and Microsoft says there is no action required for ordinary users. Background / Overview Microsoft released Insider Preview Build 28000 to the Canary Channel and updated the Settings/winver version label to 26H1. The company’s official announcement is explicit...

For years the raw act of adding typed, editable text to a screenshot on Windows has been a two‑step chore: snip, paste into an editor, then type — and Microsoft’s Snipping Tool is finally closing that gap with a native insert‑text during edit capability now visible in preview code and being tested in Windows Insider builds. Background The Snipping Tool's evolution has quietly accelerated over the last few Windows 11 development cycles. What began as a rudimentary screenshot utility grew into...

An industry-wide “API explosion” is changing the perimeter of enterprise security, but it is also quietly amplifying costs and compliance risk — and unless organisations treat the API layer as a first-class security and finance control point, the bills and breach headlines will follow. CASA Software’s CTO Michael Brink set out this argument in a recent interview, warning that the rapid proliferation of APIs combined with surging AI integration creates a new, concentrated attack surface that...

Microsoft is quietly re-routing the venerable F1 help shortcut in Microsoft Edge so it summons Copilot in the sidebar during testing — a small change with outsized implications for usability, privacy, and enterprise control that every Windows user and IT pro should notice now. Background / Overview Microsoft Edge has for years honored a simple desktop convention: press F1 and you get help — typically a support page, the Get Help app, or a static documentation site explaining browser features...

Haldiram’s is in advanced discussions to bring US sandwich chain Jimmy John’s to India through an exclusive franchise partnership with Inspire Brands, a move that would mark Haldiram’s first large-scale foray into Western-style quick‑service restaurants (QSRs) and position the century‑old snacks and restaurant group to take on international rivals such as Subway and Tim Hortons. Background / Overview Haldiram’s is best known as India’s largest ethnic food services company, with a sprawling...

Boeing has formally launched the Virtual Airplane Procedures Trainer (VAPT), a cloud‑first pilot training platform built on Microsoft Azure and powered by Microsoft Flight Simulator, aimed at letting pilots rehearse cockpit procedures on laptops and iPads — starting with the Boeing 737 MAX and positioned explicitly as a pre‑sim, procedural rehearsal tool rather than a replacement for certified full‑flight simulators. Background / Overview Boeing introduced VAPT at the European Aviation...

Microsoft's consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Windows 10 — the one‑year safety valve intended to keep older PCs patched after end of mainstream support — is failing to enroll for a noticeable number of users, leaving affected machines at elevated risk unless owners take corrective action or upgrade to Windows 11. Reports show two consistent failure patterns: the enrollment wizard tells users their region is unsupported, and other devices — particularly those that are or were bound...

RadarKit’s new AI Visibility Tracker promises to give brands the same kind of rank‑tracking clarity for LLMs that SEO tools delivered for search engines — but the promise comes with methodological caveats, vendor claims that need independent scrutiny, and a crowded landscape of emerging alternatives that require careful procurement questions. Background The shift from classic search engines to assistant‑first discovery is no longer a hypothetical: users increasingly receive consolidated...

Matt Garman, the chief executive of Amazon Web Services (AWS), told CNBC that in the coming AI age the most valuable talents won’t be narrow technical chops like coding but critical thinking, creativity, adaptability and strong communication skills—a message he says he gives his own children and one that reframes how higher education and employers should prepare people for work. Background Matt Garman took the reins of AWS with deep experience inside Amazon and has overseen a strategic pivot...

Kalyan Undinty, until recently Senior Vice President — E‑commerce at WPP, has announced his departure from the agency network in a LinkedIn note that he framed as the close of an “incredible journey,” thanking mentors, colleagues, clients and his team as he moves on to the next chapter of his career. Background / Overview Kalyan Undinty’s exit was first reported in a short item by Storyboard18, which reproduces the text of his LinkedIn message and highlights the public expressions of...

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Online gaming firm Gameskraft’s latest restructuring has rippled through India’s gaming ecosystem: the Bengaluru-based company has cut more than half of its workforce amid a twin shock — a sweeping new federal law that effectively bans cash-based online games and the exposure of a massive alleged fraud by its former chief financial officer. The combination of regulatory upheaval and internal governance failure has forced Gameskraft into an emergency retrenchment that industry observers...

The Web3 Summit in Berlin closed with a flurry of technical milestones and provocative economic proposals that together signal a decisive pivot for Polkadot: move DOT from a passive staking instrument into the active fuel of an on‑chain economy, while simultaneously delivering the production primitives (elastic scaling, one‑click rollups, and cross‑chain liquidity rails) needed to make that shift practical. What happened in Berlin is equal parts engineering progress and a policy debate—Gavin...

Google Play Store is rolling out an AI-powered review summary that condenses what users actually say about apps into a short paragraph and topic chips, making it far easier to judge an app at a glance without wading through dozens of individual reviews. Background / Overview Google has quietly begun surfacing a new element on Play Store app pages called “Users are saying” (or similarly labeled), which sits in the Ratings & Reviews area and contains an AI-generated, three-to-four sentence...

Boardroom conflicts that used to be managed in private are now public spectacles—with immediate consequences for share prices, employee morale, and brand trust. Background The last two years have shown a steady increase in high-profile leadership disputes that spilled beyond corporate minutes and into social feeds, regulatory filings, and mainstream headlines. The phenomenon is not industry-specific: global consumer giants, automakers, philanthropic trusts, and small analytics firms alike...

The last quarter of 2025 has crystallised a decisive shift in how Asia‑Pacific (APAC) organisations must treat Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) work: regulators are simplifying what must be reported but demanding audit‑grade proof for the datapoints that remain, supervisors are embedding climate risk into operational tools, and enforcement is moving from warnings to quantified penalties that can hit balance sheets and reputations alike. Background / Overview Regulatory momentum...

India’s food regulator has quietly — and decisively — raised the bar on compliance, forcing food businesses, importers and marketers to rethink testing, labelling and supply‑chain controls all at once. Background The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has stepped up enforcement across several fronts: faster turnaround on laboratory reports for imported consignments, a push to adopt internationally recognised analysis methods, clarified classifications for honey that exceed...