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When two headline-grabbing cloud failures struck in rapid succession this October, the outages did more than break apps and frustrate users — they reopened an urgent national conversation about how much of the country’s digital life depends on a handful of hyperscale providers, and whether regulators should treat those providers like critical infrastructure. The first major incident, a cascading DNS/control-plane failure tied to Amazon DynamoDB in AWS’s US‑EAST‑1 (Northern Virginia) region...

Windows Vista arrived to a chorus of criticism and ridicule, yet beneath the groovy glass and infuriating UAC prompts it quietly delivered dozens of platform-level technologies that still underpin modern Windows — many of which were overlooked or forgotten as the operating system’s reputation hardened. Background / Overview Windows Vista reached release milestones late in 2006 and into January 2007, shipping after a protracted development cycle that reset several times and trimmed ambitious...

Microsoft is quietly moving the Phone Link app’s in-built gallery into File Explorer, removing the standalone "Photos" view from the Phone Link interface and directing users to manage mobile images and videos through Windows’ file manager instead. Background Phone Link has long been Microsoft’s flagship bridge between Android phones and Windows PCs, offering notifications, messages, calls, and a simple gallery view that surfaced recent images from the phone. That in-app Photos view...

Microsoft is quietly moving the Phone Link app’s built‑in photo gallery into File Explorer, removing the Photos gallery from Phone Link and nudging users to manage mobile photos and videos through Windows’ File Explorer instead. This change is already appearing as an in‑app banner in Phone Link that tells users “Photos is moving to File Explorer” and points them to the Settings → Bluetooth & devices → Mobile devices → Manage devices flow so they can enable the File Explorer mount for their...

Countries are rushing to turn schoolrooms into competitive infrastructure for the AI era, and the result is a dizzying, uneven global sprint: from Beijing’s mandatory AI hours for six‑year‑olds to Estonia’s nation‑wide ChatGPT Edu rollout, state laws in the United States that compel curriculum updates, and India’s plan to teach AI from Class 3. The pattern is clear — AI in education is no longer an optional enrichment; it’s being framed as critical national infrastructure, economic strategy...

The collapse of court‑ordered mediation in the trademark clash between InterGlobe Aviation Ltd (IndiGo) and Mahindra Electric Automobile Ltd has pushed a high‑profile brand dispute toward a full hearing in the Delhi High Court, with the matter listed for admission and marking of exhibits on February 3, 2026. Background IndiGo’s complaint centres on a simple but potent point: the airline uses the alphanumeric mark 6E as its IATA designator and has built two decades of brand equity around...

Google’s Gemini has taken a decisive step toward making personal work data an active participant in AI research workflows, extending the Deep Research capability so the assistant can read and synthesize content directly from Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Chat to produce context-rich research reports and briefs. This expansion—rolled out in early November 2025 and reported widely across tech outlets—lets Gemini combine private workspace content with public web sources to build timelines...

Australia’s Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) has quietly begun a measured experiment with a ChatGPT-based assistant called CLIKChat, putting roughly 300 staff in its claims and benefits teams through a proof‑of‑concept to test whether generative AI can make policy lookup, claims triage and customer-facing conversations smoother and faster. The department says the tool is for internal use only, does not access veteran records or personal data, and will not make decisions — a human...

Netflix says its ad-supported offering now reaches more than 190 million monthly active viewers (MAVs), and the company is rolling new ad technologies — including dynamic ad insertion for live events — into a broader international footprint as it pushes to scale advertising alongside subscriptions. Background Netflix introduced an ad-supported subscription tier in late 2022 as a deliberate move to diversify revenue beyond subscriptions, and the business has been iterating quickly ever since...

The Delhi High Court’s sharp rebuke of Patanjali’s recent Chyawanprash commercial—where the ad reportedly labels competing products as “dhoka” (fraud)—has turned what looked like a routine advertising spat into a high‑stakes legal and reputational contest between two of India’s most prominent Ayurvedic brands. Background Patanjali’s 25‑second commercial, fronted by Baba Ramdev, promotes “Patanjali Special Chyawanprash” with an emphatic claim of being the original and the true power of...

Microsoft is quietly moving the Phone Link app’s built-in photo gallery into File Explorer, replacing the in‑app viewer with a File Explorer–based experience and prompting users to switch to the Mobile Devices/File Explorer flow instead. Background Phone Link (formerly Your Phone) has been one of Windows 11’s most useful cross‑device continuity tools: it mirrors notifications, exposes messages and calls, lets you mirror Android apps in a window, and — until now — included a simple gallery...

Workday’s move to add a Custom AI Model Library to its Contract Intelligence Agent — a collection of more than 120 pre-built, domain-focused models powered by Evisort — signals a clear shift from generic automation toward specialized, deployable contract intelligence that legal, HR, finance, and procurement teams can use immediately to speed review, surface risk, and extract business-critical terms. The announcement frames this as a plug‑and‑play expansion of Workday Contract Lifecycle...

Sharad Agarwal’s arrival as Tesla’s new India head marks a clear pivot from remote oversight to a locally led, luxury-focused push — a strategic recalibration designed to convert curiosity into purchases in a market where high import duties, limited charging infrastructure and entrenched domestic rivals have so far blunted Tesla’s opening momentum. Background / Overview Tesla entered India in mid‑2025 with showrooms and Model Y deliveries, but the launch produced modest order volumes...

Duroflex’s latest move — a full visual and strategic refresh under the banner “Designed to De‑Stress” — recasts the six‑decade mattress maker from a sleep‑innovation company into an explicit wellbeing brand focused on stress relief through restorative sleep. Background Duroflex Limited, a long‑standing Indian sleep and comfort solutions company, announced a refreshed brand identity and positioning in early November 2025 that centers stress reduction as its primary consumer promise. The...

Glow's latest release, version 25.15, lands as a compact, performance-focused refresh that rethinks the app's look, shrinks its footprint dramatically, and adds a novel hardware integrity tool aimed squarely at technicians and anyone who needs rock-solid evidence of component changes. Background Glow is a portable system-analysis utility for Windows that collects and presents detailed hardware and software information in a single, searchable interface. The tool is developed by Eray Türkay...

Sword of Justice’s global rollout has arrived: NetEase and ZhuRong Studio will open servers worldwide on November 7, 2025, with preloads already live and character pre‑creation open ahead of launch — and the package being offered is notable for being entirely free‑to‑play, full cross‑platform between PC and mobile, and loaded with free pre‑registration rewards designed to get players into the world of Wuxia from day one. Background / Overview NetEase’s open‑world Wuxia MMORPG, Sword of...

KDE Discover brings an app-store-style, graphical method for finding, installing, updating, and removing Linux software to desktops that otherwise rely on package managers and terminals, and installing it on Raspberry Pi OS “Trixie” demonstrates just how friendly Linux software management can be for newcomers. The Tom’s Hardware how‑to walks through the simple steps to add Discover to a Debian‑based Raspberry Pi system, explains the Discover user interface, and argues the tool is an...

When Microsoft’s updated Windows Camera app added a simple turtle icon for slow‑motion capture, it marked a small but meaningful victory for Windows Phone users: the Lumia 930, Lumia 1520 and Icon could now record at 720p, 120 frames per second, and the phone did the heavy lifting to output a ready‑to‑share slow‑motion clip. Background The mid‑2010s were a turning point for smartphone camera features. Manufacturers were racing to add higher frame‑rate capture modes, computational tweaks and...

Microsoft’s Copilot for Windows can now reach beyond the Microsoft ecosystem—if you opt in—and search your OneDrive and Outlook alongside Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar and Google Contacts, while also letting you export chat outputs directly into editable Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files in one click. Background / Overview Copilot’s new Connectors feature is an opt‑in capability added to the Copilot app for Windows that links the assistant to selected personal cloud accounts so a...

Bill Gates’ off‑hand quip—“That must be why we’re not shipping Windows 98 yet”—did more than defuse an embarrassing on‑stage moment; it helped redraw how Microsoft and the wider industry approach live demos, hardware compatibility, and presentation engineering. A plug‑and‑play scanner that hadn’t been vetted by the Windows team triggered a kernel crash during a high‑profile Windows 98 demonstration at COMDEX, producing one of the most famous Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) moments in tech lore...