Featured content

Microsoft’s customer-facing M365 portal briefly buckled under a surge of refund requests after the company rolled out an apology and a remediation offer for subscribers unhappy with the Copilot add‑on — a move prompted by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) allegation that Microsoft misled roughly 2.7 million Australians by obscuring a lower‑cost, non‑AI “Classic” option at renewal. Background / Overview The ACCC’s Federal Court action alleges that Microsoft’s renewal...

The audacity of the Apollo Gallery heist at the Louvre — a daylight smash-and-grab that removed Napoleonic-era crown jewels in under seven minutes — has been followed by an equally shocking discovery: internal audits and cybersecurity checks show the museum’s core security systems were protected by trivially simple passwords and were running on legacy, unsupported Microsoft operating systems. Background The theft unfolded in October when a team of masked raiders arrived with a cherry-picker...

Microsoft’s AI leadership has quietly but decisively reorganized its strategy: the company has formed an MAI Superintelligence Team, led by Mustafa Suleyman, to pursue what it calls humanist superintelligence—a program meant to deliver superhuman performance in narrowly defined domains while reducing operational dependence on external frontier models and emphasizing containment, auditability, and human control. Background Microsoft AI (MAI) announced the formation of a dedicated...

Infosys’ newly announced AI Agent for energy operations is a calculated attempt to move agentic generative AI from proof‑of‑concept demos into production workflows for drilling, pipelines, power generation and field maintenance, promising conversational multimodal analysis, automated reporting and predictive warnings designed to cut non‑productive time (NPT) and improve safety and reliability. Background / Overview Infosys rolled out the energy‑sector AI Agent on November 6, 2025...

Microsoft’s October servicing wave delivered another unwelcome reminder that Windows updates can do more than patch vulnerabilities — they can also accidentally lock users out of their own encrypted drives, forcing 48‑digit BitLocker recovery prompts and, in some cases, making recovery impossible until Microsoft intervened with an out‑of‑band fix. Background In mid‑October 2025 Microsoft shipped the monthly cumulative security updates (the October 14, 2025 servicing wave) for Windows client...

Lakeside Software’s launch of a dedicated SysTrack Cloud region on Microsoft Azure in India marks a significant step for digital employee experience (DEX) platforms aiming to serve Indian enterprises with lower latency, stronger data residency controls, and tighter Microsoft cloud integration — a move that promises faster troubleshooting, better compliance posture, and closer alignment with India’s evolving data governance landscape. Background Lakeside Software is a long-standing vendor in...

Infosys’ new AI agent for energy operations promises to fold conversational, multimodal large‑model capabilities into the high‑stakes workflows of drilling, production, pipelines and grid operations—packaged as a pragmatic integration of Infosys Topaz Fabric, Infosys Cobalt, Microsoft’s Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry model hosting. The vendor says the goal is straightforward: turn well logs, telemetry, images and reports into instantly actionable intelligence, automate routine...

Microsoft Access’s latest Current Channel build—version 2510 (Build 19328.20158)—delivers a compact but meaningful set of quality‑of‑life fixes that directly address long-standing designer pain points: Undo/Redo behavior when changing control stacking, improved syntax visibility in the Monaco SQL editor under dark Office themes, and better visibility controls for Waterfall chart connector lines. These are incremental changes on the surface, but they remove friction from everyday design and...

The Louvre’s security embarrassment boiled down to a single, humiliating detail: auditors reported that the server managing the museum’s video surveillance could be accessed with the password “LOUVRE,” and a separate Thales system used “THALES” — trivial credentials flagged years earlier in a 2014 audit that warned the museum about obsolete operating systems, weak passwords and poor segregation between critical networks and the public domain. This revelation has transformed the October...

Windows 11’s glossy surfaces and Fluent Design flourishes hide a quieter reality: under the polish lies a decades‑old codebase and a surprising number of user interfaces that haven’t seen meaningful redesigns in years. Pocket‑lint’s recent roundup of five “ancient” corners of Windows 11 — Computer Management, Registry Editor, Character Map, Windows Mobility Center, and the screensaver subsystem — is a useful reminder that modernizing an OS isn’t just about new features, it’s also about...

Over the past two weeks the cloud’s convenience suddenly felt brittle: two back‑to‑back outages at the largest hyperscale providers — an AWS disruption rooted in DNS/DynamoDB in the US‑EAST‑1 region and a configuration error in Microsoft Azure’s Front Door fabric — produced widespread service stoppages that grounded bank flows, delayed airline check‑ins, and left millions of consumers staring at error screens. Background / Overview The technical headlines were straightforward: on October 20...

Decagon’s pitch is simple but consequential: replace brittle, one-size-fits-all chatbots with an always-on, concierge-grade AI agent that reasons across systems, executes workflows, and learns from every interaction — and do it in a way that business teams can own. The company’s Agent Operating Procedures (AOPs), multi‑model runtime, and Azure‑backed fine‑tuning have helped clients push deflection and resolution metrics that would once have seemed aspirational in contact center operations...

Transmission’s third 4.1.0 beta lands with a tight, pragmatic changelog that focuses on real‑world reliability improvements — particularly for sequential downloads, web access via proxies, and the daemon/service plumbing — while also polishing client UIs and developer tooling; the release is explicitly still in feature-not-final status, so cautious testing is the order of the day. Background Transmission is a long‑running, open‑source BitTorrent client prized for a small memory footprint, a...

NVIDIA’s newest GeForce driver update has rendered a clutch of older Forza titles unplayable for many PC owners, with users reporting an AP204 “GPU not compatible” error when launching Forza Horizon 3, Forza Motorsport 6 Apex and Forza Motorsport 7 — and the most reliable fix so far is to roll your driver back to version 576.88. Background Older PC games and modern GPU drivers have an uneasy relationship: drivers evolve to support new hardware and APIs while legacy games assume driver...

Microsoft quietly showed a credible path out of one of Windows 11’s most persistent gripes — the long, crowded right‑click (context) menu — with a split context‑menu concept surfaced during a WinUI developer presentation, but the change is still an early, developer‑first proposal and not a finished, system‑wide fix. Background / Overview Windows’ right‑click context menu has always been a powerful, composable surface: installers, shell extensions, and apps can add verbs and entries, which...

Microsoft has created a dedicated Superintelligence team under AI chief Mustafa Suleyman and framed its mission not as an open‑ended race to artificial general intelligence but as a deliberate push for humanist superintelligence — domain‑specialist, auditable, and strictly contained systems that prioritize human control and interpretability over raw, unrestricted capability. Background Microsoft’s announcement formalizes a strategic pivot: the company will build first‑party high‑capability...

Microsoft and Meta have quietly — and strategically — moved a long‑teased idea from preview into practical reality: Windows 11 can now run as a high‑resolution, multi‑monitor desktop inside Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S headsets via Microsoft’s Mixed Reality Link, delivered alongside Meta’s Horizon OS v81 rollout. Background Mixed Reality Link started life as a public technical preview in December 2024, a collaboration between Microsoft and Meta to test whether a streamed Windows desktop could...

Microsoft has begun silently deploying three new Microsoft 365 “companion” apps — People, Files, and Calendar — to Windows 11 business devices that run Microsoft 365, and the apps are being installed and pinned to the taskbar by default unless administrators opt out through the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center. Background Microsoft announced a taskbar‑centric productivity set aimed at reducing context switching for knowledge workers: lightweight apps that surface people details, organization...

Microsoft’s apology and refund offer for Australian Microsoft 365 subscribers came after the ACCC filed Federal Court proceedings alleging Microsoft misled roughly 2.7 million Australians by obscuring a lower‑cost, non‑AI “Classic” subscription while rolling Copilot into consumer plans — the company now provides a self‑service path to switch back to Microsoft 365 Classic and has promised refunds for eligible renewals, but the process has caveats, timing constraints, and practical pitfalls...

Microsoft has quietly — and decisively — created a new research and engineering unit inside its AI division called the MAI Superintelligence Team, led by Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, and set its north star on what the company calls “humanist superintelligence” — advanced, domain‑targeted AI that is explicitly designed to remain controllable, auditable and firmly in service of people. Background Microsoft’s announcement is more than a rebrand or a PR exercise: it signals a strategic...