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The frenzy around artificial intelligence has entered a new, risk-heavy chapter: investors have poured record sums into compute, chips, and AI startups, valuations for AI-linked firms have swung into extreme territory, and respected institutions are warning that parts of the market look dangerously frothy — yet the underlying technology is real and may still deliver lasting economic change. Background The last 18 months have seen an extraordinary reallocation of capital toward AI: the...

The smartphone has quietly become the most practical pocket-sized AI workstation most of us will ever own: voice‑first conversations, live camera context, image and short‑video generation, and even personalized morning briefs are now routine features in mainstream mobile apps. This feature distills what matters from the recent wave of mobile AI releases—what each app actually does on phone, where it shines, and where IT teams and everyday users should apply caution—so Windows‑centric readers...

Microsoft has quietly flipped a switch in Canary: Windows 11 is now carrying a new version number — 26H1 — but it isn’t the typical consumer-facing feature update; it’s a platform-only release built to enable the next wave of Arm-based PC silicon from Qualcomm and NVIDIA without disrupting the existing Windows 11 installed base. Background Microsoft released an Insider Preview (Canary Channel) build that updates the OS version to Windows 11, version 26H1, and clarified that this is not a...

Microsoft has quietly updated Windows 11’s taskbar battery indicator so it finally tells you useful information at a glance: the icon is now color-aware and you can choose to show an exact battery percentage in the system tray. This isn’t a flashy new AI feature or a hardware tweak — it’s a small user-interface change that solves a perennial annoyance for laptop users and arrives as part of Microsoft’s November Patch Tuesday roll‑out, with earlier access for Insiders and power users who want...

Silicon Valley has seen manias before, and the latest — a rush to build ever-larger AI stacks, buy chips, and launch generative products — now sits under intense scrutiny: massive capital expenditure, sky-high valuations, and troubling early evidence that many corporate AI projects are not yet delivering measurable returns. The debate is no longer whether AI is transformative; it is whether the current price of that promise is sustainable, and what a correction would look like for markets...

Microsoft’s decades‑old Paint app — the little bitmap editor that has been bundled with Windows since 1985 — was publicly flagged as “deprecated” in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, sparking an outpouring of nostalgia, debate about legacy software stewardship, and a corporate clarification that only deepened the conversation about what “deprecated” actually means for users and enterprises. Background / Overview Microsoft Paint (often styled MS Paint or simply Paint) arrived alongside...

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Microsoft has quietly told admins it will remove PowerPoint’s long‑standing Reuse Slides pane from the desktop apps, and the retirement is already being rolled out — leaving many users who relied on the in‑app slide browser suddenly without their fastest way to pull selective slides from other decks. Background PowerPoint’s Reuse Slides tool lived in the Home > New Slide > Reuse Slides flow and opened a right‑hand pane that let users browse local files, OneDrive, or SharePoint and import...

Google’s plan to replace third‑party cookies with a new set of “Privacy Sandbox” web APIs has quietly entered reverse: Chrome will continue to support third‑party cookies in normal browsing, and Google engineers have begun formally deprecating at least some of the Privacy Sandbox Ads APIs — most notably the Topics API — with deprecation milestones aimed at Chrome 144 and full removal slated for Chrome 150, while related cleanup for other Privacy Sandbox pieces is already visible in...

Lenovo’s SmartChoice Chromebook — a compact 11.6‑inch machine powered by an Intel Celeron N4500, 4GB RAM and 64GB eMMC storage — has emerged as one of the most visible entries in the crowded “under ₹15,000” laptop lists circulating in India, promising basic web-first performance for students and light office use without blowing the budget. Multiple retailer trackers and Indian tech roundups list this model at roughly ₹13,490–₹14,990 in recent weeks, and its combination of Chrome OS, low...

Bentley Systems’ new partnership with Japan’s EARTHBRAIN marks a pivotal moment for the construction industry’s move from isolated digital tools to a truly connected, AI-enabled digital twin ecosystem — one that promises to bind design, pre-construction planning, earthworks and asset operations into a single, actionable digital thread that can improve safety, productivity and sustainability on real job sites. Background / Overview Bentley Systems, a global leader in infrastructure...

The DP-100 exam and TheServerSide’s Q&A roundup together point to a simple truth for cloud-era data science: passing a Microsoft certification matters less than being able to reproduce the work the certificate claims you can do. The Server Side collection of DP-100 practice questions and study guidance reframes preparation as an engineering practice—map objectives to hands‑on labs, treat practice exams as diagnostic tools, and avoid shortcut “exam dump” materials that trade short‑term pass...

Microsoft’s Canary channel drop that now reports as Windows 11, version 26H1 (Build 28000) is not the usual headline feature update; it’s a deliberate, low‑profile platform reset intended to enable next‑generation silicon and OEM factory images rather than to deliver consumer-facing bells and whistles. Background / Overview Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28000 to the Canary Channel and updated the visible version string in Settings and winver to 26H1. The Windows Insider...

Samsung’s art‑forward Frame Pro has reappeared on a very public holiday stage this year, earning a spot on Oprah Winfrey’s much‑anticipated “Oprah’s Favorite Things 2025” gift list — a high‑profile endorsement that blends lifestyle cachet with hard tech features and has immediate implications for Samsung’s premium TV positioning this season. Background Oprah’s annual “Favorite Things” list is a cultural moment: products chosen there not only enjoy a sales bump but also a surge in mainstream...

AMD’s week in the headlines felt like a microcosm of modern PC ecosystem risk: big courtroom fireworks over 3D V‑Cache manufacturing methods, a driver‑support pivot that sent gamers and IT teams into triage, and a steady stream of product and peripheral news that reminds builders why vigilance matters. The latest PC Perspective podcast distilled all of this into a tidy briefing, but the downstream implications are broader — from legal risk to practical patching, and from sim‑racing bundles...

Microsoft has pushed a surprising but tightly scoped change into the Windows Insider Canary channel: a new Canary build that updates the visible version string to Windows 11, version 26H1, but — crucially — Microsoft says this is not the next general feature update for the installed base; it’s a platform-only branch aimed at enabling support for specific, next‑generation silicon. Background / Overview Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28000 to the Canary channel and updated...

Google’s image generation pipeline appears poised for another rapid iteration: early leak signals and a flurry of community testing point to a second-generation “Nano Banana 2” (internal codename GEMPIX 2) surfacing in Media AI and in Gemini UI experiments, promising native 2K output, multi‑step iteration and stronger instruction following—but many core technical details remain unverified and should be treated as leaks until confirmed by Google. Background / Overview The “Nano Banana” label...

The Server Side’s DP-900 practice-exam guide reframes exam prep as a hands‑on engineering exercise: use Microsoft Learn as the syllabus, run reproducible sandbox labs, treat practice tests as diagnostics, and avoid leaked “brain dumps” that promise shortcut passes but carry legal, ethical, and career risks. Background / Overview Microsoft’s DP-900: Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals exam measures foundational knowledge of core data concepts and how Microsoft Azure implements them. The...

Windows 11 includes a powerful, low-friction tool for vetting unknown programs: Windows Sandbox — a built‑in, disposable virtual environment that boots a clean copy of the same Windows build you run on your PC, isolates any activity from your host system, and discards everything the moment you close it. This makes it one of the easiest and safest ways for enthusiasts, power users, and IT pros to test suspicious downloads, evaluate new utilities, and reproduce bugs without risking the host...

The Premier League has signed a five‑year strategic deal with Microsoft to migrate its core digital infrastructure to Azure and to roll out a Copilot‑powered “Premier League Companion” that will draw on more than 30 seasons of data — roughly 300,000 articles and 9,000 videos — to deliver personalized, multilingual fan experiences, integration with Fantasy Premier League, and enhanced match insights. Background The announcement positions Microsoft as the Premier League’s official cloud and AI...