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EaseUS’ Disk Copy 6.9.0 introduces a single‑wizard “Migrate to Win11” workflow that promises to clone a system drive to a new disk and upgrade that clone to Windows 11 in one automated sequence — including built‑in logic to bypass common Windows 11 hardware checks such as TPM and Secure Boot where required. Background / Overview The Windows 10 end‑of‑support date and the stricter hardware gates in Windows 11 forced many users and small IT teams into a short, practical problem: how to...

A sweeping, journalist‑led audit coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and operationally led by the BBC has found that mainstream AI assistants misrepresent news in an alarmingly high proportion of cases — roughly 45% of evaluated news answers contained at least one significant issue, and about 81% had some detectable problem when minor faults are included. This large, multilingual study tested consumer versions of ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and Perplexity...

Seattle’s tech titans are ordering a paradoxical shuffle: at the very moment Microsoft, Amazon and other big employers pour tens of billions into artificial intelligence infrastructure, they are also cutting tens of thousands of white‑collar roles — a strategic rebalancing that is producing both bullish investment headlines and raw, pervasive anxiety across the region’s workforce. Background Seattle’s tech economy has long been defined by two simultaneous forces: massive capital investment...

The Louvre’s security collapse reads like a cautionary tale written for IT teams: a daylight heist that lasted under eight minutes exposed not only a physical breach of priceless objects but decades of deferred cybersecurity maintenance, trivial credential hygiene, and unsupported vendor software that auditors had flagged years earlier. Background On October 19, 2025, four thieves entered the Musée du Louvre during visiting hours, used a freight (cherry) lift to gain upper‑floor access...

Anyscale and Microsoft have launched a co‑engineered, first‑party Azure service that brings Ray’s AI‑native distributed compute into Azure as a fully managed offering, entering private preview on November 4, 2025 and positioned for general availability in 2026. Background Modern AI workloads have moved beyond the capabilities of legacy batch‑oriented compute models. Pipelines now commonly mix CPU preprocessing, GPU‑accelerated training, and low‑latency inference in the same application flow...

Microsoft’s formal cutoff for Windows 10 support on October 14, 2025 forced a hard choice for millions of users — and a team of repair activists answered that emergency with a series of “Fix‑a‑thon” refurb events that rescued more than a hundred laptops and redirected them away from landfill and complacent obsolescence. Background Microsoft’s lifecycle announcement fixed the end of mainstream support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. After that date, consumer editions no longer receive...

Capturing a moment on-screen — whether a crashing error, an important receipt, or a how‑to step for a colleague — is a basic but essential skill for every Windows user, and in 2025 you have more options than ever to do it quickly, accurately, and with built‑in editing tools ready to polish the result. Background Windows has supported screenshots since the early days, but the last several releases—particularly Windows 10 and Windows 11—have turned screen capture into a first‑class, integrated...

The Microsoft Update Catalog is a reliable lifeline when Windows Update stalls or you need offline installers, but using it safely requires attention to KB numbers, architecture, package types (.msu vs .cab), and servicing prerequisites; this guide walks through what the Catalog is, how to find the exact update you need, the safest ways to download and install it offline, and the verification and rollback precautions every power user and IT pro should follow. Background / Overview The...

FlyOOBE’s latest public build, reported as FlyOOBE 1.51.644 in recent coverage, doubles down on the project’s shift from a one‑trick installer patcher into a compact Out‑Of‑Box Experience (OOBE) toolkit — bundling the original Flyby11 upgrade bypass as a native extension, expanding the PowerShell extensions engine, polishing UI scaling on high‑DPI displays, and refining how third‑party scripts are surfaced to users. Background / Overview Windows 11’s strict hardware gating — TPM 2.0, UEFI...

Microsoft has warned that a wave of October 2025 cumulative updates can unexpectedly drop some Windows 10 and Windows 11 machines into the BitLocker recovery screen — forcing users to supply a 48‑digit recovery key before the system will boot — and the problem has been linked to the October 14, 2025 updates (notably KB5066835 for Windows 11 and KB5066791 for Windows 10). Background / overview Windows’ built‑in full‑disk encryption, BitLocker, ties disk access to measured platform state (TPM...

EaseUS’ latest Disk Copy 6.9.0 pushes a bold gamble into the Windows migration market by combining disk cloning and a one‑step Windows 11 migration into a single workflow — the “Migrate to Win11” mode promises to clone your drive, upgrade the OS in place on the target disk, and even bypass common hardware checks such as TPM and Secure Boot where required, all while preserving files, applications and settings. Background Windows 10 reached its widely publicized end‑of‑support milestone in...

Microsoft and Meta’s coordinated rollout of Mixed Reality Link on October 30, 2025, moves the idea of a headset as a real productivity display from demonstration to deployable option: Quest 3 and Quest 3S owners can now stream a full Windows 11 desktop (local or Windows 365 Cloud PC), place multiple virtual monitors in mixed reality, use an ultrawide curved workspace, and — in later Horizon OS builds — open up to 12 app windows concurrently, all inside a single headset session. Background /...

A wave of October cumulative updates triggered a BitLocker recovery prompt on a subset of Windows PCs, and for some users the follow‑up behavior made recovery impossible without a stored recovery key — a scenario that risks permanent data loss if the key is not available. Background Microsoft shipped its October servicing wave on October 14, 2025. Within days, administrators and home users reported two distinct but related failures: affected machines could boot directly into the BitLocker...

Microsoft Teams — one of the world’s most widely used collaboration platforms — was shown to contain a set of trust‑breaking flaws that could let attackers impersonate executives, spoof notifications, rewrite chat history silently, and even forge caller identities in voice/video calls; Check Point Research disclosed the findings and Microsoft has issued fixes, including an iOS patch tracked as CVE‑2024‑38197. Background / Overview Microsoft Teams sits at the heart of many organizations’...

Windows 10’s retirement received an unexpected glitch: a post–October cumulative update caused some machines that are still eligible for extended support to display alarming “end of support” banners in Settings, prompting confusion for home users and alarm at scale for administrators. Background / Overview Microsoft formally ended mainstream support for the last serviced branch of Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. For most consumers that date marks the cessation of free, routine OS security...

Microsoft’s recent admission that some Windows 10 machines are showing an “end of support” banner even after customers enrolled in Extended Security Updates (ESU) has caused a predictable spike of alarm — but the root cause is a display bug, not a sudden loss of security patches, and Microsoft has pushed an automated server-side correction while preparing a longer-term fix. Background: what changed and why people noticed it Windows 10 reached its planned end of mainstream servicing in...

Windows 11’s 25H2 maintenance release arrives as a familiar-but-refined shell over last year’s 24H2 codebase, and with it comes the same friction many users have come to expect: taskbar clutter, persistent tips and recommendations, Web‑driven Copilot hooks, widget feeds, and a raft of preinstalled apps and prompts that make a “fresh” install feel busy instead of calm. This feature‑forward posture is optional to an extent — Microsoft exposes supported toggles to turn most of these behaviors...

Microsoft’s October servicing wave left a fresh scar on enterprise admins and cautious home users alike: several Windows 11 systems booted into the BitLocker recovery screen after installing October cumulative updates, and in a related regression USB keyboards and mice stopped responding inside the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE). What began as isolated field reports escalated into an official Microsoft advisory and an out-of-band emergency patch — but the incident underscores both the...

Microsoft has quietly closed a frustrating chapter in Windows reliability by shipping a servicing fix that, for many users, finally makes the “Update and shut down” command do exactly what it promises: install updates and power the PC off instead of unexpectedly restarting or returning to the sign‑in screen. The change first appeared in an optional October 28, 2025 preview cumulative update (KB5067036) for Windows 11 versions 25H2 and 24H2, and Microsoft has staged it for broader...

Microsoft has quietly added a small but consequential convenience to the Microsoft Store: a web‑created, multi‑app install workflow that lets you pick a curated set of apps, download a single tiny launcher, and have the Store download and install everything for you in one go. Background Setting up Windows has long involved a mundane ritual: visit vendor sites, download installers, answer permission prompts, and repeat that cycle a half dozen to a dozen times. Power users solved this with...