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October’s EdTech headlines read like a rapid-fire test of whether schools, colleges and training providers can move at the same speed as the companies shaping the tools they’ll use: Google rolled Gemini into Miami‑Dade at scale, Microsoft’s new Copilot Teach tools prompted a wave of educator scrutiny, OpenAI published a multi-pronged Workforce Blueprint, Perplexity added a language‑learning mode, NVIDIA doubled down on UK apprenticeships, and Mastercard framed payments modernization as an...

Shopify’s latest earnings call painted a clear, disruptive picture: AI is moving from experiment to commerce channel, and Shopify says traffic from AI tools to its merchants is up roughly 7× since January, while orders attributed to AI search and agents have risen about 11× — a claim the company used to argue that conversational, agent-enabled shopping is no longer theoretical but beginning to scale. Background / Overview Shopify’s Q3 results delivered more than top-line numbers; they...

Microsoft confirmed plans for a second in‑country Azure cloud region in Malaysia — branded Southeast Asia 3 and set for Johor Bahru — a move the company says will expand capacity for AI workloads, tie into Azure’s global backbone, and extend a US$2.2 billion Malaysia investment that began in 2024. Background / Overview Microsoft’s Malaysia strategy has three clear elements: deploy physical cloud capacity inside the country, pair infrastructure with national skilling and innovation programs...

YouTube’s blunt takedown of step‑by‑step Windows 11 tutorials laid bare a modern moderation problem: automated systems built to stop life‑threatening content are misclassifying routine technical how‑tos as “dangerous,” sweeping away years of community knowledge and leaving creators exposed to strike‑based penalties that can kill a channel. The incident that put this tension on full display involved CyberCPU Tech — a mid‑sized Windows‑focused channel — whose videos showing how to create a...

Every time Windows hits a fatal error and forces a restart, it leaves a trail — crash logs, event records, and memory dumps — that can tell you what went wrong and point to a fix. Whether you prefer a quick GUI check in Event Viewer, a visual timeline in Reliability Monitor, a command-line harvest with PowerShell or wevtutil, or deep analysis of minidump files with WinDbg or BlueScreenView, Windows stores the evidence you need. This guide walks through where those logs live, how to access...

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and partner agencies released a compact, operational playbook on Oct. 30 that tells administrators to treat on‑premises Microsoft Exchange servers as “under imminent threat,” urging immediate hardening, migration away from unsupported releases, and a prioritized remediation runbook to prevent on‑prem compromises from escalating into Exchange Online tenant breaches. Background and overview...

Microsoft has quietly corrected one of those small, pervasive Windows annoyances that quietly eroded user trust: the long‑standing “Update and shut down” option that often behaved like “Update and restart.” The fix first appeared in the October 28, 2025 optional preview cumulative update KB5067036 and has been validated in Insider channels, producing preview OS builds 26200.7019 (Windows 11 25H2) and 26100.7019 (Windows 11 24H2). This servicing change aims to ensure that when users choose...

AI’s arrival in classrooms has stopped being hypothetical: by 2025 generative systems are deeply woven into student workflows, teacher practice, and district procurement decisions, producing rapid gains in productivity and personalization alongside hard questions about assessment validity, data governance, and equity. Background The last 18 months have rewritten the adoption curve for artificial intelligence in education. Large language models and multimodal copilots moved from novelty...

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This year’s Microsoft Ignite arrives not as a parade of product teasers but as a strategic ground game: an explicit invitation for startups and enterprises to assemble AI solutions that are secure, scalable, and commercially viable. Background / Overview Microsoft Ignite 2025 is scheduled for November 18–21 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, with optional pre-conference activities and a robust digital track for remote attendees. The event’s public messaging, session catalog, and partner...

Microsoft’s end-of-support deadline for Windows 10 has arrived, and for organizations that must keep Windows 10 devices in production the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program is the single most important stopgap to retain critical security patches — but only if those devices are prepared, licensed, and activated correctly. This guide walks enterprise IT teams through where to find your Windows 10 ESU Multiple Activation Key (MAK), how to deploy and verify ESU activation at scale...

After more than a decade of Windows users shrugging at an inscrutable restart where a shutdown should have happened, Microsoft has quietly closed the loop: the long-broken “Update and shut down” behavior that sometimes restarted a PC instead of powering it off is now addressed in the October 28, 2025 preview update KB5067036. The fix first landed in Insider preview flights in late September and was folded into the optional October cumulative preview for Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2 (OS...

Law360’s five-step playbook for General Counsel to drive generative‑AI experimentation is both a timely wake-up call and a practical blueprint: pair executive sponsorship with measurable targets; start with narrow, high‑value pilots; build cross‑functional governance; insist on ironclad procurement protections; and make human verification the non‑negotiable final gate. Background / Overview Generative AI has moved from experiments and vendor demos into routine legal tasks—drafting...

Generative AI is no longer a novelty for legal teams — it is an operational imperative that General Counsel must shepherd from curiosity to disciplined production use, and Law360’s five‑step playbook crystallizes the practical route: secure executive sponsorship and measurable targets, run narrow high‑value pilots, embed cross‑functional governance, insist on stringent procurement protections, and make human verification mandatory at every outward‑facing gate. Background / Overview...

Microsoft and AMD’s co‑designed EPYC 9V64H — the custom CPU at the heart of Azure’s HBv5 virtual machines — rewrites the rules for memory‑bound HPC in the cloud by pairing Zen 4 compute chiplets with hundreds of gigabytes of on‑package HBM3 and delivering nearly an order‑of‑magnitude uplift in sustained streaming memory bandwidth for real‑world workloads. Background / Overview Azure HBv5 is a purpose‑built cloud node family aimed squarely at memory‑bound high‑performance computing (HPC)...

The past week’s gadget headlines traded big‑budget handheld ambition for a reminder that sometimes the smallest fixes matter most: Kevin Bates’ tiny Arduboy gets a modern refresh with the Arduboy FX‑C, several boutique handheld PC makers pushed new high‑power hardware into crowdfunded territory, AYANEO teased a playful mini‑PC design, and Microsoft quietly rolled a servicing correction that should make the Start menu’s “Update and shut down” option behave the way users expect. This roundup...

OpenAI’s sudden, headline-grabbing commitment to buy roughly $38 billion of cloud services from Amazon Web Services (AWS) has reshaped the compute map for generative AI — a strategic pivot that delivers immediate upside for Amazon investors, raises new questions for Microsoft, and crystallizes several long‑running trends in the hyperscaler and hardware markets. Background / Overview Over the last few years, OpenAI built an unusually tight commercial and technical relationship with Microsoft...

Agentic shopping—where an AI assistant not only recommends products but completes the purchase for you inside the chat—has abruptly moved from pilot projects and design decks to live commerce surfaces this year, and it’s reshaping how merchants, platforms, and IT teams must think about discovery, checkout, and trust. Major retailers have deployed purpose-built shopping assistants (Lowe’s Mylow, Amazon’s Rufus and other in‑app helpers), and leading AI platforms have stitched in‑chat checkout...

The legal function’s path from curiosity to disciplined experimentation with generative AI no longer depends on hope or hype — it depends on a repeatable operating model. Law360’s “5 Steps for GCs to Drive Generative AI Experimentation” lays out a pragmatic sequence for general counsel and legal operations leaders: secure executive sponsorship and measurable targets, run narrow high‑value pilots, embed cross‑functional governance, insist on robust procurement protections, and bake human...

Microsoft has deployed a corrective rollback after a widespread outage tied to Azure Front Door disrupted Microsoft services and thousands of customer sites, leaving users with sign-in failures, blank management portal blades, and intermittent 502/504 gateway errors across Microsoft 365, Xbox, and a range of third‑party web properties. Background Azure Front Door (AFD) is Microsoft’s global Layer‑7 edge and application delivery fabric, providing TLS termination, global HTTP(S) routing, Web...