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Microsoft’s global outage that silenced storefronts, travel hubs and gaming portals on October 29 was traced to a control‑plane configuration error on Azure Front Door, and the affected websites were gradually returned to service after engineers halted rollouts, rolled back to a last‑known‑good state and rerouted traffic—an incident that again exposed the fragility of centralized cloud ingress and the real‑world consequences when a single edge fabric fails. Background In the late afternoon...

India’s data‑centre landscape has shifted from nascent to monumental over the past two years: global hyperscalers and domestic champions are committing tens of billions of dollars to build AI‑ready, gigawatt‑scale campuses, and that capital is already reshaping power, fibre and skills planning across multiple Indian states. New headline projects from AWS, Microsoft, Google, Meta (with Reliance), NTT, Yotta and CtrlS underscore a clear trend — India is now a primary battleground for the next...

Microsoft’s decision to put Halo on PlayStation — launching a full remake of Halo: Combat Evolved as Halo: Campaign Evolved on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC in 2026 — is the clearest signal yet that the old rules of console exclusivity are dissolving, and it has already ignited a mix of jubilation, strategic recalculation and cultural hand-wringing across the gaming community. Background / Overview For nearly a quarter-century, Halo served as Xbox’s flagship identity piece: a...

A recently discovered unofficial mirror hosting downloads of FlyOOBE — the community tool that evolved from the Flyby11 Windows 11 requirements bypass — has triggered an urgent developer warning and fresh debate about the risks of using third‑party installers to force unsupported machines onto Windows 11. The project's official release notes now carry a blunt SECURITY ALERT telling users to “DO NOT DOWNLOAD FROM FlyOOBE - FlyOOBE because the site is an unauthorised mirror that may host...

If you believe the single biggest security problem for Windows is the next malware strain or a clever phishing campaign, think again — the far more dangerous factor is the set of widely repeated security myths that lull users into bad habits and create predictable attack surfaces attackers love to exploit. Overview Windows security has improved dramatically over the last decade: built‑in protections such as Microsoft Defender, controlled folder access, Smart App Control, and the Windows...

Windows Hello has quietly moved from a novelty to a practical, everyday security layer for millions of Windows users — fast enough to feel effortless, secure enough that it actually changes how people behave at their desk, and flexible enough to underpin Microsoft’s broader push toward passwordless sign-in. Background / Overview Windows Hello debuted as part of Microsoft’s Windows 10 vision: a hardware-backed, biometric-first approach designed to make sign‑in faster and safer than passwords...

AI has quietly remade the data that matters most inside regulated businesses: everyday conversations with clients and partners have become structured, searchable, and actionable — and that transformation is forcing organisations to choose between innovation and oversight unless they adopt new governance models for messaging intelligence. Background / Overview LeapXpert has positioned itself at the intersection of that choice. The company’s communications platform — now extended with an AI...

Microsoft's cloud control plane faltered in a high‑visibility incident that knocked Xbox Live, Microsoft 365, Minecraft, and a raft of third‑party services offline for hours, leaving gamers and businesses scrambling while engineers rolled back an Azure Front Door configuration and rerouted traffic to restore service. Background / Overview On October 29, widespread reports and Microsoft's own status messages documented a significant outage that began in the early afternoon UTC and quickly...

Emotion-sensing artificial intelligence is closing the gap on human ability to read facial expressions and vocal cues: multiple commercial systems and recent academic benchmarks report real-world accuracies in the mid‑70s to low‑80s percent range, while controlled laboratory tests and human benchmarking still show people generally outperform AI on nuanced, context‑rich emotion understanding. Background Emotion-sensing AI — often called affective computing or emotional AI — refers to systems...

Seattle’s tech paradox landed on headlines last week when Amazon confirmed a major round of corporate reductions at the very moment the company — and the industry at large — is spending at scale on artificial intelligence infrastructure, raising hard questions about strategy, resilience, and whether this is the onset of a durable transformation or another over‑heated tech cycle. Amazon announced cuts affecting roughly 14,000 corporate roles, while regional reporting and analysts had earlier...

The last week’s earnings cascade left a stark, simple narrative for anyone watching cloud economics: three companies — Amazon, Microsoft, and Google — are not just winning the cloud war, they’re printing cash from it in a way that reshapes the balance sheets and strategic choices of nearly every enterprise and investor in the market. Amazon’s cloud alone returned a roughly $33 billion top‑line in a single quarter with operating profit in the neighborhood of $11 billion, and analysts’ charts...

Big Tech's latest message to Wall Street is straightforward and loud: the AI spending boom is not pausing — it’s accelerating, and hyperscalers are putting money where their models are. Major technology firms have quietly (and not so quietly) lifted capital expenditure guidance, expanded data‑center pipelines, and locked in multi‑year chip orders. The result is an unprecedented infrastructure build‑out that is reshaping markets, rewarding a narrow set of suppliers, and raising fresh...

Amazon’s late‑October market surge was born of a precise combination of stronger-than-expected cloud results and a forward outlook that pushed a long‑running investor worry — that Amazon was being left behind in the AI cloud race — back into the “contender” column. In a single trading session the market re‑rated the company, reacting to a quarter where Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivered $33 billion in revenue — up roughly 20% year‑over‑year — and a management tone that described a pace of...

October’s Windows 11 refreshes weren’t a single headline — they were a steady series of practical fixes and small UX wins that, taken together, make daily use noticeably better for many users while also underscoring Microsoft’s direction for the platform. Background / Overview Microsoft used October 2025 to push a set of gradual, staged updates that polish long‑running pain points in Windows 11: the Start menu and taskbar, dark mode coverage, update clarity and reliability, the Out‑Of‑Box...

I added a convert button to my Windows 11 right‑click menu and the moment it arrived my workflow stopped feeling like a scavenger hunt and started feeling like a proper desktop again — a single right‑click now handles conversions, compression, resizing and simple edits without launching a dozen apps. Background: why a context‑menu converter matters File conversion is one of those low‑glamour tasks that quietly eats time. Whether preparing images for the web, transcode footage for an article...

Windows 11 running on Proxmox quickly stops being a novelty and—surprisingly—becomes a practical, everyday workstation for power users and homelabbers who want Windows tooling without extra physical hardware. The experience described in a recent hands‑on writeup shows how a carefully built Windows 11 VM on Proxmox can be fast, flexible, and forgiving—thanks to snapshots, VirtIO drivers, vTPM/OVMF support, and optional GPU passthrough—while still carrying nontrivial complexity and operational...

Tata Motors’ corporate reshuffle reached a milestone this week as the company completed the legal steps that rename its commercial-vehicles arm TML Commercial Vehicles Limited to Tata Motors Limited, finalising a demerger that creates two separately governed, listed automotive entities — a move designed to sharpen focus across commercial and passenger vehicle franchises and to unlock shareholder value. Background / Overview The Tata Motors demerger is the culmination of a multi-stage...

If you’re tired of wrestling with SEO-filtered Google results, ads and endless link lists, a short, conversational approach using AI chatbots can often reach the answer faster — and that’s exactly the practical case made in the AOL guide that kicked off this conversation. Background / Overview AI chatbots — the “conversational search” experience — have become a common front door to information for many users who want plain‑English answers, context continuity and follow-up questions without...

Enterprises and home labs alike face a deceptively simple-sounding decision: which hypervisor will reliably run the workloads you care about, at the scale you need, without breaking the bank or compromising security. This feature unpacks the practical tradeoffs—performance, availability, management, cost, and cloud compatibility—that separate the hypervisor contenders and provides an operational decision framework you can apply to pick the right platform for each workload class. Background...

The internet flickered — and for millions of people and hundreds of thousands of organizations the lights went out in ways that felt uncomfortably familiar: a major AWS control‑plane/DNS failure on October 20, 2025, followed less than ten days later by a wide‑reaching Microsoft Azure outage tied to an Azure Front Door configuration change, together laid bare the systemic fragility of today’s cloud‑centric internet and the business, technical, and policy risks that flow from concentrating...