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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...

YouTube’s recent removal of several Windows 11 how‑tos—most prominently videos from the CyberCPU Tech channel—has turned a routine moderation event into a full‑blown policy debate about automated content enforcement, platform nuance, and the survival of practical technical education on mainstream video platforms. Creators report that videos explaining how to install Windows 11 on unsupported hardware and how to complete Out‑Of‑Box Experience (OOBE) setup with a local (offline) account were...

Google’s multimodal juggernaut and the rising class of tiny on‑device models are not simply competing products — they represent two complementary architectural answers to the same demand: useful, fast, and trustworthy AI where users actually work. The gulf between Gemini and Nano AI is less a contest of raw intelligence than a tradeoff between scale and immediacy: one lives in hyperscale data centres to deliver depth and multimodal reasoning, the other lives on silicon in your pocket to...

If you’ve ever wished for a calm, organized Thanksgiving instead of a kitchen marathon and aunts with opinions, this year’s small revolution is that artificial intelligence can be a practical sous‑chef — helping you choose menus, scale recipes, manage budgets and even work around broken ovens — while still keeping the human touch where it matters. Background / Overview The idea is simple: modern conversational AIs — notably Microsoft’s Copilot family integrated into Edge and Microsoft 365 —...

Hindustan Unilever (HUL) has received an income‑tax demand of approximately ₹1,986.25 crore for the financial year 2020–21 after the tax authorities made transfer‑pricing adjustments and challenged certain depreciation and related‑party transaction valuations, and the company has said it will contest the order. Background / Overview Hindustan Unilever, India’s largest fast‑moving consumer goods (FMCG) company and the local arm of the global Unilever group, disclosed that it received an...

The race to build the physical backbone of modern AI — the GPU farms, liquid‑cooled racks, and multi‑gigawatt campuses that train and serve large language models — has turned into one of the most consequential infrastructure competitions in technology. In the past six months, a flurry of multi‑billion‑dollar contracts, aggressive capital spending and regulatory maneuvering has crystallized two very different investment and operational plays: CoreWeave, a GPU‑first “neocloud” built around...

VPNs are not magic — they’re a simple piece of networking wrapped in strong encryption — but understanding what a VPN does, when to use one, and how to pick the right provider matters more than ever for Windows users, streamers, remote workers and anyone who connects on public Wi‑Fi. Background A Virtual Private Network (VPN) creates an encrypted tunnel between your device and a remote server run by the VPN provider. That server forwards your web requests to the sites you visit, and to...

Microsoft is rolling back the clutter that has long made the Windows Update history page look like a technical scrapbook by introducing simplified, standardized update titles that focus on the essentials: the update type, the KB (Knowledge Base) reference, and the build or version number. Background For years, Windows Update entries have been dense with technical metadata—version tokens like 25H2 or 24H2, architecture markers such as x64-based systems, and date prefixes—that made entry names...