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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...

Microsoft has quietly delivered the most significant Start menu overhaul since Windows 11 launched, replacing the two‑pane launcher with a single, vertically scrollable canvas, new browsing modes for installed apps, and tighter Phone Link integration — and it's being rolled out via an optional preview and staged enablement rather than a single monolithic update. Background and overview Microsoft's refreshed Start menu is part of the KB5067036 preview package that surfaced to Release Preview...

Renfrew County’s school boards have quietly crossed a threshold many districts only talk about: they are actively integrating generative artificial intelligence into everyday classroom workflows while building policies, training and technical guardrails to shape how students and teachers use it. Background Artificial intelligence (AI) — especially generative AI such as large language models and multimodal assistants — has rapidly moved from novel online tools into mainstream productivity...

Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly been given a face — and Microsoft is already testing ways those animated Portraits could move beyond a narrow interview-coaching experiment into a broader set of practical and playful scenarios that span career prep, study help, public-speaking practice, language learning, and even a novelty “older-self” chat mode. Early tests are staged inside Copilot Labs with deliberate safety gates and a stylized, non‑photoreal aesthetic; the company’s approach balances a...

The AI landscape of 2025 is no longer an experiment — it’s a working set of tools that billions of people use daily to write, design, search, code, chat and create media — and a handful of platforms now dominate that activity while reshaping risk, policy and enterprise practice. Background / Overview The year 2025 consolidated a pattern that began earlier in the decade: general-purpose conversational models, multimodal creative engines, and productivity copilots have become distinct product...

AI is no longer an optional layer on top of enterprise systems — it is actively remaking the architecture, behavior, and business case for modern ERP, turning what used to be a passive transaction ledger into a continuous, predictive decision engine that can automate work, reduce cost, and change how decisions are made across finance, supply chain, HR, and sales. Background / Overview Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software has historically been a consolidated system of record: ledgers...

The back‑to‑back disruptions at Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure this month — a prolonged DNS/DynamoDB failure in AWS’s US‑EAST‑1 region followed days later by an Azure Front Door configuration error that impeded DNS and portal access — have reignited a familiar but widening debate: should hyperscale cloud providers be held to telecom‑style reliability and public‑interest obligations when their services underpin so much of the modern internet? Analysts and policy groups are...

Alaska Airlines’ decision to bring in an external auditor after a week of cascading IT failures marks a turning point in how airlines—and any large, legacy-dependent operators—must rethink resilience in a hyperscale cloud era. A sudden failure at the carrier’s primary data center triggered a nationwide ground stop and hundreds of cancellations, and days later a separate, widespread outage in a major cloud provider’s global edge service disrupted Alaska’s website and mobile app. The carrier...