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The latest Windows 11 preview update has introduced a baffling Task Manager regression that can leave multiple invisible copies of taskmgr.exe running after you click the window “X,” creating a slow, hard‑to‑diagnose resource leak for affected users and raising fresh questions about preview rollout practices and QA for lifecycle code paths. Background Microsoft published the October 28, 2025 optional preview cumulative update, identified as KB5067036 (OS builds 26200.7019 and 26100.7019), as...

Chanel’s CEO Leena Nair publicly called out ChatGPT after a demo at Microsoft produced an image of her company’s “senior leadership team” made up entirely of men in suits — a mismatch she described as emblematic of entrenched bias in generative AI and a wake-up call as luxury brands embrace machine-generated tools. Background / Overview Leena Nair — a high-profile corporate leader who became Chanel’s global CEO in January 2022 — recounted the episode during a Stanford Graduate School of...

Microsoft’s Copilot Fall Release turns the Edge browser (and a growing portion of Windows) into an AI-native workspace — a permissioned, multimodal assistant that remembers context, supports shared sessions, and can act on the web when you explicitly allow it. Background / Overview The Copilot Fall Release packages a dozen consumer-facing capabilities that push Microsoft’s Copilot from a chat overlay toward a persistent, project-aware companion across Edge, Windows, and Copilot-enabled apps...

Alphabet’s spending plans have just rewritten the map of the AI datacenter race: Google’s parent Alphabet said it will push capital expenditures to roughly $91–$93 billion in 2025, with management warning of a significant increase again in 2026 as cloud and AI demand outstrips capacity. Background The hyperscale cloud providers have entered a new, capital‑intensive phase. Over the last 18 months the industry shifted from exploratory AI projects to widespread, enterprise deployments that...

VeePN has announced it will stop shipping updates and feature patches for legacy Windows versions — specifically Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 — a change the company says is intended to strengthen user security and free its engineers to adopt modern VPN frameworks and protections. Background / Overview VeePN’s official post makes the decision explicit: the company will continue active development and updates for Windows 10 and Windows 11, while users running Windows 7, 8, or 8.1 will...

Microsoft has quietly rebuilt the Windows 11 Start menu into a single, scrollable launcher and made it available to users via an optional preview (KB5067036) while continuing to gate visibility with server-side rollout flags. Background / Overview Since Windows 11’s launch, the Start menu’s two‑page model (Pinned + All apps on a separate page) and the prominent Recommended pane drew repeated criticism for interrupting quick app discovery. Microsoft’s new Start addresses that by surfacing the...

Microsoft has quietly delivered the most consequential redesign of the Windows 11 Start menu since the operating system launched — a single, vertically scrollable launcher that promotes the full “All apps” list to the main surface, adds multiple presentation modes (Category, Grid, and the retained List), folds a Phone Link panel into the Start chrome, and arrives as part of an optional, staged preview packaged under KB5067036. Background / Overview Windows’ Start menu has been the most...

Samsung’s long-running mobile browser has finally crossed the desktop divide: the company has launched a beta of Samsung Internet for PC, bringing its mobile feature set, cross‑device sync, and Galaxy AI assistance to Windows 10 and Windows 11 for the first time. Background Samsung Internet began life as a mobile-first browser and over the last decade matured into a feature-rich Chromium-based alternative on Android and other Samsung platforms. The company has now announced a deliberate push...

Keeping Roblox on Windows 11 current is usually straightforward, but the platform’s dual delivery methods (Microsoft Store package vs. website installer), occasional Windows servicing interactions, and device-specific quirks (notably on ARM) mean every Windows 11 gamer should know the reliable update paths, quick fixes for common failure modes, and safe troubleshooting procedures. Background Roblox ships to Windows users in two primary forms: the Microsoft Store package (the preferred...

On 29 October 2025 John Donovan published what he says is the unredacted transcript of a conversation with Microsoft Copilot about Royal Dutch Shell’s ethics — a public moment that crystallises three decades of rancour, a vast online archive of leaked documents, and an argument over how far corporations will go to track and discredit persistent critics. The episode is more than a curiosity about what an AI assistant will say when asked about a corporate titan: it is a window into the...

Google’s October Workspace Drop is a far-reaching push to make Gemini the connective tissue of productivity — adding cinematic video generation, presentation automation, live translation, spreadsheet-level automation, and even AI-assisted ransomware protection — a package that shifts Workspace from a feature update into a platform redefinition for AI-first collaboration. Background / Overview Google’s October release bundles generative and grounding upgrades across Sheets, Drive, Slides...

The warehouse floor is changing faster than many operations teams expected: robotics, smarter vision systems, edge computation and private networks are converging into tightly coordinated fleets and tools that promise to reshape fulfillment, inventory and manufacturing logistics. The Technology.org briefing the team provided captures this moment — highlighting Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs), collaborative robots (cobots), transformer-based vision for picking, soft grippers, drones, edge...

Grammarly’s pivot from a single-purpose writing assistant to a full-fledged, AI-native productivity platform marks one of the clearest signals yet that the next wave of workplace tooling will be built around proactive agents that work where people already work, not in isolated tabs or separate apps. Background For sixteen years Grammarly built its reputation on grammar, tone, and stylistic assistance. That product remains, but the company has just completed a dramatic strategic pivot: it has...

OpenAI’s campus pop-up at Ohio State and a flurry of faculty summits, community workshops and university-led AI pilots this autumn are not isolated PR stunts — they are visible signs of a rapid, coordinated shift in how higher education is treating generative AI: from novelty to institutional priority and operational infrastructure. Students are being courted with hands-on demos, faculty are being trained in classroom uses and procurement teams are quietly negotiating enterprise-grade tools...

October’s vulnerability headlines weren’t just noise — they forced emergency patching, accelerated government remediation orders, and exposed two persistent truths for Windows shops: trusted infrastructure is a prime target, and identity and container isolation are no longer “nice to have” controls but operational requirements. Background / Overview October 2025 produced a compact but ferocious set of flaws that changed how organisations think about exposure, privilege and trust. A remotely...

Samsung’s long-running mobile browser has finally come to the Windows desktop — but the first public step is deliberately small, experimental, and raises as many questions as it answers about privacy, performance, and whether Samsung can turn a phone-first product into a desktop contender. Background / Overview Samsung Internet began life as a mobile-first browser bundled with Galaxy phones, earning a reputation for privacy features, extension support, and close ties to Samsung services. The...

Microsoft and Meta have moved a long‑teased idea—using an affordable consumer headset as a full Windows workstation—out of preview and into wide availability: Mixed Reality Link is now generally available for Windows 11 and works with Meta Quest 3 and Meta Quest 3S headsets, delivering a multi‑monitor virtual desktop, passthrough-aware workflows, and cloud PC integration for real productivity scenarios. Background / Overview Mixed Reality Link started life as a developer and public preview...

Samsung’s long-running mobile-first browser is finally stepping onto desktops: the company launched a beta of Samsung Internet for PC for Windows users today, bringing synchronized bookmarks, history, passwords via Samsung Pass, and Galaxy AI-powered features like Browsing Assist to Windows 11 and Windows 10 (version 1809 and later) machines in the United States and Korea starting October 30, 2025. Background Samsung Internet began life as a mobile browser tightly integrated with Galaxy...

Microsoft is quietly simplifying how Windows tells you what it just installed—moving from long, machine-oriented labels to short, predictable titles that foreground the item’s classification, the canonical KB number, and, where relevant, a compact build or component version. Background For years the Windows Update experience has balanced two competing goals: machine-accurate metadata (necessary for enterprise tooling and precise targeting) and human-readable names (what end users actually...

Xbox’s Free Play Days this weekend roll together nostalgia, live-service horror, and tabletop strategy into a single, can’t-miss lineup—headlined by a generous Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 free trial that opens Multiplayer and Zombies to Game Pass members, alongside Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, Dead by Daylight’s Halloween discounts, CATAN: Console Edition, and Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader; two smaller titles — Yes, Your Grace and Post Trauma — are also mentioned in reports as unlocked for all...