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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...

AMD’s latest Adrenalin Edition 25.10.2 release touched off more noise than many routine driver updates, thanks to two converging changes: the official release notes list Windows 11 as the supported operating system and the company announced that Radeon RX 5000 (RDNA 1) and RX 6000 (RDNA 2) GPUs are being shifted into a maintenance mode branch. Within 48 hours AMD issued clarifications: the omission of Windows 10 from the release notes reflects Microsoft’s official end‑of‑support milestone...

Microsoft’s server-side change to how Windows Update displays titles — dropping the YYYY‑MM date prefix and the word Cumulative from monthly update names — is already live and creating noise across IT teams and enthusiast communities. The company published the change as an update to Windows Update’s presentation on October 29, 2025, replacing verbose, information-rich titles such as “2025‑10 Cumulative Update for Windows 11, version 25H2 … (KB5066835) (26200.6899)” with shorter labels like...

Microsoft and multiple security vendors confirm that a long-known Windows shortcut (.lnk) vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-9491 is being actively weaponized in targeted espionage campaigns — and, as of the latest reports, there is no Microsoft patch available to close the hole. Background CVE-2025-9491 is a Windows LNK file UI misrepresentation remote code execution vulnerability first publicly cataloged in late August 2025. The bug allows specially crafted .lnk (shortcut) files to hide...

Fixing Atlanta’s offense begins with one stubborn truth: the Falcons win by converting early downs, and they lose when they don’t. Background / Overview The Falcons’ offensive narrative this season has been written in the margins between first-and-10 and third-and-long. When Atlanta consistently gains yardage on first and second down the offense hums — drives lengthen, playcallers can mix, and explosive opportunities open. When early down efficiency collapses, the playbook tightens, pressure...

OpenAI’s new "agent mode" marks a decisive step toward making ChatGPT not just a conversational assistant but an active, autonomous collaborator that can research, plan, and execute multi-step tasks on behalf of users — a capability now rolling out in stages to paid subscribers and integrated into OpenAI’s new Atlas browser for preview on premium tiers. Background The shift from reactive chatbots to agentic AI — systems that can take actions, call external tools, and carry out workflows...

Rose Damen’s recognition at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show signals a moment of convergence for the superyacht industry: family-led heritage, high-end design, and an increasingly public commitment to sustainability and inclusion are now legitimate yardsticks of leadership as much as technical pedigree and commercial success. Background Damen Shipyards Group is one of the longstanding pillars of European shipbuilding, tracing its roots to 1927 and today operating as a multi‑yard...

PewDiePie’s latest off‑camera project reads like a tech parable for the AI age: Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg quietly built a private, multi‑GPU AI lab in his home and wired it to a custom chat front end he calls ChatOS — running Chinese open‑source models, local web search and retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG), audio output, and a crowd‑style voting meta‑layer he nicknamed “The Council” (later “The Swarm”). The result is a playful but instructive demonstration of what’s possible — and...

Fortnum & Mason’s 2025 Christmas windows at Piccadilly promise a theatrical, jewel‑toned reawakening of the retailer’s holiday storytelling — a showpiece described in an exclusive season preview as “Mojo”, populated by hand‑painted creatures, layered scenery and shimmering lighting that invites Londoners to stop, stare and shop for the season. The presentation, presented across six windows, leans into deep purples, blues and greens that echo Fortnum’s festive packaging while leaning heavily...