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Microsoft’s latest Copilot “Fall Release” folds personality, memory, group collaboration, and safer domain guidance into a single consumer-facing push — and its centerpiece is a deliberately playful, voice-first avatar called Mico, a non‑photoreal animated companion that channels Clippy nostalgia without reviving Clippy’s worst behavior. Background / Overview Microsoft packaged roughly a dozen headline features into what it calls a human‑centered Copilot refresh, positioning the assistant as...

Windows 11’s hardware rules looked like a slap in the face to users with perfectly functional PCs—until you step back and consider what Microsoft was trying to buy with that pain: a cleaner, more secure, and more future-ready base for the entire Windows ecosystem. Background When Microsoft unveiled Windows 11 in 2021 it drew an unusually sharp line: TPM 2.0, UEFI Secure Boot enabled, a vetted CPU list and modest but firmer RAM and storage minimums. Those requirements immediately became the...

Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot has arrived in Windows 11’s Game Bar as a beta overlay that promises an AI “personal sidekick” for players — offering voice-first queries, screenshot-aware troubleshooting, achievement tracking and on‑the‑fly recommendations — but its early rollout has exposed thorny trade‑offs around privacy, system overhead, accuracy and competitive fairness that every Windows gamer should understand before enabling the feature. Background / Overview Microsoft launched Gaming...

AI automation can cut the time you spend on repetitive online tasks from hours to minutes, and the right approach turns that saved time into better focus on high-value work like coding, architecture, and strategic planning. Recent guides and product rollouts show that today’s AI assistants and low-code automation platforms can read and summarise your inbox, schedule meetings across multiple calendars, extract and normalise data from forms, draft and polish content, and even operate inside...

Microsoft has released an out‑of‑band emergency update to plug a critical remote‑code‑execution hole in Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), and federal and industry authorities warn the flaw — tracked as CVE‑2025‑59287 — is being actively exploited in the wild; immediate action is required for any environment running the WSUS Server Role. Background Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is the on‑premises Microsoft update distribution service many enterprises use to centralize Windows...

A large-scale, journalist‑led audit coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and operationally led by the BBC has delivered a blunt verdict: mainstream AI assistants regularly misrepresent news in ways that matter, with roughly 45% of evaluated responses containing at least one significant problem and about 81% containing some detectable issue when minor errors are counted. This finding, produced from roughly 3,000 assistant replies tested across 14 languages by editorial teams...

A viral social‑media post alleging that a postgraduate tutor at the University of New South Wales used ChatGPT to mark a student’s assignment has forced the university into a formal inquiry and sharpened a national debate about how—and whether—artificial intelligence should be used in teaching, marking and academic governance. Background / Overview The claim surfaced when a Master of Applied Finance student posted a screenshot of instructor feedback captured from Turnitin, where the comment...

Windows 10’s end-of-support milestone has forced a practical reckoning: for many older PCs that lack UEFI Secure Boot, TPM 2.0, or Microsoft’s latest CPU instruction checks, community workarounds still let you install Windows 11 25H2 — but the move is a technical trade-off with real security, servicing, and stability costs that every owner must weigh carefully. Background / Overview Microsoft set a firm end-of-support date for Windows 10: October 14, 2025. After that date, routine security...

Microsoft released two out-of-band emergency updates in late October that demand immediate attention from both consumers running Windows 11 and IT teams managing Windows Server infrastructure: an urgent Windows 11 fix (KB5070773) restoring USB input inside the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), and a critical Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) security patch that mitigates a remotely exploitable RCE vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-59287. These simultaneous patches address two very...

Microsoft’s Copilot just got a face: a deliberately non‑human, animated avatar called Mico (pronounced MEE’koh) that Microsoft introduced as part of a broader Copilot Fall Release — a package of voice, memory, collaboration and safety features designed to make AI assistance feel more social, more useful, and (Microsoft insists) less intrusive than past attempts at embodied assistants. Background / Overview Microsoft’s Copilot has been evolving from a text‑first sidebar into a persistent...

Fujitsu’s decision to continue offering built‑in optical drives — including Blu‑ray/BDXL options — in its new FMV Note A family underscores a striking market divergence: while the West moved on from internal disc trays years ago, a sizeable segment of Japanese buyers still values physical media, and vendors are responding accordingly. Background Japan remains one of the last strongholds for optical video and data media in consumer computing. Collectible Blu‑ray anime box sets, music...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas has refocused the browser race around persistent, agentic AI assistants — but if you don’t have a Mac today, there are several mature and emerging AI-first browsers that let Windows and other users join the experiment now, each with a different balance of privacy, automation, and productivity features. Background The browser is evolving from a passive renderer of web pages into a continuous AI surface: a persistent assistant that reads pages, summarizes, and — when...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update turns Copilot from a sidebar helper into a conversational, screen‑aware assistant that can act on your behalf — you can now say “Hey Copilot,” watch it see your screen, and grant it scoped permissions to manage files and cloud data as part of a broader push to make every Windows 11 PC an “AI PC.” Background / Overview Microsoft announced a major expansion of Copilot on Windows on October 16, 2025, rolling out three interlocking pillars: Copilot Voice...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas and Microsoft Edge with Copilot have done more than add a chat box to the new-tab page — they have pushed the browser into a new role: a permissioned, agentic assistant that can see, remember, reason across tabs, and in limited cases act on your behalf. The launches in late October 2025 are less about incremental convenience and more about an architectural choice: should the assistant be the browser (Atlas) or should the browser be an assistant layer on an existing...

Amazon Web Services is no longer the unquestioned poster child of unstoppable cloud momentum — but “stumble” overstates the case: AWS still leads in scale and revenue while Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure are closing the gap where it matters most today — productized AI services, developer ergonomics, and platform-level integration. Background / Overview AWS pioneered the modern cloud era when it opened S3 and EC2 to customers in 2006, creating the business model and global footprint that...

General Motors’ headline-making “eyes-off” pledge, OpenAI’s new Atlas browser, a fresh roundup of practical consumer tech tips — and a reminder that the cloud, tape decks and rental cars are all getting a modern makeover: this week’s tech news mixes high-stakes industry pivots with useful, everyday advice for Windows users and ordinary consumers. The announcements and local tips that surfaced on Rich On Tech’s latest show form a clear throughline: AI and automation are accelerating from lab...

Anthropic’s Claude platform now supports a formal, developer-focused extension system called Skills, a modular capability layer that lets teams package instruction sets, scripts, and resources into self-contained units Claude can load and execute on demand. Announced as an Agent Skills beta in mid‑October 2025, Skills are available across the Claude web app, the Claude Code environment, and the Claude API — including a new programmatic surface under the /v1/skills API for uploading...

Dell’s latest push to put data‑center class AI on a desktop arrives in a compact, developer‑centric package: the Dell Pro Max with GB10, a deskside system that pairs NVIDIA’s GB10 Grace Blackwell SoC with 128 GB of unified LPDDR5x memory, DGX‑style software, and vendor claims of up to 1,000 FP4 TOPS and single‑node support for models in the ~200 billion‑parameter range. Background The shift from purely cloud‑centric AI workflows toward hybrid and on‑premise development nodes has accelerated...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas did not arrive as a finished product so much as a statement of intent — and within days the company signaled it intends to move fast. Product lead Adam Fry publicly shared a post‑launch roadmap that prioritizes multiprofile support, smarter personalization, and sturdier agent behavior, setting Atlas on a development cadence that treats the browser as a living, agentic platform rather than a static release. Background / Overview Atlas is OpenAI’s first attempt to make...

Dell’s new Pro Max with GB10 lands as a rare consumer‑accessible machine explicitly built for data‑center class AI work — a compact, deskside appliance that promises to let researchers and developers run models previously reserved for racks and clouds, while shipping with DGX OS and a turnkey AI toolchain ready for experimentation at the point of work. Background / Overview Dell has extended its Pro Max family into a new category: personal AI workstations designed around NVIDIA’s Grace...