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Intel has not announced a third Arc G3 handheld processor, despite a new report suggesting a lower-cost Panther Lake part with four Xe3 graphics cores could join the lineup. What exists is a short August 16 post from Intel leaker Jaykihn describing a “4+0+4+4 handheld” configuration; eTeknix interpreted that as an entry-level Arc G3, and PC Gamer independently covered the same post. Neither report establishes a product name, launch timing, price, power target, OEM design win, or Intel...

Windows Central’s report on Signal65 testing gives Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme a substantial CPU and NPU lead over the Intel Core Ultra X9 388H and AMD Ryzen AI 9 465 in three retail Windows laptops. But the most important finding for prospective buyers is more narrow than the headline suggests: the report does not establish that the $1,699 ASUS Zenbook A16 sold at Best Buy contains the flagship X2E-96-100 chip Signal65 says it tested. Signal65, whose work was commissioned by...

Microsoft released PowerToys Preview v0.101.2282.0 on August 17 with fixes aimed at a narrow but real pain point: Command Palette’s persistent Dock could lose its contents or settings when a laptop was docked or undocked, or after a Windows display-mode change using Win+P. The official GitHub release also addresses an unbounded resource-growth problem during frequent Dock refreshes, making this a worthwhile preview for people running a multi-monitor Command Palette setup rather than a...

A USB troubleshooting kit built around Hiren’s BootCD PE, Malwarebytes AdwCleaner, CrystalDiskInfo, Windows recovery media, and MemTest86 can save a Windows PC from a needless reinstall—but only if the drives are prepared, tested, and matched to the machine before it fails. How-To Geek’s five-tool list gets the broad idea right: carry tools that can work when Windows cannot. Its biggest omission is that a collection of utilities is not a recovery plan unless it also accounts for BitLocker...

IGEL’s Emergency Mode is now generally available for organizations already running its Dual Boot disaster-recovery setup, adding a central command in Universal Management Suite that can force selected Windows PCs—or an entire prepared fleet—into IGEL OS during a ransomware incident or major Windows failure. As reported by Techzine, the feature keeps affected devices in the alternate operating environment until IT releases them, allowing users to reach approved remote applications while...

Commvault says it will triple the Azure resource coverage of its Cloud Rewind recovery service, expanding it to what the company calls 62% of enterprise-relevant Azure resource types. For Azure administrators, the important change is not a new backup target: it is broader protection for the configuration and dependency layer needed to rebuild an application after ransomware, a failed deployment, or an outage. Channel Insider and SiliconANGLE both report that the expansion adds automated...

Windows 11 Insider Experimental Preview Build 26340.9212 adds new Settings links for OneDrive Camera Roll Backup, but the practical change is easier discovery of an existing OneDrive mobile-backup feature, not a new way for Windows itself to pull photos directly from a phone. The August 17 release places setup entry points on Settings > Home and Settings > Accounts, where testers can see whether their phone photos are backed up and begin configuration. WinCentral first highlighted the camera...

Davis Wright Tremaine says it is making Harvey and Microsoft Copilot available across the firm, pairing a legal-specific AI platform with the Microsoft 365 tools its lawyers and business staff already use. The consequential detail is not the firm’s stated 90% adoption ambition. It is that DWT is buying into two connected systems whose access controls, model settings, retention rules, and approval workflows will have to withstand the confidentiality and supervision demands of legal work. DWT...

Duke University and Duke Health are adding Anthropic’s Claude to their institutionally managed AI offerings, but the arrangement is less a blanket campus benefit than a controlled, chargeable service with unusually consequential administrative visibility. As reported by The Chronicle, faculty, staff, researchers, clinicians and affiliates will receive a default $200 monthly spending ceiling funded through Duke accounts or research grants, while students will pay $20 or $100 per month through...

Quantum Health says a May 29 vishing call gave an attacker access to its network, followed by file theft and a June 1 systems disruption—an incident that turns a familiar “train users not to click” problem into a more immediate test of how Windows, identity, and help-desk controls stand up to a convincing phone call. According to The HIPAA Journal, the Dublin, Ohio healthcare-navigation company traced the compromise to a caller who persuaded a Quantum Health user to provide access. The...

Trezor and SafePal have disclosed separate customer-data exposures affecting a combined 53,487 hardware-wallet buyers, creating a targeted phishing and impersonation risk even though neither company says seed phrases, private keys, wallet passwords, or device security were exposed. The most immediate practical consequence is not an attacker remotely emptying a wallet. It is that names, email addresses, phone numbers, shipping addresses, and—in SafePal’s case—purchase details can make a...

ABC News reports that investigators have linked Origin Energy’s customer-data breach to a former Accenture employee in Manila, but the most important operational fact remains unresolved: neither Origin nor the Australian Federal Police has publicly identified the access path, the affected system, or whether the individual is a suspect, a compromised insider account, or simply part of the investigative trail. That distinction is more than legal caution. Origin has confirmed that data...

AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ 395 has a genuine advantage over conventional desktop GPUs for local AI: a 128GB unified-memory configuration can hold models that overflow the 24GB to 32GB VRAM found on most consumer cards. But the comparison with Nvidia’s DGX Spark is less straightforward than the “half-price rival” pitch suggests, because the AMD platform’s value depends heavily on the chassis, memory configuration, operating system, and software stack rather than the silicon alone. Intelligent Living...

Intel may be planning a mobile response to AMD’s cache-heavy Ryzen X3D laptop chips, but the first report is far narrower than the “Intel X3D competitor is coming” headline suggests. VideoCardz, citing leaker Jaykihn, says future Razor Lake mobile SKUs will include Intel’s purported bLLC, or “Big Last Level Cache,” configuration. There are no model numbers, cache capacities, power targets, notebook partners, or release dates attached to the claim. The useful development is not a performance...

Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26340.9212 adds a redesigned File Explorer right-click menu that finally gives users a supported way to decide which commands appear, including the option to add Print back to the primary context menu. The catch is availability: this is an Experimental-channel rollout for Windows 11 version 26H2, not an update arriving today on broadly deployed Windows 11 24H2 or 25H2 PCs. The Verge highlighted the Print option in its first report, while Microsoft’s File...

Microsoft has withdrawn its second-half 2026 target for Exchange Server Subscription Edition Cumulative Update 1, leaving on-premises Exchange administrators without a release date for the product’s first major refresh. In an Exchange Team post published last week, Microsoft said the CU1 work is being delayed by the volume of vulnerability reports generated with AI-assisted security tooling and by the continuing need to ship monthly security fixes. The Register first highlighted the...

Bloomberg reports that China’s Ministry of State Security has instructed some state-linked organizations to remove Windows 10 China Government Edition, the localized build created through Microsoft’s joint venture with China Electronics Technology Group. For administrators outside China, this is not a Windows 10 security bulletin or a newly disclosed vulnerability. It is a potentially significant government technology-sovereignty order affecting a niche, controlled Windows deployment that...

Microsoft Copilot is now presenting a sign-in wall to some unsigned users in Edge, Bing, and Microsoft’s mobile apps—including Edge InPrivate sessions—where those users previously could begin a guest chat. Windows Report documented the behavior across unsigned Edge desktop profiles, Edge on Android, the Bing app, and Copilot on the web, with its tests finding that the prompt could not be bypassed to reach a usable chat. The important change is not that Microsoft is promoting account...

Acronis says its January-to-May 2026 telemetry shows that 11.2% of roughly 545,000 patch applications across managed SMB Windows endpoints fell into its “caution” or “critical issues” categories. The immediate operational takeaway is sensible: an MSP should not decide rollout order from CVSS-style vendor severity alone. But the vendor’s headline ranking — Adobe PDF at a 76.2% warning rate and Google Chrome at 67.7% — is a useful testing-allocation signal, not evidence that those vendors are...

Microsoft has released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.9202 for the standard Beta track and Build 28020.2731 for Beta (26H1), but the important change is not simply that two new previews are available. Both builds remove the legacy wmic.exe command-line utility, putting scripts, management agents, and deployment routines that still invoke WMIC on notice before the change reaches broader Windows releases. TheWinCentral correctly identified the two build numbers and their August 17...