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Kaspersky’s GReAT team has pulled back the curtain on a deliberately targeted cyber‑espionage operation they call PassiveNeuron, a campaign that focuses on Windows Server hosts and employs a multi‑stage DLL loader chain, two previously undocumented implants (Neursite and NeuralExecutor) and Cobalt Strike to maintain persistent, stealthy access across government, financial and industrial networks in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Background / Overview PassiveNeuron was first observed in 2024...

Microsoft's latest push has turned Windows 11 from an optional AI experiment into what the company calls an “AI PC” platform — embedding Copilot’s voice, vision and agentic capabilities across the operating system while millions of users still grapple with the end of Windows 10 support. The move, rolled out in a major update and described internally as a rewrite of Windows around artificial intelligence, triggered a predictable mix of excitement, confusion and outright resistance online —...

The internet hiccupped in a way that exposed both how much power a handful of companies now hold over global connectivity and how brittle that control can be when a core piece of plumbing — in this case a DNS pathway for a managed database service — fails. The October 20 AWS disruption centered on the US‑EAST‑1 (Northern Virginia) region, where DNS resolution problems tied to Amazon DynamoDB endpoints cascaded into elevated error rates, throttled control‑plane operations and a long tail of...

Enterprises that treat AI as a feature will quickly learn it behaves like a new utility — and that utility will re-write cloud budgets, data center plans, and procurement strategies unless CIOs get ahead of the math and the mechanics now. Background AI’s shift from research labs and pilot projects into production-grade, business-critical workflows is no longer hypothetical. The institutions building and selling the compute behind generative models and large-scale machine learning have...

A wide-ranging outage in Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 region on October 20 produced hours of disruption for major consumer apps, enterprise services and several public‑sector portals — and reignited a debate that has been simmering for years: when the bulk of the internet’s infrastructure sits on a handful of hyperscale clouds, how large is the systemic risk when one of them falters? The immediate technical symptoms reported during the event pointed to DNS and internal control‑plane...

Microsoft’s decision to stop supporting Windows 10 has pulled the company’s full engineering weight behind Windows 11, and the result is an aggressive, cross-cutting wave of updates that position Copilot as the system’s center of gravity while delivering practical improvements across File Explorer, accessibility, gaming, security, and connectivity. Background Microsoft formally set October 14, 2025 as the end-of-support date for Windows 10, after which routine feature, quality, and security...

Git is a must-have for modern development on Windows, and installing it on Windows 11 is a quick, repeatable process that gets you Git Bash, credential helpers, and Git LFS ready to use in minutes. This guide consolidates the standard installer choices, explains key configuration steps, highlights possible pitfalls, and shows how to verify and maintain a healthy Git setup on Windows 11 — using both the official distribution and recommended alternatives. Background / Overview Git for Windows...

Microsoft’s push to make “every Windows 11 PC feel more like an AI‑powered PC” has moved from marketing slogan to practical rollout: with Windows 10 support formally ended, Microsoft is accelerating AI, accessibility, gaming, and security features that reshape everyday workflows, file handling, and sign‑in experiences across Windows 11. The changes arriving in late 2024–2025 center around Copilot as the system’s glue, new right‑click AI actions in File Explorer, a refreshed Widgets and...

Microsoft, CISA and multiple security vendors are now urging immediate action after a high‑severity Windows SMB client vulnerability—CVE-2025-33073—was added to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog and is reported to be exploited in the wild; the bug was patched by Microsoft during the June 2025 Patch Tuesday but proof‑of‑concept exploits and active exploitation reports have since raised the urgency for every Windows...

Microsoft’s decision to stop supporting Windows 10 has moved from “scheduled” to reality: as of October 14, 2025, the operating system that defined a decade of PC computing will no longer receive free security patches, feature updates, or routine technical support — a shift that immediately widens the attack surface for hundreds of millions of devices worldwide and forces both consumers and organizations to make hard security and migration choices. Background Windows 10 launched in July 2015...

Microsoft has issued an emergency out‑of‑band cumulative update — KB5070773 — to fix a critical problem that left many Windows 11 PCs unable to use USB keyboards and mice inside the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), a failure that made built‑in recovery options effectively inaccessible for affected systems. Background What happened and when On October 14, 2025 Microsoft shipped the October Patch Tuesday cumulative update for Windows 11 (identified as KB5066835). Within days...

Microsoft’s recent support bulletin and subsequent community reports have exposed a sharp operational edge of identity hardening: after installing October/September updates on Windows 11 (24H2 and 25H2) and Windows Server 2025, some environments experienced widespread Kerberos and NTLM authentication failures that traced back to duplicate machine Security Identifiers (SIDs) on cloned or imaged devices. The problem manifests as blocked SMB shares, repeated credential prompts, and RDP/remote...

A landmark pilot deploying Microsoft’s AI assistant across 90 NHS organisations reports average time savings of 43 minutes per staff member per day, with official estimates projecting up to 400,000 hours saved every month if scaled — a figure presented by government and industry partners as evidence that generative AI can materially reduce administrative burden across health services. Background The pilot was run at scale across more than 30,000 NHS staff and integrated Microsoft 365 Copilot...

Amazon Web Services suffered a severe, day‑long outage on October 20, 2025 that cascaded through a huge swath of the internet, knocking offline consumer apps, gaming platforms, finance services, and even parts of Amazon’s own retail and device ecosystems — and the disruption underlined a simple, uncomfortable truth: when one major cloud provider stumbles, a surprisingly large portion of the online world stumbles with it. Background AWS is the largest public cloud provider and remains the...

momo’s e-commerce arm has taken a clear step into the generative‑AI era: the company announced a partnership with Microsoft Taiwan to roll out a next‑generation, Large Language Model (LLM)‑driven customer service system that went live in July and — according to company statements — already delivers substantive gains in accuracy, self‑service adoption and agent workload reduction. Background / Overview Since 2017, momo (富邦媒) has run a chatbot‑based smart customer‑service channel and gradually...

NVIDIA’s stranglehold on the AI chip market is no accident — it was built on superior silicon, a vast software moat and a perfect timing of demand — but cracks are appearing in the foundations as hyperscalers, geopolitics and emerging regional champions all push back against a single-vendor world. Background The accelerated-computing supply chain powering generative AI stretches from fabless chip designers to foundries, then to hyperscalers, system integrators and finally software vendors...

A single morning of cascading failures in a major cloud region can feel like an earthquake for the internet — and the October 20 AWS disruption showed how fragile the modern AI stack can be when core cloud control‑plane services wobble. Background Cloud computing has quietly reshaped how software is built, delivered, and monetized. Instead of buying and running their own servers, enterprises and startups rent compute, storage and managed services from hyperscalers such as Amazon Web Services...

For millions of PC users, Windows 10 has been the dependable workhorse for nearly a decade—but on October 14, 2025, Microsoft moved the operating system into its official end‑of‑support phase, and that change forces a practical security decision: stay, pay, or move on. Background: what "end of support" actually means Microsoft’s support lifecycle for Windows 10 concluded on October 14, 2025. When an operating system reaches end of support, Microsoft stops shipping routine security fixes...

Windows 11 is delivering a sharper, more modern face to the PC — but beneath the cosmetic polish there’s a steady chorus of practical complaints that have solid reasons and real consequences for everyday users. From mandatory Microsoft account nudges during setup to an ever‑expanding suite of AI features that require new hardware, the operating system increasingly feels like two products at once: one built for a cloud‑centric, Copilot‑embroidered future, and another expected to support...

Microsoft’s October cumulative update (KB5066835) has introduced a severe and practical regression: USB keyboards and mice can stop working inside the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), leaving built‑in recovery tools inaccessible on many updated machines and forcing users to rely on external recovery media or manual image repairs until Microsoft issues a permanent remediation. Background What is WinRE and why it matters The Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) is a compact, separate...