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Brembo’s industrial AI experiment has stepped out of the R&D lab and onto the marketplace: the company’s Brembo Solutions unit has launched ALCHEMIX, an AI-powered recipe formulator built on Microsoft Azure and the Azure OpenAI Service, and is making the product available through the Microsoft Marketplace as part of a deeper strategic collaboration with Microsoft Italy. This move converts an internal materials‑innovation capability—originally developed to accelerate brake‑pad compound...

The internet hiccup that began in AWS’s US‑EAST‑1 region on October 20, 2025 briefly turned global commerce, gaming and public services into an emergency room: a DNS-related failure tied to Amazon’s DynamoDB service rippled through hundreds of upstream and downstream systems, knocking popular apps, payment rails and even some government portals offline for hours and exposing the concentrated fragility of modern cloud architectures. Background / Overview The incident originated in Northern...

The Get Help app is now the fastest, most integrated route to official Windows support on modern PCs — a built‑in, chat‑first experience that walks users through diagnostics, runs cloud‑backed troubleshooters and, when automatic fixes aren’t enough, connects you to a live Microsoft agent for escalation. This feature replaces older contact flows and is surfaced from the Start menu, Settings and several context locations across Windows 11, making it the default “first stop” for many common...

Microsoft has pushed an emergency fix after October’s cumulative Windows update (KB5066835) left USB keyboards, mice and other USB input devices unusable inside the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), a regression that could prevent users from repairing or resetting machines when they most need to. The bug, confirmed by Microsoft and reproduced across a range of modern PCs and servers, turned a routine maintenance window into a high‑risk situation for anyone who relies on built‑in recovery...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update turns the PC from a passive tool into an active, multimodal assistant: you can now speak to the operating system with “Hey, Copilot,” show it what’s on your screen, and — when you explicitly allow it — let it perform multi‑step tasks on your behalf. Background: why this matters now Microsoft has repositioned Copilot from a sidebar helper to a system-level interaction layer in Windows 11, timed at a strategic moment as Windows 10 reaches end of mainstream...

Windows 11 can feel polished and modern out of the box, but the real productivity and personalization gains arrive when you add a handful of focused, free apps from the Microsoft Store. The right mix of utilities—clipboard managers, audio controls, quick-preview tools, lightweight editors, and creative suites—removes friction, restores missing features, and turns everyday tasks into smoother, faster workflows. This feature collects the top free Microsoft Store apps you should consider...

Microsoft’s latest push recasts Windows 11 from an operating system that “hosts” apps into an AI-native platform that listens, looks, reasons, and — with explicit permission — acts on users’ behalf, folding Copilot into the system UX and defining a new hardware tier, Copilot+ PCs, for the richest experiences. Background / Overview Microsoft has steadily added AI features across Office, Edge, and its cloud services for several years. The company’s recent messaging signals a deliberate pivot...

Microsoft Edge has begun nudging users toward Microsoft’s AI assistant by surfacing a compact “Try Copilot” prompt in the browser chrome when certain rival AI chat sites are opened — a subtle but consequential maneuver that turns browsing behavior into a battleground for attention and default choice. Recent hands‑on reports and community observations show the label appearing near the address bar when users load sites such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, and DeepSeek; clicking it opens Copilot in...

Microsoft’s fresh support guidance — summarized recently by tech press — digs into a question that has long vexed Windows users: why Windows Update sometimes offers drivers that look old, redundant, or even “identical” to ones already on a PC. The short answer from Microsoft is a mixture of driver packaging conventions, device design, and Windows’ driver‑selection rules — not a bug in most cases — but the mechanics behind that explanation matter for both everyday users and IT teams...

A Windows reinstall that should have been routine instead turned into a catastrophic data loss: a Reddit user reports more than 3 terabytes of personal backups rendered inaccessible after a clean Windows 11 install when BitLocker (or Windows’ automatic device encryption) locked the volumes and demanded recovery keys that the user did not have. This episode emphatically exposes how default encryption, TPM‑tethered key management, and opaque recovery‑key handling can protect data from theft...

Microsoft pushed an emergency, out‑of‑band update on October 20 to repair a critical regression introduced earlier in the month that left the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) unable to accept USB keyboard and mouse input on many Windows 11 systems, forcing administrators and consumers to rely on external recovery media or wait for a fix. Background The October Patch Tuesday rollup — shipped as KB5066835 on October 14 — bundled security hardening and quality fixes for Windows 11, but...

A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage on October 20, 2025 knocked hundreds — and by some counts thousands — of popular apps, games, streaming services and bank portals offline for hours, exposing how concentrated modern internet infrastructure has become and raising fresh questions about how organizations should design for failure. Background The cloud era promised scale, speed and cheaper operations by letting businesses rent compute, storage and managed services from hyperscale...

A large-scale disruption in Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 region on October 20, 2025 exposed the real-world limits of cloud concentration and the brittle dependencies many organisations still accept as “normal,” forcing IT teams, procurement leaders and regulators to re-evaluate where resilience stops and dangerous monoculture begins. Background / Overview The incident began in the early hours of October 20, 2025, when AWS engineers observed increased error rates and latencies across...

Microsoft pushed an emergency, out‑of‑band update to Windows 11 on October 20 to repair a critical regression that left the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) effectively unusable on many 24H2 and 25H2 systems. Background / Overview The October 14, 2025 Patch Tuesday cumulative—delivered as KB5066835—was intended to ship security hardenings and quality updates for Windows 11. Within days of broad rollout, two high‑impact regressions were reported in the field: one that broke localhost...

Microsoft’s browser-based Office experience makes it trivial to get Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook running on a Windows 11 PC without a full desktop install — and the quickest, cleanest way to “install” them is to use Edge to open Office.com and convert the site into a Progressive Web App (PWA). The process takes minutes, saves local disk space, and gives you a near‑app experience while keeping your files in OneDrive for automatic sync and collaboration. This feature set is ideal for...

If your Camera Roll folder has gone missing in Windows 11, you can usually bring it back in minutes and get the Camera app saving photos and videos normally again — this guide shows exactly how, why it happens, and the safest steps to restore or relocate the folder so you don’t lose future captures. Overview The Camera Roll folder is Windows’ default save location for photos and videos taken with the built‑in Camera app. When it disappears or the Camera app stops saving files, you may see...

Microsoft’s October cumulative update for Windows 11 has produced a high‑impact regression: after installing the October 14, 2025 update identified as KB5066835, many systems report that USB keyboards and mice become unresponsive inside the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) — effectively rendering on‑device recovery tools unusable until Microsoft issues a fix. Background Windows ships a compact, separate recovery image called Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) — a trimmed “Safe OS”...

Finding and removing empty folders on a busy Windows 11 PC is one of those small housekeeping tasks that pays big dividends: cleaner backups, faster searches, and less visual clutter. Whether you prefer a quick File Explorer trick, a one-line Command Prompt check, a PowerShell script you can reuse, or a polished third‑party cleaner, this guide shows every practical method—with concrete commands, safety tips, and troubleshooting advice so you can find and (optionally) delete empty folders...

Microsoft has pushed an urgent pair of out‑of‑band updates to Windows 11 following reports that the October Patch Tuesday cumulative (KB5066835) left USB keyboards and mice unusable inside the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), making recovery options inaccessible on affected machines. The fixes arrive as a normal cumulative OOB patch for the OS (KB5070773) and a companion Safe OS dynamic update intended to repair the WinRE image and associated binaries (reported as KB5070762). Both...

Allegis Group’s enterprise-wide AI push—with Microsoft Copilot, Azure AI Services and implementation support from TEKsystems Global Services—has moved beyond pilot projects into measurable operational change, delivering faster workflows, large translation cost reductions and a reallocation of staff time toward higher-value work. Background Allegis Group, the global talent and staffing conglomerate that includes TEKsystems among its companies, has been piloting and scaling multiple AI...