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Microsoft’s staged end-of-servicing for legacy V3 and V4 printer drivers in Windows 11 has begun to roll out — and while Microsoft frames this as a security and reliability win, the change carries real operational consequences for home users, small businesses, schools, and IT teams that still rely on older printers and multifunction devices. Background / Overview Microsoft announced the deprecation of legacy third‑party printer drivers in September 2023 and published a multi‑year roadmap...

Winslop’s latest build doubles down on the project’s promise: a tiny, local, no‑telemetry utility that exposes the exact changes it will make to Windows and gives users simple, reversible controls to remove what the developer calls “system slop.” The 0.50.125 release focuses less on flashy UI and more on practical rescue tooling — adding drop‑in PowerShell extensions for recovery and install tasks while keeping the core app intentionally lightweight and deterministic. Background / Overview...

Microsoft’s quiet, staged decision to stop publishing new legacy printer drivers (the V3 and V4 models) to Windows Update for Windows 11 marks one of the most consequential — and least understood — shifts in the Windows device ecosystem in years. Effective January 15, 2026, Microsoft moved the distribution and servicing of new third‑party V3/V4 printer drivers out of Windows Update and into a vendor‑managed model, with follow‑on milestones that will prefer Microsoft’s inbox Internet Printing...

The memory market is in the middle of a shockwave: DRAM and NAND prices are climbing at rates not seen in a generation, squeezing device makers, reshaping product strategies and, for many consumers, turning routine upgrades into expensive decisions that could feel more like luxury purchases than mass-market buys. Background Counterpoint Research’s Memory Price Tracker and multiple market analysts have reported that memory prices — spanning server DRAM, PC and laptop modules, LPDDR for...

Microsoft's Copilot just did something quietly human: it popped up a gentle nudge asking its user to "Time for a break? Copilot is an AI, but you’re not. It might feel nice to take a breather." That small interaction—reported by Windows Latest after a user encountered the pop-up during a multi‑hour web session—does more than interrupt a chat window; it exposes how modern AI assistants are beginning to mediate not only work but the rhythms of human attention itself. ) This article takes that...

TECNO’s MEGABOOK K Series has entered the Philippine retail market with a conspicuous value play: two Intel‑based laptops, an exclusive offline retail partnership with Laptop Factory, and a limited “buy‑one‑get‑one” launch bundle that pairs each laptop with a free TECNO smartphone—an aggressive move that immediately reframes how value‑focused PC buyers should think about the sub‑PHP50,000 segment. Background TECNO, historically best known for budget and mid‑range smartphones across emerging...

The sponsored enterprise review published by the San Mateo Daily Journal on February 8, 2026 names Netguru, Monsoon Consulting, and Weframe Tech as the top U.S. delivery partners for composable commerce — a ranking that spotlights three distinct delivery models for enterprises moving away from monolithic e‑commerce toward modular, API‑first stacks. (smdailyjournal.com) Background / Overview Composable commerce is the architectural shift that allows enterprises to assemble best‑of‑breed...

Canva’s design engine now rides shotgun inside ChatGPT, letting users turn a plain-language prompt into a layered, editable, on‑brand visual without leaving the chat — a change that promises to collapse the familiar “idea → mockup → manual reformat” loop into a single conversational workflow and, if properly governed, to speed routine marketing and sales work across teams of all sizes. Background / Overview For years the promise of generative AI for creative teams has been straightforward...

Google Discover’s February 2026 core update is a watershed moment for merchants: it recasts Discover from a quirky traffic booster into a gatekeeper that rewards locality, depth, and trust — and it arrives at the same moment AI-driven summaries and agentic commerce are reshaping where and how shoppers find products. Background: why Discover matters now Google Discover launched as a personalized, query-less feed in 2018 and has quietly become a high-impact referral surface for many...

Apple’s decision to bring widgets to CarPlay in iOS 26 finally turns the infotainment screen into a true glanceable surface — but that new capability comes with practical trade‑offs, gaps between expectation and reality, and some surprising third‑party options worth trying today. (slashgear.com) Background / Overview CarPlay’s widget support arrived as part of Apple’s broader iOS 26 refresh — the same update that introduced the “Liquid Glass” visual language and expanded CarPlay’s Dashboard...

The software sector’s calm has been punctured: a flurry of analyst downgrades, a bruising market reaction to otherwise-strong earnings, and fresh narrative momentum behind rival AI providers have combined to create a genuine near-term threat to incumbents—most visibly Microsoft—forcing IT leaders and investors to re-evaluate assumptions about cloud dominance, cost-to-value timelines, and the broader risk profile of AI-driven software adoption. Background / Overview The headlines this week...

The AI era is already changing who we hire, how we train, and what work is worth—and the choice facing business leaders and policymakers is not whether to adopt AI, but how to design that adoption so it sustains human workforces rather than hollowing them out. Background AI-driven productivity gains are real, rapid, and unevenly distributed. Corporations and capital markets have placed enormous bets on AI: hardware, models, and applications are concentrated in a handful of firms even as...

Human and machine notions of time are not minor UX wrinkles — they are structural mismatches that shape how hybrid teams fail, succeed, and scale; ChronoProcess Networks (CPNs) give us a vocabulary and an engineering scaffold to see those mismatches, measure them, and train systems to act across multiple temporal horizons. Background / Overview Time is often treated as a neutral backdrop in systems design: deadlines, clocks, and timestamps are technical details, while the lived experience of...

Artificial intelligence is already reshaping how students study, how teachers teach, and how schools measure learning—and the question most parents, teachers, and students now ask is not whether AI will matter, but how it should be used so that it actually benefits learning rather than replacing it. Background / Overview The last few years pushed generative AI from curiosity to commonplace study aid. Chat-based systems such as ChatGPT, enterprise copilots like Microsoft Copilot, and...

Linus Torvalds has officially announced that the next major kernel after the recently released Linux 6.19 will be called Linux 7.0, a small-but-symbolic decision that underscores both the informal traditions of kernel versioning and the practical realities of maintaining a two‑decade‑old open source project. Background Linux kernel version numbering has long been a mashup of practical bookkeeping, in‑jokes, and the project lead’s personal whims. The major‑number bump to 5.0 in early 2019 is...

Microsoft has begun enforcing the long‑announced phase‑out of legacy V3 and V4 printer drivers for Windows 11, turning a multi‑year deprecation plan into an operational migration for IT teams, small businesses, schools, and anyone still running older printers that depend on vendor kernel drivers. Background / Overview Microsoft first signaled the end of servicing for third‑party legacy printer drivers in September 2023 as part of a broader strategy to move printing functionality into...

Microsoft’s decision to surface gated Hugging Face models inside Microsoft Foundry marks a meaningful shift in how enterprises can balance access to cutting‑edge open models with the governance, licensing and safety controls that regulated organizations demand. osoft.com] Background / Overview Microsoft Foundry (also referenced in Microsoft materials as Azure AI Foundry) is positioned as a multi‑model catalog and runtime that centralizes model discovery, deployment, observability and...

Autodesk’s demonstration of using Forge and BIM 360 Docs as the front end for an IoT-powered digital twin is a practical blueprint for bringing design models, field-collected inventories, and live sensor telemetry into a single, actionable operations layer—and it already shows where real operational value and real risk live in modern AEC workflows. Background / Overview Autodesk’s approach maps three distinct layers into a working digital twin: the design and as-built model (hosted in BIM...

Microsoft acknowledged that an unexpected power interruption at a West US data‑center briefly degraded parts of its update and Store infrastructure, producing widespread Windows 11 Microsoft Store failures and Windows Update errors for many users and administrators. Background / Overview The disruption began with error spikes and user reports showing failures when attempting to download Store apps or check for Windows updates. Many affected devices returned the Windows Update error code...

The listing on Hard|Forum for a Dell OptiPlex 7060 Micro paired with a Logitech C922 Pro Stream webcam is the kind of pragmatic garage‑sale bundle that attracts both bargain hunters and IT pros looking for a compact, serviceable desktop with an immediately usable webcam. In this feature I walk through exactly what that combination delivers in real‑world terms, verify the key technical claims, explain how to test and evaluate the hardware before you buy, outline upgrade and deployment...