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Windows 11 now runs on roughly two‑thirds of active Steam gaming PCs, and the number has done more than stir headlines — it has reignited a familiar online fight: stay on Windows, or jump ship to Linux and SteamOS. Background / Overview Valve’s monthly Steam Hardware & Software Survey is the clearest publicly available thermometer for the PC‑gaming ecosystem: it samples consenting Steam clients and reports OS breakdowns, GPUs, RAM, display resolutions and other telemetry that matters...

Microsoft has stopped publishing new legacy printer drivers to Windows Update for Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025 as of January 15, 2026 — a deliberate step in a multi‑year plan to move Windows printing onto a modern, inbox-driven stack and to reduce the attack surface and maintenance burden created by vendor-supplied V3 and V4 drivers. This change does not instantly “kill” existing printers, but it does rewrite the default distribution and installation channel for third‑party legacy...

Overwatch’s unexpected comeback on Steam — a spike that briefly pushed it ahead of Battlefield 6 and Call of Duty in concurrent players — isn’t the result of a single patch or an aggressive discount sale. It’s the product of a deliberate repositioning: Blizzard has dropped the “2,” launched a year-long narrative called The Reign of Talon, and timed an eye-catching roster and event reveal that includes five heroes — among them the viral, permanently flying support known as Jetpack Cat (Fika)...

Microsoft’s next full‑size Xbox is shaping up to be less of a traditional, purpose‑built console and more of a TV‑focused Windows 11 PC under a console shell — a radical architectural pivot that promises flexibility and scale, but also brings material engineering, pricing, and policy risks that could redefine what a “console” is in 2027 and beyond. erview Microsoft’s public moves over the last 18 months have left a clear breadcrumb trail: a multi‑year silicon partnership with AMD, the...

The Radeon RX 570 remains one of the most common budget gaming GPUs in circulation, and installing or troubleshooting its driver stack on Windows 10 still generates more questions than answers—especially when bargain prebuilt systems, used boards, or older OEM images are involved. This feature walks through the verified facts, a conservative, step‑by‑step driver installation and rollback plan, practical troubleshooting for an RX 570 that “runs hot,” and the security and lifecycle choices...

I stopped treating “cleaning” as a race to delete the most files the moment a routine cleanup left a working PC broken and refusing to launch apps — and that change in mindset made one tool stand out above the rest for real-world, cautious maintenance: BleachBit. Background: the problem with one‑click cleaning Modern Windows users still see marketing that promises dramatic wins from “one‑click” cleaners: faster boot times, instant responsiveness, and registry fixes that magically cure months...

The two short Born2Invest posts you supplied — one advertising a “discount” download for an NVIDIA GeForce driver 397.93 allegedly for a GeForce GT 755M, and the other promoting a Game Ready package (418.91) for GeForce 820M systems — read like republished driver landing pages, but they lack the vendor metadata and verifiable download artifacts required for safe kernel‑level installs. Independent community audits of those snippets flagged the Born2Invest links as inaccessible or otherwise...

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The memory market is undergoing a structural rotation: suppliers are reallocating wafer and packaging capacity from commodity DRAM and NAND toward high‑bandwidth memory (HBM) and server‑grade DRAM for AI data centers, and that shift is forcing a showdown of strategy — Microsoft doubling down on memory‑centric inference silicon while Micron pivots its consumer Crucial brand toward higher‑margin enterprise memory — with wide implications for PC buyers, OEMs, and investors. Background /...

Anthropic’s recent pivot from a conversational-first product to an explicit bet on autonomous, always‑on “AI agents” is no incremental product update — it is a strategic re‑definition of how enterprise software will get built and bought over the next decade. Background / Overview Anthropic launched in 2021 with an unusually explicit mission: build large language models that are safe, interpretable, and steerable. That mission has shaped both the company’s research posture — notably its...

Microsofts Copilot steht erneut im Zentrum einer Datenschutzdebatte: Während Sicherheitsforscher eine „Reprompt“-Schwachstelle enthüllten, die mit einem einzigen Klick sensible Nutzerdaten aus Copilot Personal auslesen konnte, berichten Nutzer der mobilen Copilot‑App von unerwarteten Tracking‑Anfragen und aktivierter Ad Personalization — allesamt Signale, dass KI‑Assistenten in Mobil‑ und Desktop‑Umgebungen komplexere Privatsphären‑fragen aufwerfen als angenommen. Hintergrund / Übersicht...

The draft Income‑tax Rules, 2026 — released by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) and placed in the public domain for stakeholder feedback — signal a major operational rewrite of India’s subordinate tax law as the country prepares to implement the Income‑tax Act, 2025 on April 1, 2026. The package is pitched as a simplification: fewer rules and forms, clearer language, formulae and tables where appropriate, and redesigned ITR forms with pre‑fill and automated reconciliation features...

Apple hat die M5-Ära in Hardware und Marketing faktisch eingeläutet: das erste sichtbare Ergebnis ist ein aktualisiertes 14‑Zoll MacBook Pro mit M5‑SoC, flankiert von einem M5‑iPad Pro und einer Vision‑Pro‑Variante — und die Industriegerüchte deuten darauf hin, dass die M5‑Familie 2026 deutlich ausgeweitet wird. Diese Entwicklung steht im Zentrum eines verschobenen Wettbewerbs: Apple setzt auf on‑device AI, höhere Speicherbandbreite und GPU‑Architekturänderungen, während Konkurrenten...

A widely distributed January 2026 security update left a slice of Windows PCs unable to power off cleanly: hitting the shutdown button causes some machines to restart, and in other cases the system refuses to hibernate. Microsoft acknowledged the problem, released emergency out‑of‑band patches, and has been updating the release notes — but for many users the issue persists until the company ships a final fix. This feature‑level failure is unusual, because it’s not a typical driver or...

On a packed virtual afternoon, a Sri Lankan–American scientist asked a question that should wake every policy maker, educator and entrepreneur in Colombo: what if Sri Lanka didn’t arrive late this time? That sharp, almost rhetorical challenge — delivered by Dr. Yasantha Rajakarunanayake at a LEADS Forum session and amplified in a Sunday Times feature — is more than exhortation. It’s a call to treat the Fourth Industrial Revolution not as distant noise but as a concrete national opportunity...

ASUS’s new ROG Strix Aiolos takes the humble M.2 SSD out of the desktop and turns it into a purpose-built, high-speed portable drive aimed squarely at gamers and creators who want near-internal speeds in a pocketable package. Background The external SSD enclosure market has matured quickly over the last three years: USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 (20Gbps) silicon is now affordable, and makers are packing better cooling, software integration, and industrial design into enclosures to differentiate beyond...

Microsoft has quietly ended the era of automatic delivery for legacy V3 and V4 printer drivers through Windows Update on Windows 11, a change that began phasing in on January 15, 2026 and will reshape how printers are deployed and maintained across home and enterprise environments. Background Microsoft first signaled the deprecation of legacy third‑party printer drivers in September 2023. The decision is part of a multi‑year, staged roadmap intended to move Windows toward modern...

Canva’s design engine is no longer an island — it now lives inside ChatGPT, carrying your Brand Kit with it so the visuals you generate in chat are already on brand. Background For years, brands have stored identity rules — logos, color palettes, typographic systems — in static Brand Kits or PDFs that designers and agencies had to hunt down and manually apply. That friction is exactly what Canva and several AI-platform partners set out to eliminate by making visual identity a first-class...

If you want a reliable, secure file share on your LAN, Windows Server can do the job quickly — whether you're running a single home server or a small‑office file server. This guide walks through creating and managing shared folders and entire volumes on Windows Server 2022 (GUI), explains the difference between share and NTFS permissions, shows the command‑line and PowerShell methods for automation, and covers security, performance, backup, and troubleshooting practices every admin should...

Microsoft’s latest quarter exposed a tension that Wall Street is wrestling with: a brief cooling in Azure growth and a stock-price pullback, but also a carefully orchestrated trade-off between two of the company’s most valuable engines — high-margin enterprise software and capital-hungry cloud infrastructure. What looks like a stumble on the surface is, on closer inspection, the result of deliberate capacity allocation and margin management that keeps Microsoft positioned to monetize AI...