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More Leverage’s new Shoutout Engine™ campaign promises a fast-track, 90-day pathway to being cited by both traditional search engines and the new generation of conversational AIs — a pitch built around Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), targeted PR placements, and a proprietary Leverage OS™ visibility framework designed for established, seven-figure-plus organizations seeking non‑advertising growth in credibility and discoverability. Background / Overview The announcement positions Shoutout...

The Xbox Series S has quietly become the surprise technical story of Battlefield 6’s launch — a low-cost console that, through careful engineering and tough design trade-offs, delivers a smooth 60 frames-per-second multiplayer experience that surprised both players and technical analysts. Background Battlefield 6 launched to strong commercial and critical attention, with publisher Electronic Arts reporting the title sold more than seven million copies during its first three days on sale, a...

A region-wide Amazon Web Services failure early on October 20 created a ripple effect that knocked large swaths of the internet offline — from social networks like Reddit to games such as Fortnite and Roblox — and forced engineers to diagnose a DNS-related problem for the DynamoDB API in the US‑EAST‑1 region even as Amazon reported “significant signs of recovery.” Background Modern web services depend on a surprisingly small set of managed cloud primitives. When those primitives — identity...

A widespread outage tied to Amazon Web Services knocked dozens of high‑profile apps, games and government sites offline on October 20, with error spikes beginning in the US‑EAST‑1 (Northern Virginia) region and cascading through services that rely on Amazon DynamoDB and other regional control‑plane APIs. The failure produced visible disruptions to social apps, gaming back ends, IoT and home‑security services, bank portals and developer tooling, and it exposed the familiar single‑region...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update moves Copilot from a sidebar novelty to a system‑level companion: you can now say “Hey, Copilot,” show the assistant parts of your screen, and — with explicit permission — let it carry out multi‑step tasks on your behalf. Background / Overview Microsoft’s October rollout is a deliberate push to make Copilot a first‑class interaction layer in Windows 11 rather than an optional add‑on. The company has introduced three headline capabilities that together...

The day many Windows users have long been warned about has arrived: Windows 10 has reached end of support, and that changes the practical and security calculus for millions of PCs still running the decade-old OS. For consumers and IT pros alike, the choice is no longer simply “keep using what works” — it’s about which supported path best balances security, compatibility, cost, and the life left in existing hardware. This article breaks down the options you actually have, what each choice...

Microsoft’s decade-long experiment with “Windows as a service” reached a clear inflection point on October 14, 2025, when Microsoft officially ended mainstream support for Windows 10 — the operating system that launched on July 29, 2015, and at one time was billed internally as “the last version of Windows.” For millions of home users and many organizations, that date marks more than just the end of security patches: it is the moment a generation of users were forced to reckon with what it...

If you want to remove WinZip from a Windows 11 PC quickly and safely, there are several reliable paths — from the built‑in Settings app to legacy Control Panel tools and command‑line options — and knowing which one to pick, plus the right cleanup steps afterward, will save time and avoid common pitfalls. Background / Overview WinZip is a long‑standing third‑party compression utility for Windows that many users install for advanced ZIP features, encryption options, or simply out of habit...

Being “AI‑ready” is no longer marketing speak — it’s a practical, measurable condition that separates projects that deliver value from pilots that quietly die in “proof‑of‑concept” limbo. The term has become shorthand for a set of architectural, operational, cultural and governance capabilities that must sit in place before organisations can reliably scale artificial intelligence beyond isolated experiments. Recent industry commentary argues this is a strategic inflection point...

OneNote’s linking features are one of the simplest, most under‑used levers for turning a sprawling notebook into an efficient, interconnected workspace—and the 2025 OneNote Links Guide (Geeky Gadgets) makes that plain with practical, everyday tactics for building launchpads, cross‑referencing content, and using the PARA method to stay focused. Background / Overview OneNote is no longer just a place to dump meeting notes and screenshots; it’s a navigable information hub when you use links...

Kuwait has stepped into the regional spotlight by announcing a strategic partnership with Microsoft to build an AI‑powered Azure region on Kuwaiti soil and to deploy Microsoft 365 Copilot across government employees — a move framed by officials as a decisive push to make Kuwait a regional hub for cloud and AI services and a cornerstone of the New Kuwait 2035 vision. Background / Overview Kuwait’s announcement is the latest phase of a multi‑year digital transformation drive tied to Vision...

Microsoft’s recent public comments and the Ally partnership with ASUS have pulled back the curtain on a hardware strategy that is at once expansive, pragmatic, and risk-laden — Xbox is clearly not walking away from building consoles and devices, but the path forward will increasingly mix first-party ambition with deep OEM partnerships, cloud investments, and new silicon opportunities from AMD. Background The past year has been turbulent for Xbox’s brand perception: aggressive pricing moves...

A single, almost‑throwaway prompt to an AI coding assistant appears to have stopped a full compromise in its tracks — and the episode should be a wake‑up call for developers, hiring teams, and security pros about how social engineering has evolved into a high‑precision, blockchain‑backed attack vector that targets the very people who build and secure our systems. The incident, described this week in investigative reporting and corroborated by multiple threat researchers, shows how a...

Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday quietly delivered what will likely be remembered as the final tranche of Windows 10 WinRE (Windows Recovery Environment) updates: a delivery wrapper and matching Safe OS payloads published under KB5068164 and KB5067017 for Windows 10 versions 21H2 and 22H2, alongside companion Safe OS packages targeting legacy branches and the final Windows 10 cumulative (KB5066791) that marks the end of mainstream servicing for the platform. Background / Overview WinRE —...

Amazon Web Services suffered a broad regional outage early on October 20 that knocked dozens of widely used apps and platforms offline — from team collaboration tools and video calls to social apps, bank services and smart-home devices — with early evidence pointing to DNS-resolution problems with the DynamoDB API in the critical US‑EAST‑1 region. Overview The incident unfolded as a high‑impact availability event for one of the internet’s most relied‑upon clouds. AWS posted status updates...

Microsoft and Intel are reportedly moving from public partnership to practical production: multiple industry outlets say Microsoft has placed a foundry order with Intel Foundry to build its next‑generation AI accelerator, Maia 2, on Intel’s advanced 18A process or the performance‑tuned 18A‑P variant — a shift that would materially change supply‑chain dynamics for Azure compute and validate key technical claims about Intel’s leading node. Background / Overview Microsoft’s Maia family is the...

Anthropic’s Claude is now embedded directly into Microsoft 365 and Teams, giving enterprise users a conversational interface that can search, summarise, and analyse content from Word, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive without manual uploads — a move that deepens Anthropic’s enterprise footprint and accelerates the shift toward a multi‑model, agentic workplace. Background Anthropic’s Claude has long been positioned as a workplace‑focused large language model family. The company’s...

Amazon Web Services suffered a broad outage that knocked major apps and games offline across large parts of the internet, leaving millions unable to sign in, save work, or even start a meeting as the cloud provider’s US‑EAST‑1 region reported “increased error rates” and elevated latencies. Background Cloud platforms are the foundation of modern internet services. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the dominant public cloud provider and the primary hosting layer for countless consumer apps...

Microsoft’s October servicing wave has produced a trio of high‑impact regressions that are already disrupting developer workflows, blocking on‑device recovery options, and interfering with smart‑card authentication — and administrators must balance the imperative to patch critical vulnerabilities against the immediate operational risk these side effects create. Microsoft has acknowledged the issues on its Windows Release Health pages, deployed temporary Known Issue Rollbacks (KIRs) in some...

Microsoft’s late-stage pivot in the long-running ValueLicensing dispute — recasting what began as an antitrust and licensing fight into a copyright question — has elevated a technical legal argument into a case that could reshape the pre-owned software market across Europe and the UK. The Competition Appeal Tribunal is now being asked to decide whether perpetual desktop products such as Microsoft Office (and by extension Windows and other packaged software) are protected as creative works...