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Microsoft’s Microsoft Elevate program has reconfigured how charities can access AI: by pairing no‑cost and discounted technology with tailored training, practical toolkits and a skilling roadmap that aims to put Copilot, Azure and credentialed AI skills into the hands of nonprofit staff and volunteers. Background Charities face a familiar problem: huge demand for services, limited staff time, constrained IT budgets and rapidly changing technology. AI promises productivity gains and...

Amazon Web Services suffered a major regional disruption centered on its US‑EAST‑1 (Northern Virginia) data‑centre cluster that produced cascading outages for DynamoDB, EC2 and a wide set of downstream services — an event that exposed the fragile hinge between DNS, managed platform primitives and global service availability. Overview The outage began as AWS reported “increased error rates and latencies” across multiple services in the US‑EAST‑1 region, and escalated when the provider...

Microsoft shipped a cumulative update that, within days, broke two critical parts of the Windows experience: locally hosted HTTP/2 connections used by developers and, far more seriously, the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), which on affected systems stopped accepting USB keyboard and mouse input — prompting an emergency hotfix rollout and urgent guidance for administrators and power users. Background / Overview On October 14, 2025 Microsoft released the October Patch Tuesday cumulative...

Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 cumulative—KB5066791—is not just another Patch Tuesday rollout: it is the last broadly distributed Windows 10 cumulative update Microsoft will publish for consumer devices, and it closes the decade‑long mainstream support lifecycle for a platform still running on hundreds of millions of PCs. Background / Overview Windows 10 arrived in 2015 and became the dominant desktop Windows release for much of the next decade. Microsoft’s lifecycle calendar has long been...

Microsoft’s calendar decision to stop vendor‑supplied servicing for Windows 10 has moved from “planned” to immediate reality: as of October 14, 2025, mainstream support and routine security updates for Windows 10 ended, and users who rely on the platform must now choose between upgrading, enrolling in a time‑boxed Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, or accepting rising security and compatibility risk. Background and overview Microsoft launched Windows 10 in 2015 and supported it with a...

Microsoft’s decision to end mainstream support for Windows 10 has triggered a rapid, visible migration away from the platform — and for a growing number of users the destination is Linux, not Windows 11. Within days of Windows 10 reaching end-of-life, the Zorin Group published Zorin OS 18 and reported a record early uptake that industry observers say reflects a broader user exodus driven by hardware gates, cost considerations, and security anxiety. The migration is real, but the scale...

USB tethering remains one of the simplest, most reliable ways to get a Windows 11 PC online when Wi‑Fi is flaky or unavailable: plug a phone into the PC, enable tethering on the phone, and Windows usually presents a new wired network adapter and internet access within moments. Background USB tethering converts your smartphone into a network adapter for your PC, routing mobile data over a USB cable so the computer uses the phone’s cellular connection as its internet source. This method is...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update represents a decisive push to make artificial intelligence a first‑class feature of everyday computing by embedding Copilot across the OS — voice, vision, taskbar access, agentic actions, and cloud connectors — and packaging those capabilities as the defining characteristic of the next generation of Windows PCs. Background Over the past year Microsoft has repositioned Copilot from a bundled assistant into the central interaction model for Windows, and the...

Microsoft's October cumulative update for Windows 11, shipped as KB5066835, has produced a rare and high‑impact servicing regression that simultaneously broke local HTTP/2/localhost connections for developers and — more worryingly — left the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) unable to accept USB keyboard and mouse input on many machines, prompting Microsoft to prepare an out‑of‑band hotfix and urging administrators to pause broad deployments until remediation is verified. Background /...

Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber this week said she would entertain the idea of adding an AI agent to her company’s board of directors, arguing that AI agents are already present in “almost every meeting” and that firms that don’t use them are missing out on productivity gains. Background The comment came during a high‑profile business summit in Washington, D.C., where executives from large global companies described how they are using agentic AI tools — from meeting summarizers to assistants that...

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...