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Asus’ ROG Ally X arrives as a confident, hardware-first answer to Steam Deck-style handhelds: it doubles down on battery, memory and storage, tightens thermals and ergonomics, and ships Windows 11 with an Xbox‑flavored, controller‑first shell — but the polish of the software experience and the price tag leave important questions for buyers and for Microsoft’s vision of a true handheld Windows platform. Background / Overview The handheld PC market that Valve ignited with the Steam Deck has...

Enterprise AI projects routinely blame “hallucinations” or model limits when assistants deliver wrong, incomplete, or irrelevant answers—but the deeper fault line often lies in the search layer that feeds those models. The AI Journal piece provided by Laurent Fanichet lays out a timely thesis: enterprise AI search is not an incidental utility—it is the strategic foundation for agentic transformation, and without a governed, unified search layer, chatbots remain clever toys rather than...

Arrowhead Game Studios has pressed the brakes on new Helldivers 2 content to tackle persistent performance and stability problems, a move its game director describes as necessary to restore playability and rebuild player trust after the recent Into the Unjust update introduced crashes, stutters, and other regressions. This is a deliberate shift in priorities: instead of shipping new features or warbonds on a fixed cadence, the studio is reallocating engineering resources to address...

A high‑stakes, potentially precedent‑setting legal push against Microsoft over its cloud licensing policies is gathering momentum in the UK: competition lawyer Dr Maria Luisa Stasi is pressing a proposed collective claim worth roughly £2 billion that alleges thousands of UK organisations were overcharged for running Windows Server on rival cloud platforms, and the Competition Appeal Tribunal will hear whether that action can proceed as a collective case in December. Background / Overview The...

Zorin OS 18 arrives as a polished, migration‑focused desktop that hits the market the very day Windows 10 reaches its end of support, offering a pragmatic — not magical — pathway for millions of devices that can’t or won’t move to Windows 11. Background / Overview Zorin OS has long been one of the most accessible Linux distributions for people leaving Windows, and the 18 release doubles down on that mission with a timed launch designed to capitalize on the Windows 10 end‑of‑support...

October's Patch Tuesday closed a decade-long chapter: Microsoft shipped the final standard monthly update for Windows 10 while simultaneously delivering a mammoth security payload that touched nearly every slab of the platform ecosystem — a single release that corrected over 170 distinct vulnerabilities, removed a risky built-in driver, and sealed multiple actively exploited holes. For Windows 11 users the month also delivered the newest feature-first updates — AI actions in File Explorer...

Microsoft’s calendar moved from “warning” to “action” on October 14, 2025: Windows 10’s mainstream support officially ended, leaving millions of PCs outside Microsoft’s normal security update stream and thrusting consumers and IT teams into a high-stakes migration window that demands inventory, testing, and decisions now rather than later. Background / Overview Windows 10 debuted in 2015 and, for a decade, served as the default desktop OS for households, schools and countless businesses...

Lian Li owners reporting a disappearing L‑Connect 3 UI after Patch Tuesday’s October cumulative (KB5066835) now have a practical — if temporary — workaround: pause Windows Update, remove KB5066835, and reboot. Background / Overview Microsoft shipped the October 14, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 as KB5066835 (OS builds 26100.6899 and 26200.6899). The package contains security fixes, quality improvements and small feature changes across the platform. Microsoft bundles a servicing stack...

Microsoft’s brief, playful tease on its official Windows social account — “Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…something big is coming Thursday.” — has set the Windows community buzzing and narrowed expectations fast: the company is preparing to show a hands‑free, voice‑forward evolution of Windows rather than a simple polish of the Start menu. Background Microsoft chose a pointed moment to send the tease. The message arrived the same week Windows 10 reached its...

Microsoft’s decision to end free, automatic Windows 10 updates on October 14, 2025 has landed as both a technical watershed and a political lightning rod — one that exposes real tensions between platform security, consumer choice, environmental responsibility, and the economics of software lifecycles. Background Windows 10 arrived in 2015 and became the backbone of a vast global install base. Microsoft formally set the operating system’s end-of-support date as October 14, 2025, after which...

When Microsoft first gated Windows 11 behind a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 requirement, it wasn't a petty hardware-plugging decision — it was a deliberate, security-first policy that reshaped who can run the latest Windows and how safely that OS can be trusted to protect data and platform integrity. This article explains exactly what a TPM does, why Microsoft made TPM 2.0 effectively mandatory for modern Windows, the practical ways people have used to work around that requirement, and...

Windows 11 ships with a centered taskbar by default — and changing it back to the familiar left-aligned layout is a single, reversible setting tucked inside Taskbar settings. Background When Microsoft unveiled Windows 11, one of the most immediately visible changes was the centered taskbar and Start button. The new alignment is clearly a design choice meant to modernize the desktop and mirror the dock-like experiences popularized on other platforms. For some users the centered Start button...

Microsoft pulled the plug on Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, delivering the final vendor-supplied security update and formally moving the OS to End of Life — a technical milestone that quickly became a political and cultural flashpoint as millions of users, charities and activists debated what the cutoff actually means, who it hurts, and how to respond. The company couples the retirement with a one‑year Extended Security Updates (ESU) bridge for personal devices and expanded enterprise...

Microsoft’s security update for September (KB5065426) has been implicated in a rising wave of identity and file‑sharing headaches for organizations that have adopted Windows Server 2025—yet the most alarming claim now circulating, that a DirSync/Entra Connect group‑sync bug in KB5065426 silently breaks directory synchronization for very large on‑prem security groups (>10,000 members), is not fully corroborated by Microsoft’s public guidance. Microsoft’s own update notes for KB5065426 do...

Australia is at an inflection point: respected industry figures are warning that the country risks being left behind in the global race to capture the productivity and innovation gains from artificial intelligence, and they are urging an urgent, coordinated national response to adopt AI thoughtfully and at scale. The warnings — voiced this week at a Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry event and repeated in national reporting — highlight striking early wins (teachers saving substantial...

SteelSeries has pushed the Arctis line into two very different but complementary directions this season: an accessible, polished refresh with the Arctis Nova 7 Gen 2 that prioritizes battery life, cross‑device convenience, and everyday usability — and a bold, expensive flagship in the Arctis Nova Elite that aims to marry true audiophile credentials with gaming‑first features such as simultaneous multi‑platform audio mixing and a swappable dual‑battery system. Both launches accelerate...

Microsoft’s decision to draw the curtain on Windows 10 has finally arrived: the decade‑old operating system has moved from mainstream support into retirement, forcing households, small businesses and enterprise IT teams into a narrow planning window where choices are security‑driven and time‑sensitive. The M:tech segment from Television Vijesti framed that shift as “the end of an era,” and used the milestone to examine what the cutoff actually means for users in Montenegro and beyond — from...

Commodore’s revival team is out in full force, pitching Commodore OS Vision 3.0 as a refuge for Windows 10 holdouts and disgruntled Windows users — a retro‑futuristic, Debian‑based desktop that promises nostalgia, gaming, built‑in BASIC, and a privacy‑first alternative at no cost. The announcement and corresponding marketing push landed at a sensitive moment in the PC lifecycle: Windows 10’s public servicing ended in mid‑October 2025, leaving many users weighing upgrades, paid Extended...

Windows 10’s official end of mainstream support on October 14, 2025 marks a definitive shift in the Windows era: Microsoft will stop issuing free feature updates, regular quality fixes, security patches, and standard technical assistance for mainstream Windows 10 editions, and the practical consequence is that staying on Windows 10 increasingly exposes users to unpatched vulnerabilities and compatibility drift. Background / Overview Windows 10 launched in 2015 and served as Microsoft’s...

I picked up the DT Research 323MD expecting another niche rugged tablet—and left convinced it’s the kind of purpose-built Windows device that makes mainstream Android tablets look uninspired for clinical and industrial work. Background / Overview The DT Research 323MD is a 13.3‑inch, Windows‑based rugged tablet engineered for healthcare, clean‑room, and other vertical environments that demand sanitizable surfaces, long duty cycles, and dependable I/O. It ships as a configurable platform...