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Windows 11 hides a useful last‑resort tool deep inside the familiar Ctrl+Alt+Del screen: an Emergency Restart that forces your PC to reboot when normal methods won’t, and it’s been quietly present in Windows for years. Background The Emergency Restart option appears when you press Ctrl+Alt+Del, then hold the Ctrl key while clicking the power icon in the lower‑right corner of the Secure Attention Sequence (SAS) screen. A full‑screen prompt warns that the action will immediately restart the...

Battlefield 6 arrived to fanfare and queue screens: the core multiplayer, classic class roles, and dramatic environmental destruction are back — but the launch has also been accompanied by a long list of technical problems, entitlement failures, progression bugs, and matchmaking instability that are materially affecting players across PC and consoles. Early fixes and community workarounds exist for a subset of issues, but several problems remain server-side or require developer patches...

Ever typed a question into a search box and left disappointed, then tried the same query in an AI chat and suddenly got a coherent, sourced answer in plain English? That feeling — of search evolving from lists of links into an interactive, context-aware conversation — is at the heart of the recent rush of AI search engines. A recent roundup circulated on autogpt.net grouped today’s leading AI search players by use case and price, naming familiar names like Perplexity, ChatGPT, Google Gemini...

The Mojang team’s blunt admission — that if the Creeper didn’t already exist, they probably wouldn’t add it today — reads like a rare public peek at how a decade‑plus product balances nostalgia, community expectation, and modern design rules. Background Minecraft’s Creeper is one of gaming’s most recognisable mascots: a silent, green, four‑legged mob that approaches players and detonates, destroying blocks and ruining builds. Its origin is famously accidental: the model that became the...

dBrand’s Killswitch is now available for the Xbox‑branded ROG Ally family — and for the first time the accessory carries an official Xbox certification while bringing the single most useful missing feature for one‑piece handhelds: a built‑in kickstand combined with grippy, protective rubberized shells and an optional travel cover. Background / Overview dBrand’s Killswitch project began life as a simple but clever idea: instead of a bulky carrying case, make a form‑fitting, textured rubber...

Ambrosia Sky’s first act arrives on PC on November 10, 2025, launching a three-act, episodic science‑fiction immersive sim that asks players to clean, catalogue, and ritualize the aftermath of an alien fungal catastrophe in the rings of Saturn. The Toronto-based studio Soft Rains will publish Act One on Steam and the Epic Games Store, with Acts Two and Three slated for release sometime in 2026; a playable demo is available now through Steam Next Fest. Background / Overview Ambrosia Sky...

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II is currently enjoying one of the most tempting discount windows of the year — with the PC edition available from third‑party retailer Loaded for roughly $36.69 and Xbox copies dipping into the low‑$40s at major retailers — making this already‑acclaimed medieval RPG an unusually cheap way to jump into one of 2025’s standout single‑player experiences. Background Kingdom Come: Deliverance II (often abbreviated KCD2) is the follow‑up to Warhorse Studios’ 2018...

The ROG Xbox Ally X arrives as the most ambitious Windows handheld yet: a hardware-first redesign that pushes native PC performance higher while leaning on a new Xbox full‑screen experience and a Handheld Compatibility Program intended to tell you, up front, whether a game will run well on a 7‑inch Windows PC. Early reviews praise the Ally X’s improved sustained frame rates, ergonomics, and upgradeability, but they also converge on the same caveats—Windows 11’s desktop baggage, persistent...

Oracle and Microsoft have announced a joint integration blueprint that connects Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM) with Azure IoT Operations and Microsoft Fabric, aiming to pull live factory sensor and equipment data into enterprise workflows to automate business events, speed decisions, and reduce downtime. Background The manufacturing sector has been accelerating digital transformation efforts to make supply chains more resilient and responsive. Historically, the...

The sharp calendar cut for Windows 10 support on October 14, 2025 has moved from a distant lifecycle note into a full‑blown public policy and environmental story: millions of devices face exclusion from Windows 11 upgrades, a time‑limited Extended Security Updates (ESU) window is the only broad safety valve for most consumers, and advocacy groups warn of a potential surge in electronic waste if systems are replaced rather than refurbished or repurposed. Background Microsoft formally ends...

Microsoft's decision to keep Microsoft Defender Antivirus receiving definition and detection updates on Windows 10 for years after the operating system's official end-of-support does reduce one vector of risk — but it is emphatically not a replacement for ongoing OS security patches, feature updates, or a modern risk posture. Background: what Microsoft announced and what it means Microsoft announced that Windows 10 will reach its end of standard support on October 14, 2025, and that the...

The Microsoft Store is an underrated shortcut to a better Windows 11 experience — install a handful of free, well-designed utilities and you can fix long-standing friction points (audio control, file preview, PDF handling), and even give the desktop a fresh look. The six no-cost Store apps I rely on — TuneIn Radio, EarTrumpet, Seelen UI, PDFgear, QuickLook, and Microsoft PowerToys — each address a specific gap Windows doesn’t fully solve out of the box. The original Pocket-lint roundup that...

Microsoft’s short, teasing post — “Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…something big is coming Thursday.” — may be the clearest signal yet that Windows 11 is poised to push voice and conversational AI from an accessible add‑on into a mainstream, system‑level interaction model. Background / Overview Microsoft’s public tease arrived at a moment when the company has been steadily layering voice, on‑device models, and Copilot integrations into Windows 11 for...

Ohio University Chillicothe is offering free, hands‑on community workshops this fall designed to demystify generative AI tools and teach practical prompt‑crafting skills for students, faculty, staff and local residents. The two‑part series—Unlocking the Power of AI: A Beginner’s Guide and Mastering AI Prompting: Advanced Strategies for Smarter Results—will be held in Bennett Hall, Room 272, with multiple evening sessions in late October and November to accommodate different schedules...

Battlefield 6 has quietly nudged one of its most beloved multiplayer systems and the result is immediate, polarizing, and — to many players — baffling: instead of removing or lengthening the newly added Conquest match timer, Battlefield Studios cut the starting ticket counts across every Conquest map so more rounds end by running out of tickets before the clock does. Background Conquest is Battlefield’s flagship large-scale mode: squads fight to capture and hold objectives while a team-wide...

Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday arrived as a high‑stakes operational moment: the company shipped fixes for a large, cross‑cutting set of vulnerabilities while simultaneously closing the chapter on Windows 10 support, removing a legacy in‑box driver, and patching at least two zero‑day elevation‑of‑privilege flaws that proof‑of‑concept or exploit code made especially urgent for defenders. This month’s release is best understood as a three‑part event — an urgent security patching cycle, a...

When your manager wants output and not excuses, a handful of reliable, zero-cost tools can turn a chaotic workday into a predictable workflow—these are five free, open-source Windows 11 apps I install first on every PC to keep my boss off my back and my projects moving forward. Background Windows 11 ships with a lot of built-in productivity features—Snap Layouts, Virtual Desktops, Focus Sessions and improved Snipping Tool capabilities—but no single OS can serve every specialized need. That’s...

Microsoft’s October 2025 patch cycle accidentally flagged Windows 10 21H2 Enterprise LTSC (and some IoT LTSC variants) as “end of life,” producing alarming in‑OS messages and an inaccurate “no longer supported” status in Windows Update for devices that should still receive long‑term servicing updates. Background / Overview Windows 10’s mainstream servicing for the general consumer and mainstream enterprise branches reached its scheduled vendor end of support on October 14, 2025 — a milestone...

Logically’s LogicON 2025 keynote has delivered a tightly coordinated push to turn managed IT services into a single, auditable pathway for secure AI adoption, workforce enablement, and streamlined procurement — announcing three linked innovations that together reposition the company from a traditional MSP toward what it calls a “NextGen Service Provider.” The announcements — a strategic training partnership with UpSkill Academy, a 24/7 eCommerce procurement portal named MyShop, and a new...

Microsoft has quietly broadened the multimodal toolkit available through Azure AI Foundry by adding three cost‑optimized OpenAI "mini" models — GPT-image-1‑mini, GPT-realtime‑mini, and GPT-audio‑mini — alongside updated GPT‑5 offerings that emphasize enhanced safety (GPT-5‑chat‑latest) and a research‑grade variant (GPT-5‑pro). The net effect is a pragmatic push to make image, voice, and audio generation as accessible and production‑ready as text LLMs have become, while giving enterprises a...