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PDF tools have long forced hard choices: pay for a subscription, tolerate crippling feature gates, or trust a sketchy online converter with your private documents — and then along comes a genuinely full-featured, locally runnable PDF toolbox that costs nothing. MakeUseOf’s recent hands‑on calls PDF24 “an all‑in‑one PDF tool that’s lightweight, fast, and completely free,” and that enthusiasm is easy to understand given how many tasks the app consolidates into a single package. PDF landscape...

Microsoft Defender Antivirus can be paused quickly for a single task or disabled persistently for an entire deployment — but how you do it, and why you do it, matter far more today than they did a few years ago. This feature guide and analysis walks through safe, supported temporary disables, the administrative Group Policy route for persistent changes, the recommended way to replace Defender with a third‑party product, the pitfalls Windows 11 Home users face, and the real security risks and...

Token Security’s latest week of communications sharpened a single, urgent message: as enterprises rapidly adopt AI copilots and autonomous agents, identity — not just models or data — is the primary attack surface that must be discovered, governed and controlled. The company reinforced that position with technical guidance aimed at securing Microsoft Copilot and Copilot Studio agents, executive commentary about compliance exposure for autonomous agents, and continued product framing around...

Taiwan's border has gone digital, and anyone planning to travel there now needs to treat their phone and laptop as essential travel documents rather than optional conveniences. Background / Overview Taiwan’s National Immigration Agency (NIA) has moved decisively to replace paper arrival cards with a mandatory online Taiwan Arrival Card (TWAC), and the change is not cosmetic: from October 1, 2025 the paper card was phased out and travelers are expected to complete the TWAC online within a...

Microsoft’s once‑vaunted AI push has hit a rough patch: enterprise preference for its Copilot family is slipping, investor patience is fraying after a brutal market reaction to heavy AI spending, and users are loudly criticizing fragmented branding and brittle integrations that underpin the company’s AI narrative. Background Microsoft has invested at scale to make AI central to its product strategy — embedding Copilot across Windows, Microsoft 365, GitHub, security tooling and more — and it...

As artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s Copilot move from demonstration projects into everyday classroom practice, educators and policy experts are raising urgent alarms: the very technologies promised to personalize learning and save teacher time may also be eroding the foundations of deep learning, critical thinking, and equity in schools around the world. Recent reports from major institutions conclude that, unless deployment is governed...

Matrimonial and dating platforms are fast becoming the new front line for financially devastating social‑engineering crimes: the Ministry of Home Affairs’ cyber‑unit has formally warned that fraudsters are using stolen photos, polished fake profiles and emotional grooming to push victims into investment and cryptocurrency schemes — and the pattern is now global, organised, and increasingly automated...

EpocCam’s long run as a convenient phone‑as‑webcam tool is effectively over for new development, but the app’s legacy, driver story, and practical alternatives still matter to anyone trying to use an iPhone or Android device as a Windows 10 webcam — especially for IT teams, home streamers, and buyers chasing low‑cost “Webcam 1080p” listings with promises like free shipping. Background / Overview EpocCam began life as a simple, effective way to turn a smartphone into a webcam for macOS and...

If Windows 11 stops detecting your wireless keyboard, the problem is almost always fixable — and usually far less mysterious than it feels at first. In this deep-dive guide I walk through a structured, risk-aware troubleshooting path that starts with the simplest checks (battery, pairing, receiver placement) and escalates to driver and system repairs (Device Manager, USB/HID stack, SFC/DISM, BIOS). Along the way I explain why each step matters, highlight common failure modes, and give...

The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission and state regulators say the trout coming from Benner Spring State Fish Hatchery remain within advisory limits and “are safe to consume” even as a multi-year PFAS investigation centered near State College continues to unfold — but the case exposes gaps in testing, a slow-moving remediation timeline, and persistent questions about long-term risk to water, fish and communities downstream. (pa.gov) Background and overview Per- and polyfluoroalkyl...

The City of Cold Lake has moved from deliberation to action: on Jan. 27 council unanimously approved a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) policy that aims to let municipal staff use AI where it delivers efficiency, while erecting clear guardrails to protect personal and organizational information. The document does not ban or endorse particular vendor products; instead it creates a decision-making framework for staff, lists permitted and non‑permitted uses, and narrows a recently debated...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT can now generate fully editable, on‑brand Canva designs from a single chat prompt — a practical leap that collapses ideation and production into one conversational flow and promises to make publish‑ready social posts, pitch decks, and marketing assets accessible to small businesses that don’t have a designer on staff. This integration connects ChatGPT to Canva’s Brand Kit, applies fonts, palettes and logos at generation time, and returns layered, editable Canva projects that...

The Interactive Advertising Bureau’s launch of Project Eidos marks the industry’s most explicit, cross‑sector effort to reforge how advertising is measured in an era governed by AI, privacy constraints, and fragmented attention — and it arrives alongside competing projects from the ANA and major agency networks that together reveal how measurement, not creative, will define the next phase of ad buying and strategy. Background / Overview For decades the advertising industry relied on...

OpenAI’s move to ship a full-stack, enterprise-focused agent platform marks a turning point in the commercial AI race — one that could remake how businesses automate work, who controls that automation, and how enterprise software is sold and priced. Background / Overview OpenAI’s recent unveiling of a dedicated enterprise agent platform — reported first by industry outlets and confirmed by OpenAI’s own statements — shifts the company from being primarily a models-and-API supplier to...

For a company that built its modern renaissance on strategic partnerships, Microsoft now finds itself navigating a rare and delicate paradox: its most consequential ally has quietly become one of its most formidable competitors. Background / Overview Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI has been foundational to the company’s AI strategy for half a decade. What began as a privileged engineering and commercial partnership — anchored by early investments, exclusive cloud arrangements, and deep...

Wall Street turned sharply active in early February 2026, with analysts rotating through five very different stories — Enphase Energy, Cloudflare, Merck & Co., Microsoft, and fuboTV — issuing upgrades, downgrades and much‑debated price targets that together illuminate how investors are re‑pricing risk across renewable energy, cloud/security software, big pharma, AI‑infrastructure and streaming aggregation. Background / Overview Investor attention is clustering where structural change meets...

Microsoft’s long‑planned cleanup of Windows’ printing stack has reached a critical phase: legacy V3 and V4 third‑party printer drivers will no longer be serviced through Windows Update beginning in January 2026, and Windows 11 is being reconfigured to prefer the modern IPP inbox class driver and Print Support Apps as the default printing path. Background / Overview Microsoft first announced the deprecation of legacy V3/V4 printer drivers in September 2023, and the company has staggered the...

Apple’s new research paper and accompanying experiments make a clear, provocative claim: when it comes to designing software interfaces, machines learn best not by ingesting more screenshots but by learning the language of design directly from the people who practice it. The company’s human-in-the-loop study shows that comparatively small, high-quality interventions — comments, sketches, and direct edits from professional designers — produce measurable improvements in generated user...

ChatGPT arrived as a cultural and technical milestone in 2022, and the 2026 landscape finds it still among the most capable and broadly useful consumer AI chatbots — but in a world where rivals, product economics, and legal scrutiny have reshaped what “best” actually means. The PCMag Australia review you shared praises ChatGPT for accurate, detailed replies, strong creative writing, good customization and the most comprehensive memory implementation of the major chatbots — while also noting...

Canada’s conversation about AI and work has shifted from abstract fear to a pragmatic how-to: learn to use these tools — and quickly — or risk being leapfrogged by people who do. Background: why Marc Saltzman’s piece matters now Marc Saltzman’s recent column arguing that Canadian workers should upskill to stay employed taps into a growing chorus of analysts, vendors and policymakers who say the labour market is already being reshaped by generative AI. The column blends survey findings...