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Western civilization’s future, some commentators warn, is less a matter of economics or military power than a crisis of epistemology: when large swaths of a society stop treating certain moral and factual claims as objectively true, the social institutions that depend on shared standards of truth fray and can begin to fail. Background For centuries Western thinkers treated the pursuit of truth as both an intellectual virtue and a civic necessity. Variations of the same aphorism—“Plato is my...

Microsoft’s Windows already runs dozens of security checks before a program touches the kernel, but one of the least obvious — and quietly powerful — defenses is the Microsoft Vulnerable Driver Blocklist, a managed list that stops known-weak or malicious drivers from loading and protects the kernel from Bring-Your-Own-Vulnerable-Driver (BYOVD) and related exploitation techniques. Background / Overview Drivers are special pieces of software that give hardware components — cameras...

I walked into what looked like a brick—Windows booted to a BitLocker recovery screen, accepted the 48‑digit key, then rebooted into an INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error and back again—yet the disk itself was fine. What saved the machine was not a third‑party utility or a reinstall, but a sequence of built‑in Windows recovery tools most users never see: DiskPart, Manage‑BDE, BCDBoot/BCDEdit and the Windows Recovery Environment’s command prompt. This feature story unpacks that repair, explains...

Geralt’s voice actor has sparked fresh conversation in The Witcher community by naming a surprising winner in the long-running “Yennefer vs. Triss” debate — and it isn’t either of the two sorceresses most fans immediately think of. In a wide‑ranging interview released on February 20, 2026, Doug Cockle — the long‑standing English voice of Geralt of Rivia — said he ranks Shani as Geralt’s best romantic match in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, placing Triss second and Yennefer third, and offered...

If you’re still treating Windows 11 like a refreshed wallpaper and a centered Start menu, you’re missing the parts of the OS that were actually built to speed you up, protect your data, and reduce friction in everyday work. Overview: why "quality of use" matters more than a prettier UI Windows 11 shipped with a lot of visual polish, but the productivity and accessibility wins are where the operating system delivers real, repeatable value. Features such as Widgets, passkeys, Live Captions...

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has listed 32 institutions as “fake universities” operating across 12 states and union territories — a sharp, worrying rise in unauthorised degree‑awarding outfits that places thousands of students and recent graduates at immediate academic and professional risk. Background The UGC notification released in February 2026 names 32 organisations that are not recognised under the UGC Act and therefore have no legal authority to award degrees. The regulator...

The most consequential leadership shake-up in Microsoft’s gaming business in nearly a decade landed this week: veteran Xbox chief Phil Spencer is retiring after 38 years, Xbox president Sarah Bond is leaving the company, Matt Booty has been promoted to Executive Vice President and Chief Content Officer, and Asha Sharma — until now president of Microsoft’s CoreAI product organization — will become CEO of Microsoft Gaming. Background Phil Spencer’s exit closes a long chapter in which he remade...

Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly breached its own promise: for the second time in eight months the assistant’s retrieval pipeline processed data explicitly labeled as confidential, and — crucially — no existing DLP, EDR, or WAF in the conventional security stack raised an alert. Background Microsoft 365 Copilot is architected as a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) assistant that pulls context from Microsoft Graph sources (Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams), applies enforcement rules...

Microsoft quietly handed investigators the literal keys to unlock BitLocker‑protected laptops in a federal probe tied to pandemic unemployment fraud in Guam — a single act that crystallizes a broad, uncomfortable truth: encryption alone does not guarantee control if key custody rests with a cloud provider. Background For most Windows users, BitLocker is the invisible safety net that protects data-at-rest. It encrypts whole drives so files are unreadable without the correct key, and Microsoft...

LatencyMon is the kind of tiny, no‑nonsense utility that should live on every Windows PC because it looks where Task Manager cannot—inside the kernel—and turns confusing, intermittent stutter into actionable data you can actually use to fix the problem. Background / Overview Windows is a general‑purpose operating system, not a real‑time OS. That design choice is why audio pops, micro‑stutters, and brief input freezes often happen even when CPU and RAM look perfectly normal in Task Manager...

Jamia Millia Islamia has opened admissions for the 2026–27 academic year and unveiled a major academic expansion: 30 new programmes, introduction of the Multiple Entry Mode for its Four-Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP) in line with NEP 2020, no increase in tuition fees for the session, and an expanded network of entrance test centres now numbering 11. Background / Overview Jamia’s prospectus for 2026–27 — published by the university and circulated alongside official announcements — is a...

The Maharashtra State Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell has pushed the final registration window for MHT CET 2026 further, giving students a last-minute breathing space: the CET Cell’s official notice (published February 20, 2026) sets the no‑late‑fee registration cutoff at February 24, 2026, and opens a short late‑fee window from February 25 to February 27, 2026, during which applicants must pay an additional charge of Rs. 500 to complete submission. Background MHT CET (commonly referred to...

Matt Booty’s first public framing of the leadership change at Microsoft Gaming is unmistakably intended to calm nerves: no immediate layoffs, no studio reorganizations, and a renewed, stated focus on making great games — all marked by a clear commitment to support creative teams while the company transitions to new executive leadership. Background On February 20, 2026, Microsoft announced a major executive reshuffle across its gaming organization. Longtime Xbox chief Phil Spencer stepped...

Windows 11 is quietly doing the small, repetitive things right — and for many of us those tiny, consistent wins add up into genuinely better days at the keyboard. Background Windows has always been the operating system of compromise: massive compatibility, decades of legacy features, and an interface shaped by generations of different design philosophies. That history makes it easy to criticize, but it also explains why Windows remains the backbone of the desktop: its ubiquity is a product...

Microsoft has begun rolling out a substantial firmware and driver update for the Surface Pro (11th Edition) that targets a string of practical, real-world pain points — from eSIM and VPN connectivity to Microsoft Teams stability and Dolby Vision playback — and delivers those fixes in a cumulative, non‑reversible package designed for Windows 11 (version 24H2 or later). Background / Overview The Surface Pro (11th Edition) sits at the center of Microsoft's Copilot+ PC push: premium hardware...

Employers are waking up to a new kind of workplace hazard: AI notetakers that keep listening after people have left, create searchable transcripts of casual or sensitive remarks, and then disseminate those records automatically — sometimes to the entire team. Background AI notetakers — services that join virtual meetings, transcribe speech, extract action items, and surface summaries — arrived as convenience features meant to save time and preserve institutional knowledge. They promise...

Perplexity’s public renunciation of advertising is the clearest sign yet that the generative-AI business model contest has entered a new, noisier phase — one where trust, enterprise revenue and product design are being weighed directly against the short-term economics of ad-supported scale. Background: the ad question reshapes AI strategy AI companies have spent the past three years balancing two hard truths: building and operating large language models (LLMs) is enormously expensive, and...

After years of missing macOS’s spacebar Quick Look, adding the same “press space to preview” workflow to Windows 11 turns what felt like a tiny convenience into a daily productivity multiplier — and the two leading ways to get it, QuickLook (the community-built app) and PowerToys Peek (Microsoft’s official utility), now offer compelling but different trade-offs for everyday Windows users. rview Mac users have long praised Finder’s Quick Look: select a file, press Space, and a lightweight...

WSL has come a long way — but for many long-term Linux users, the improvements still don’t tip the scales back to Windows. Overview The How‑To Geek piece argues a familiar, increasingly common position: WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) has matured into a powerful, usable environment, but improvements alone aren’t enough to coax a committed Linux user back to daily‑driver Windows. The author concedes WSL’s technical evolution — from a compatibility shim to a real Linux kernel running inside...

Winhance puts a surprisingly powerful control panel on top of Windows 10 and 11 that can remove preinstalled apps, quiet in‑OS promotions, tune privacy and services, and even bake your chosen settings into a custom Windows installer — all for free and with an open‑source codebase. This is the essential takeaway from recent writeups and hands‑on community testing: Winhance aims to make the tedious work of “debloating” and configuring Windows repeatable, auditable, and fast, but it also...