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The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MoHESR) has signed a strategic collaboration with Microsoft to bring cloud AI into the heart of UAE higher education — a move that will fund research, prototype AI teaching and learning agents, and aim to embed Azure-based generative AI across university services while aligning outcomes to the country’s national knowledge-economy priorities...

Windows 11’s January cumulative update, KB5074109, has been tied to a wave of gaming regressions on systems running NVIDIA GeForce GPUs — including visible artifacting, short black‑screen flashes, and measurable frame‑rate drops — and NVIDIA has acknowledged the reports publicly while advising affected users that uninstalling KB5074109 currently appears to restore normal behavior in many reproduced cases. Background / Overview Microsoft shipped the January 13, 2026 cumulative update for...

For organizations wrestling with where to place scarce IT dollars in the new fiscal year, a striking message is emerging: modernizing endpoint hardware to support on-device AI — the class of machines Microsoft brands as Copilot+ PCs or AI PCs — can materially change the economics of AI adoption. A Forrester New Technology Total Economic Impact™ (NTTEI) study commissioned by Microsoft modeled a composite 2,000‑employee organization and projected very large three‑year returns when aging...

Windows Search is trying to be helpful — and sometimes that help is the problem. If your Start menu search feels slow, hangs while you type, or returns a stream of Bing results and news you never asked for, there’s a simple, low-risk registry tweak and an equivalent Group Policy you can use to force Search to stay local. The change restores a snappier, more predictable Start menu by disabling web suggestions and web queries from the Search box so Windows looks only at your apps, settings...

Cloud certification choices in 2026 matter less because one vendor “wins” and more because your first badge shapes the trade-offs you’ll carry into your career: portability, technical depth, hiring signals, and time-to-impact. For many, the real decision is not “AZ-900 or AWS?” but “how do I use a vendor credential as a bridge to demonstrable, pay‑generating skills?” This feature unpacks that choice in practical, evidence‑backed detail and gives a clear pathway to make the right...

If mongosh returns a connection refused error on Windows 11, the most likely culprit is simple: the MongoDB server process isn’t running. This guide verifies the commands and defaults you’ll need, walks through five reliable ways to start MongoDB on Windows 11 (CLI and GUI), and shows how to diagnose the common failure modes so you can get your database back online quickly and safely. I validated the core commands and defaults against the MongoDB documentation and Windows service tools, and...

Treyarch’s development leads make one thing clear: Call of Duty’s live-service future is not an afterthought or a marketing slogan — it’s the engineering challenge, product design problem, and cultural test the studio runs against every day as seasons roll out and players demand instant changes. Background Call of Duty has long been a tentpole franchise, but the modern battleground for player attention is a crowded live-service ecosystem where seasonal cadence, rapid fixes, and deep...

Windows 11’s January cumulative update is causing a fresh headache for PC gamers and enthusiasts: systems running Nvidia GeForce GPUs are reporting visible artifacts, flicker and measurable frame‑rate regressions that many users and Nvidia staff trace to KB5074109, Microsoft’s January 13, 2026 cumulative update. Early vendor triage, community testbeds and official release notes paint a picture of an update that solved a long list of issues but also introduced new, platform‑level hiccups —...

If you’ve ever plugged AirPods into a Windows 10 laptop and wondered why music sounds great until you join a meeting and everything turns into tinny mono, you’re not alone — the pairing works, but the experience is deeply shaped by Bluetooth profiles, codecs, drivers, and the limits of Windows 10 itself. This feature walks through the verified, step‑by‑step pairing flow, explains the technical reason behind the problems you’ll likely hit, and gives practical, tested fixes and purchase...

A six‑month Department for Work and Pensions trial of Microsoft 365 Copilot — involving 3,549 central‑office staff between October 2024 and March 2025 — measured modest but measurable productivity gains, reporting an average saving of 19 minutes per user per day, alongside improvements in perceived work quality and job satisfaction. The evaluation, published by the department in late January 2026, found that Copilot was most useful for information retrieval, email drafting and document...

When your most trusted PowerShell tools are Windows‑centric but your day‑to‑day workstation is Linux, the mismatch isn't theoretical — it’s an operational problem that forces a fork in how you deliver automation. You can try to bend the platform to your scripts, or you can bend the scripts to fit the platform. Both choices have trade‑offs in compatibility, performance, security, cost, and long‑term maintainability. This feature walks through the real limitations you’ll hit, evaluates three...

If you still rely on an ATI/AMD Radeon HD 5650 and want it to behave sensibly under Windows 10, there is a reliable, risk‑aware path that works in most cases — but it’s not the same as running a modern Adrenalin driver. The practical reality: try the Microsoft‑signed driver or your OEM’s Windows 10 package first; only if you need legacy Catalyst features should you attempt an archived AMD installer and a manual INF installation — and only after full backups and careful validation. Background...

Apple’s new AirPods Live Translation has shone a spotlight on a long‑standing interoperability fault line: when AirPods 4 are used with Windows PCs, users across forums and support channels are reporting dropped audio, ultralow call volume, and microphone failures—symptoms that are not a single vendor defect but a predictable clash of Bluetooth profiles, codecs, drivers, and platform‑bound features. Background Apple recently expanded its on‑device Live Translation capability to several...

If you have an older Windows PC that feels sluggish, there's a simple, free trick you may already be able to use right now: plug a fast USB flash drive into a spare port and let Windows use it as a disk cache with ReadyBoost — a built-in feature that can reduce wait time on systems with low RAM and spinning hard drives. ReadyBoost isn't magic: it doesn't turn a slow laptop into a powerhouse, but on the right hardware it can make everyday tasks — launching apps, switching tabs, and opening...

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Canva’s brand-aware design capabilities are now surfacing directly inside AI assistants — first in Anthropic’s Claude and, as of a February 5, 2026 update, inside ChatGPT — letting users generate editable, on‑brand Canva projects from a single chat prompt. Background Canva’s recent announcements mark another step in a multi‑year evolution: from simple template libraries to an AI‑driven design platform that can create editable, multi‑layer projects that preserve brand rules, templates, and...

Idemia Public Security’s updated Smart Credential Minidriver finally brings native ARM64 support to the Windows 11 authentication stack, promising a single, Microsoft‑aligned path for certificate‑based smart‑card and USB‑key logon across ARM64, Intel, and AMD devices — a move that, if validated in real deployments, removes a long‑standing obstacle to large‑scale ARM device rollouts in regulated enterprises. Background The vendor announcement describes a next‑generation Smart Credential...

Microsoft Research’s new FineACL work reframes an obvious-but-neglected problem: when enterprise LLMs are trained on or retrieve from sensitive internal data, access control must be enforced deterministically across every stage of the pipeline — including fine-tuning and RAG — or confidential information will leak. The paper argues that probabilistic mitigations (sanitizers, filters, and differential-privacy-style noise) are necessary but insufficient, and describes a participant‑aware...

Microsoft’s marketing organization turned a chronic problem—scattered, ambiguous, and risky data—into a competitive advantage by adopting the Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog as its metadata backbone, and the results are a practical playbook for any large enterprise trying to make governance usable, not burdensome. Background Data governance at scale is fundamentally a people-and-process problem amplified by technical complexity. As organizations grow, different teams create independent...

A routine stop in Peterborough that led to the seizure of a car and a suspended prison sentence for a 40‑year‑old motorist has exposed a familiar but worrying seam in the modern road‑safety and identity‑fraud landscape: the persistent use of fraudulent driving licences to conceal unlicenced and uninsured driving. Background On 8 June 2021 a black Vauxhall Vectra was pulled over in Highbury Street, Peterborough. The driver, identified in reporting as Florin Petre (40) of Princes Street...