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Windows 11’s 25H2 update arrives as a study in restraint: modest to the eye but consequential under the hood, a housekeeping milestone that flips feature flags, trims legacy baggage, and reorients the platform toward manageability, security hardening, and staged AI surfaces rather than a flashy consumer-facing overhaul. Background / Overview Windows 11 version 25H2 is being delivered primarily as an enablement package (eKB) layered on top of the existing 24H2 servicing branch. That means...

Microsoft has begun the phased rollout of the Windows 11 25H2 update, a streamlined “enablement package” that turns on features already present in recent builds, adds new AI-driven tools in File Explorer and search, refreshes the Start menu and lock‑screen widgets, introduces finer power‑management controls for laptops, and expands cloud‑based recovery for consumer PCs — all while keeping the install lightweight and fast. Background Windows 11 25H2 (the “2025 Update”) follows Microsoft’s...

Chromebooks have quietly become the obvious choice for anyone trying to buy a usable laptop on a tight budget, offering a noticeably better day‑to‑day experience than the sea of sub‑$600 Windows machines that dominate bargain bins—and not because ChromeOS is magical, but because it was built for that tradeoff: less overhead, smarter hardware choices, and a web‑first software model that matches how most people actually use a laptop today. Background The cheap Windows laptop has been a...

Microsoft’s end-of-support deadline for Windows 10 has forced a rare moment of clarity in the PC market: upgrade, pay for a one‑year safety net, or move to another operating system — and Google is now pitching ChromeOS Flex as a practical lifeline for the many Windows 10 PCs that can’t meet Windows 11’s strict hardware rules. Microsoft’s official lifecycle page sets the end of mainstream support for Windows 10 at October 14, 2025, and the company has published a narrowly scoped Consumer...

Google’s offer to repurpose aging Windows 10 machines with ChromeOS Flex has turned a headline into a practical fork in the road for millions of users: accept Microsoft’s short-term, account‑tied Extended Security Updates (ESU) or replace the OS entirely and adopt Google’s cloud‑centric alternative. The choice matters for security, privacy, total cost of ownership, and the planet — and it comes with trade‑offs that every household, small business, and IT manager should understand before they...

Microsoft has begun the staged public rollout of Windows 11, version 25H2, a deliberate, low‑impact annual update that primarily formalizes last year’s continuous improvements, enables a slate of AI‑first experiences on qualified devices, and resets the official support clock for devices that adopt it. The release is delivered as a compact enablement package for most fully patched systems and is accompanied by ISOs and enterprise media for cleaner installs and imaging. Background / Overview...

Google’s latest round of cuts to its Cloud organization has targeted design and user‑experience roles and exposed a broader strategic pivot: as Google doubles down on AI and infrastructure, it is pruning teams that don’t fit the new operating model—leaving employees, customers and product roadmaps to absorb the effects. Background / Overview Google Cloud has been one of the company’s fastest‑growing segments in recent quarters, posting strong year‑over‑year revenue growth and improving...

Windows 11’s first-boot experience just got a lot less painful: Microsoft has integrated the new Windows Backup flows directly into the Out‑of‑Box Experience (OOBE), letting you restore personal files, personalization, and a list of apps during setup instead of rebuilding a new machine from scratch. For most home users this closes the gap between “new PC, now what?” and “this feels familiar,” but the feature also comes with clear limitations and tradeoffs you should plan for before you press...

Lenovo’s Legion Go 2 arrives as a clear, risky bet: pack a near‑laptop power envelope and a best‑in‑class OLED into an 8.8‑inch, controller‑centric shell, charge a premium, and accept that not every buyer will like the tradeoffs. Background The Legion Go 2 is Lenovo’s second‑generation Windows handheld, designed to move the product line from a novel experiment into a premium, purpose‑built device. It swaps the original’s IPS panel for an 8.8‑inch WUXGA OLED, raises RAM ceilings to 32 GB of...

Microsoft now openly warns that two built‑in Windows features — OneDrive file syncing and Windows’ visual effects — can make systems feel slower, and the company has published explicit guidance showing how to reduce their impact on everyday performance. Those admissions are part of a wider conversation about perceived speed differences between Windows 10 and Windows 11, and they deserve attention because both features are enabled or highly visible by default on modern Windows installs...

Windows 11 is quietly closing one of its most visible design gaps: legacy file‑operation dialogs and Explorer pop‑ups are finally gaining a proper dark theme in Insider builds, and the small but important visual refinements landing in recent flights hint at a broader, long‑overdue push to make the shell feel consistent for people who prefer Dark mode. Background For years Windows users who prefer dark themes have lived with an awkward, high‑contrast mismatch: the modern shell and many...

Mixture of Experts (MoE) architectures are quietly reshaping the economics and engineering of large-scale AI by letting models grow in nominal capacity while keeping per-request compute and latency within practical limits. Background / Overview Mixture of Experts is not a brand-new idea, but recent production pushes and corporate deployments have moved MoE from an academic curiosity into mainstream engineering practice. At its core, an MoE model is a sparse, conditional architecture that...

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Perplexity’s Comet browser is now available to everyone for free, opening what the company calls an AI-native approach to browsing on Windows and macOS and rolling agentic automation into the browser itself. Background / Overview Perplexity first unveiled Comet on July 9, 2025 as an invite-only product bundled for Perplexity Max subscribers. The company opened Comet to a broader audience on October 2, 2025, removing the paid-only gate and making the core browser free to download and use on...

Genealogy websites and at‑home DNA tests have given millions of people a new way to explore family stories, but a recent Northwest Arkansas Democrat‑Gazette piece underscores a familiar truth: these platforms do not always get heritage quite right. The article — which reports on users who found surprising or shifting ethnicity assignments — is a timely reminder that DNA ancestry reports are probabilistic, model‑driven outputs, not definitive proofs of cultural identity or lineage. Where they...

Bloomberg’s Managed Systems Engineering team is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer — Windows Services to lead a global effort to modernize and harden the company’s Active Directory (AD) estate, manage the Windows server fleet, and operate identity and access services at massive scale; the role is explicitly scoped for enterprise AD architecture, Group Policy, DNS/DHCP, hybrid identity (on‑prem + Azure AD), and automation with PowerShell, and it carries a posted salary band of roughly...

Adobe’s September Reader update has left a wake of frustrated users and busy IT desks: the Continuous-track build 25.001.20744 (published late September) introduced a printing regression on Windows that causes PDF output to be truncated, squeezed into the top-left of the sheet, or printed as blank pages — symptoms that affect multiple printer brands and Windows versions and that, for many environments, are only temporarily avoidable by printing as an image or rolling back to an earlier...

Flyoobe’s new 1.25.485 release — codenamed “Loki” — shifts the project from a niche installer bypass into a purpose-built Out‑Of‑Box Experience (OOBE) and deployment toolkit, adding deep debloat routines for Windows 11 25H2 and a headline extension, Windows Update Tamer, which claims to let users pause Windows updates for periods as long as “up to 10 years.” Background / Overview Flyoobe began life as Flyby11: a compact community tool that automated widely known workarounds so technically...

Flyoobe’s latest stable — version 1.25.485 (codename “Loki”) — arrives as a deliberate pivot from a simple installer bypass into a full Out‑Of‑Box Experience (OOBE) toolkit, pairing deeper debloat and UI polish with a controversial new update-control extension that claims to let users pause Windows Update for years rather than days. Background / Overview Flyoobe evolved from the Flyby11 project — a compact utility originally designed to help technically confident users install Windows 11 on...

Microsoft quietly pushed two narrowly scoped but operationally important Dynamic Update packages on September 29, 2025: KB5066683 (a Setup Dynamic Update) and KB5066687 (a Safe OS / WinRE Dynamic Update) for Windows 11, version 24H2 and Windows Server 2025 — updates aimed at hardening setup and recovery flows ahead of the wider 25H2 rollout and the Secure Boot certificate lifecycle changes administrators must plan for. Background / Overview Dynamic Update is the Windows Setup mechanism that...