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Permiso’s new open-source tool P0LR Espresso is aimed squarely at the weakest link in cloud defense that most SOCs quietly tolerate: inconsistent, provider-specific log formats that slow investigations and obscure identity-based signals at the moment they matter most. The SiliconANGLE report describes P0LR Espresso as a normalization and live-response interface that collapses vendor log structures into a consistent schema — unifying identity, IP, user agent and action fields — and presenting...

If you've ever stared at a black or blank screen and felt your heart sink because the only copy of your photos, tax forms, or that novel-in-progress lives on the dead machine in front of you, the message is simple and urgent: don't wait. External drives are one of the fastest, easiest, and most cost-effective ways to protect your data from the "blank screen of death"—and picking the right one, and pairing it with a sensible backup strategy, will save you time, money, and grief. Background...

You’ve unboxed a brand‑new PC and now need to turn it into a working Windows machine — this guide walks you through creating installation media, meeting Windows 11 hardware checks, doing a clean or in‑place install, and options for migrating your old system without reinstalling apps and settings. Background / Overview Setting up a new PC with Windows 11 is straightforward — if your hardware matches Microsoft’s requirements and you prepare the right installation media. Windows 11 enforces...

Microsoft has begun shipping Windows 11 version 25H2 as a small enablement package for up‑to‑date 24H2 machines and as full ISO media for imaging and clean installs — a release that is functionally identical at the binary level to 24H2 but important because it resets Microsoft’s support clock and provides canonical installation media for IT teams and system builders. Background / Overview Windows 11 version 25H2 follows the enablement‑package model Microsoft has used in recent annual...

Microsoft appears to be testing a dedicated, photos‑first OneDrive app for Windows 11 that opens into a Gallery view, bundles new photo‑editing and organizing tools, and surfaces Copilot‑powered file actions directly in the browsing interface — a leak that suggests Microsoft is evolving OneDrive from a passive sync service into an active media and productivity surface. Background / Overview Microsoft has steadily repositioned OneDrive in recent years: from a background sync engine tied to...

Microsoft Edge is quietly being rebuilt around Copilot: recent tests show you can now point the browser’s AI at the tabs you have open — literally sending those tabs into a Copilot conversation — and Microsoft is preparing a complementary feature called Journeys that would summarize days of your browsing activity, a capability that, in early previews, asks for up to seven days of history to “jump‑start” the experience. Background / Overview Microsoft has been explicit about a long‑term plan...

OpenAI’s invite‑only Sora app has rocketed into the public conversation after third‑party telemetry put its install count at roughly 164,000 in the first 48 hours, a surge that vaulted the app into the U.S. App Store’s top rankings — although outlets differ on whether it briefly reached No. 1 or No. 3. Background Sora is OpenAI’s mobile‑first experiment in short‑form, generative video and audio, shipping with a model family branded Sora 2 and a social product surface that frames creation...

Backbone’s latest move leans hard into style: two limited-edition colorways — a Mauve (pink) Backbone Pro and a Dream Purple Backbone One — will be sold exclusively through Target, with online availability scheduled for October 5 and a store rollout on October 6 while supplies last. The Pro carries its usual $169.99 MSRP, the One stays the more affordable $99.99, and the drop packages Backbone’s already well‑received hardware with seasonal, pastel finishes aimed squarely at the...

If you’re not ready to move to Windows 11, you can keep receiving security updates for Windows 10 for one more year—at no charge in many cases—provided you enroll in Microsoft’s Extended Security Updates (ESU) program by the October 14, 2025 end-of-support deadline and follow the enrollment steps Microsoft now requires. Background: what’s changing and why it matters Microsoft will stop mainstream support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. That means the OS will no longer receive regular...

With less than two weeks on the clock before Microsoft’s declared end-of-support date for Windows 10, a widening coalition of consumer advocates, repair groups and environmental campaigners is mounting a high-profile push to delay or reshape the cutoff — arguing that the company’s current Extended Security Updates (ESU) plan will leave hundreds of millions of perfectly serviceable PCs unpatched, force unnecessary replacements, and generate a historic surge in electronic waste. Background...

ExplorerPatcher’s latest maintenance update patches a brittle weather integration and a long list of Windows 11 compatibility headaches — but it also underlines the fragile, high‑risk trade-offs inherent in low‑level shell mods that rely on external web content, private OS internals, and heuristic‑sensitive hooking libraries. Background ExplorerPatcher is an open‑source modding utility that hooks into the Windows shell (explorer.exe) to restore classic Windows 10 behaviors: a legacy Start...

Microsoft’s long-term roadmap for Windows is no longer just feature updates and UI tweaks — it’s built around on-device AI agents that can take actions for you, reduce clicking and typing, and reshuffle how software is built and composed on the PC. In recent messaging from Microsoft executives and product teams, the company has doubled down on that vision: Windows will lean on dedicated Neural Processing Units (NPUs) inside a new class of “Copilot+ PCs,” run lightweight local models like...

Goldman Sachs’ data chief delivered a blunt diagnosis on the bank’s Exchanges podcast: the era of easy, human‑generated training data for frontier AI models is effectively over, and the industry faces a structural choice about how to feed the next generation of systems. This is not hyperbole — it’s a practical warning with measurable evidence behind it, and it has immediate consequences for enterprise IT, Windows administrators, developers, and anyone who plans to rely on generative AI as a...

Microsoft’s latest expansion of Microsoft Sentinel pivots the product from a cloud-native SIEM into what the company calls an agentic security platform, combining a unified security data lake, graph-driven context, and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to power AI agents and no-code Security Copilot workflows — a move designed to centralize telemetry, speed investigations, and let agents act across both Microsoft and third‑party tools. Background Microsoft announced general availability...

Microsoft’s decision to raise Xbox Game Pass Ultimate from $19.99 to $29.99 a month — a 50% jump that rolled in partner perks like Fortnite Crew and a promise of “75+ day‑one releases” — has turned what was widely billed as gaming’s best-value subscription into a contested experiment in platform economics and subscriber psychology. Background / Overview Since its 2017 launch, Xbox Game Pass has been positioned as a loss‑leader platform play: a rotating game catalog, day‑one first‑party...

The manufacturing sector is undergoing a seismic shift as AI, cloud platforms and digital‑thread approaches converge to remake how products are designed, validated and delivered—reducing downtime, accelerating time‑to‑market and opening new routes to resilience and scale. Background Manufacturing has long balanced enormous capital investments and extended asset lifecycles with the need to innovate. Recent years have seen a migration away from isolated, file‑based engineering workflows toward...

Microsoft has quietly restored a small but widely requested taskbar behavior: you can now open the Notification Center and calendar flyout from a secondary display in Windows 11, and the calendar flyout can optionally show a larger clock with seconds — delivered as part of the non‑security preview update KB5065789 for Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2. Background For users who run multi‑monitor setups, the Windows 11 taskbar has been a frequent point of friction. In earlier Windows 11 builds...

Microsoft is quietly testing a free, ad-supported tier of Xbox Cloud Gaming that would let non-subscribers stream certain games after watching short ad breaks — a move that could reshape how Microsoft monetizes cloud play and where cloud gaming fits in the broader streaming ecosystem. Background Xbox Cloud Gaming began as a key pillar of Microsoft’s push to make Xbox content available on any screen, bundled primarily with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and later broadened to other Game Pass tiers...

Microsoft’s Windows engineering teams have been reunified under a single organizational umbrella and, in the same breath, a controversial report has surfaced claiming Microsoft 365 Copilot has only about 8 million paying subscribers — developments that together cast a long shadow over Microsoft’s AI-first strategy and raise urgent questions about execution, monetization, and the future direction of Windows as an AI platform. Background In late September 2025, Microsoft circulated an internal...

Lenovo’s follow-up to the original Legion Go reshapes the Windows handheld category by prioritizing display quality, battery capacity, and ergonomics — but it does so at a much higher price and with trade-offs that matter to enthusiasts who value upgradability and long session battery life. Background / Overview Lenovo launched the first Legion Go as a bold experiment in modular, Windows-powered handhelds: an 8.8-inch touchscreen with detachable controllers, Hall-effect joysticks to limit...