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OpenAI’s invite‑only Sora app rocketed into the U.S. App Store’s Top Overall chart within 48 hours of its iOS debut, recording tens of thousands of estimated installs on day one and signaling that AI video generation may already be the next mainstream battleground for consumer attention. Background / Overview OpenAI launched Sora as a mobile‑first, social‑style playground for short, AI‑generated clips — driven by its new Sora 2 model and wrapped in a TikTok‑like swipe feed and a consented...

PAGCOR’s recent, agency-wide orientation on Microsoft Copilot signalled a clear pivot: harness the measurable productivity gains of generative AI while making accountability, data protection and governance the non-negotiable centrepieces of any rollout. Background / Overview The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) ran a virtual Copilot orientation on 30 September that brought nearly 100 staff from corporate and branch offices together to learn what Copilot can do—and...

Capcom has quietly shifted the burden of compatibility onto players: as Microsoft’s Windows 10 reaches its formal end of support on October 14, 2025, Capcom says it “will no longer guarantee” that Monster Hunter: World, Monster Hunter Rise, and Monster Hunter Wilds will run on Windows 10 systems — and if issues appear after that date, the company’s ability to investigate or fix them will be limited. Background / Overview Microsoft has set a firm, non‑negotiable date for Windows 10’s end of...

Microsoft will stop supplying security patches, quality updates and standard technical support for most Windows 10 editions on October 14, 2025 — and the choice every remaining Windows 10 PC owner faces is now binary: upgrade, buy a temporary safety net, or accept rising security and compatibility risk. Background Windows 10 arrived in 2015 and has been Microsoft's dominant desktop platform for the better part of a decade. The company set a firm end-of-support date for mainstream Windows 10...

Microsoft’s public roadmap for AI hardware just shifted from “partner-first” pragmatism toward a clear, long-term bet on in‑house silicon — and that matters for every Windows admin, Azure customer, and datacenter architect who pays the GPU bill. At Italian Tech Week, Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott said the company wants to run “mainly Microsoft chips” in its AI data centers, while also acknowledging Microsoft will continue to use NVIDIA and AMD where they deliver the best price-performance today...

Cloudflare’s latest push to give publishers more control over how their content is used by AI systems marks a significant turning point in the long-running tussle between website owners, search engines, and the new generation of AI crawlers. The company’s new Content Signals Policy — layered on top of robots.txt — plus related tools such as AI Crawl Control, pay‑per‑crawl, and tighter bot management options, are designed to let site operators declare, enforce, and even monetize how automated...

OpenAI’s Sora 2 has arrived — a leap in generative video that pairs startling realism with a social app built to make your face the raw material for short, viral clips — and the implications cut across creativity, safety, and law like a lightning strike. Background / Overview OpenAI unveiled Sora 2 and a companion iOS app on September 30, 2025, positioning the release as a candidate for the next “GPT moment” for video: a sudden, qualitative jump in capability and adoption. The Sora 2 model...

Theta Lake’s latest AI Governance and Inspection Suite brings capture, inspection, and retention controls tailored to generative assistants — explicitly calling out Microsoft Copilot and Zoom AI Companion — promising to close a fast-growing compliance gap for regulated organisations that are adopting AI-powered meeting notetakers and summarisation tools. Background Regulated industries have been wrestling with a new compliance vector: AI-generated content. Meeting summaries, assistant...

PAGCOR’s recent, agency‑wide orientation on Microsoft Copilot signalled a deliberate move: the regulator is not only experimenting with generative AI for productivity gains but is explicitly trying to frame that experimentation inside governance, data protection and operational controls before broad deployment. Background The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) oversees licensing, compliance and enforcement across a sector that processes large volumes of personally...

Valve's latest stable Steam client update landed quietly but carries a lot more than bug squashes — it ships an explicit End of Life alert for 32‑bit Windows hosts, a targeted mitigation for a recently disclosed Unity vulnerability, and a string of platform fixes and improvements that matter to both Windows and Linux gamers alike. For anyone still clinging to 32‑bit Windows 10, the message is blunt: the Steam client will stop receiving updates for 32‑bit Windows on January 1, 2026, so...

Microsoft’s practical lifeline for millions of Windows 10 users is shorter and simpler than many headlines suggested: you can extend security-only updates for one year after Windows 10’s end-of-support date by enrolling in the consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program — and in most markets that can be done instantly and at no cash cost if your PC meets the prerequisites. Background / Overview Windows 10’s official end-of-support date is a hard calendar milestone: after October 14...

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 10 reaches its end of support on October 14, 2025, a fixed lifecycle milestone that stops routine security patches, feature updates and standard technical support for mainstream Windows 10 editions — and headlines suggesting “1.4 billion PCs become useless” mix fact, exaggeration and ambiguity about who is actually affected. Background / Overview Microsoft launched Windows 10 in July 2015 and kept it on a long maintenance schedule; the company’s official...

Windows 11 can be installed without the usual preinstalled apps and telemetry-heavy extras, but doing so cleanly and safely requires a mix of the right tools, careful preparation, and an honest appraisal of the trade‑offs: you can substantially reduce “bloatware” at install time using tools like Flyoobe, Rufus (with its extended installer options), or community builders such as Tiny11, but each approach changes upgradeability, support and security posture in measurable ways. Background /...

Windows’ Fast Startup is one of those features that promises convenience but delivers mixed results in the real world — and for many users the right choice is to turn it off. The feature speeds cold boot times by preserving a partial system state to disk instead of performing a full kernel cold boot, but that hybrid shutdown behavior can interfere with updates, dual‑boot setups, firmware access, certain drivers, and even sleep/battery behavior. Practical troubleshooting guides and community...

Microsoft has quietly — but deliberately — given the icons that millions rely on every day a brighter, more fluid look: a full Microsoft 365 icon refresh that ties the suite’s visual identity to Copilot and signals a broader shift toward AI‑first productivity across web, desktop, and mobile. Background / Overview Microsoft’s Office and Microsoft 365 icons were last overhauled in 2018; this 2025 update is the largest visual change to the core app marks since then and arrives as Copilot moves...

Microsoft’s Microsoft 365 icons have been quietly — but deliberately — redesigned, swapping the blocky, geometric look that defined the 2018 refresh for softer, folded shapes and richer gradients that align visually with the company’s Copilot branding and its broader AI-first positioning. Background Microsoft last performed a sweeping update to Office’s core app icons in 2018; the new set introduced this autumn is the first full redesign of that scale since then. The change covers the...

Microsoft's latest OneDrive leak paints the clearest picture yet of where Microsoft wants file storage and photo experiences to sit inside Windows: a modern, photo-first interface that borrows heavily from Windows 11 visuals while leaning on web-based delivery models that the company has been pushing across its app portfolio. Background / Overview Microsoft’s OneDrive client has been through periodic refreshes over the years, most notably the OneDrive 3.0 wave that surfaced in late 2023 and...

The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation’s recent agency-wide orientation on Microsoft Copilot is a pragmatic first step in a delicate balancing act: harnessing AI for productivity while protecting highly sensitive regulatory and player data in a tightly regulated industry. The online session, delivered as a Microsoft Copilot Chat Masterclass during Development Policy Research Month, introduced staff to Copilot’s drafting, summarization, and idea-generation capabilities while...

British Airways’ latest technology push is a full-throttle attempt to turn years of operational pain into a data-driven, AI-enabled airline — and the results so far show both impressive gains and clear new risks that every CIO, operations leader and IT professional should study closely. Background British Airways has launched an ambitious, multi-billion-pound modernization program that rethinks how the carrier runs flights, maintains aircraft, serves customers and manages IT. The program is...

Microsoft has confirmed that support for Windows 10 will end on October 14, 2025 — meaning no more feature updates, no more routine security patches, and no routine technical support after that date — although a limited bridge for security updates is available through a new Extended Security Updates (ESU) program and a handful of Microsoft services will continue receiving protections beyond that cutoff. Background Microsoft launched Windows 10 in 2015 and supported it with regular feature...