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Steam’s September 2025 Hardware & Software Survey paints a decisive month for PC gaming: Windows 11 surged to a new high among Steam users while Nvidia’s midrange RTX 4060 family consolidated its position as the most common GPU, a combination that has immediate implications for gamers, developers, and PC hardware vendors alike. Background Valve’s monthly Steam Hardware & Software Survey is a voluntary, anonymized snapshot of the hardware and operating systems used by a rotating sample of...

When I first started using Linux, the hours spent reading man pages and tinkering with lightweight desktops taught me habits that quietly, but dramatically, reshaped how I now run Windows — turning it from a passive, preconfigured product into a lean, personal toolkit that works the way I do. Overview The shift described here is simple in principle and powerful in practice: borrow the Linux mindset — treat the operating system as a customizable toolkit, automate repetitive work, keep the...

Microsoft’s next push to make Windows “more intelligent” isn’t a UI tweak or a single app update — it’s a hardware-and-software architecture upgrade built around Neural Processing Units (NPUs) and a new device class called Copilot+ PCs that offloads AI inference to dedicated silicon, enabling genuinely low‑latency, on‑device AI experiences that change what the OS can do for users. Background / Overview Microsoft’s messaging for 2024–2025 shifted from “AI features” to an AI platform for...

Code.org and CSforALL have announced the Hour of AI, a global reboot of the celebrated Hour of Code campaign that refocuses the organization’s outreach on foundational AI literacy and aims to put students — and their teachers — in the driver’s seat of emerging generative technologies during the 2025 school year and beyond. Background and overview For more than a decade, the Hour of Code grew into a worldwide movement: one‑hour tutorials, classroom events, and community activations designed...

The Jaguars’ run game — a mix of stretch, power and misdirection — was the engine in the team’s recent film-room narratives, and the material provided shows a clear schematic plan: sustain combo blocks, manipulate defensive pursuit, and trust Travis Etienne Jr. to turn design into chunk plays. Background / Overview The uploaded film-room material frames Jacksonville’s ground success as deliberate, not accidental. The team’s video breakdown (and the independent film analysis contained in the...

The Synology DiskStation DS1825+ is a compact, versatile 8‑bay NAS that neatly bridges the gap between prosumer ambition and small‑business practicality — packing an AMD Ryzen V1500B CPU, ECC memory, dual 2.5GbE out‑of‑the‑box networking and an optional upgrade path to 10/25GbE while supporting up to 18 drives with expansion — a combination that makes it a serious contender for Windows‑centric households, creative studios, and SMBs seeking on‑prem performance and data control. Background...

Microsoft has quietly removed two long‑running compatibility safeguards that were preventing large groups of PCs from receiving the Windows 11 feature update path — and the change means Windows 11, version 25H2 (the 2025 Update) can now be offered to many machines that were previously blocked. Background / Overview Windows 11 feature updates are delivered in different forms: some are full re‑bases, while others are shipped as a small, fast‑install enablement package that merely activates...

Microsoft moved to contain an unusual Insider-program snafu after a recent preview build quietly removed features from testers’ PCs — then shipped a remedial configuration update and temporarily paused further flights while engineers investigate the cause. Background / Overview The Windows Insider Program has for years been Microsoft’s primary channel for previewing and shaping upcoming Windows features with community feedback. Over the last few release cycles Microsoft has combined...

Microsoft has quietly — and deliberately — given the icons that millions of people rely on every day a fresh, more fluid look, with new Microsoft 365 icons rolling out as part of a broader visual push that ties Office app identity to the company’s Copilot AI story. Background / Overview The last major Office icon refresh landed in 2018; the 2025 update is the most significant visual change to Microsoft 365 (formerly Office) iconography since then and is being framed internally as more than a...

Onlive Server’s latest push into Australia signals an aggressive expansion of its bare‑metal and dedicated hosting catalogue — the vendor’s OpenPR announcement and corresponding product pages claim Sydney‑based dedicated servers with options such as 250 Mbps or 1 Gbps connectivity, processors ranging from AMD Ryzen 5 and EPYC to Intel Xeon Gold, and high‑capacity storage choices up to 6×3.84 TB SSD — all positioned as low‑latency, compliance‑ready hosting for Australian and APAC customers...

Capcom has quietly put the onus on players: as of October 14, 2025, Monster Hunter: Wilds, Monster Hunter Rise, and Monster Hunter: World are no longer guaranteed to run on Windows 10, and Capcom will not investigate or support post‑EOL compatibility issues for those systems. Background Microsoft will end mainstream support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. After that date the operating system will continue to run, but it will no longer receive feature updates, quality fixes, or free...

Microsoft’s one‑year consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Windows 10 has bought time — but it has not ended the political, environmental, or technical dispute over whether an OS vendor can, by changing support timelines and hardware gates, effectively force working machines into early retirement and generate massive additional e‑waste. Environmental groups such as Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) called Microsoft’s limited extension “pure window dressing,” warning that tens or hundreds of...

The Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 beta went live this week—and within hours a widespread launch blocker had already surfaced: players who should have Early Access are being refused entry with a blunt message that reads, “You don’t have access to the content.” The error has appeared across PC and console platforms, and it’s not a localized hiccup: the problem has been reported by many pre-order customers and codeholders, acknowledged in community channels, and has prompted a flurry of workaround...

OneDrive keeps files in sync so reliably that many users forget it’s running — but when you need to stop syncing, switch accounts, or secure a shared device, signing out is quick and reversible if you follow the right steps and precautions. Background / Overview OneDrive integrates deeply with Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS to provide seamless file sync and folder backup across devices. That integration is convenient, but it also means a simple sign‑out can have side effects you should...

Microsoft’s Office icons have received their first sweeping visual refresh since 2018, a deliberate redesign that ties the suite’s visual language to the company’s Copilot identity and signals a broader shift toward AI‑forward productivity across Windows, web and mobile. Background / Overview Microsoft last overhauled the Office icon set in 2018. That redesign introduced a flatter, more geometric style intended to work across desktop and mobile, but the software landscape has changed...

Microsoft’s latest change to Copilot’s account model hands employees a sanctioned shortcut to run personal Copilot subscriptions against work documents — a practical convenience that simultaneously creates a new, hard-to-detect vector of shadow IT for security, compliance, and procurement teams to manage. The company has formalized this behavior under a controlled capability called “Multiple account access to Copilot for work and school documents,” and while Microsoft provides administrative...

Amazon’s managed DataSync service now supports Kerberos authentication for SMB file locations, giving Windows-heavy environments a practical path away from NTLM and toward stronger, mutual authentication when moving on‑premises file shares to AWS for analytics, migration, or archive workflows. This feature adds native support for supplying a Kerberos principal, a keytab, and a krb5.conf mapping so the DataSync agent can obtain tickets from your Key Distribution Center (KDC) and authenticate...

In a move that reshapes Microsoft’s top‑level operating model for the AI era, Satya Nadella announced that Judson Althoff will become CEO of Microsoft’s commercial business, consolidating sales, marketing and operations under a single leader while Nadella refocuses on technical priorities such as datacenter buildout, systems architecture and advanced AI work. Background / Overview Microsoft’s October 1 internal memo and company blog framed the change as a structural response to what Nadella...

Azure’s Data API Builder promises to turn databases into production-ready HTTP APIs — both REST and GraphQL — with minimal code and near-immediate developer velocity, but the tool’s real value depends on matching expectations to backend capabilities, security controls, and operational discipline. Background Azure has spent years productizing internal developer patterns into outward-facing services, and Data API Builder (DAB) is one of the clearest examples: a configuration-first runtime that...

Capcom has quietly moved a hard support line into the Monster Hunter roadmap: beginning October 14, 2025, the publisher will no longer guarantee that Monster Hunter: World, Monster Hunter Rise, and Monster Hunter Wilds will run correctly on PCs still using Windows 10 — and it will not investigate new Windows‑10‑specific problems that crop up after Microsoft’s official end‑of‑support date. Background / Overview Microsoft’s lifecycle page and support documentation make the calendar date plain...