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I turned a messy collection of movies, TV shows, ripped CDs, and phone photos into a single, Netflix‑style hub on a Windows 11 PC using Plex Media Server — and the process is straightforward enough that many enthusiasts can replicate it today, while also avoiding the security and performance pitfalls that trip up first‑time server builders. Background / Overview Plex is two things: a free, polished client experience (apps on smart TVs, phones, tablets, and PCs) that also includes...

Pennsylvania officials and local groups have joined a broader U.S. campaign pressing Microsoft to reverse or soften its plan to end routine, automatic security updates for Windows 10—arguing the move will expose millions of machines to cyber risk, force premature hardware replacement, and accelerate electronic waste across schools, nonprofits and households that cannot upgrade to Windows 11. The push—led nationally by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) and amplified by state...

Windows 10 reaches a hard, non‑negotiable end of support on October 14, 2025 — and if your PC is still running the platform, you have a narrow, high‑priority set of choices to keep that machine secure, compliant, and useful. Background / Overview Microsoft has set the official end‑of‑support date for Windows 10 as October 14, 2025. After that date Microsoft will no longer provide routine feature updates, quality fixes, or the standard stream of security patches for consumer Windows 10...

Microsoft has quietly pushed KB5068004 — a Windows Update component that installs NVIDIA TensorRT‑RTX Execution Provider version 1.8.14.0 onto qualifying Copilot+ RTX PCs running Windows 11, version 24H2, and it arrives as an automatic, system‑level update that requires the latest 24H2 cumulative update to be present before installation. Background / Overview Windows 11’s on‑device AI story now relies on a modular Execution Provider (EP) model: a system‑managed ONNX Runtime dispatches model...

Firefox’s tab bar has quietly continued its long evolution — gently curved, visually “floated” above the toolbar, and increasingly tuned to the aesthetics of modern Windows — and the result is a UI that actually feels at home on Windows 11. What started as a broad redesign in 2021 has been refined across subsequent releases (including major tab-management upgrades in 2025), and when you pair Firefox’s rounded, detached tabs with Windows 11’s Fluent geometry and Mica material the alignment is...

Notepad’s quiet, utilitarian charm is being remixed: the app that once opened in a blink and offered nothing but raw text now sports Markdown-style formatting, tabs, session restore, spellchecking and built-in generative AI — and those additions change how you use a plain-text editor without making the classic experience impossible to get back. Background / Overview Notepad arrived as a minimal text utility decades ago and stayed true to that mission for years: tiny binary, instant launch...

OpenAI’s new Sora app rocketed into the public eye this week, racking up tens of thousands of installs in its first 48 hours and briefly reaching the top of Apple’s U.S. App Store — a debut that both confirms strong consumer demand for AI-generated short video and exposes immediate operational, legal, and technical governance challenges for platforms, creators, and enterprises. Background / Overview OpenAI shipped Sora as a mobile-first experiment in short-form generative video, pairing a...

Microsoft has begun rolling out KB5067990, a targeted Windows Update component that delivers the Intel OpenVINO Execution Provider (version 1.8.15.0) to Copilot+ PCs running Windows 11, version 24H2, a package Microsoft describes simply as “improvements to the OpenVINO Execution Provider AI component.” This component installs automatically through Windows Update once a device has the latest 24H2 cumulative update, and it will appear in Settings → Windows Update → Update history as 2025-09...

Microsoft has quietly pushed KB5068002, a targeted Windows Update that refreshes the AMD Vitis AI Execution Provider to version 1.8.25.0 for eligible Copilot+ PCs running Windows 11, version 24H2, delivering a compact—but consequential—component update for on‑device AI acceleration. Background / Overview The Vitis AI Execution Provider (Vitis AI EP) is AMD’s runtime and tooling that allows ONNX‑based models to offload inference to AMD accelerators — from Ryzen AI NPUs in client APUs to...

Microsoft has quietly pushed KB5067994, an AI component update that advances the Qualcomm QNN Execution Provider used by ONNX Runtime to version 1.8.13.0 for Copilot+ PCs running Windows 11, version 24H2 — a targeted, per‑silicon runtime refresh delivered automatically through Windows Update that promises incremental improvements to hardware‑accelerated on‑device AI on Qualcomm Snapdragon platforms. Background / Overview The QNN Execution Provider (QNN EP) is the ONNX Runtime plugin that...

PAGCOR’s recent agency-wide Copilot masterclass framed AI not as a silver-bullet productivity hack but as an organisational change problem that must be married to governance, data protection and enforceable admin controls. Background / Overview In a virtual session delivered during Development Policy Research Month, the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) ran an online orientation on Microsoft Copilot that brought nearly 100 staff together to explore practical productivity...

OpenAI’s new AI video app Sora soared into the top of the U.S. App Store within days of its invite‑only launch, registering tens of thousands of downloads in its first 48 hours and briefly claiming the No. 1 free app slot — a blistering debut that both validates consumer curiosity for text‑to‑video tools and raises urgent questions about copyright, likeness protections, and platform safety. Background Sora is OpenAI’s standalone mobile client for its text‑to‑video model, branded as Sora 2...

Windows gamers are waking up to a blunt reality: the Steam Hardware & Software Survey shows roughly one in three Steam-connected PCs still run Windows 10, and Microsoft’s formal end-of-support deadline is less than two weeks away — a convergence that sharpens security, compatibility, and fraud risks for a significant slice of the gaming community. The shorthand headlines — “somewhere between a third and a half” — overstate a precise number, but they capture an essential truth: a large and...

Treyarch quietly slipped a new Dark Ops Calling Card into the Black Ops 7 beta — and it’s one of the more straightforward, but surprisingly easy-to-miss rewards available to multiplayer players during the test window. Background The Black Ops 7 beta is running in two phases: an Early Access period limited to pre-orders and qualifying Game Pass subscribers, followed by an Open Beta window that opens to all players. Treyarch and Activision are using the beta both as a technical stress test and...

Windows 10 reaches its official end of support on October 14, 2025 — after that date Microsoft will stop shipping regular OS security updates, quality fixes, and standard technical support for mainstream Windows 10 editions unless a device is covered by an approved extension program. Background / Overview Microsoft set a fixed lifecycle for Windows 10 and announced that version 22H2 (the last major feature release for Windows 10 consumer SKUs) will no longer receive routine servicing after...

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ChromeOS and Windows no longer sit on opposite ends of a simple “light vs heavy” spectrum — in 2025 the debate is about use cases, deployment scale, and where efficiency matters more than raw throughput. The data and tests published this year show Chromebooks closing gaps on day‑to‑day responsiveness while Windows keeps its edge for native, high‑power local workloads; but the details matter, and the right choice increasingly depends on whether an organization or user prioritizes...

Microsoft’s decision to end mainstream support for Windows 10 has shifted from a distant event to an immediate policy flashpoint — and local coverage of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG)‑led campaign calling the “End of 10” troubling captures why the debate now mixes cybersecurity, privacy, and environmental policy in ways that matter to everyday Windows users. Background / Overview Microsoft has published a firm lifecycle cutoff: Windows 10 (including Home, Pro, Enterprise...

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint began issuing persistent, misleading “BIOS update” alerts for many Dell systems on October 2, 2025 — a false‑positive caused by a code defect in Defender’s vulnerability‑fetching logic that Microsoft says has been identified and for which a corrective patch has been prepared for deployment. Background / Overview Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is an enterprise‑grade extended detection and response (XDR) platform that combines antivirus, EDR, and vulnerability...

Electronic Arts and DICE have locked in a single, global drop for Battlefield 6: the game goes live on October 10, 2025, with a coordinated worldwide unlock that puts the full game into players’ hands at 8:00 a.m. Pacific / 11:00 a.m. Eastern (local conversions for other regions are provided below). This launch is identical across platforms — PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Windows PC (EA App, Steam, and Epic Games Store) — and comes after a widely watched Open Beta and months of...