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Space42’s announcement at the Dubai World Congress marks a bold upgrade in the UAE’s mobility playbook: the company will build what it calls the nation’s first Sovereign Mobility Cloud, a sovereign-enabled platform powered by Core42’s Sovereign Public Cloud and Microsoft Azure that is intended to host HD mapping, fleet telematics, traffic management, digital twins and other critical services — all with data residency and regulatory compliance guaranteed inside the UAE. Background The UAE has...

Microsoft’s Photos app will now sort your messy camera roll for you — but only on select Windows machines and with a handful of important caveats. Background Microsoft announced an AI-powered Auto‑Categorization feature for the Windows 11 Microsoft Photos app in a Windows Insider post by senior product manager Ronnie Myers. The feature automatically scans a user’s local image library and groups items into four focused categories: Screenshots, Receipts, Identity documents, and Notes...

Microsoft’s new Auto‑Categorization for the Windows 11 Photos app begins a modest but practical assault on one of the most persistent annoyances of modern digital life: a chaotic photo library full of receipts, screenshots, IDs and scrawled notes. The feature—rolling out to Windows Insiders on Copilot+ PCs—uses on‑device AI to detect and sort images into four fixed categories (Screenshots, Receipts, Identity documents, and Notes), exposes them as a new Categories pane in Photos, and promises...

Microsoft’s last‑minute adjustment to the Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program gives European users a free, one‑year security lifeline — but it’s a tightly scoped concession with mandatory account ties, looming deadlines, and real trade‑offs that should shape how consumers and small organizations plan their next moves. Background / Overview Microsoft has set a firm end‑of‑support date for Windows 10: October 14, 2025, after which Home and Pro editions will no longer receive...

Microsoft’s decision to cease and disable a set of Azure cloud and AI services for a unit within Israel’s Ministry of Defense marks one of the most consequential corporate actions to date against alleged misuse of commercial cloud infrastructure for state surveillance and wartime targeting. Background In August 2025 a cross‑platform investigative project published allegations that Unit 8200 — the Israeli military’s signals intelligence arm analogous in remit to the U.S. National Security...

If you’re hauling ideas, quotes, links, or stray paragraphs into lists like a digital squirrel, two small utilities can make the job far less tedious: PopClip on macOS and SnipDo on Windows. Both extend the simple act of selecting text into a fast path for appending that text to notes, tasks, or other destinations — eliminating the repeated open‑app, find‑list, paste ritual that kills momentum. PopClip is the richer, better‑supported product with a mature extension ecosystem; SnipDo is an...

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Microsoft has rolled out an optional, non‑security preview update for Windows 11 version 23H2 — KB5065790 — delivering a compact set of targeted reliability fixes (SIM PIN sign‑in freezes, multi‑monitor RDP/docking crashes, Chinese IME rendering, print‑queue crashes and carrier profile updates) and a mitigation for an SMBv1/NetBT connectivity regression introduced in the September servicing window. Background / Overview Microsoft uses periodic optional "C" or preview releases to stage fixes...

If you booted into Windows 11 and a previously visible drive has vanished from File Explorer, the situation is alarming but usually fixable — and most often the culprit is one of a small set of issues: a physical connection or power fault, a missing drive letter or partition problem, a driver/firmware mismatch, or (less commonly) damage to the drive’s electronics or firmware. The practical roadmap below combines the clear, user‑facing steps promoted by leading how‑tos with deeper diagnostic...

Microsoft’s PowerToys is adding a long‑requested utility that finally fills a small but persistent gap in Windows 11 personalization: an automatic theme scheduler that flips Light and Dark modes by time, location, or both. The new Light Switch module (a.k.a. the PowerToys Theme Scheduler) lets you pick exact times or use local sunrise/sunset calculations to flip themes, and — crucially — it gives per‑surface control so you can choose whether system UI, apps, or both change when the switch...

Microsoft’s Photos app on Windows 11 is getting an AI-powered tidy-up that automatically scans your image library and groups clutter — screenshots, receipts, identity documents, and handwritten notes — into dedicated folders, and the capability is currently rolling out as a preview to Windows Insiders on Copilot+ PCs. Background Over the past year Microsoft has steadily expanded AI into Windows experiences, transforming the Photos app from a basic viewer into an image productivity surface...

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Microsoft’s Photos app on Windows 11 is getting a focused AI-driven cleanup: an Auto‑Categorization preview that scans your image library and automatically groups common paperwork and clutter — Screenshots, Receipts, Identity documents, and Handwritten notes — into their own folders, and the preview is rolling out to Windows Insiders on Copilot+ PCs. Background Microsoft has been steadily building AI into Windows applications and core services as part of its Copilot and Copilot+ initiative...

Google has quietly given Windows users a fast, desktop-native way to run Google searches — including Lens-powered image and on-screen text searches — without ever opening a browser, and the experimental app is free to try through Google Labs. Background Google’s new experimental offering, labeled Google app for Windows, is part of Search Labs and aims to bring a Spotlight-like search experience to Windows 10 and Windows 11. The app surfaces results from the web, your local files, installed...

Microsoft’s decision to “cease and disable” a set of Azure cloud and Azure AI subscriptions tied to a unit within Israel’s Ministry of Defense is an extraordinary enforcement step for a hyperscale cloud provider — and a clear inflection point for how the industry will govern military and intelligence customers in the AI era. The company’s internal review, prompted by investigative reporting that alleged large‑scale interception, storage and AI‑assisted processing of Palestinian phone calls...

President Trump’s public demand that Microsoft fire Lisa Monaco turned a corporate personnel hire into an immediate national‑security and corporate‑governance crisis, colliding executive power, federal contracting, and cloud policy in a single explosive moment. Background Lisa Monaco is a veteran national‑security lawyer with a long record in both the White House and the Justice Department, including service as United States Deputy Attorney General and earlier roles as homeland security...

Windows 10’s decade-long run is entering its final, formal chapter: Microsoft will stop providing routine security updates, feature and quality fixes, and standard technical support for most Windows 10 editions on October 14, 2025 — but the real story is a layered, pragmatic wind-down that leaves several important lifelines (Extended Security Updates, continued browser and app servicing, Defender definition updates) and a number of surprising conditions users must understand before they...

President Trump on Friday publicly demanded that Microsoft remove Lisa Monaco from her role as the company’s president of global affairs, tying his call to national‑security concerns about Microsoft’s government contracts and to recent company actions limiting some services to the Israel Ministry of Defense. Background Lisa Monaco is a career national‑security and Justice Department lawyer who served in senior roles in multiple administrations, including as homeland security adviser under...

Microsoft’s decision to “cease and disable” specific Azure cloud and AI subscriptions tied to a unit inside Israel’s Ministry of Defense has forced a public reckoning over how hyperscale cloud platforms, AI tooling, and intelligence work intersect — and it raises immediate, practical questions for IT leaders, procurement teams, and cloud architects about auditability, contractual guardrails, and the ethics of infrastructure neutrality. Background / Overview Microsoft announced an internal...

President Trump’s public demand that Microsoft fire Lisa Monaco, the company’s newly minted president of global affairs, thrusts modern corporate-government relations into the crosshairs of partisan politics and raises immediate questions about how a major technology vendor safeguards sensitive government relationships while protecting its business, employees, and legal obligations. Background Lisa Monaco is a seasoned national-security lawyer whose career spans senior roles in multiple...