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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...

TechRadar’s computing channel distills a sprawling, fast-moving world of laptops, desktops, peripherals and software into a single destination for readers trying to make the right buying, security and workflow decisions in an era defined by hybrid work and on‑device AI. Background / Overview TechRadar’s computing hub positions itself as a one‑stop shop for “news, reviews, guides and more” across traditional PC topics — laptops, desktops, MacBooks, Chromebooks, peripherals and software —...

Microsoft’s PowerToys is about to fill a longstanding personalization gap in Windows 11 by adding an official, first‑party module to automatically switch between Light and Dark themes on a schedule — a small feature with outsized user demand and a few important caveats to understand. Background Windows has long exposed two appearance controls — the System theme and the Apps theme — but it has lacked a straightforward, built‑in scheduler to flip those modes automatically at chosen times or at...

Proofpoint’s announcement at Protect 2025 that it will deploy Satori Agents and a suite of adjacent controls to secure the emerging “agentic workspace” marks one of the clearest vendor-level strategies yet for protecting workplaces where humans and autonomous AI agents collaborate directly. The offering bundles: on-platform AI agents that triage alerts and automate routine security work; a Model Context Protocol (MCP) gateway that mediates agent access to corporate data; expanded data...

President Donald Trump’s public demand that Microsoft fire Lisa Monaco — the company’s newly installed president of global affairs and a former senior Justice Department official — escalated a fraught intersection of politics, corporate governance, and national security this week, touching on Microsoft’s federal contracts, recent decisions to disable services to an Israeli military unit, and a presidential revocation of security clearances that now drives the public narrative. Background Who...

Pure Storage’s latest set of announcements reframes storage as a central enabler for enterprise AI by tying high‑performance flash, cloud‑native block services, and hardened cyber‑resilience features to the leading AI compute and software stacks from Nvidia and Microsoft. The company has integrated the NVIDIA AI Data Platform into its FlashBlade family, introduced Azure‑native managed block volumes that extend Pure’s data plane into Microsoft Azure, and expanded cyber‑recovery, logging, and...

Microsoft’s latest move to formalize an open agentic web stack for AI-driven automation marks a deliberate attempt to move autonomous agents from experiment to enterprise-grade production — and it rewrites several long‑standing rules about how businesses will build, govern, and scale AI workers. The announcement centers on Azure AI Foundry as the production runtime and orchestration plane, a protocol-first approach that embraces the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A)...

Microsoft’s decision to “cease and disable” a set of Azure cloud and AI subscriptions to an Israeli Ministry of Defense unit after a high‑profile investigation has forced a reckoning about what commercial cloud providers can — and must — do when sovereign customers appear to use powerful tools for mass surveillance of civilians. Background / Overview The controversy began with investigative reporting earlier this year that alleged that an Israeli military intelligence program — widely...

Microsoft’s latest push to collapse the calendar and complexity behind legacy-to-cloud migrations moves beyond marketing slogans: it stitches GitHub Copilot’s agentic app-modernization flows, Azure Migrate’s portfolio discovery and assessment, and the Azure Accelerate delivery/funding program into a single pipeline that promises to shrink months-long modernization projects into days for many applications. Background Enterprises are sitting on sprawling application portfolios with mounting...

President Trump’s public demand that Microsoft fire Lisa Monaco, the company’s president for global affairs, has opened a rare and volatile collision between the White House, Big Tech, national security policy, and corporate governance — unfolding amid Microsoft’s recent decision to restrict cloud services to an Israeli military unit and a larger U.S. government procurement deal that ties the company even closer to federal operations. Background Lisa Monaco joined Microsoft’s policy...

Minecraft is about to get a big splash of green — and orange, and every oxidized shade in between — as Mojang’s “Copper Age” game drop arrives with new copper gear, storage, decorative systems, and the long‑anticipated Copper Golem that promises to change how players manage bases and builds. Overview The Copper Age is the third major game drop of 2025 and centers on expanding copper from a decorative novelty into a functional, gameplay‑facing resource. Players will get a full copper...

Mexico’s AI moment arrived with a cascade of announcements this month: a US$4.8 billion data‑center bet in Querétaro that puts Mexico on the hyperscale map, a surge of AI adoption across Mexican workplaces, and strategic capital moves by Nvidia that reframe the global compute supply chain — including an up‑to‑US$100 billion commitment tied to OpenAI and a separate US$5 billion equity stake in Intel. These headlines are more than isolated corporate press releases; together they reveal how...

Anthropic’s latest expansion marks a sharp pivot from Silicon Valley scale-up to global enterprise platform, as the company moves to triple its international workforce, multiply its applied AI engineering teams, and push its Claude large language models deeper into corporate workflows worldwide. Background Anthropic launched in 2021 as a research-driven competitor to the earlier generation of large language model companies, quickly gaining notice for safety-focused research and a product...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s declaration that “the people of Bihar have to celebrate four Diwalis this time” crystallizes a compact campaign narrative rolled out across religion, welfare, fiscal policy, and electoral ambition—each “Diwali” a deliberately chosen signal aimed at different voter constituencies as the Bihar Assembly elections approach on the political calendar. Background Amit Shah spoke these words during an outreach trip to Bihar on September 27, 2025, a day after Prime...

Florida law enforcement and federal immigration authorities have reported a dramatic surge in interior enforcement activity: over the last five months officials say more than 6,000 people suspected of being in the United States without authorization were arrested in Florida, and state leaders announced nearly $30 million in federal reimbursements tied to immigration operations — developments that underline how state-level enforcement, federal funding incentives and the revived 287(g) model...

Setting up a new Windows PC should feel like opening a fresh notebook — clean, fast, and yours — but the out‑of‑the‑box Windows 11 experience often ships with features that intrude on privacy, performance, and focus. This feature unpacks the seven settings and behaviours many power users disable immediately, verifies the how‑to steps against official documentation and independent reporting, and weighs the real trade‑offs so you can decide which changes to make first. Background Windows 11...

The new Windows 11 Start menu arriving with the 24H2/25H2 rollout is the most significant redesign of Microsoft’s app launcher since Windows 11’s original release — and for many users it’s a clear usability win: a single, scrollable surface that consolidates Pinned, Recommended, and All apps; multiple “All apps” views that include grid and category modes; stronger user controls to hide Microsoft’s recommendations; and a built‑in mobile sidebar powered by Phone Link. Background / Overview...