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Microsoft’s push to make on-device AI a first-class citizen on Windows hit a significant milestone with the general availability of Windows ML, a system-managed inferencing runtime designed to make it dramatically easier for developers to ship AI features that run efficiently across CPUs, GPUs and NPUs on Windows 11 devices. Background / Overview Windows ML arrives as Microsoft’s answer to a persistent developer problem: how to deliver performant, private and consistent AI experiences across...

OpenAI’s refresh of Codex — now branded and promoted as GPT‑5‑Codex — is a deliberate pivot toward making AI agents practical teammates for software engineering, not just clever autocomplete. The update stitches together faster interactive pairing, longer-running autonomous project work, and tighter integrations across terminals, IDEs, cloud sandboxes, GitHub, and mobile, promising meaningful developer productivity gains while raising fresh questions about reliability, governance, and cost...

Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer a curiosity — it’s a built-in assistant, a paid enterprise tool, and an arms‑length feature in Windows and Office that many users will encounter whether they actively sought it or not. Background / Overview Microsoft uses the single brand name Copilot for a family of AI assistants that span the operating system, web browser, Microsoft 365 apps, and standalone mobile/desktop experiences. At a high level there are two related products to understand: Windows...

Law firms that once greeted generative AI with skepticism are being won over not by flashy demos but by a pragmatic combination of clear governance, focused pilots, executive sponsorship, and internal “champions” who translate promise into defensible practice. Background The legal profession’s reaction to generative AI has followed a recognizably conservative arc: curiosity and experimentation, followed by pockets of frequent ad‑hoc use, and now a push toward governed, auditable deployment...

South Africans report high familiarity with artificial intelligence and near‑ubiquitous everyday use, but they remain cautious about delegating high‑stakes decisions to machines — and the gap between convenience and trust could shape business strategy, regulation and workplace practice across the country. Background / Overview The latest coverage of an infoQuest survey, published in national outlets, paints a picture of a South African public that knows AI, uses AI, and nevertheless...

The U.S. House of Representatives has quietly reversed a year‑and‑a‑half‑old prohibition on Microsoft Copilot, approving a pilot rollout that will put Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Chat into the hands of thousands of House staffers — a move that signals both a major vote of confidence for Microsoft’s AI stack and a pivotal moment for government adoption of generative AI. Background Last year the House Office of Cybersecurity barred staff from using Microsoft Copilot after security...

Microsoft has confirmed that it has ceased and disabled a set of cloud and AI services provided to a unit within Israel’s Ministry of Defense after an internal review found evidence consistent with media reporting alleging the misuse of Azure for large-scale civilian surveillance. Background In early August, investigative reporting raised a global alarm by alleging that an Israeli military intelligence unit had used Microsoft Azure to store and process recordings and metadata from millions...

Windows 11 version 25H2 is now rolling out as an enablement package and official ISOs have appeared on Microsoft’s servers, but installing the release on machines that don’t meet Microsoft’s strict hardware checks still requires one of several community workarounds — each with trade-offs in safety, reliability, and future update eligibility. This guide explains what’s changed in 25H2, why many unsupported‑PC methods continue to work (and why some don’t), and gives clear, step‑by‑step options...

Microsoft’s last‑minute reversal means consumers inside the European Economic Area (EEA) can now claim a free, one‑year stream of Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) without the previously announced requirement to enable Windows Backup or redeem Microsoft Rewards — a narrowly scoped concession that preserves access to critical security patches through October 13, 2026 while exposing a raft of operational, privacy, and policy trade‑offs. Background / Overview Microsoft set a fixed...

Microsoft’s Surface Pro 12-inch has arrived in India as a compact, Copilot+‑capable 2‑in‑1 and—for a limited time—comes with a free Surface Pro Keyboard when pre‑ordered, positioning Microsoft squarely in the premium tablet market ahead of the festive buying season. Overview Microsoft has opened Indian pre‑orders for the Surface Pro 12‑inch (2025), a redesigned compact Surface that targets productivity users who want a true tablet‑first device that can double as a laptop. The device ships as...

Cloud HQ’s US$4.8 billion commitment to a six‑building data center campus in Querétaro and Nvidia’s headline-grabbing capital moves — a US$5 billion stake in Intel and an up-to‑US$100 billion partnership with OpenAI — are not isolated headlines; they are connected beats in a single global story: capital, compute, and control are consolidating around AI infrastructure, and Mexico has just stepped closer to the center of that map. Background Mexico’s private sector and policymakers are...

Windows 11 version 25H2 is rolling out with ISOs and enablement packages now available on Microsoft’s servers, and while upgrades from Windows 11 24H2 are mostly frictionless, installing 25H2 on unsupported hardware still requires deliberate workarounds, careful preparation, and an acceptance of future risks. This guide unpacks the practical methods people are using today — the official enablement path, the in-place “server” trick, community tools such as Flyoobe, and Rufus-driven clean...

Microsoft has confirmed it has “ceased and disabled a set of services to a unit within the Israel Ministry of Defense,” after an expanded corporate review found evidence supporting elements of investigative reporting that linked Microsoft Azure and Azure AI services to the storage and analysis of large volumes of intercepted Palestinian communications. Background / Overview In early August 2025 a consortium of investigative reporters published a detailed series of articles alleging that an...

This is the moment to treat your Windows 11 migration not as an off‑cycle chore but as a strategic modernization program: the clock is running toward the Windows 10 end‑of‑support deadline, and organizations that move with a disciplined, metrics‑driven plan can turn compliance into a measurable competitive advantage. Background The calendar fact that anchors any migration plan is unambiguous: Microsoft will end routine support and security updates for mainstream Windows 10 editions on...

Windows 10’s official retirement is now a hard deadline on the calendar — October 14, 2025 — and that shift from “supported” to “unsupported” changes how your PC should be treated, secured, and upgraded. Background / Overview Windows 10 launched in 2015 and served as Microsoft’s primary desktop operating system for a decade. Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 (Home, Pro, Enterprise, Education, IoT Enterprise, and related LTSB editions) will reach end of support on October 14, 2025...

Windows can be pushed toward “mostly immutable,” but achieving that feeling of an unbreakable PC on a consumer machine takes trade-offs, careful tooling, and a willingness to accept brittleness where convenience once lived. Background / Overview Immutability in operating systems means separating the mutable surface — user files, settings, and ephemeral workloads — from the immutable core: OS binaries, system libraries, and platform configuration. Projects such as NixOS and Fedora Silverblue...

Microsoft's reversal on Windows 10 support hands European consumers another year of critical security updates — but the fix comes with strings attached, geographic limits, and lingering privacy and operational trade-offs that every Windows user should evaluate before deciding whether to stay put or move on. Background Microsoft announced that Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025, with Extended Security Updates (ESU) available to give consumers and businesses more time to...

Microsoft’s guidance that several Secure Boot certificates issued in 2011 will begin expiring in mid‑2026 has become an operational imperative: organizations and power users must prepare now to accept the new 2023 certificate family, or risk losing the ability to receive pre‑OS security fixes and to trust newly signed boot components. Microsoft will attempt to deliver these updates via Windows Update for many devices that are managed by Microsoft and sharing diagnostic data, but the update...

Proofpoint’s latest product wave is a direct answer to a single, urgent reality: work is no longer only human-to-human, and security must expand to protect people and the AI agents they now rely on. The company announced four major innovations at Proofpoint Protect 2025 that together aim to secure what Proofpoint calls the agentic workspace — the layer where people, AI assistants, and AI agents collaborate and exchange data — addressing prompt‑injection and AI‑targeted attacks, unified data...

Australians under pressure from rising living costs are quietly handing more of their money-management tasks to algorithms — not to replace advisers, but to supplement them — and the shift is already reshaping how everyday people budget, file taxes and shop financial products. Background / Overview A recent media report summarised new survey findings that show a sharp uptick in Australians using artificial intelligence for personal finance tasks such as budgeting, saving, tax preparation and...