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Law Tech AI’s new cohort launches promise a practical, safety-first path for California solos and small firms to adopt legal AI — but the details matter: two tiered programs start October 1, 2025, with a curriculum that ranges from hands‑on introductions to advanced automation and enterprise Copilot security, and an explicit emphasis on governance and hallucination avoidance. Background / Overview The rapid rise of generative AI in legal practice has created a clear market for targeted...

The Jaguars’ 17–10 victory over the Houston Texans was a low‑scoring, high‑leverage win that hinged on a single explosive connection and a late defensive takeaway—Trevor Lawrence’s 46‑yard strike to Brian Thomas Jr. set up Travis Etienne’s 10‑yard touchdown with 1:48 remaining, and Antonio Johnson’s interception on the Texans’ final possession sealed the game for Jacksonville. Background / Overview Sunday’s game at EverBank Stadium delivered a classic NFL template: a grind through three...

Perplexity’s newest feature quietly shifts the company from an “answer engine” toward a potential inbox concierge: an autonomous Email Assistant is rolling out in alpha, offering automatic scanning, labeling, auto-drafts, and configurable scheduling behavior that aims to reduce the day-to-day grunt work of email and calendar management. Early impressions suggest this is aimed at knowledge workers and busy professionals who want a hands-off approach to triage, reply, and scheduling — but the...

The Office of Personnel Management has quietly begun issuing Microsoft Copilot and OpenAI ChatGPT access to its employees as part of a broader federal push to put generative AI in the hands of civil servants — and the General Services Administration’s OneGov procurement vehicle is simultaneously adding Meta’s Llama family of open-source models to the list of tools agencies can deploy at no cost. This twin development signals a turning point in federal IT: commercial generative AI is moving...

HP's consumer-facing printer software remains one of the most practical — and most debated — Windows utilities on many desktops: the HP Smart app for Windows promises one‑stop printing and scanning but brings with it account requirements, feature fragmentation, and occasional Microsoft Store headaches that every user should understand before downloading, installing, or removing it. Background HP has been consolidating its software ecosystem: a new HP app merges functionality from older...

Valve will stop updating the Steam client on 32‑bit Windows systems on January 1, 2026, effectively ending official Steam support for the last remaining 32‑bit Windows SKU — Windows 10 (32‑bit) — and leaving any running 32‑bit installs frozen without future updates, security patches, or guaranteed technical assistance. Background Steam's announcement formalizes a long‑running trend: the PC ecosystem has migrated to 64‑bit as the baseline for new development. Microsoft shipped Windows 11 as a...

HP Smart for Windows is a straightforward, free app that consolidates basic printer setup, printing, scanning and ink/toner management for HP customers — but the story is more nuanced than the quick guides suggest: HP is transitioning to a new unified "HP app" for broader device support, the Windows experience still depends on Microsoft Store delivery and system compatibility, and real-world users occasionally hit installation and reliability problems that require PowerShell-level cleanups...

Apple’s macOS Tahoe and Microsoft’s Windows 11 have both evolved beyond simple visual refreshes into competing philosophies for how a modern desktop should behave — one optimized for curated, privacy‑centric on‑device intelligence and seamless multi‑device continuity, the other for broad hardware choice, backward compatibility, and aggressive integration of cloud‑backed AI tooling. Background / Overview The latest macOS iteration, macOS Tahoe, leans into a new visual language called Liquid...

Microsoft appears to be quietly restoring a one‑click way to put motion on the desktop: recent Windows 11 Insider preview builds include a native video wallpaper capability that treats ordinary video files as looping desktop backgrounds, a modern revival of Vista’s DreamScene now visible behind an Insider feature flag in early builds. Background Windows’ flirtation with animated desktops is not new. In 2007 Microsoft shipped DreamScene for Windows Vista Ultimate — an experimental...

A third of Mexican professionals now use AI tools in their daily work — a shift with immediate productivity gains, uneven employer responses, and profound implications for how jobs are designed, recruited for, and measured across Mexico’s private sector. Background AI adoption has moved from experiment to expectation in many Mexican workplaces. Michael Page’s Talent Trends 2025 survey reports that roughly 37% of professionals in Mexico use generative AI and related tools such as ChatGPT...

Litera’s selection for Microsoft’s 2025–2026 AI Business Solutions Inner Circle is a significant milestone for the legal‑technology vendor and a clear signal that Microsoft is treating legal workflows as a strategic arena for Copilot, Dynamics 365, and Power Platform‑driven automation. This recognition places Litera among the highest‑performing partners in Microsoft’s Business Applications ecosystem and amplifies the company’s ability to shape product roadmaps, deepen engineering...

Trapeze Workforce Management has partnered with Microsoft to build a cloud-native, SaaS-based reporting platform that embeds Microsoft Fabric and OneLake to deliver both paginated historical reports and real-time dashboards for transit operations—an initiative funded through Microsoft’s End Customer Investment Funds (ECIF) and positioned as a hybrid-ready pathway for agencies to modernize reporting, migrate away from legacy on-site databases, and prepare for future AI integrations such as...

Oracle and Microsoft have moved from enterprise stalwarts to headline actors in the cloud‑AI era, and the latest analyst commentary and corporate disclosures lay out competing investment narratives—one built on an unprecedented backlog and a capital‑heavy buildout, the other on diversified AI product monetization and deep balance‑sheet capacity. Background The debate intensified after a market note highlighted Oracle’s dramatic surge in booked contracts and Microsoft’s steady monetization of...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider Preview quietly arms the taskbar with a new one‑click AI affordance: a floating “Share with Copilot” button that lets Copilot Vision see an open app window, analyze its contents, and return context, translations, or guided actions without requiring you to leave the app. Background / Overview Microsoft has been steadily turning Copilot from a sidebar curiosity into a system‑level assistant woven across Windows surfaces. The new taskbar hover control is...

Microsoft Paint has shed another layer of nostalgia and moved closer to being a genuinely useful, session-aware image editor: Windows Insiders can now save editable project files with a .paint extension that preserve layers and edit state, and the Pencil and Brush tools gain an on-canvas opacity slider for real-time translucency control. Background / Overview For decades Microsoft Paint was the archetypal simple raster editor bundled with Windows: fast, minimal, and intentionally limited...

Windows 11’s personalization options are getting a nostalgic — and potentially divisive — upgrade: Microsoft is testing a native video‑wallpaper feature in recent Insider builds that lets you set a looping video file as your desktop background, reviving the spirit of DreamScene while aiming for a modern, integrated experience. Background Microsoft first experimented with animated desktop backgrounds in the Windows Vista era with DreamScene, which allowed WMV/MPG clips to play as wallpapers...

Microsoft has quietly begun testing a native video‑wallpaper feature in Windows 11 Insider preview builds, a modern revival of Vista’s DreamScene that — according to multiple independent community reports — will let users set ordinary video files such as MP4 and MKV as looping desktop backgrounds directly from Settings or a File Explorer context menu. Background Windows has a long, stop‑start history with animated desktop backgrounds. In 2007 Microsoft shipped DreamScene for Windows Vista...

Microsoft has begun rolling out Gaming Copilot (Beta) into the Windows 11 Game Bar, bringing a contextual, voice-enabled Copilot experience directly into PC gaming sessions and promising to fold achievement tracking, play-history insights, and screenshot-aware help into the same overlay that players use for captures and widgets. The feature — still labeled a beta and initially gated to players aged 18 and older — builds on earlier Xbox previews and mobile tests and represents Microsoft’s...

The sudden White House proclamation that effectively attached a $100,000 surcharge to new H‑1B petitions upended a long weekend for U.S. tech companies and their foreign-born staff — and Microsoft’s internal guidance became one of the clearest early signals of how big employers would respond. Within hours of the September 19 proclamation taking effect at 12:01 a.m. Eastern on September 21, Microsoft circulated an urgent memo advising H‑1B holders already in the U.S. to remain in place and...

Asda has moved to deepen a multi-year technology relationship with Microsoft, announcing a major cloud-and-AI collaboration that names Microsoft Azure as the supermarket’s primary cloud platform and promises to accelerate Asda’s shift to a cloud-first, AI-enabled operating model. Background Asda’s new agreement with Microsoft builds on a commercial relationship that began in 2022 and is described by both parties as one of the larger technology deals in UK retail in recent years. The...