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Microsoft’s decision to close the Windows 10 chapter on October 14, 2025 is now official, and the practical reality is stark: after that date Windows 10 installations will continue to boot, but they will not receive routine security patches, feature updates, or official technical support from Microsoft—leaving millions of home and small‑business PCs exposed to growing risk unless owners take action. Background Windows 10 debuted in 2015 and has powered a large portion of the PC ecosystem for...

When a decade‑old PC boots into Windows 11 with an unmodified Microsoft ISO and without a motherboard‑level TPM, a very practical question surfaces: is this a clever way to squeeze extra life out of aging hardware, or a fragile hack that will leave you unsupported and exposed when the next major update lands? Background: why Windows 11 left so many machines “unsupported” Microsoft set a new security and compatibility baseline for Windows 11 at launch: UEFI with Secure Boot, Trusted Platform...

Agentic AI has moved off road‑show slides and into vendor roadmaps that are already finding their way into enterprise pilots, but the real test isn’t which product demo looks slick — it’s whether organisations can measure and validate real time savings and quality gains before they commit large-scale budgets. Background Agentic AI describes a shift from passive helpers (transcripts, summaries, search) to systems that act on behalf of users: drafting agendas, nudging calendars, executing...

Microsoft is preparing to flip the switch on Windows 11 version 25H2, but the update arriving in the coming weeks is not a horsepower‑hungry revamp — it’s an enablement package that mostly activates features already staged on devices, trims legacy baggage, and adds a handful of targeted improvements (notably some Start menu and manageability tweaks). Background / Overview Microsoft has placed Windows 11, version 25H2 (Build 26200.x) into the Release Preview Channel as the final public...

Enterprise IT budgets are under a new kind of pressure: a fast-moving AI adoption cycle that’s forcing organizations to pay more for the software, infrastructure, and data plumbing that power modern applications. Over the past year enterprises have reported rising renewal costs, new usage-based charges, and a proliferation of AI-enabled features that vendors are packaging — and often re-pricing — as premium capabilities. The result is a scramble for visibility, governance, and measurable ROI...

Valve's Steam will stop supporting 32‑bit versions of Windows on January 1, 2026, a change that quietly completes the platform's long migration to a 64‑bit‑first ecosystem and leaves a very small but real number of users with a clear deadline to upgrade or accept an unsupported configuration. Background Steam has spent the past decade moving away from legacy operating systems and architectures as the PC ecosystem standardized on 64‑bit hardware and modern driver stacks. The company’s...

Duo Directory Sync delivers a practical, one-way bridge from on-premises Active Directory into Duo by importing users, phones, groups and administrators via the Duo Authentication Proxy — but getting it right requires careful attention to authentication, transport security, proxy placement, attribute mapping and sync ownership rules to avoid surprises in production. Background / Overview Duo’s Directory Sync lets organizations import end-users and administrators from Active Directory (AD) or...

Nscale’s announcement that it will host the UK’s largest AI supercomputer, in collaboration with Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI, marks a major inflection point for Britain’s AI infrastructure—an audacious package of GPU capacity, sovereign compute initiatives and private-sector investment that aims to reshape where and how large-scale AI models are trained and served across the country. The plan centers on a 50MW (scalable to 90MW) AI campus in Loughton initially populated with 23,040 NVIDIA...

The pace of change in consumer and enterprise technology has never been higher: this week the industry doubled down on AI-first computing with major model and platform updates, GPU makers pushed a new generation of AI-native graphics into both desktops and the cloud, chip vendors rolled out fresh silicon for creators and workstations, and regulators in Europe moved from rulemaking to enforcement — all while a contentious shift in how productivity software is distributed landed squarely in...

Christopher Ketcham’s Los Angeles Times opinion — a brisk, apocalyptic meditation that frames AI as the next evolutionary step in making humans intellectually lazier — crystallizes a fear that has migrated from elite theory to everyday worry: the machines that augment our thinking will, if unregulated and unexamined, hollow it out. The piece stitches together a personal anecdote about an e‑biker, references Nicholas Carr’s influential critique of the internet’s cognitive effects, and cites...

Blackmagic Design’s latest point release, Desktop Video 15.1, lands as a narrowly targeted but important maintenance update for users of the DeckLink Quad HDMI Recorder — addressing two high-impact capture problems that have plagued multi-input HDMI capture workflows: distorted audio when capturing computer resolutions and incorrect bit‑depth detection where 8‑bit RGB inputs were being reported as 10‑bit. The update is small in scope, but the fixes address real-world reliability and quality...

After years of trying multiple assistants, some users now say they won’t switch away from Google Gemini — and their reasoning captures a larger trend: AI loyalty is increasingly less about which model “talks best” and more about how deeply the assistant is woven into the tools people already use every day. A recent first‑person writeup praising Gemini’s seamless access to Gmail, Calendar and Drive captures that mindset: for many, Gemini is not just an assistant; it’s an extension of a...

Microsoft has quietly restored a modern take on DreamScene: recent Windows 11 Insider preview builds include a native “video wallpaper” capability that lets you set common video files (MP4, MOV, MKV and others) as a looping desktop background from Settings, without installing third‑party wallpaper engines. Background / Overview Windows personalization has long been a battleground between built‑in features and third‑party creativity. In 2007 Microsoft shipped DreamScene for Windows Vista...

Microsoft has confirmed that the Windows 11 September 2025 cumulative update (KB5065426) — and an August optional preview (KB5064081) that preceded it — introduced a cluster of regressions that can break DRM-protected playback on certain legacy players, interfere with file sharing over SMBv1, and produce edge-case failures in PowerShell Direct and game anti‑cheat modules. These problems are concentrated in older media and networking pipelines — Enhanced Video Renderer (EVR) + HDCP/DRM...

X has confirmed that paid middlemen tried to bribe platform employees to reinstate accounts that were suspended for running crypto scams — and the episode exposes a wider, organized criminal pipeline that spans social platforms, gaming ecosystems, and notorious online threat groups. The company’s Global Government Affairs arm announced the discovery on September 19, 2025, saying banned accounts “involved in crypto scams and platform manipulation paid middlemen to attempt to bribe employees...

Google’s recent announcements that fast-growing AI coding startups Lovable and Windsurf have added Google Cloud to their infrastructure mix are a clear, measurable sign that the cloud provider’s strategy to court early-stage AI founders is paying off — and that those startups are, in turn, helping to accelerate Google Cloud’s rapid revenue expansion. The deals, first reported in TechCrunch and summarized in the material provided by the user, underline two concurrent dynamics: the enormous...

In 2025 the long-running duel between Windows and Linux looks less like a single “winner takes all” contest and more like a partitioned battlefield: Windows still rules the desktop, powering the majority of personal and enterprise PCs, while Linux has entrenched itself across servers, clouds, and many developer workflows — and is closing important gaps on the desktop in pockets like gaming and lightweight reuse of older hardware. The numbers and trends underpinning this reality are clear...

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Portable batteries have become the unsung MVP of modern family road trips — and after testing the compact EcoFlow TRAIL 300 DC alongside the real-world chaos of three kids, the verdict is clear: small, high‑power DC-only units can be legitimately reliable travel companions, but knowing what they do (and what they don’t) is the difference between “smooth ride” and “sorry, we forgot the charger.” Background / Overview The EcoFlow TRAIL 300 DC is a new entrant aimed squarely at people who want...

Jimmy Kimmel’s late‑night future hangs in the balance as talks between his representatives and Disney — ABC’s corporate parent — continue over whether Jimmy Kimmel Live! can return to the air after a controversial monologue about the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk triggered an unprecedented chain of affiliate preemptions, regulatory pressure and a network suspension that began in mid‑September 2025. The next steps in the negotiations will determine more than the fate of...