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Windows 10’s official life support is scheduled to end on October 14, 2025, and that approaching deadline has pushed a simple but urgent question into the spotlight: if you’re still on Windows 10, what Windows 11 machine should you buy next? Tom’s Guide’s recent roundup narrows the field to five practical upgrade paths — budget laptop, full desktop, mini PC, all‑in‑one, and 2‑in‑1 tablet — and the recommendations highlight value and real‑world utility for users racing the clock. The...

Albania has publicly elevated an artificial intelligence program named Diella into a cabinet-level role — charging the virtual minister with overseeing public procurement in a bid to stamp out a problem long identified by Brussels as one of the main obstacles to Tirana’s EU accession ambitions. Background The announcement came in early September 2025, when Prime Minister Edi Rama presented his new cabinet and introduced Diella as “a member of the cabinet who is not present physically,”...

The OpenAI–Microsoft relationship has entered a new phase: a non‑binding agreement and a broad infrastructure push known as Stargate together loosen the old model of single‑cloud exclusivity while preserving deep commercial ties — a shift that will accelerate AI deployment, reshape cloud competition, and raise fresh governance and regulatory questions for the industry. Background How the alliance began and why it mattered Microsoft and OpenAI first moved from collaboration to strategic...

Flyoobe is back online after a short, involuntary disappearance from GitHub — and the return brings a sharper focus on the Out‑Of‑Box Experience (OOBE) plus several pragmatic quality‑of‑life upgrades that make it a more complete tool for installing and shaping Windows 11 on unsupported hardware. Background / Overview Flyoobe began life as Flyby11: a compact community tool that automated a set of well‑known techniques to bypass Windows 11 setup checks (TPM, Secure Boot and certain CPU...

A growing number of Microsoft account holders report successful sign‑ins from IP addresses inside Microsoft’s own network despite having two‑factor authentication enabled — an uptick of incidents first detailed in a German investigation and corroborated by threads on Reddit and Microsoft’s own Q&A boards. This piece reviews the reported cases, explains the technical mechanics that make the reports plausible, verifies what Microsoft documents say about datacenter IPs and app‑driven sign‑ins...

Missing or silent Outlook alerts can quietly undermine schedules, cause missed meetings, and fracture workflows — and fixing them is often a matter of methodically checking a handful of settings rather than reinstalling your life. This guide walks through every practical step to restore Outlook notifications on Windows 11 and Windows 10, explains why alerts stop working, and shows safe workarounds for stubborn cases on desktop and mobile. It draws on official Microsoft guidance and recent...

Microsoft's September cumulative — KB5065429 — is rolling out now, and for millions of Windows 10 users it is both a final security lifeline and a practical checkpoint as the operating system heads to its scheduled end of support on October 14, 2025. Background / Overview Windows 10’s end-of-support date is fixed: October 14, 2025. After that date Microsoft will stop providing routine free security and quality updates for most consumer Windows 10 editions; devices will continue to boot and...

The image of a senior Xbox producer advising laid-off colleagues to “lean on AI” for emotional support crystallized a moment that many in tech already felt: the tools companies are using to reshape work are now being pitched as a balm for the wounds they helped inflict. Within hours of a now-deleted LinkedIn post offering ChatGPT- and Copilot-style prompts to cope with imposter syndrome and job-search overwhelm, the message provoked a fierce backlash — a flashpoint in a broader controversy...

Microsoft is quietly testing a change in Windows 11 preview builds that turns a post‑setup “second‑chance” dialog into a full‑screen, boot‑time prompt urging users to renew or update Microsoft 365 subscriptions — a move that has already triggered sharp criticism from power users and enterprise admins worried about interruptions, security exposure, and erosion of platform trust. Background / Overview The new behavior repurposes SCOOBE — the Second‑Chance Out‑of‑Box Experience — a Microsoft UI...

When a government website begins to expose machine-readable metadata in its HTML, it’s not a trivial cosmetic change — it is a deliberate technical decision with consequences for search, data reuse, transparency, and the way downstream services and mashups can consume official information. In late January 2009, observers noticed exactly that: WhiteHouse.gov’s public pages began carrying RDFa-style attributes in their source markup, an early sign that the site’s new platform was prepared to...

When you unbox a new Windows 11 laptop the out‑of‑the‑box experience is deliberately full‑featured — but many of the conveniences Microsoft enables by default trade away privacy, clarity, and system headroom. A short, safe checklist of five settings you should disable right after setup can reduce noise, free RAM and CPU cycles on lower‑end machines, and shrink the amount of diagnostic and advertising data your device shares. This article walks through the five tweaks highlighted in a recent...

Microsoft has quietly published a final batch of Safe OS (WinRE) dynamic updates for legacy Windows 10 branches — KB5065918, KB5065307 and KB5065845 — on September 9, 2025, delivering targeted fixes for the Windows Recovery Environment used by older 1507 / 1607 / 1809 images and marking another step in the platform’s maintenance‑only final months before Windows 10’s end of support. Background Windows servicing uses two complementary maintenance streams every month: the familiar cumulative...

Microsoft has quietly published a small set of Safe OS Dynamic Updates for legacy Windows 10 branches — KB5065918, KB5065307 and KB5065845 — delivering targeted improvements to the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) on September 9, 2025, and marking another step in the winding-down of Windows 10 servicing ahead of the platform’s October end-of-support window. Background — why these updates matter Microsoft ships two distinct types of packages during servicing cycles: monthly cumulative...

Tata Consultancy Services has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C‑DAC) to jointly research and build components of what both organisations describe as India’s sovereign cloud — a domestic, OpenStack‑based cloud stack aimed at hosting sensitive public‑sector workloads and meeting the country’s data‑localisation and strategic resilience goals. Background India’s sovereign cloud push is a reaction to two converging pressures...

Mastercard’s latest push into artificial intelligence marks a clear inflection point for payments: the company has moved from embedding AI into detection systems to enabling agentic commerce—where AI agents can negotiate, authorize and execute purchases on behalf of users—backed by new developer tools, token innovations and expanded fraud-fighting capabilities. Background Mastercard’s announcements in 2025 formalize a strategy that pairs two long-running themes in payments: tokenization and...

Windows’ built‑in antivirus has quietly become the practical choice for millions of users, and the recent pushback against paid suites is no accident — the free Windows security stack now combines deep OS integration, modern cloud and AI detections, and targeted anti‑ransomware controls that cover most home and casual‑power users’ needs. Background Microsoft’s native protection — today marketed as Microsoft Defender Antivirus (historically “Windows Defender”) — ships with Windows 10 and...

DJI’s official practice tool, ORQA’s free FPV SkyDive, Real Drone Simulator’s broad-mode standalone app, FlowState’s open-source low-latency FPV engine, the pro-grade DRL SIM, and the veteran race sims VelociDrone and Liftoff (plus lightweight FPV Freerider) together form a practical toolkit for anyone who wants to learn drone flying, practice cinematic shots, or train for competitive FPV racing on a Windows PC—many of them available for free or with free trials, and all accessible via...

The author’s migration away from Windows 11 to macOS is a conversion driven less by fanaticism for Apple and more by pragmatism: fewer interruptions, a richer app ecosystem that matches professional workflows, and a single standout productivity tool — Raycast — that fills gaps Windows users have long patched with third‑party utilities. Background In a short, candid essay the author explains why macOS became the day‑to‑day choice after experimenting with Linux and using Windows 11 for years...

You have to admire the Malaysia Ministry of Finance for finding time, amid talk of disappearing chicken and onions priced like gold, to publish a formal clarification that the one‑off RM100 Sumbangan Asas Rahmah (SARA) aid cannot be used to buy beer — after a viral social‑media clip showed beer on supermarket shelves with SARA-related labels and logos. Background The federal government’s SARA programme promises a one‑off RM100 credit for every Malaysian aged 18 and above, loaded against the...

Albania has just promoted an avatar to cabinet rank: Diella, an AI-driven virtual assistant that will now sit—digitally—in the role of minister responsible for public procurement with an explicit mission to make government tenders “100% free of corruption.” Background Diella first appeared on the state’s e-Albania portal earlier this year as a voice-and-visual virtual assistant intended to help citizens navigate online services and generate digitally stamped documents. According to official...