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Microsoft Edge’s latest beta builds are shipping a preview of AI-powered live audio translation for videos on Windows 11 — a feature that can generate translated subtitles or even dub spoken audio in real time — but it comes with a notable hardware bar: Microsoft says your device must have at least 12 GB of RAM and a 4‑core CPU for the feature to run, and early hands‑on tests show the translation component can be aggressive with memory while active. Background: where this feature came from...

Microsoft’s renewed push to make Windows a deeply agentic, multimodal platform—paired with ambitious Copilot investments—has quietly rewritten the conditions that once made a Microsoft-branded phone an improbable gamble; taken together, those shifts make the idea of a “new Windows phone” not just plausible but strategically sensible, provided Microsoft can solve the very real engineering, developer, and privacy problems that sank its earlier mobile efforts. Background / Overview How Windows...

Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.6682 (KB5065782) to the Beta Channel on September 12, 2025 — a targeted maintenance-and-experience flight for PCs running Windows 11, version 24H2 that layers incremental Copilot-era UX polish, accessibility improvements, and a handful of stability fixes while continuing to gate higher-impact features behind Microsoft’s staged rollout toggles. Summary for busy readers What shipped: Build 26120.6682 (KB5065782) to the Beta Channel...

Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.6682 (KB5065782) to the Dev Channel on September 12, 2025, and the flight brings a focused set of AI-driven productivity updates, accessibility refinements, and a broad collection of stability fixes — while also surfacing a few noteworthy regressions that Insiders should treat seriously before installing on a primary machine. Background / Overview Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel continue to receive experimental code for the...

Microsoft is seeding two new Release Preview updates today for Windows Insiders running Windows 11, version 24: Build 26100.6713 and Build 26200.6713, delivered as cumulative packages identified in the announcement as KB5065789. The flight targets Release Preview ring testers and continues Microsoft’s enablement‑package servicing pattern for annual feature updates, delivering mostly incremental polish, quality improvements, and staged on‑device AI features while carrying important enterprise...

NewsGuard’s latest audit has landed as a clear, uncomfortable signal: the most popular consumer chatbots are now far more likely to repeat provably false claims about breaking news and controversial topics than they were a year ago, and the shift in behavior appears rooted in product trade‑offs that favor responsiveness over caution. The one‑year anniversary edition of the AI False Claims Monitor reports the ten leading generative AI tools repeated falsehoods in roughly 35% of news‑related...

PowerToys already solves dozens of small-but-annoying Windows problems for power users, and the five wishlist items proposed by the community capture practical, high-impact improvements that could make the suite even more indispensable. Background / Overview PowerToys began life as a set of handy utilities for power users and has been steadily refined and expanded under Microsoft's stewardship into a modular, open-source toolkit for Windows. It now includes utilities such as FancyZones...

Microsoft’s clock on Windows 10 is ticking, and for many users the practical question is no longer “should I upgrade?” but “how do I upgrade safely and with the least friction?” Background Microsoft has set a hard stop on mainstream security updates for Windows 10: the platform reaches end-of-support in October 2025. That deadline leaves millions of Windows 10 machines facing the choice of upgrading to Windows 11, paying for temporary extended updates, or migrating to another platform...

Microsoft is quietly moving generative AI from apps into the very heart of Windows by adding an AI Actions submenu to File Explorer — a right‑click surface that lets you run visual search or apply quick, model‑driven image edits without opening a separate editor. The capability, visible in the Windows 11 Insider Preview Canary builds reported as Build 27938, initially supports four image-focused actions — Bing Visual Search, Blur Background, Erase Objects, and Remove Background — and is...

The recent churn in the Linux world—Rust maintainer resignations, high-profile upstream disputes and filesystem governance fights—has breathed new life into a different conversation: developers who feel alienated by the Linux kernel’s culture and process do not necessarily have to fork Linux; they can build alternative kernels and achieve compatibility, safety, and modern features without sacrificing the vast Linux ecosystem. Background The last two years have been unusually eventful for...

Kaspersky’s telemetry snapshot lands like a warning siren: in their sampled dataset just weeks before Microsoft’s cut-off, roughly 53% of monitored devices were still running Windows 10, only 33% had migrated to Windows 11, and a measurable tail — about 8.5% — remained on Windows 7, while corporate endpoints skewed even older with nearly 59.5% of corporate devices on Windows 10. Background / Overview Microsoft’s official lifecycle calendar is unambiguous: Windows 10 reaches end of support on...

Microsoft’s decision to retire Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 has forced a reckoning for millions of aging PCs—and a surprising cottage-industry of community tooling has stepped forward to offer a practical, if imperfect, bridge: Tiny11 Builder, a PowerShell-driven project that creates stripped-down Windows 11 images for devices Microsoft deems “unsupported.” Background Windows 10’s end-of-support means Microsoft will stop issuing regular security updates, feature patches, and technical...

AI presentation tools are finally good enough to be genuinely useful—but the right pick depends on whether you need seamless PowerPoint integration, fast template-driven output, team collaboration, or tight control over data visualization and compliance. Background / Overview The last two years have produced a rapid burst of AI tooling aimed squarely at presentation makers: browser-first services that generate polished decks from prompts, and PowerPoint add-ins that bring AI directly into...

Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly gained a practical, no-nonsense speech option: Scripted Mode, a new setting inside Copilot Labs’ Audio Expressions that reads user-provided text verbatim. The change, publicly teased by Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman on September 10, 2025, is short on theatrics but long on utility — giving creators, accessibility users, and enterprise pilots a cleaner, more predictable text-to-speech path alongside the already-available Emotive and Story modes. This...

Beelink’s pick‑up in promotions has pushed one of its Ryzen 7‑powered mini PCs to a price lower than what many outlets advertised during Prime Day, creating a genuinely tempting, lower‑cost Windows alternative to the Mac Mini for users who want a compact desktop that prioritizes ports, upgradability, and raw x86 application compatibility. Background / Overview Beelink is one of several China‑based mini‑PC OEMs that have made aggressive moves into the compact desktop market, offering densely...

If the new “Ask Copilot” entry in Windows 11’s right‑click menu has landed on your system and you’d rather not see it, you can remove it quickly — either by blocking the File Explorer shell extension that adds the menu item or by uninstalling/disabling Copilot entirely. The tweak is straightforward for experienced users, reversible if you keep a backup, and widely documented across community and mainstream tech outlets; however, it’s important to understand exactly what you’re changing, why...

Microsoft has quietly completed the last public validation step for Windows 11 version 25H2 by publishing official ISO installation media to Windows Insiders in the Release Preview channel, a move that puts clean-install and imaging workflows back into IT teams’ hands ahead of a likely October general rollout. Background / Overview Microsoft’s annual Windows 11 update cycle for 2025 continues the company’s multi-year shift to a shared-servicing model: feature binaries for the next annual...

Microsoft’s latest packaging of its agent-building tools — now split into Copilot Studio Lite and the Copilot Studio Full Experience — is less a rename and more a strategic reframe: the company is clarifying who these tools are for, where they run, and how enterprises should govern them. The change folds the previously available Agent Builder into a streamlined, in-context low-code experience inside Microsoft 365 Copilot, while reserving a standalone web portal for makers, developers, and...

Zenity’s expanded integration with Microsoft Copilot Studio embeds inline, real‑time attack prevention directly into Copilot Studio agents, promising step‑level policy enforcement, data‑exfiltration controls, and telemetry for enterprises that want to scale agentic AI without surrendering governance or compliance. Background / Overview Microsoft’s Copilot Studio is the low‑code/no‑code environment inside the Power Platform that lets organizations build, customize, and deploy AI agents...

Microsoft’s Office 2024 is real, shipping as a buy‑once desktop suite with updated apps, clearer system requirements, and a complicated relationship with AI — but claims that you can “download Microsoft Office 2024 full 32 and 64 bit, activated for life” from third‑party sites are both misleading and risky. Background / Overview Office 2024 shipped as Microsoft’s latest perpetual‑license release for consumers and small businesses, officially made available on October 1, 2024. The package...