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Microsoft’s latest Insider preview (Build 26220.6682, KB5065782) sharpens Narrator’s reading and navigation behavior, brings a small curated set of Emoji 16.0 glyphs to the emoji picker, and rolls out incremental Click to Do (Copilot) refinements — changes that are small in headline but potentially large in day‑to‑day impact for people who rely on assistive technology and for administrators planning the 25H2/24H2 enablement wave. Background / Overview Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel...

A joint Aston University–University of Leeds partnership has secured a £3.4 million Research England Development Fund award to build the Artificial Intelligence Researcher Development Network Plus (AI.RDN+), a four‑year programme that will map how publicly available AI tools (from ChatGPT to Microsoft Copilot and other consumer-facing agents) are being used across doctoral research, consult PhD researchers and research staff, and produce a shared portal of guidance, case studies, training...

Microsoft’s latest Insider flights deliver a compact but meaningful set of refinements — from a new Copilot prompt box inside Click to Do to a curated Emoji 16 rollout and deep accessibility fixes for Narrator — packaged in Dev build 26220.6682 (and matching Beta build 26120.6682), signaling another step in the company’s incremental 25H2 enablement strategy. Background / Overview Windows 11, version 25H2 continues to be delivered as an enablement package layered on the existing servicing...

Microsoft has pushed a coordinated set of Windows 11 Insider Preview builds into the Dev, Beta, and Release Preview channels, bringing the near‑final 25H2 activation and a raft of AI, accessibility, and usability tweaks that IT teams and power users should validate now. Background / Overview Windows 11’s 25H2 update is being delivered primarily as an enablement package (eKB) layered on top of the 24H2 servicing branch, meaning most of the binaries were already staged in regular cumulative...

Microsoft’s quiet pivot to make artificial intelligence a native, operational layer inside Dynamics 365 marks a decisive shift: AI is no longer an optional add-on but a set of embedded capabilities designed to activate business outcomes, and the success of that activation now hinges as much on governance, partner selection, and human oversight as on the technology itself. Background Microsoft has been steadily folding generative AI and agentic automation into its enterprise stack for several...

Microsoft has confirmed a firm deadline: the October 2025 Patch Tuesday will be the last regular monthly security update for mainstream Windows 10 installations unless you take immediate action to enroll in the consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program. That confirmation tightens an already narrow window for hundreds of millions of Windows 10 users and replaces uncertainty with a clear set of technical prerequisites, enrollment paths, and operational trade‑offs. If you plan to keep a...

Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday delivered a broad, operationally important set of security updates on September 9, 2025, covering Windows, Microsoft Office, SQL Server and related platform components — with industry trackers reporting roughly 80–86 CVEs patched and several high‑priority issues that merit immediate triage. Background Patch Tuesday is Microsoft’s monthly security-release cadence, scheduled for the second Tuesday of each month. The September release followed the usual...

Microsoft’s recent servicing work quietly strips two long‑standing legacy administration tools — Windows PowerShell 2.0 and WMIC (wmic.exe) — from new Windows 11 images and from the 25H2 enablement cycle, a change Microsoft documents in its formal support bulletin (KB 5065506) and that is already visible in Insider preview builds. Background PowerShell 2.0 arrived in 2009 and for many years served as the default automation engine for Windows administrative tasks. Microsoft deprecated the v2...

Windows 11 hides a surprising number of productivity tools and convenience shortcuts under its polished surface — features that are easy to miss but powerful once discovered. From window management that finally stops the dragging-and-resizing circus to clipboard vaults that remember what you copied days ago, these built-in tricks can shave minutes (or hours) off routine tasks. This article summarizes the most useful “hidden” features called out in recent coverage, explains how to enable and...

This week’s AI headlines — from a fresh congressional bill that would reshape how high‑performance chips are sold, to the U.S. government’s rollback of an earlier export-control framework, and Microsoft’s quiet decision to split Office 365’s AI supply between OpenAI and Anthropic — have combined to create one of the clearest inflection points yet in the global AI-compute and productivity‑AI ecosystems. Background / Overview The past several months have seen intense, overlapping policy...

Matt Hobbs of PwC argues that business transformation built around cloud, data, and AI must be outcomes-first, and that the practical work of modernization — decomposing legacy logic, addressing technical debt, and building an integration fabric he calls Agent OS — is what separates pilot projects from durable, enterprise-scale value. Background PwC’s message in the Cloud Wars AI Agent & Copilot Podcast is straightforward: the promise of agents and copilots only materializes when engineering...

Microsoft has quietly begun preparing the hardware and operational scaffolding to stop being a pure buyer of frontier AI models and instead build — and run — its own in‑house models at scale, telling employees it will invest heavily in dedicated chip clusters while keeping the OpenAI partnership intact. Background / Overview Microsoft’s public identity as an AI leader has long been built on a two‑pronged strategy: deep investment and integration with OpenAI on one hand, and parallel internal...

The Build Specialization progress counters in NBA 2K26 stopped updating for NBA MyCAREER games after a recent patch, and while the change is server-side (not a corrupted save), players can keep advancing their MyPLAYER by switching to supported online modes such as Street Kings, Park, REC, and Pro‑Am until 2K issues a targeted hotfix. Background NBA 2K26 introduced a new Build Specialization system inside the MyPLAYER Builder that lets each save choose one of five specialization...

Kemono failing to load, returning errors, or behaving erratically is frustrating — especially when a quick fix could get you back to browsing in minutes. This feature walks through seven practical fixes that resolve the vast majority of “Kemono not working” reports, explains why each step matters, and flags the risks and edge cases to watch for so you can troubleshoot with confidence. Background / Overview Kemono (like many modern web services and streaming-style platforms) relies on a chain...

Windows 11’s Dev Channel just received a compact but meaningful refresh: Build 26220.6682 (KB5065782) for Windows 11, version 25H2 brings Emoji 16 glyphs to the emoji panel, a string of accessibility refinements—most notably for Narrator—and several targeted fixes and UI tweaks that reinforce Microsoft’s push to refine AI experiences and accessibility before the broader 25H2 rollout. This build is a classic Dev-channel mix: incremental user-facing polish, hardware-gated Copilot enhancements...

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...