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Louisville’s new push into municipal artificial intelligence is not vague ambition — it’s a pragmatic, budgeted experiment that starts with staffing, short pilots, and a tight measurement plan designed to prove value or stop wasted spending quickly. Background Mayor Craig Greenberg included a dedicated allocation for AI in his 2025 budget proposal, signaling a strategic shift: treat AI as an operational lever for better, faster municipal services rather than a buzzy PR project. The Metro...

Mustafa Suleyman’s blunt diagnosis — that machine consciousness is an “illusion” and that building systems to mimic personhood is dangerous — has reframed a debate that until recently lived mostly in philosophy seminars and research labs. His argument is practical, not metaphysical: modern generative systems can already be assembled to appear conscious in ways that will change how people relate to technology, and those social changes — from emotional dependence to legal campaigns for “model...

Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday delivers a heavy, operationally urgent security package: more than 80 CVEs across Windows, Office, Hyper‑V, Azure components and developer libraries, including eight items Microsoft rates critical and two vulnerabilities that were publicly disclosed before the updates landed. Immediate attention is required for internet‑facing systems, hypervisors, and services that parse untrusted documents or JSON—particularly because public proof‑of‑concept details...

Microsoft Azure customers across Asia, the Middle East and parts of Europe experienced measurable latency and intermittent slowdowns after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were reported cut on September 6, 2025, forcing cloud traffic onto longer detours while Microsoft and carriers rerouted and rebalanced capacity to limit user impact. Background The global Internet’s east–west backbone depends heavily on submarine fibre‑optic cables that thread narrow maritime corridors...

Microsoft has quietly made official ISO media for Windows 11 version 25H2 available to the public after a brief delay — a small but important development that moves the update from preview-only to the brink of general availability and gives IT teams, OEMs, and enthusiasts the canonical installation media they’ve been waiting for. The ISOs correspond to the Release Preview build series for 25H2 (the 26200 family) and can be downloaded from the Windows Insider ISO page for immediate testing or...

Microsoft has added two ultra-simple keyboard shortcuts to Windows 11 that insert an en dash (–) and an em dash (—) directly into any text field, a small but meaningful productivity tweak rolling out to Insiders now and destined for a wider release later. Overview Microsoft announced that pressing Win + Minus (-) will insert an en dash and Win + Shift + Minus (-) will insert an em dash in recent Windows 11 Insider builds. This change landed in the Dev Channel build 26200.5761 and has...

Tiny11’s refreshed Builder recasts Windows 11 as a lean, privacy-minded alternative for users who don’t want Microsoft’s inbox apps, Copilot, or forced Microsoft Account flows—and it does so at a critical moment, as Windows 10 support winds down and millions of PCs face an awkward upgrade choice. Overview Tiny11 Builder is an open-source PowerShell tool that rebuilds an official Windows 11 ISO, removing a long list of inbox apps, telemetry hooks, and cloud-first components, then repacks the...

Microsoft’s preview of Windows 11 25H2 arrives under a familiar headline: no sweeping performance gains, and in independent creator‑workload benchmarks it still trails Linux by a noticeable margin. Background Windows 11 25H2 is positioned as an incremental, enablement‑style update rather than a ground‑up overhaul. Under the hood it shares the same servicing branch as Windows 11 24H2; many features shipped in 24H2 were simply disabled and are being toggled on in 25H2. That means the public...

Microsoft’s Copilot is being pushed through another iteration of experimental polish: testers have spotted a new voice entry point on the Copilot home screen and a parallel “private chat” mode that promises ephemeral, non‑training conversations—changes that aim to make voice interactions faster and privacy controls clearer, but which also raise fresh questions about inadvertent listening, data governance, and enterprise readiness. Background Microsoft has been iterating Copilot aggressively...

Microsoft pushed its September 2025 monthly security updates on Patch Tuesday, delivering a broad set of fixes that address dozens of vulnerabilities across Windows client, server, and Microsoft server products — including multiple emergency severity fixes for remote code execution and a high‑severity remote code execution flaw affecting Microsoft’s HPC Pack that Microsoft rates as critical. Overview This month’s release is part of the normal Patch Tuesday cadence (second Tuesday of each...

Microsoft's gentle-but-urgent nudge that VBScript really is on the way out has moved from rumor to a concrete program of deprecation, and the implications for enterprise automation and long‑running VBA codebases are immediate and real. Microsoft has confirmed a staged removal plan that will make VBScript a Feature on Demand (FOD) and then disable it by default before eventually removing the runtime entirely — a sequence that forces administrators and developers to inventory, validate and...

The day-to-day grind of maintaining a sprawling Obsidian vault finally pushed one user to try a different path: they migrated thousands of notes into Joplin, and within weeks declared they weren’t going back — praising Joplin’s genuinely open-source model, straightforward sync options, and noticeably lower maintenance overhead. This move — from a file-per-note, plugin-heavy second brain to an app built around an offline-first database and pragmatic syncing — is an instructive case study for...

Microsoft is testing a set of context‑aware AI editing tools that sit directly in File Explorer, letting you right‑click an image or document and invoke tasks such as Bing Visual Search, background blur/removal, generative object erase, and document summarization — and there are documented ways to try them today if you’re willing to run Insider builds or use community tools to unlock the hidden flags. Overview Microsoft’s newest experiments move small, repeatable editing tasks out of full...

Microsoft told many owners of older Windows 10 PCs they couldn’t move to Windows 11 — but hundreds of readers proved otherwise, using two straightforward workarounds to complete upgrades on hardware Microsoft’s installer flags as “incompatible.” The result: real-world evidence that the blockers are surmountable for many machines, but also a clear list of risks and trade-offs that every homeowner, refurbisher, or IT pro should weigh before attempting the same. Background / Overview Microsoft...

Nearly half a century after those first keystrokes on primitive terminals, Microsoft has made public the assembly-language source for its 6502-targeted BASIC interpreter — a compact, remarkable artifact of early microcomputer engineering that is now available on GitHub under a permissive MIT license. Background The story begins where modern software companies rarely do: with hand-crafted assembly and the need to make every byte count. In 1975–1976 Bill Gates and early Microsoft engineer Ric...

Early benchmark data shows Ubuntu 25.10 holding a measurable advantage over Microsoft’s Windows 11 25H2 in CPU‑heavy workloads on a high‑end AMD Ryzen 9 9950X testbed, with Phoronix’s first‑look geomean numbers pointing to roughly a ~15% edge for the Linux build in this specific profile. Background Ubuntu 25.10 and Windows 11 25H2 are both due for broad release in the coming weeks, but they arrived in preview/daily snapshot form early enough for independent benchmarking. Phoronix ran a...

Chrome profiles quietly solve one of the most persistent productivity problems in modern browsing: context bleed. By giving each role or mode—work, personal, social, research—its own isolated browser environment, profiles prevent tabs, bookmarks, extensions, cookies, and signed-in accounts from colliding. The result is a faster, less distracted workflow and a far cleaner way to manage tab hoarding than endlessly piling everything into a single window and hoping a bookmark folder will save...

Microsoft’s decision to close a high‑visibility employee forum and to roll out a phased, three‑day‑a‑week return‑to‑office baseline represents a coordinated reshaping of how the company will manage employee speech, campus security and everyday work patterns — a package Microsoft frames as necessary for safety and to accelerate cross‑disciplinary AI work, but one that also raises immediate questions about transparency, legal risk and talent strategy. Background / Overview For much of the...

Hell Let Loose refusing to start on some Windows rigs has become an annoyingly common thread in community help channels — players report the game showing the Easy Anti‑Cheat splash, briefly loading, and then closing with no error, or the launcher simply returning to the desktop. A concise KeenGamer troubleshooting guide collected six practical fixes — disabling Varjo services, forcing DirectX, verifying files, running the executable as administrator, repairing Easy Anti‑Cheat, and a handful...

Installing Windows 11 on Proxmox is eminently doable, but it’s not the “select ISO and click next” experience many users expect — you’ll need additional ISOs, a UEFI firmware, a virtual TPM, and the correct VirtIO drivers at the right step in the installer to get a clean, performant VM. Background Proxmox VE is a powerful, Debian-based virtualization platform that leverages KVM/QEMU under the hood. That architecture gives you tremendous flexibility — native ZFS support, snapshots, clustered...