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WINUX is, in practice, Ubuntu with a very convincing Windows 11 costume — and that disguise is the point: for many Windows 10 users facing the October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support deadline, WINUX (also marketed as Linuxfx/Winux) promises the familiarity of Windows while running entirely on Linux. Background / Overview Microsoft has set the official end‑of‑support date for Windows 10 as October 14, 2025; after that date Windows 10 will no longer receive mainstream security updates unless devices...

A federal judge has stopped short of the dramatic corporate breakup many in Washington and Silicon Valley predicted, ruling that Google will not be forced to sell its Chrome browser or divest Android as part of remedies in the government’s landmark search antitrust case—but the decision still imposes meaningful limits on how Google distributes search and compels limited data-sharing with rivals, reshaping the competitive and technical landscape for search, browsers, and AI. Background The...

UGREEN’s new MagFlow lineup pushes magnetic wireless charging into the mainstream with full Qi2 25W support across a range of pocketable power banks, foldable stands, desktop chargers, and classic pads—promising faster, more flexible magnetic charging for both Apple and Android users while surfacing a set of practical compatibility and thermal trade‑offs that buyers should understand. Background / Overview The wireless charging landscape is shifting from proprietary magnetic systems toward...

Microsoft says most Azure services continued operating, but customers experienced higher‑than‑normal latency after multiple international submarine fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were severed, forcing traffic onto longer alternative routes while carriers and cloud engineers rerouted, rebalanced, and monitored the network. Background / Overview The global internet depends on a dense but finite network of submarine fiber cables that carry the overwhelming majority of cross‑border data...

I learned to treat the terminal as my writing room: no floating toolbars, no Ribbon, just text, and the muscle memory of a keyboard—this is the core claim a Windows Central writer makes for why they compose everything inside a terminal rather than in Microsoft Word, and it’s an argument that has rippled through developer and writer communities for years. Background Writers who choose the terminal point to a few recurring motivations: minimalism, speed, and control. The Windows Central piece...

Geekom’s long‑teased QS1 Pro mini PC promises to ship one of the most intriguing hardware combinations we’ve seen for a compact Windows machine: a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E‑80‑100) class SoC, Windows 11 Pro preinstalled, up to 64GB of LPDDR5‑5600 memory, and a modern I/O stack that includes USB4, HDMI 2.0, DisplayPort 1.4, 2.5GbE, Wi‑Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 — all inside a metal chassis small enough to disappear behind a monitor. The headline specs are eye‑catching; the practical...

The investigation into a wave of disappearing and allegedly “bricked” NVMe SSDs that followed Microsoft’s August Windows 11 security rollup has taken a new turn: community researchers now say the problem was triggered not by Microsoft’s patch but by pre-release engineering firmware present on a small subset of drives — a claim that, if true, reframes the incident from an operating‑system bug to a supply‑chain and firmware management failure. The new narrative is straightforward: several...

Switzerland’s bold Apertus release, new compact reasoning models from Nous Research, and a spate of open multilingual and on-device models this week underline a clear trend: AI is moving from closed, cloud‑only monoliths toward a more diverse ecosystem of open, efficient, and task‑specific systems — and that shift is reshaping product strategy, research priorities, and legal risk at once. The weekly roundup you provided captures a torrent of product launches (Apertus, Hunyuan‑MT...

The Pittsburgh Steelers open the 2025 regular season at MetLife Stadium against the New York Jets on Sunday, Sept. 7, with kickoff set for 1:00 p.m. ET — a nationally televised CBS afternoon game that will also stream on Paramount+ when available in your local market and is available out-of-market via NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube. (paramountplus.com, ganggreennation.com) Background / Overview This Week 1 matchup arrives with unusually high narrative stakes and roster churn. Aaron Rodgers —...

Microsoft’s cloud customers were jolted on September 6 when Microsoft confirmed that multiple international subsea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea had been cut, producing measurable latency and service degradation for Azure traffic that transits the Middle East corridor and forcing engineers to reroute and rebalance capacity while repairs are arranged. Background The global internet runs on a physical web of submarine cables that carry the vast majority of intercontinental traffic. The Red...

Microsoft Azure customers across Asia, the Middle East and parts of Europe experienced higher‑than‑normal latency and intermittent slowdowns after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer detours while Microsoft and carriers rerouted and rebalanced capacity to limit customer impact. Background The physical spine of the global internet is a network of submarine fiber‑optic cables that carry the vast majority of intercontinental traffic. A...

Connecting a laptop or MacBook to a TV can usually be done in minutes—wired for rock‑solid video and audio, or wirelessly for convenience—and this practical guide walks through both approaches, the best adapters and settings to choose, plus the most common pitfalls and fixes to get you on the big screen fast. Background / Overview Laptops and MacBooks are increasingly used as primary workstations and media centers, so being able to mirror or extend a laptop display to a TV is a common need...

Windows 11’s 25H2 update arrives as a deliberate exercise in restraint: a compact, low‑impact enablement package that flips on features Microsoft already staged over the past year rather than delivering a slate of headline-grabbing functionality, and it arrives with a targeted set of enterprise controls and a few legacy removals IT teams must plan for. Background Windows 11’s annual cadence has evolved from big rebases to a “shared servicing branch” model in which new feature binaries are...

Windows 11’s 25H2 annual update arrives as a deliberate whisper rather than a shout: delivered as a tiny enablement package that flips on functionality Microsoft shipped earlier in monthly updates, 25H2 brings modest visible changes, a couple of legacy removals, and a clear operational message — stability, manageability, and shorter upgrade windows for fleets — rather than a catalogue of headline consumer features. Background / Overview Microsoft’s servicing strategy for Windows 11 has...

Microsoft’s latest Insider previews make a practical but consequential change: Windows Studio Effects — the OS‑level, NPU‑accelerated camera pipeline — can now be applied to additional cameras (for example, USB webcams and rear laptop sensors) on supported Copilot+ PCs, while the same builds also ship on‑device “fluid dictation” for Voice Access and tighter Copilot footholds in File Explorer. Background / Overview Windows Studio Effects is Microsoft’s platform camera and microphone...

Microsoft’s latest Insider Preview builds bring a tangible — and in many ways overdue — improvement to speech-to-text on Windows by introducing Fluid Dictation inside Voice Access, a smarter, faster, on-device dictation mode designed to make spoken text appear as natural, punctuated prose rather than a raw stream of words. Background Windows 11 Insider Preview builds 26220.5790 (Dev) and 26120.5790 (Beta) — delivered under update KB5065779 — introduce a handful of Copilot+ PC features and...

Microsoft’s Azure customers woke up to a new, uncomfortable reminder that the cloud — no matter how abstract it feels — still rides on ships, splices and seabed geography after the company warned that multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea had been cut, forcing traffic onto longer detours and producing higher‑than‑normal latency for flows that traverse the Middle East corridor. Background / Overview The Red Sea is a narrow but strategically vital maritime corridor linking Asia...

Microsoft warned customers that parts of Azure were seeing higher‑than‑normal latency after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer detours while carriers and cloud engineers rerouted and rebalanced capacity to limit customer impact. Background The global internet is built on an underwater web of submarine fiber‑optic cables that carry the vast majority of intercontinental traffic. A narrow maritime corridor through the Red Sea and the Suez...

Microsoft’s Azure network teams reported an operational disruption after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were damaged, forcing traffic to detour and producing elevated latency for flows between Asia, the Middle East and Europe; reports and Microsoft’s own service notices describe rerouting and rebalancing as the immediate mitigation, and independent monitoring shows the event remains under active management rather than an instantaneous, clean “all clear.” Background /...

Microsoft warned that parts of the Azure cloud were experiencing higher‑than‑normal latency after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer, more congested routes while carriers and Microsoft reroute and plan repairs. Background / Overview The global internet depends overwhelmingly on submarine fiber‑optic cables to carry intercontinental traffic between Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe. A narrow maritime corridor through the Red Sea...