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Microsoft is finally giving Windows 11 users a way to switch between Light and Dark themes automatically—without third‑party hacks or manual trips into Settings—but there’s a twist: the feature is arriving via PowerToys, not as a native Windows Settings toggle, and important implementation details remain to be confirmed. Background Windows has supported Light and Dark themes for several years, and the setting is now integrated into many system surfaces and UWP/Win32 apps. Mobile platforms...

Beelink’s EQi13 Pro arrives as a pragmatic mid‑range Windows 11 Pro mini PC that squeezes a 13th‑Gen Intel Core i5‑13500H into a compact, user‑serviceable chassis with dual M.2 PCIe Gen4 slots, dual HDMI outputs and dual Gigabit Ethernet — and CNX Software’s thorough Part 2 tests show the machine delivers solid everyday performance, very good NVMe and USB throughput, excellent Wi‑Fi 6 realtime throughput, and quiet acoustics, while exposing the predictable thermal and power trade‑offs of...

President Trump’s Rose Garden dinner with a who’s‑who of Silicon Valley on September 4, 2025 crystallized a new chapter in industry‑government relations: tech executives publicly pledged vast U.S. investments and education initiatives while pressing for lighter regulatory touch on artificial intelligence — and one high‑profile CEO, Elon Musk, notably stayed away. The meeting paired a White House‑led AI education push with corporate commitments that will matter to investors, IT leaders, and...

In January, security researchers at Aim Labs disclosed a zero-click prompt‑injection flaw in Microsoft 365 Copilot that demonstrated how a GenAI assistant with broad document access could be tricked into exfiltrating sensitive corporate data without any user interaction—an attack class that turned a productivity feature into a potential data leakage vector and renewed urgency around applying Zero Trust controls to AI systems. The vulnerability, later publicized as the EchoLeak attack and...

Microsoft’s latest AI push — framed by Satya Nadella as an effort to “empower people” and spotlighted during a high-profile White House engagement on September 4, 2025 — signals a fresh phase in the company’s long-term strategy to marry cloud scale, developer tools, hardware, and public policy to make AI both pervasive and commercially productive. Background / Overview Microsoft’s public narrative in 2024–2025 has been relentless and consistent: AI is no longer an add-on feature; it’s the...

ESET’s researchers have uncovered a previously undocumented threat cluster that covertly poisons legitimate IIS-hosted websites to manipulate Google rankings while also planting a stealthy C++ backdoor on Windows servers — a campaign ESET calls GhostRedirector that, according to an internet-wide scan, has compromised at least 65 Windows servers across multiple countries. Background / Overview ESET first observed the activity in telemetry spanning December 2024 through April 2025 and followed...

Microsoft quietly confirmed this week that the downloadable ISO images for Windows 11, version 25H2 — initially promised to follow the Release Preview drop — have been delayed, even as the update itself is rolling to Release Preview Insiders as a lightweight enablement package (eKB). The change is small in user-visible scope but materially important for IT teams, OEMs and anyone who relies on canonical clean media for imaging and offline validation. Microsoft’s Release Preview announcement...

Microsoft has concluded its investigation into the mid‑August reports that a recent Windows 11 security rollup (commonly tracked as KB5063878) “bricked” or corrupted some SSDs, saying it found no reproducible link between the update and the wave of drive disappearances — a position echoed by SSD controller partner Phison after extensive lab testing — even as community test benches and scattered field reports leave a small but real set of unanswered questions for power users and IT teams...

Balfour Beatty is taking its AI ambitions stateside with an employee hackathon aimed at translating prototypes into construction-ready AI tools — but the most consequential news in this story is the scale of the firm's Microsoft partnership and its strategic investment in Microsoft 365 Copilot that underpins the program. Background Balfour Beatty has rapidly moved from exploratory AI pilots to enterprise-scale deployments and joint innovation with Microsoft. The company announced a...

Silicon Valley’s top executives converged at the White House on September 4, 2025, to publicly endorse the First Lady’s AI education initiative — a high-profile meeting that fused corporate pledges, government policy ambitions, and the politics of technology into a single, consequential moment for America’s AI future. Background The White House meeting built on an executive order titled Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth, which sets a federal agenda to integrate...

Microsoft will stop delivering routine updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 — but you can legitimately keep your PC on Windows 10 for another year if you act now and follow a few specific steps to enroll in Microsoft's consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program. The consumer ESU is a time-boxed, security-only bridge that provides Critical and Important fixes through October 13, 2026, but it comes with prerequisites, trade-offs, and a short runway that every Windows 10 user should...

Microsoft has confirmed that its August 12, 2025 cumulative security update introduced a security hardening to Windows Installer that is triggering unexpected User Account Control (UAC) prompts and breaking silent MSI repair/configuration flows for standard (non‑administrator) users across a broad set of Windows client and server releases. Background / Overview Microsoft shipped the August 2025 Patch Tuesday cumulative updates as combined Servicing Stack Updates (SSU) plus Latest Cumulative...

The Los Angeles Rams’ head coach Sean McVay is openly betting on artificial intelligence to shave seconds off decision-making windows and sharpen in-game adjustments, embracing a league‑wide rollout of Microsoft Copilot and Surface Copilot+ devices that the NFL says will put AI‑driven insights on the sideline for every club this season. The move follows a multiyear extension of the NFL–Microsoft partnership that upgrades the league’s Sideline Viewing System (SVS) with more than 2,500...

Microsoft quietly updated its Release Preview announcement for Windows 11, version 25H2 to say the downloadable ISO images are “delayed and coming soon,” even as the update itself is now available to Release Preview Insiders as a lightweight enablement package—a move that tightens the rollout timetable for Up‑to‑Date PCs while briefly leaving enterprises, OEMs and imaging teams without canonical clean-media for lab and deployment validation. Background Windows 11, version 25H2 entered the...

Microsoft’s package of education pledges — announced at a White House AI education event and consolidated under the new Microsoft Elevate umbrella — promises a major, fast-moving push to put generative AI into students’ hands: free Microsoft 365 Personal with Copilot for every eligible U.S. college student for 12 months, expanded age‑appropriate Copilot access for K–12 via Microsoft Elevate, nearly 100 new LinkedIn Learning AI courses and a nationwide AI Learning Challenge, $1.25 million in...

Windows 11’s clipboard history is one of those small features that delivers outsized productivity gains: enable it once, and you can paste from a rolling list of recent copies, pin recurring snippets, sync text across devices, and reclaim content you thought was gone. Background Clipboard functionality in Windows has evolved from a single-item buffer into a lightweight history and sync system. Historically, the clipboard only held the last copied item; Windows 10 introduced the first public...

Firefox Nightly users can now summon Microsoft Copilot from the browser sidebar — an optional, opt‑in hook that exposes Copilot’s chat, voice and summarization capabilities inside Firefox while reopening a broader debate about privacy, platform boundaries, and the creeping normalization of embedded AI in core desktop apps. Overview Mozilla’s Nightly channel has been experimenting with an AI‑focused sidebar for months; originally billed as a way to surface a set of third‑party assistants...

Microsoft quietly pulled back the promised ISO images for Windows 11, version 25H2 this week, updating its Release Preview announcement to say the ISOs are “delayed and coming soon” even as the update itself lands in the Release Preview channel as an enablement-package style release. Background / Overview Microsoft pushed Windows 11, version 25H2 (Build 26200.5074) into the Release Preview ring on August 29, 2025, marking the final public testing window before broad availability. That blog...

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Microsoft is surfacing Copilot directly inside Windows file management: eligible Microsoft 365 subscribers can now invoke Copilot actions from File Explorer and the OneDrive Activity Center to summarize documents, ask questions, generate FAQs, and compare multiple files without opening Office or a browser. This expands Copilot from a web and app experience into the native Windows right‑click workflow, putting AI assistance where users already manage files. Background / Overview Microsoft has...