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A fresh round of cross‑platform testing shows Ubuntu 25.10 pulling ahead of Windows 11 (version 25H2, preview) in heavily multi‑threaded workloads on AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X, underscoring persistent differences in how Linux and Windows extract performance from modern Zen‑5 silicon. Background The test platform at the center of this comparison is AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X — a 16‑core, 32‑thread Zen‑5 desktop processor designed for high‑throughput workstation and creator workloads. AMD’s product pages...

Microsoft is putting a second line of defense around AI agents: Copilot Studio now supports advanced near‑real‑time protection during agent runtime, a public‑preview capability that lets organizations route an agent’s planned actions through external monitoring systems — including Microsoft Defender, third‑party security platforms, or homegrown tools — to approve or block actions before they execute. Background AI agents in enterprise settings are no longer experimental toys. They’re...

Microsoft has quietly paused the rollout of its in‑app Copilot for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) as it rethinks how AI should sit inside one of the most conservative, security‑sensitive tools in the Microsoft stack. Background / Overview Microsoft shipped a preview of Copilot in SSMS as part of the SSMS 21 wave earlier this year, positioning an AI assistant directly inside the SSMS UI to help with writing, debugging and explaining Transact‑SQL (T‑SQL). That preview required customers...

Borderlands 4 arrives on PC alongside consoles on September 12, 2025, and Gearbox’s published PC system requirements make one thing clear: this is a modern‑PC title that expects eight physical CPU cores, fast NVMe storage, and a GPU with 8–12+ GB of VRAM just to be comfortably playable at recommended settings. Background / Overview Borderlands has long been a franchise defined by explosive visuals, dense loot streams, and compact-but-busy levels. Borderlands 4 continues that lineage while...

Flyoobe’s newest release lands with an unapologetic promise: install Windows 11 on machines Microsoft won’t officially support, and do it while stripping out unwanted AI surfaces like Copilot right from the Out‑of‑Box Experience (OOBE). Background / Overview Flyoobe evolved from a small community project that originally focused on bypassing Windows 11 installer checks into a full OOBE customization toolkit. The app combines the old Flyby11 bypass engine with a user‑facing OOBE suite that...

Microsoft’s latest round of Windows 11 updates doubles down on on-device AI, delivering new voice, camera, and Copilot integrations specifically for Copilot+ PCs while sharpening the split between NPU-equipped machines and the larger Windows installed base. Background / Overview Microsoft has been explicit about building a two-tier Windows experience: a broadly available Windows 11, and a hardware‑gated Copilot+ layer that runs more sophisticated, low‑latency AI workloads on devices equipped...

Phison’s pre-release controller firmware has emerged as the most plausible explanation for the wave of NVMe SSD “vanishing” and bricking reports that followed Microsoft’s mid‑August Windows 11 cumulative updates — a finding that reframes the incident from a suspected OS regression into a supply‑chain and firmware‑provenance problem with important lessons for users, OEMs, and controller vendors. Background In early and mid‑August, Windows 11 users and hobbyist testers began reporting a...

People remember people who look like they belong together — and a set of new experiments summarized in a Psychology Today writeup argues that social interaction itself is a cue the brain uses to prioritize associative memory, making pairs of faces that appear to be interacting more likely to be stored and later recognized than pairs that do not. Background Memory is not a passive archive; it is a prioritization system tuned to future usefulness. Cognitive scientists long ago showed that...

Firefox Nightly’s latest test build folds Microsoft Copilot into the browser’s AI sidebar, placing another major generative assistant alongside ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and Mistral’s Le Chat—and in doing so, it crystallizes a pivotal moment for browsers acting as AI platforms rather than just gateways to the web. Background Mozilla’s Nightly channel has for months been a proving ground for ambitious sidebar and AI experiments that aim to bring multi‑assistant workflows...

Onlive Server’s new India-focused dedicated server offering promises a straightforward, low-cost path to colocated performance: instant deployment from Mumbai, full root access, SSD/NVMe storage, built-in DDoS protection, and plans starting at roughly $139/month — a bundle aimed at e-commerce, streaming, fintech, and SaaS teams that want to keep data inside India for latency and compliance reasons. The provider’s marketing and product pages present a wide range of DSX-class configurations...

If you need a reliable Windows Server web host on-premises or in your datacenter, installing Internet Information Services (IIS) is the obvious first step—and it’s far simpler than many administrators expect. Built into Windows Server but not enabled by default, IIS can be installed interactively via Server Manager, scripted with PowerShell, or deployed at scale using DISM and automation tooling. This guide condenses practical, production-ready steps, explains the most useful optional...

A sudden cluster of undersea fiber cuts in the Red Sea has forced Microsoft Azure and other cloud and carrier operators to reroute traffic, producing measurable latency and slower internet performance across parts of South Asia, the Gulf and beyond—an event that exposes how a handful of damaged submarine cables can ripple into major cloud performance incidents for enterprises worldwide. Background The global Internet is physically dependent on submarine fiber-optic cables that carry the vast...

A new, community-driven take on Windows 11 is rapidly gaining attention: Tiny11’s updated builder promises to strip large swathes of preinstalled software from Windows images, produce dramatically smaller ISOs that can run on older or otherwise unsupported hardware, and even block many of Microsoft’s newest inbox features — all while being explicitly prepared for Windows 11 feature updates such as 25H2. This isn’t a polished consumer product; it’s a PowerShell-driven image builder maintained...

The short version: the recent wave of reports that Windows 11’s August cumulative update (KB5063878) was “bricking” NVMe SSDs has been reframed by community investigators and vendor labs — the immediate trigger appears to have been pre‑release engineering firmware on a small subset of drives, not the retail Windows update itself. This new understanding narrows the problem from an operating‑system regression affecting millions to a supply‑chain and firmware‑provenance failure that can still...

The Debian Project published the first point release for Debian 13 (codename Trixie) on September 6, 2025 — a conservative, safety-first refresh that bundles security patches and important bug fixes into updated installation images and repository snapshots rather than changing the distribution’s core feature set. Background / Overview Debian’s point releases are designed to consolidate fixes that have accumulated since a stable release, enable smoother new installs, and reduce the volume of...

Microsoft’s August Windows 11 patch is no longer the prime suspect in the recent wave of “vanishing” NVMe drives — mounting evidence points to pre‑release controller firmware and supply‑chain provenance, not the KB5063878/KB5062660 updates themselves, as the root trigger in the cases investigated so far. Background / Overview In mid‑August, social posts and a small number of high‑visibility community tests claimed that the Windows 11 24H2 August cumulative update (commonly tracked as...

Microsoft’s Copilot has stopped being an optional curiosity and is rapidly becoming the default AI companion inside the apps people already use to get work done, and that shift matters for businesses deciding whether to bolt AI onto workflows or let it live inside them. Overview Businesses and professionals aren’t choosing Copilot because it’s the flashiest chatbot on the block; they’re choosing it because Copilot is embedded where work already happens. For organizations that run on...

Microsoft has quietly extended Copilot from the browser into the Windows desktop, letting eligible Microsoft 365 subscribers summon AI help directly from File Explorer and the OneDrive taskbar flyout to summarize documents, ask questions, auto-generate FAQs, and compare multiple files — all without opening Office or a web browser. Background / Overview Microsoft’s Copilot has been rolling through the Microsoft 365 stack for more than a year, appearing first in apps and on OneDrive’s web...

Microsoft has warned customers that parts of Azure may show higher‑than‑normal latency after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were reported cut on 6 September 2025, forcing traffic onto longer detours while carriers and cloud operators reroute and rebalance capacity. Background / Overview The global internet’s east–west backbone depends heavily on a handful of high‑capacity submarine cable corridors; the Red Sea and the approaches to the Suez Canal form one of the most...

Lenovo’s newest laptop concepts fold familiarity into a tiny act of mechanical theater — a 14‑inch ThinkBook that rotates from landscape to portrait and a motorized docking stand that follows your face — but the company’s bravado raises a practical question: are these clever engineering demos useful enough to survive the brutal economics of mainstream PC sales, or will they remain admired curiosities on the IFA stage? Overview Lenovo unveiled two headline-grabbing proofs of concept at...