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Microsoft’s latest Insider experiments push Windows’ clipboard past the desktop and into Android keyboards, promising near‑instant copy‑and‑paste between a Windows 11 PC and a linked Android phone — and notably, it appears to work with Gboard and other third‑party IMEs rather than being limited to Microsoft’s SwiftKey. Background Windows’ clipboard has evolved considerably over the last several releases. What began as a single buffer for Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V is now a multi‑item productivity...

The end of Windows 10 has sharpened a decision many hobbyists and professionals have been postponing: if you’re ready to ditch Windows, should you move to macOS or switch to Linux? The answer isn’t a slogan — it’s a set of practical trade-offs rooted in apps, hardware, support, budget, and how much control you actually want over the machine. This piece expands a practical seven‑question checklist into an actionable migration plan, verifies the key technical claims you should treat as...

Alibaba’s Cloud Intelligence unit has vaulted from strategic experiment to the company’s primary growth engine, reporting a 26% year‑over‑year revenue jump to RMB 33.4 billion in the most recent fiscal quarter as management doubles down on generative AI, model hosting and a headline RMB 380 billion investment plan to scale AI infrastructure, build data centers and develop in‑house inference silicon. Background / Overview Alibaba’s pivot toward “AI + cloud” is both blunt and unmistakable: the...

Azure Arc is becoming the practical replacement many enterprises need after Microsoft signaled the deprecation of Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), and for organizations that want to centralize patching across on-premises servers and Azure VMs the recommended route is to Arc‑enable servers and leverage Azure Update Manager. Background Microsoft announced in September 2024 that WSUS is deprecated, meaning Microsoft will no longer add new features to WSUS while preserving its current...

Microsoft says a fresh internal review has found no direct link between the August 12, 2025 Windows 11 security update (KB5063878) and the social-media reports that some users’ NVMe and SATA drives became inaccessible or suffered data corruption — even as independent tests, vendor investigations and eyewitness accounts continue to paint a messy, unresolved picture for a subset of power users. Background The August 12, 2025 cumulative security update for Windows 11 24H2 — cataloged as...

Windows 11 machines that should shut down but instead loop into a restart are a maddening — yet fixable — class of problems, and the simplest remedies usually live in your power configuration and a few targeted system checks. Background Windows 11 introduced incremental changes to startup, shutdown, and power management that aim to balance speed and usability. One of the most important of these features is Fast Startup — a hybrid shutdown/hibernation behavior that preserves the kernel and...

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The rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence is reshaping how people look for work and how employers screen and select candidates, producing a pragmatic — and sometimes uneasy — realignment between efficiency, authenticity, and legal risk that job seekers and HR professionals must manage now. Background / Overview Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini have moved from novelty to everyday utility across the hiring lifecycle: drafting resumes and...

Veeam has released its first pre-configured, pre-hardened software appliance for the Veeam Data Platform — a hardware‑agnostic, Linux‑based delivery of Veeam Backup & Replication that promises faster deployments, built‑in immutability and Zero Trust controls, automated patching, and instant cloud recovery options without locking customers into vendor hardware. Background Veeam’s move toward a software appliance represents a deliberate shift from the long‑standing model of coupling backup...

Windows Autopilot rollouts are stalling in a new, surprising place: immediately after end users accept the Terms of Use (TOU) during OOBE, devices freeze with a non‑descriptive error and the provisioning flow never resumes — a breaking issue first highlighted in community reporting and consolidated by technical analysis from Intune experts. Background / Overview Windows Autopilot has been a cornerstone of cloud‑centric device provisioning for enterprise IT since its widespread adoption...

Techland has finally published the PC system requirements for Dying Light: The Beast, and the numbers make one thing clear: this spin-off is aiming higher than Dying Light 2 in memory and resolution ambition, while leaning heavily on modern upscaling and frame‑generation toolchains to keep the experience playable for mainstream hardware. Background / Overview Dying Light: The Beast re-centers the series on Kyle Crane and introduces a more visceral, mutated power fantasy built on Techland’s...

Microsoft’s deadline is now fixed: Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025, and the practical choices for organizations are stark — migrate to Windows 11, pay for time‑limited Extended Security Updates (ESU), or accept growing security, compliance and operational risk. The public conversation has turned urgent because the short‑term bills for staying on Windows 10 can scale into the billions for large estates, while the migration itself carries real hardware, application and...

Satya Nadella’s short public playbook — five repeatable prompts he says he uses inside Microsoft 365 Copilot — has done more than offer productivity tips; it has shown, in blunt practice, how an enterprise copilot can change the mechanics of leadership, reduce busywork and compress decision cycles across Microsoft 365 and Windows workflows. The prompts are deliberately simple: they anticipate meeting priorities, synthesize project status, quantify launch readiness, audit time use, and...

Microsoft is quietly rolling out a new clipboard continuity option in Windows 11 that can push what you copy on a PC directly into a linked Android phone’s clipboard — surfacing inside Gboard, Samsung Keyboard and other Android IMEs — via the Phone Link (Link to Windows) bridge in recent Insider Dev builds. Background Microsoft’s clipboard has evolved from a one‑slot convenience into a cross‑device productivity surface over the last several Windows releases. Windows 11 introduced clipboard...

Dr. Eunho Lee’s lab at SeoulTech has published a materials‑first strategy for building artificial synapses—organic, electrolyte‑gated transistors whose engineered side chains dramatically improve ion uptake—and at almost the same moment Microsoft pushed deeper into proprietary AI with two in‑house models, MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview, that aim to reshape how speech and general-purpose reasoning are delivered across Copilot and edge services. Together, these developments point to two...

Alibaba’s Cloud Intelligence unit has moved from a long-term strategic bet to the company’s most visible growth engine, delivering a 26% year-over-year revenue increase to RMB 33.4 billion in the most recent quarter and pushing AI-driven product revenues into sustained triple‑digit growth—momentum the company is backing with a headline RMB 380 billion three‑year investment plan and record quarterly capital spending. Background The numbers announced in Alibaba’s latest reporting cycle mark a...

Microsoft’s public lifecycle clock for Windows 10 is now unambiguous: mainstream support stops on October 14, 2025, and users have a narrow set of practical paths forward — upgrade to Windows 11, buy time with a one‑year consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) plan, shift workloads to cloud or alternative operating systems, or accept growing security and compliance risk. Background / Overview Microsoft’s lifecycle page states plainly that Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14...

Microsoft’s community-driven PowerToys has quietly gained a small but meaningful accessibility weapon: a gliding cursor mode that uses the existing Mouse Pointer Crosshairs to let you lock and nudge the pointer along horizontal and vertical axes and then perform a click — all with a single repeated hotkey press. The feature landed as part of PowerToys v0.94, a release that focuses on usability and quality-of-life improvements such as settings search and shortcut conflict detection, and it...

Microsoft Intune administrators who deploy configuration profiles may encounter the cryptic status "Remediation failed" accompanied by the error code 0x87d1fde8, an Intune deployment dead‑end that can come from multiple root causes — device compatibility, CSP mismatches, assignment mistakes, or transient Intune service bugs — and that demands a systematic troubleshooting approach to resolve reliably. (windowsreport.com, learn.microsoft.com) Background Microsoft Intune reports the error code...

If you’re seriously contemplating ditching Windows and can’t (or won’t) keep both, the choice between Linux and macOS comes down to a handful of practical questions — ecosystem, apps, hardware, cost, and how much control you want over the machine. ZDNET’s “7-step” checklist frames the decision as seven clear questions; this piece expands that checklist into an actionable decision plan, verifies key technical claims, flags important caveats, and gives a migration playbook you can follow...