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YouTube will stream tonight’s Kansas City Chiefs–Los Angeles Chargers game from São Paulo — yes — but it will not be delivered in native 4K/UHD; the live feed is being offered as a high‑quality 1080p HD stream rather than a 4K broadcast. Background / Overview This Week 1 matchup from Arena Corinthians in São Paulo is being carried globally on YouTube and YouTube TV as a free, official stream — a notable first for a full, exclusive NFL game on YouTube. The league and YouTube announced the...

Microsoft’s internal pricing playbook for Copilot appears to be getting a major rewrite that will materially lower the sticker price for many enterprise customers while shifting the company’s long-term monetization toward consumption-based agent billing and a centralized “agent management” stack. The change—reported by industry outlets and reflected in leaked internal summaries—would fold previously separate $20-per-user role-based add‑ons for Copilot for Sales, Service, and Finance into the...

The UK Department for Business and Trade’s three‑month pilot of Microsoft 365 Copilot returned a cautious but informative verdict: users reported high satisfaction and clear wins on text‑based tasks, yet the measurable productivity gains were small, use‑case dependent, and offset in places by accuracy and governance risks. Background and overview In October 2024 the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) issued 1,000 M365 Copilot licences to UK‑based staff for a pilot that ran through...

Microsoft’s decision to unveil its first in-house foundation models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — marks a deliberate strategic shift: Microsoft is moving from an AI product strategy that leaned heavily on OpenAI’s frontier models toward an orchestrated, multi‑model architecture that blends proprietary, partner and third‑party systems to optimize cost, latency, privacy and capability for its Copilot and Azure offerings. Background / Overview Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI dates back...

Google and Microsoft have publicly committed to sweeping new AI-in-education initiatives announced at the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Education, pledging broad product access, large-scale training programs, educator grants, and multi‑year investments intended to put generative AI tools into the hands of U.S. students and teachers. Background The White House convened a Task Force on AI Education and framed a national push—branded around a Presidential AI Challenge and an...

Lenovo’s follow-up to the original Legion Go lands as a serious, no-compromise Windows handheld: the Legion Go (8.8″, 2) pairs a brighter, 144 Hz OLED PureSight panel with AMD’s new Ryzen Z2 Extreme APU, up to 32 GB of LPDDR5X memory, and a much larger 74 Whr battery—while keeping the detachable Legion TrueStrike controllers and the device’s three-mode flexibility intact. (news.lenovo.com, gadgets360.com) Background / Overview Lenovo unveiled the Legion Go (8.8″, 2) in Berlin as part of its...

Some of the world’s largest AI labs stand accused of quietly harvesting the world’s recorded music to teach their models how to sing, riff and mimic the voices and styles of living artists — and a newly public dossier compiled by the International Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP) has reignited a long‑running fight over whether that practice is illegal, avoidable, or simply the cost of building modern generative AI. Background The ICMP — a Brussels‑based trade body representing major...

A compact but sophisticated campaign tracked as GhostRedirector has infected at least 65 Internet‑facing Windows IIS servers and paired a stealthy native backdoor with an in‑process IIS module to run a covert, profitable SEO fraud operation that pushes third‑party gambling sites while leaving normal visitors unaffected. Background / Overview ESET Research disclosed the GhostRedirector campaign after telemetry and an internet‑wide scan found evidence of widespread compromise across multiple...

Lenovo’s new ThinkPad Thunderbolt 5 Smart Dock 7500 promises to bring a professional docking experience that feels like a leap into the future: support for three 8K displays at 60Hz, an unheard-of 180W USB Power Delivery (PD 3.1) power budget, and cloud-enabled fleet management — all wrapped in a compact ThinkPad-style chassis aimed squarely at enterprise buyers and creators who need a single‑cable, workstation-class desk setup. (windowscentral.com, news.lenovo.com) Background / Overview...

Microsoft has issued a clear reminder that Microsoft Access 2016 and Access 2019 — like many Office-era products — will reach official end of support on October 14, 2025, meaning security updates, bug fixes, and technical assistance stop on that date and users who remain on these versions will assume growing operational and security risk. Background What Microsoft announced and why it matters Microsoft’s lifecycle calendar lists Access 2016 and Access 2019 under the Fixed Lifecycle Policy...

A lone, technically audacious intervention has kept a generation of Windows Mixed Reality (WMR) headsets out of landfill: Matthieu Bucchianeri, a Microsoft engineer with prior experience on the company’s mixed‑reality teams, released the free “Oasis Driver for Windows Mixed Reality” on Steam to restore native SteamVR/OpenXR functionality to headsets rendered unusable after Microsoft removed WMR support from Windows 11 24H2. Background / Overview Windows Mixed Reality was Microsoft’s platform...

Palo Alto Networks has pushed a clear marker in the SASE arms race with the launch of Prisma SASE 4.0, a major platform refresh that explicitly frames the next phase of enterprise security as AI versus AI — protecting organizations not only from AI-augmented attackers, but from the uncontrolled, agentic AI workflows that live inside modern SaaS tools and copilots. Background / Overview Prisma SASE 4.0 is positioned as an evolution of Palo Alto Networks’ secure access service edge strategy...

Microsoft’s Azure Fibre R&D team — working with researchers from the University of Southampton and the Lumenisity spin‑out — has published results showing a hollow‑core (air‑cored) optical fiber with record low attenuation of 0.091 dB/km at 1,550 nm, a broad low‑loss spectral window, and significant latency and dispersion advantages over conventional silica single‑mode fiber. Background / Overview For roughly four decades, optical networking has been dominated by silica‑core single‑mode...

Microsoft’s public preview of a self-service quota management experience for Azure App Service brings a long-requested level of transparency and control to scaling web apps — a dedicated App Service Quota blade in the Azure portal that shows usage per SKU, lets teams request new limits inline, and aims to reduce surprise deployment failures caused by hidden regional or SKU capacity limits. (techcommunity.microsoft.com, windowsreport.com) Background Azure customers have for years bumped into...

October 14, 2025 will be the quiet turning point for enterprise IT: Microsoft will stop shipping free security updates, quality fixes, and routine technical support for Windows 10, and organisations that treat that date as optional are gambling with permanent exposure to an expanding threat surface. The practical reality is stark—machines will continue to boot and users will keep working, but newly discovered Windows vulnerabilities after that date will no longer be fixed for non‑enrolled...

Lenovo’s IFA 2025 showing landed some genuinely promising hardware — a redesigned entry-level LOQ Tower with clearer upgrade intent, a trio of premium Legion PureSight OLED gaming monitors, and refreshed Legion laptops and handheld updates — but a single, surprising architectural choice threatens to hollow out one of the event’s most interesting announcements. Background Lenovo used IFA 2025 to push its gaming stacks forward across multiple product tiers: budget-friendly pre-built desktops...

A recent third‑party listing for a 15.6‑inch Lenovo IdeaPad 1 has circulated with a bewildering mix of specifications — claiming everything from an AMD Athlon dual‑core CPU with 20 GB of RAM and a 1 TB PCIe NVMe drive, to the much more common Intel Celeron N4500, 4 GB of RAM and 128 GB eMMC. That jumble of specs on the same product page is a textbook example of why buyers shopping budget Windows 11 laptops must verify SKU details before clicking “buy”; the listing itself appears to combine...

Microsoft has quietly added a new diagnostic aimed at keeping Copilot agents working reliably inside Microsoft Teams: the Copilot Agent Functionality Diagnostic — a customer-facing validator now accessible through Microsoft’s diagnostic surfaces and designed to surface licensing, permission, and tenant configuration issues that commonly block agent behavior in Teams. This tool promises a faster, repeatable path for IT teams to verify an environment before a Copilot rollout or to pinpoint...

Microsoft has quietly moved a major piece of its AI productivity stack out of the browser and into the Windows shell: eligible Microsoft 365 subscribers can now invoke Copilot file actions directly from File Explorer and the OneDrive Activity Center, letting users summarize documents, ask targeted questions, generate FAQs, and compare multiple files—without opening a single Office app or a browser window. Background Microsoft has been integrating Copilot into the Microsoft 365 ecosystem...

A UK government Proof of Concept (PoC) led by Hitachi Solutions Europe has shown that Microsoft applications — including Power Platform, Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Copilot — can securely operate on live data that remains resident in Amazon Web Services (AWS) without copying or moving that sensitive information, using a private, Zero Trust‑aligned connector that links the clouds and preserves compliance and data sovereignty controls. Background The public sector has long struggled with the...