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Microsoft’s latest round-up of terse but important tech items — the kind of “what you need to know today” briefing that often gets missed between longer features — points to a clear theme: Windows and the ecosystem around it are maturing toward faster updates, smaller downloads, and more user‑centric tooling, even as unofficial forks and third‑party utilities complicate the security picture. In a single sweep the items reported touch on Windows 11’s 24H2 update improvements (faster installs...

Windows 10 still powers roughly half the world’s PCs as Microsoft’s support clock winds down, forcing consumers, IT departments, and OEMs into a compressed set of hard choices about upgrades, security, and cost. Background / Overview Windows 10’s lifecycle is reaching a hard endpoint: Microsoft has scheduled the operating system’s official end-of-support date for October 14, 2025. After that date, machines that remain on stock Windows 10 will no longer receive routine quality updates...

Microsoft has pushed Windows 11, version 25H2 into the Release Preview channel as a deliberately small, operational update—an enablement package that flips features already staged in 24H2—prioritizing stability, manageability, and a clean-up of legacy tooling rather than a splashy set of consumer-facing headline features. Background / Overview Microsoft’s servicing model for annual Windows feature updates has quietly evolved into a shared-servicing approach: most feature binaries are...

California’s new statewide AI education initiative — a public‑private push that ropes in Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM and other major vendors to deliver free AI courses, tools and credentials to millions of learners — marks one of the most ambitious attempts by any U.S. state to fold artificial intelligence into public education at scale. Background California’s office of the governor and the leaders of the state’s public higher‑education systems presented the program as a rapid response to...

Australian Data Centres’ new hires mark a decisive pivot from a single-site, Canberra-focused operator to an ambitious, nationally scaled provider positioning itself for sovereign, AI-ready, and hyperscale workloads. Background / Overview Australian Data Centres (ADC) — a privately owned, Canberra-rooted operator that has long marketed itself on sovereignty and secure hosting for government and regulated customers — announced the appointment of three senior executives to its national...

Techland has published the official PC system requirements for Dying Light: The Beast, and the headline is clear: you can still play at 1080p on modest hardware, but chasing 4K/60 with ray tracing and frame generation pushes you into very recent—and in one case effectively next‑generation—GPU territory. (wccftech.com, store.steampowered.com) Background Dying Light: The Beast is Techland’s latest standalone chapter in the Dying Light franchise, shipping to PC and consoles with a strong push...

Microsoft has quietly added a native way for Windows 11 to push what you copy on a PC straight into a linked Android phone’s clipboard — a low-latency, keyboard‑friendly clipboard sync that significantly reduces friction when moving text between desktop and mobile, while leaving iPhone users without a comparable native path for now. Background Microsoft’s Phone Link (Link to Windows) story has been incremental but steady: originally focused on Android, Phone Link added notifications...

Microsoft says its August Windows 11 security update (KB5063878) is not behind the recent wave of reports alleging SSDs and HDDs have been rendered inaccessible or corrupted, but the episode has exposed gaps in forensic clarity and left many users mistrustful of a conclusion drawn without a smoking‑gun reproduction. Background In mid‑August 2025 Microsoft shipped a cumulative security update for Windows 11 (version 24H2), released as KB5063878 on August 12, 2025. Within days, threads on...

As the calendar races toward October 14, 2025, a striking and inconvenient truth has emerged: a very large portion of the global PC installed base is still running Windows 10, even as Microsoft prepares to stop issuing free security updates and feature patches for that OS. PC makers, market trackers, and Microsoft itself now agree the transition to Windows 11 is far from complete — and the choices left to consumers, enterprises, and governments are both messy and consequential. Background /...

Microsoft has pushed Windows 11, version 25H2 into the Release Preview channel as a deliberately small, operational update — an enablement package that flips features already staged throughout the 24H2 servicing stream rather than delivering a headline, consumer-facing feature list — and Microsoft itself confirms that there are no brand‑new consumer features at launch; instead the release focuses on manageability, security hardening, and the removal of long‑deprecated tooling. Background /...

Microsoft’s desktop era is fragmenting in plain sight: while Windows 11’s adoption has surged—pushing close to or past the halfway mark on some charts—an increasing number of users are quietly defecting to Windows‑style Linux distributions that promise a familiar UI without Microsoft’s licensing, telemetry, or hardware constraints. (gs.statcounter.com, store.steampowered.com) Background: why this moment matters The desktop OS landscape is being reshaped by two converging forces. On one hand...

Microsoft’s quiet work to make Windows 11 feel more like a single, connected workspace just took a small but practical step forward: a new clipboard sync path that can push what you copy on a PC straight into an Android phone’s clipboard and keyboard UI. Early preview builds surface an “Access PC’s clipboard” toggle under the Mobile Devices section, and hands‑on reporting shows copied text appearing almost instantly inside Android keyboards such as Gboard and Samsung Keyboard. This addition...

Microsoft’s August 2025 servicing wave is the most operationally significant Windows 11 release window in months: it moves day‑one patching into the Out‑of‑Box Experience (OOBE), promotes Windows Backup for Organizations to general availability, extends hotpatching across server and (limited) client scenarios, and ships a broad mix of productivity and on‑device AI improvements that will be staged and gated by hardware, licensing, and regional controls. These changes are designed to reduce...

At some point in the early 21st century, the public debate over artificial intelligence shifted from abstract speculation to urgent planning: could the next leap in AI turn into a civilization-scale crisis, and if so, what can people do now to reduce the odds? A high-profile scenario known as AI 2027 — produced by the AI Futures Project and led by former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo — lays out a month-by-month fictional timeline in which a company called “OpenBrain” produces a...

Microsoft’s short, step-by-step support page for Microsoft Edge lays out the basics for adding, disabling, and removing extensions — but the topic matters far beyond a few clicks. Extensions shape privacy, performance, and security for millions of Windows users, and managing them properly is now a core part of browser hygiene. This feature unpacks Microsoft’s guidance, explains the key settings and safeguards, evaluates the security trade‑offs, and offers practical, admin‑level controls and...

Microsoft’s August wave of Microsoft 365 updates pushes a clear signal: productivity is being re-engineered around AI-first workflows, tighter security controls, and admin-grade manageability — and many of the features arriving this cycle are designed to reduce friction for everyday users while simultaneously giving IT teams more granular visibility and governance. The release blends practical UI fixes (a countdown timer for meetings, repositioned send button on mobile), administrative...

Klinikum Landsberg am Lech has cut the time clinicians spend on paperwork dramatically by using an Azure OpenAI–based transcription and documentation pipeline that captures clinical conversations in real time and pushes structured notes directly into the hospital information system. Background Klinikum Landsberg am Lech is a 218‑bed acute care hospital that treats a broad range of patients—including pediatric and adolescent care—where the pressure of emergency work routinely forces...

Hanmi Pharmaceutical’s decision to equip its field force with 5G-enabled Surface Copilot+ PCs and roll out Microsoft 365 Copilot across the business marks a clear inflection point in how a major R&D-centric pharmaceutical company is defining the “AI PC” era — a move intended to marry anywhere connectivity, on-device AI, and enterprise-grade security to accelerate sales productivity, streamline workflows, and build a foundation for Copilot-driven agents and citizen developer programs...

Microsoft and Cloudflare have quietly handed website owners a practical toolset to turn ordinary pages into AI‑friendly, conversational endpoints — a move that could accelerate the shift from traditional, keyword‑based search toward answer engines and materially reshape how traffic, attribution, and monetization work on the web. (windowscentral.com, techradar.com) Background / Overview Search on the web has long been a two‑step ritual: query, then click through a ranked list of pages. That...

Chrome is quietly becoming an AI platform — and the consequences are already rippling through privacy, competition, and enterprise planning. Background / Overview The past week has delivered three tightly coupled developments that deserve close attention: Anthropic’s pilot of Claude for Chrome, Microsoft’s announcement of new in‑house foundation models (MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview), and an industry‑wide privacy debate about whether user chats will be repurposed for model training. These...