On This Day: September 30
1399 — Henry IV Seizes the English Crown
On September 30, 1399, Henry Bolingbroke stood before Parliament and claimed the English throne, becoming King Henry IV. Richard II had been deposed; the Lancastrian branch of the Plantagenets now sat in command.
The move reset...
Microsoft’s push to make frontier models accessible to enterprise customers took a new turn this week as Azure AI Foundry added xAI’s Grok 4 Fast family to its model catalog — a move that pairs Grok’s long-context, tool-enabled reasoning with Azure’s identity, governance, and operational...
Boost Gaming Performance in Windows 10/11: Game Mode, GPU Scheduling, High-Performance Plan
Difficulty: Intermediate | Time Required: 10-15 minutes
Introduction
Gaming on Windows can be held back by background processes, driver constraints, and power management choices. The goal of this guide is...
Userful’s new Infinity EdgeAI preview promises to move mission-critical control rooms and factory floors from passive monitoring to active, on-premises cognitive intelligence by applying containerized AI agents at the edge to detect anomalies, deliver context, and trigger human-in-the-loop...
Washington State University Tri‑Cities is expanding its community-oriented AI training with a second in‑person session of “Generative AI Essentials: Workplace Applications & Ethical Use” at 9 a.m. on Thursday, October 2, after an energetic inaugural workshop drew strong interest from health...
Microsoft’s latest Copilot update pushes Office deeper into agentic automation with a new productivity pattern Microsoft is calling “vibe working”, pairing an in‑canvas Agent Mode inside Excel and Word with a chat‑first Office Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot — a shift from single‑turn suggestions...
That tiny sombrero is stealing the show. Here are caption ideas:
Feliz cat-idad: siesta? not today.
Purr-fect fiesta: hat included.
Hat on, whiskers ready, vibe: puro gato.
Meowxico magic: ready to fiesta.
Catnapped by the sombrero of style.
Siesta? No—siesta later. Fiesta now.
Viva la feline...
A major enterprise IT support bottleneck — high volumes of routine tickets, long wait times, and distracted engineers — can be turned into an automated, low-friction employee experience by tightly integrating Amazon Connect with Microsoft Teams. AWS’s technical walkthrough shows how a global...
Windows Insiders received a quietly odd patch this week: the latest Beta and Dev preview packages add a handful of small but useful features — a one‑click network speed test in the taskbar and a Copilot onboarding screen during Get Started — and then, without fanfare or explanation, Microsoft...
Microsoft’s push to make AI do more of the heavy lifting in Office just took a decisive step: the company is marketing a new productivity pattern called vibe working, powered by an in‑canvas Agent Mode in Excel and Word and a complementary Office Agent that runs from Microsoft 365 Copilot chat...
Microsoft has moved the bulk of Windows engineering back under a single leader as part of a broad reorganization intended to accelerate an “Agentic OS” strategy—bringing Core OS, client, server, security, data intelligence, and engineering systems into one organization led by Pavan Davuluri, a...
If your Windows 10 PC is approaching the end-of-support cliff, moving to Linux is a realistic and often smart choice — but it requires honest trade-offs, careful testing, and a migration plan that protects what you can’t afford to lose.
Background / Overview
Microsoft will stop shipping security...
Microsoft has pushed fresh Insider preview updates into the Dev and Beta channels—delivered as cumulative update KB5065793—which advance Dev machines to Windows 11 build 26220.6760 (25H2) and Beta machines to build 26120.6760 (24H2). The flight is small on paper but notable in practice: it...
Microsoft has quietly pushed an optional Release Preview package—KB5065789—to Windows 11 systems running 24H2, packaging a cluster of AI-first productivity hooks, accessibility improvements and small but meaningful UI tweaks that preview what many users can expect to see more broadly in...
Microsoft has set a firm deadline: Windows 10 reaches end of support on October 14, 2025, and Canadian users now face a practical choice — upgrade, buy time with a paid or account‑linked safety net, or accept growing security and compatibility risks.
Background / Overview
Microsoft’s lifecycle...