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The clip opens like a classic team highlight: a timing route that turns into a field‑flipping gain, a short downhill run to finish, and a boisterous caption promising "46 Yards to the House!" — but the moment behind the headline and the web page that hosts it tell two parallel stories: one about...

A large portion of the public internet experienced service disruptions on October 20, 2025 after a major outage in Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 region, knocking high‑profile apps such as Snapchat and Canva offline for many users and exposing brittle dependencies around DynamoDB, DNS...

The internet you use every day — from messaging apps and streaming services to online banking and government portals — runs on racks of servers, miles of fibre and a handful of companies that operate vast, power-hungry data centres: the cloud is the invisible engine of the web. Recent reporting...

Starbucks has quietly begun piloting an AI-powered barista assistant called Green Dot Assist — a Microsoft Azure + OpenAI–backed tool deployed on in‑store iPads in a limited set of locations that the company says is designed to help baristas with recipes, troubleshooting and workflow decisions...

Microsoft’s October cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5066835) shipped a routine security rollup on October 14, 2025 — and within days it left many machines unable to accept USB keyboard and mouse input inside the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), effectively making the built‑in recovery UI...

Community Summit North America opened its 2025 program with a forceful, people‑first message: AI isn’t merely a set of new tools to bolt onto existing systems — it’s a cultural and operational inflection point that community organizers, partners, and Microsoft product leaders now say must be...

Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 region suffered a DNS‑related failure that briefly knocked hundreds — by some counts more than a thousand — of high‑profile sites and services offline on October 20, 2025, and the outage underlined a simple technical truth with major business consequences: when a...

Microsoft’s decision to stop free mainstream support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 has done more than close a chapter in the company’s lifecycle planning — it has already reshaped migration choices for millions of users and amplified conversations about privacy, platform control, and the...

Windows 11 can feel sleek and modern, but a handful of buried settings regularly determine whether it feels fast or sluggish; those five hidden tweaks — disabling unnecessary startup apps, enabling Storage Sense, turning on Fast Startup, disabling transparency effects, and managing virtual...

Microsoft’s short explainers about driver updates — what they are, where they come from, and how Windows delivers them — are useful but raise nearly as many operational questions as they answer; this guide walks through the official mechanics, exposes the practical gaps, and gives clear...

Microsoft’s new Full Screen Experience (FSE) for Windows gaming is an optional, controller‑first mode that turns Windows into a console‑style launcher environment optimized for handhelds and gamepad navigation, and Microsoft published guidance describing how FSE works and how to enable it —...

Microsoft’s consumer-facing advice — framed as “5 Smart Ways to Use Copilot Today” — is less about flashy demos and more about practical, repeatable workflows that real people can start using immediately: draft better writing, tame overflowing inboxes and meetings, get hands-on help with Excel...

Microsoft has confirmed that the October cumulative update for Windows 11 (KB5066835), shipped alongside the 25H2 rollout, introduced a regression that prevents USB keyboards and mice from functioning inside the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), leaving the very tools meant to repair broken...

In the telling recollection of former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer, the company's 1990s talent machine looked less like a nurturing incubator and more like a high-stakes gauntlet: merciless interviews up front, strict role-fit triage inside, and a blunt performance architecture that either...

Microsoft’s latest security briefing makes a blunt point: Azure Blob Storage is no longer just a convenient object store — it is an active battleground, and defenders need to treat it as such now that adversaries are weaponizing cloud-native scale, features, and orchestration to probe, persist...