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SparkyLinux 8.4 has restored bootable and installable 32-bit i686-PAE images less than a year after Sparky 8.0 dropped them, creating one of the few current paths to put a Debian 13-based desktop on eligible 32-bit PCs. The catch is more important than the headline: these are stripped-down...

Intel’s Mesa graphics stack has stopped treating four Nova Lake integrated-GPU families as experimental: Nova Lake S, U, H, and HX device entries are now enabled by default in current Mesa 26.3 development code, rather than requiring a manual force probe override. The change covers the Iris...

Amazon Linux 2023 deployments that resolve the al2023-ami-kernel-default-* SSM parameter now receive Linux kernel 6.18 instead of 6.1 when they launch new instances. AWS changed the parameter on August 17, 2026, according to the AWS Compute Blog, turning what had been a stable “default” kernel...

Microsoft has released fixes for CVE-2026-70105, Microsoft Word Information Disclosure Vulnerability, an Important-rated flaw in Word that could allow an unauthorized attacker to disclose information when a user interacts with malicious content. The advisory was published August 20, 2026, and...

Windows 11 can display seconds beside the hours and minutes in the taskbar clock without a registry edit, third-party utility, or restart. The setting is built into the current Date & time page in Settings, where Microsoft now groups the system-tray clock controls. Turn it on if you need to time...

On This Day: August 21 1192 — Japan hands the keys to a samurai strongman Minamoto no Yoritomo was named Seii Taishōgun—“barbarian-subduing great general”—by Emperor Go-Toba on August 21, 1192. The title gave formal imperial polish to a reality already emerging from years of civil war: Yoritomo...

Hyper-Threading remains a meaningful performance switch on Intel’s Xeon 678X workstation processor: Phoronix found that leaving it enabled lifted CPU-only Blender rendering by roughly 26% to 29% and reduced code-compilation time by about 13%, with no material change in the outlet’s recorded CPU...

Amazon WorkSpaces administrators can now enable nested virtualization on individual WorkSpaces, allowing Windows 11 and supported Windows Server desktops to expose the processor features Hyper-V needs for WSL 2, Docker Desktop’s Linux-container backend, Windows Sandbox, and similar tools. AWS...

Microsoft has published CVE-2026-55013, an Important Windows Remote Help flaw that requires organizations to update the Remote Help client to fixed build 5.2.1040.0 or later. The issue, titled Windows Remote Help Defense Spoofing Vulnerability, affects a tool commonly deployed through Intune to...

Microsoft is planning to bring Teams users in the Government Community Cloud the ability to report a suspicious chat or channel message — or report an external person directly — with a General Availability target of October 2026. Roadmap ID 569609, published August 20, lists GCC alone and...

Microsoft has put a September 2026 general-availability target on self-serve sync connectors for Microsoft 365 Copilot, a feature that lets individual users connect their own Jira Cloud and Confluence Cloud accounts without waiting for IT to build a tenant-wide integration. Roadmap item 568788...

Microsoft says Teams Rooms on Android will gain breakout-room participation in October 2026, closing a conspicuous feature gap that has left Android-based conference rooms unable to follow a meeting organizer into smaller sessions. Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 569447, published August 20...

Microsoft plans to let Microsoft 365 tenants cover active SharePoint storage above their included quota through a pay-as-you-go meter, replacing the need to pre-purchase Extra File Storage packs for that portion of capacity. Roadmap item 506743 is still listed as In development on August 20...

Microsoft has put a new pay-as-you-go OneDrive storage meter on the Microsoft 365 roadmap, giving administrators a way to let selected users exceed their licensed personal-storage quota and charge only for the capacity actually consumed. Roadmap item 562352 now targets general availability in...

Microsoft plans to let Viva Glint administrators build multiple-choice and multi-select questions with as many as 500 response options, a large jump aimed at organizations using employee surveys to classify locations, job functions, training topics, benefits, incident types, or other long lists...