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Anthropic's Agentic AI: Redefining Enterprise Automation
Anthropic’s recent pivot from a conversational-first product to an explicit bet on autonomous, always‑on “AI agents” is no incremental product update — it is a strategic re‑definition of how enterprise software will get built and bought over the next decade. (webpronews.com) 126022Background /...
Copilot Privatsphäre im Fokus: Reprompt Lücke und Tracking Debatte
Microsofts Copilot steht erneut im Zentrum einer Datenschutzdebatte: Während Sicherheitsforscher eine „Reprompt“-Schwachstelle enthüllten, die mit einem einzigen Klick sensible Nutzerdaten aus Copilot Personal auslesen konnte, berichten Nutzer der mobilen Copilot‑App von unerwarteten...
Draft Income Tax Rules 2026: Simplification Amid Transition Risks in India
The draft Income‑tax Rules, 2026 — released by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) and placed in the public domain for stakeholder feedback — signal a major operational rewrite of India’s subordinate tax law as the country prepares to implement the Income‑tax Act, 2025 on April 1, 2026. The...
Apple M5 Ära: On-device AI und höhere Bandbreite treiben MacBook Pro und mehr
Apple hat die M5-Ära in Hardware und Marketing faktisch eingeläutet: das erste sichtbare Ergebnis ist ein aktualisiertes 14‑Zoll MacBook Pro mit M5‑SoC, flankiert von einem M5‑iPad Pro und einer Vision‑Pro‑Variante — und die Industriegerüchte deuten darauf hin, dass die M5‑Familie 2026 deutlich...
Windows Shutdown Glitch: VSM and Memory Integrity Clash (Jan 2026)
A widely distributed January 2026 security update left a slice of Windows PCs unable to power off cleanly: hitting the shutdown button causes some machines to restart, and in other cases the system refuses to hibernate. Microsoft acknowledged the problem, released emergency out‑of‑band patches, and...
Sri Lanka Must Board the AI Bus Now: An 18‑Month AI Transformation Roadmap
On a packed virtual afternoon, a Sri Lankan–American scientist asked a question that should wake every policy maker, educator and entrepreneur in Colombo: what if Sri Lanka didn’t arrive late this time? That sharp, almost rhetorical challenge — delivered by Dr. Yasantha Rajakarunanayake at a LEADS...
ASUS ROG Strix Aiolos: 20Gbps M.2 Enclosure for Fast Portable Storage
ASUS’s new ROG Strix Aiolos takes the humble M.2 SSD out of the desktop and turns it into a purpose-built, high-speed portable drive aimed squarely at gamers and creators who want near-internal speeds in a pocketable package. Background The external SSD enclosure market has matured quickly over the...
Windows Server 2022 File Sharing Guide: GUI Setup and Automation
If you want a reliable, secure file share on your LAN, Windows Server can do the job quickly — whether you're running a single home server or a small‑office file server. This guide walks through creating and managing shared folders and entire volumes on Windows Server 2022 (GUI), explains the...
Microsoft AI Strategy: Balancing High Margin Software with Cloud Buildout
Microsoft’s latest quarter exposed a tension that Wall Street is wrestling with: a brief cooling in Azure growth and a stock-price pullback, but also a carefully orchestrated trade-off between two of the company’s most valuable engines — high-margin enterprise software and capital-hungry cloud...
Lenovo LOQ 15 Gen 10: Preiswertes 1080p Gaming mit 144 Hz Display
Die Lenovo LOQ 15 Gen 10 liefert ein überraschend kompaktes Paket für Einsteiger‑PC‑Gamer: solide Hardware‑Basics, ein farbstarkes 144‑Hz‑Display und ein Preis, der viele Rivalen ins Schwitzen bringt. BornCity beschreibt das Gerät als günstiges Einstiegs‑Ticket für Spieler, die keine Kompromisse...
Cold Lake Adopts Principles Based AI Policy with Human Oversight
The City of Cold Lake’s council unanimously approved a new Artificial Intelligence policy on Jan. 27 that deliberately steers between outright prohibition and laissez‑faire adoption: it gives municipal staff a principles‑based decision framework to use embedded AI features while erecting explicit...
Microsoft Copilot Reminders Spotlight: Why To Do Integration Matters
Microsoft’s quiet rollout of a Copilot “Reminders” feature has done something odd: it exposed a familiar fault line in the company’s product strategy by re-creating functionality that already exists in a once-promising app that now looks, frankly, like abandonware. 126010Background / Overview...
Gemini: Google's Multimodal AI Assistant in Search Chrome and Workspace
Google’s latest push into consumer AI is no longer an experiment: Gemini has matured into a full-fledged assistant that pairs advanced multimodal models with deep product integration across Search, Chrome, and Workspace — and the result is an assistant that is both remarkably useful and quietly...
Legacy AMD Catalyst 12.1/12.2 on Windows 10: Safer Install Guide
The Born2Invest-style clearance snippet that surfaced claiming “Shop radeon catalyst control center windows 10 Clearance AMD Catalyst 12.1 and 12.2 Preview drivers released” highlights an old but persistent problem in the Windows graphics ecosystem: nostalgia for the Catalyst era colliding with...
Copilot Comes to Windows 11 OOBE: Try Now During Setup Update
Microsoft has quietly added an interactive Copilot trial into the Windows 11 Out‑of‑Box Experience (OOBE) that can appear while the installer downloads and applies updates — letting new users “Try now” and open the full Copilot chat interface during setup without signing in to a Microsoft account....
Crew-12 Launch Cleared After FAA NASA Review of Falcon 9 Upper Stage Anomaly Feb 11 2026
NASA and SpaceX are now targeting a pre-dawn liftoff on February 11, 2026, after the Federal Aviation Administration and NASA completed a rapid review of a recent Falcon 9 upper‑stage anomaly and cleared the vehicle and Crew Dragon for the next crew rotation to the International Space Station....
Microsoft Counters OpenAI Frontier with Agent 365 and Frontier Firm
Microsoft’s commercial chief has quietly issued a reminder to the company’s troops: when OpenAI moves up‑market with a new agent platform, Microsoft believes it has the enterprise playbook to meet the challenge — and it isn’t leaving the field without contesting it. ]) 126003Background Enterprise...
Windows First: Generative AI as Workplace Infrastructure in 2026
By 2026 the question is no longer whether generative AI will change work — it’s how teams rearrange their days around the outputs these systems produce and the new expectations they create. 126002Background / Overview The quiet revolution of 2024–2026 wasn’t a single breakthrough model or a flashy...
Tesla Optimus verändert die deutsche Industrie Risiko Chancen Lieferketten
Tesla beschleunigt den Robotik‑Einsatz – und stellt die deutsche Industrie vor ein strategisches Dilemma zwischen Innovationsdruck, Lieferkettensicherheit und Sozialverträglichkeit. Schon die Ankündigungen von Elon Musk und die mediale Inszenierung rund um den humanoiden Roboter Optimus haben eine...
Apple Notfall Updates verlängern Lebensdauer älterer iPhones und Notrufprobleme beheben
Apple hat diese Woche überraschend mehrere Notfall‑Updates veröffentlicht, mit denen ältere iPhone‑Modelle — darunter Geräte aus dem Jahr 2013 und später — vor dem Verlust zentraler Dienste bewahrt werden und gleichzeitig ein lokales Notrufproblem auf einigen neueren Geräten behoben wird....
0x80244022 Explained: Store and Windows Update Failures in Windows 11
Microsoft Store and Windows Update users began seeing instant failures and a flood of 0x80244022 errors on Windows 11 this weekend as Microsoft acknowledged a datacenter power interruption that briefly took parts of its update and Store infrastructure offline, leaving installs and updates stuck...
Azure West US Power Outage Highlights Cloud Resilience and Recovery
Microsoft’s cloud suffered a regional power hiccup on February 7, 2026 that left a slice of the West US Azure footprint struggling — and it’s a reminder that even the biggest cloud platforms can be vulnerable to physical infrastructure failures and cascading recovery effects. (theverge.com)...
TECNO Megabook K Series Lands in Philippines with BOGO Smartphone Bundle
TECNO’s Megabook K Series has landed in the Philippines with an exclusive retail push through Laptop Factory and an aggressive launch promotion that bundles a free TECNO smartphone with every laptop purchase—an unexpected value play that positions the K Series as a serious contender in the...
Numerology Demystified: Systems, Master Numbers, and Practical Use
125995 Stop scrolling for a second — numerology is not a trend, it’s a cultural practice with ancient roots that many people now encounter through apps, viral posts, and the familiar tingle of seeing 11:11 on a clock. Background: what the Yardbarker piece said — and what it really means The...
Microsoft Clarity Bot Activity: Revealing AI Bot Access With Server Logs
Microsoft’s Clarity has just pulled back the curtain on a persistent blind spot for publishers and site operators: a new Bot Activity dashboard that surfaces how AI crawlers, search bots, and automated agents access web content — and crucially, it does so using server-side logs rather than...
NSA Empfehlung: Wöchentlicher Neustart schützt Smartphone vor Angriffen
125994 Die nationale US-Geheimdienstbehörde NSA rät Nutzern von iPhone und Android dazu, ihr Smartphone mindestens einmal pro Woche vollständig auszuschalten und wieder einzuschalten — ein simpler Handgriff, der in ihrer Infokarte „Mobile Device Best Practices“ ausdrücklich steht: „Power the device...
Sparkasse Gelsenkirchen eröffnet Service Zentrum nach Millionenraub
Die Sparkasse Gelsenkirchen hat in unmittelbarer Reaktion auf den spektakulären Tresor‑Einbruch am Ende des vergangenen Jahres ein zentrales Service‑Zentrum eröffnet — ein Schritt, der sowohl die akute Kundenunruhe adressieren als auch das beschädigte Vertrauen wiederaufbauen soll. (borncity.com)...
PDF24 Free Local PDF Toolbox for Windows — Private and No Subscriptions
PDF tools have long forced hard choices: pay for a subscription, tolerate crippling feature gates, or trust a sketchy online converter with your private documents — and then along comes a genuinely full-featured, locally runnable PDF toolbox that costs nothing. MakeUseOf’s recent hands‑on calls...
Pause or Remove Microsoft Defender on Windows 11: Safe Methods and Best Practices
Microsoft Defender Antivirus can be paused quickly for a single task or disabled persistently for an entire deployment — but how you do it, and why you do it, matter far more today than they did a few years ago. This feature guide and analysis walks through safe, supported temporary disables, the...
AI Agent Identity Governance: Securing Non Human Identities in Enterprise AI
Token Security’s latest week of communications sharpened a single, urgent message: as enterprises rapidly adopt AI copilots and autonomous agents, identity — not just models or data — is the primary attack surface that must be discovered, governed and controlled. The company reinforced that...
Taiwan Digital Arrival Card TWAC: A Windows Traveler's Prep Guide
Taiwan's border has gone digital, and anyone planning to travel there now needs to treat their phone and laptop as essential travel documents rather than optional conveniences. 125985Background / Overview Taiwan’s National Immigration Agency (NIA) has moved decisively to replace paper arrival cards...
AI in Education: Balancing Personalization, Learning, and Equity
As artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s Copilot move from demonstration projects into everyday classroom practice, educators and policy experts are raising urgent alarms: the very technologies promised to personalize learning and save teacher time may also...
Matrimonial Scams and Crypto Fraud: Stay Safe from Romance Scams
125984 Matrimonial and dating platforms are fast becoming the new front line for financially devastating social‑engineering crimes: the Ministry of Home Affairs’ cyber‑unit has formally warned that fraudsters are using stolen photos, polished fake profiles and emotional grooming to push victims...
EpocCam on Windows 10: Legacy status, safety tips, and modern alternatives
EpocCam’s long run as a convenient phone‑as‑webcam tool is effectively over for new development, but the app’s legacy, driver story, and practical alternatives still matter to anyone trying to use an iPhone or Android device as a Windows 10 webcam — especially for IT teams, home streamers, and...
Windows 11 Wireless Keyboard Not Detected? A Practical Troubleshooting Guide
If Windows 11 stops detecting your wireless keyboard, the problem is almost always fixable — and usually far less mysterious than it feels at first. In this deep-dive guide I walk through a structured, risk-aware troubleshooting path that starts with the simplest checks (battery, pairing, receiver...
Benner Spring PFAS Hatchery: Fish Safety, Testing Gaps and Remediation
The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission and state regulators say the trout coming from Benner Spring State Fish Hatchery remain within advisory limits and “are safe to consume” even as a multi-year PFAS investigation centered near State College continues to unfold — but the case exposes gaps in...
Cold Lake adopts balanced AI policy for municipal governance
The City of Cold Lake has moved from deliberation to action: on Jan. 27 council unanimously approved a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) policy that aims to let municipal staff use AI where it delivers efficiency, while erecting clear guardrails to protect personal and organizational information....
Project Eidos: AI-Ready Privacy-First Cross-Channel Ad Measurement
The Interactive Advertising Bureau’s launch of Project Eidos marks the industry’s most explicit, cross‑sector effort to reforge how advertising is measured in an era governed by AI, privacy constraints, and fragmented attention — and it arrives alongside competing projects from the ANA and major...
OpenAI's Enterprise Agent Platform: The Next Frontier in AI Automation
OpenAI’s move to ship a full-stack, enterprise-focused agent platform marks a turning point in the commercial AI race — one that could remake how businesses automate work, who controls that automation, and how enterprise software is sold and priced. 125977Background / Overview OpenAI’s recent...
Microsoft OpenAI Paradox: Enterprise Agents vs Copilot Strategy
For a company that built its modern renaissance on strategic partnerships, Microsoft now finds itself navigating a rare and delicate paradox: its most consequential ally has quietly become one of its most formidable competitors. 125976Background / Overview Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI has...
Analysts Reprice Risk Across Enphase Cloudflare Merck Microsoft and FuboTV in Feb 2026
125975 Wall Street turned sharply active in early February 2026, with analysts rotating through five very different stories — Enphase Energy, Cloudflare, Merck & Co., Microsoft, and fuboTV — issuing upgrades, downgrades and much‑debated price targets that together illuminate how investors are...
Apple Study: Designer Feedback Improves AI UI Generation
Apple’s new research paper and accompanying experiments make a clear, provocative claim: when it comes to designing software interfaces, machines learn best not by ingesting more screenshots but by learning the language of design directly from the people who practice it. The company’s...
ChatGPT in 2026: GPT-5.2, memory, and multimodal insights
ChatGPT arrived as a cultural and technical milestone in 2022, and the 2026 landscape finds it still among the most capable and broadly useful consumer AI chatbots — but in a world where rivals, product economics, and legal scrutiny have reshaped what “best” actually means. The PCMag Australia...
Canada's AI at Work: Upskill Fast or Risk Falling Behind
Canada’s conversation about AI and work has shifted from abstract fear to a pragmatic how-to: learn to use these tools — and quickly — or risk being leapfrogged by people who do. 125972Background: why Marc Saltzman’s piece matters now Marc Saltzman’s recent column arguing that Canadian workers...
From Chatbots to AI Agents: Building Autonomous Digital Coworkers for Enterprises
The AI industry’s public conversation has begun to pivot away from casual chat and toward a much more consequential promise: not conversational companions, but autonomous digital coworkers that can plan, act, and be managed inside the software ecosystems companies already use. 125970Background: why...
Calendar First CIO Drives AI and Safety with HALO at First Student
Sean McCormack’s playbook for modern IT leadership is deceptively simple: know the business, master your time, and push technology where it actually touches people. As CIO of First Student — the North American student-transportation giant rolling out its HALO platform across tens of thousands of...
EWS Retirement in Exchange Online: Plan Graph Migration by 2027
Microsoft has set hard dates: Exchange Web Services (EWS) in Exchange Online will be disabled by default starting October 1, 2026, and will be permanently and irrevocably shut down on April 1, 2027 — leaving organizations no choice but to migrate active EWS integrations to Microsoft Graph (or...
Publicis leans into AI to power growth and talent strategy in 2025 results
Arthur Sadoun’s message to the market was simple and unapologetic: Publicis has chosen to lean into AI, protect and pay its people, and double down on capability-led growth — and those choices are the reasons the group outperformed peers in 2025 even as the broader agency sector floundered. This is...
Windows 11 OOBE Lets You Try Copilot During Setup Update
Microsoft has quietly added a new twist to the Windows 11 out‑of‑box experience (OOBE): while your PC downloads the latest updates during initial setup, you can now open and try Copilot — Microsoft's conversational AI — directly inside the setup flow without first signing in with a Microsoft...
AI in the Classroom: Balancing Innovation, Equity and Assessment
Classrooms across the globe are filling with artificial intelligence tools at a pace that has teachers and administrators scrambling to translate policy into practice, raising urgent questions about learning, equity, privacy, and the very shape of assessment. 125963Background The arrival of...