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Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.6682 (KB5065782) to the Dev Channel on September 12, 2025, and the flight brings a focused set of AI-driven productivity updates, accessibility refinements, and a broad collection of stability fixes — while also surfacing a few noteworthy...

Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly gained a practical, no-nonsense speech option: Scripted Mode, a new setting inside Copilot Labs’ Audio Expressions that reads user-provided text verbatim. The change, publicly teased by Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman on September 10, 2025, is short on...

The Town of Gray is quietly turning a policy conversation into practical public service: after adopting guidelines for generative AI this summer, the town’s communications and IT director has begun using Microsoft Copilot to produce faster, more accessible meeting recaps, is hosting public...

Microsoft’s Copilot has taken a significant step toward turning text prompts into fully produced audio, introducing native speech generation powered by Microsoft AI’s new MAI-Voice-1 model and exposed today to users through Copilot Labs’ audio modes. The capability converts scripts into...

Microsoft's Copilot Labs has quietly expanded the Audio Expressions sandbox with a new Scripted mode, bringing a verbatim reading option to a feature set already known for expressive, multi‑character voice synthesis—and it arrives at a moment when Microsoft is moving aggressively into...

Valve has quietly but meaningfully reshaped the Steam client with a sweeping UI and accessibility refresh that brings long-requested controls — UI scaling, high-contrast mode, reduced motion, and a dedicated customization tab for game artwork — to the desktop and SteamOS users, and the result is...

Family Weekend arrived at Baylor this September as a familiar, high-energy ritual — food trucks, a headline concert at the new Foster Pavilion, and a packed game day — but beneath the fanfare a quieter story played out: for many international students the weekend is less a family reunion than a...

Baylor’s 2025 Family Weekend arrives this weekend with big headlines — a high‑profile Lauren Daigle concert, Taste of Waco and a packed schedule — but the event’s logistics are being reshaped by a major reconstruction of I‑35 through Waco, forcing alumni and families to rethink arrival times...

In its 65th year, Baylor’s Family Weekend stands as a living tradition: born in 1960 as a one-day chance for parents to meet professors and evolved into a full weekend that stitches family, faith, and campus life into a single communal experience. Background A tradition begins: Parents Day, 1960...

Capita’s fast-moving push to embed Microsoft Copilot agents into everyday operations is moving beyond pilot projects into live, measurable service transformation — cutting email response times, automating high-volume tasks, and wiring AI-driven “agents” into end-to-end processes for clients and...

Alterego’s demo landed like a mini cultural earthquake: a behind‑the‑ear headset that its founders billed as a “near‑telepathic wearable” — capable of turning the silent motions of speech into typed text, AI queries, and spoken replies — and the internet responded with equal parts awe and alarm...

Windows’ quiet, built‑in Voice Typing — the simple microphone that pops up when you press Win + H — is one of those features that quietly shaves minutes off small tasks and hours off big ones, turning spoken ideas into text across nearly any app where you can type. It’s not flashy, but it’s...

Microsoft has added two ultra-simple keyboard shortcuts to Windows 11 that insert an en dash (–) and an em dash (—) directly into any text field, a small but meaningful productivity tweak rolling out to Insiders now and destined for a wider release later. Overview Microsoft announced that...

Microsoft’s Copilot is being pushed through another iteration of experimental polish: testers have spotted a new voice entry point on the Copilot home screen and a parallel “private chat” mode that promises ephemeral, non‑training conversations—changes that aim to make voice interactions faster...

Chrome profiles quietly solve one of the most persistent productivity problems in modern browsing: context bleed. By giving each role or mode—work, personal, social, research—its own isolated browser environment, profiles prevent tabs, bookmarks, extensions, cookies, and signed-in accounts from...

The UK Department for Business and Trade’s three‑month pilot of Microsoft 365 Copilot delivered a familiar but important paradox: users reported real and concentrated time savings—especially on written work and meeting summaries—but the evaluation could not find robust evidence that those...

Microsoft’s latest Insider activity shows a subtle but telling change: the long‑standing green progress indicator in the File Explorer copy/move dialog has been replaced with a blue variant when the system is in Dark Mode, and several legacy file‑operation dialogs are now honoring the OS dark...

Windows 11 gives you more ways to capture your screen than most users realize — from the classic Print Screen key to a modern Snipping Tool with OCR and video capture — and the short, practical guide in the AOL piece distills seven quick methods for everyday use while also surfacing a few recent...

Satya Nadella’s short public playbook — five repeatable prompts he says he uses inside Microsoft 365 Copilot — has done more than offer productivity tips; it has shown, in blunt practice, how an enterprise copilot can change the mechanics of leadership, reduce busywork and compress decision...

Microsoft’s long‑running UI mismatch — the glaring white or legacy‑colored copy/move progress window that interrupted Dark Mode sessions for years — is finally being updated in Insider builds, and enthusiasts have noticed a small but symbolic tweak: the familiar green progress bar is being...