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Over the course of a single news cycle in late December 2025, an old-fashioned, decades‑long dispute between a private citizen and one of the world’s largest energy companies was reframed not by a press release or a courtroom filing, but by a series of public interactions between generative AI...

It began as a debate between humans and machines — and ended as a public test of what happens when decades of contested corporate history meet the imperfect logic of today’s most advanced language models. Background / Overview John Donovan’s long-running public campaign against Royal Dutch Shell...

Insight Enterprises, working with Microsoft, HCLTech and a small integrator called Skewer, has rolled a major AI upgrade into the Cricket Australia Live App that promises on‑the‑fly, editorial‑style match insights, interactive follow‑up Q&A and access to official scorecards stretching back to...

Artificial-intelligence “slop” is now producing real-world waste: archivists, librarians and researchers are spending growing amounts of time chasing non‑existent papers, journal series and archival records that large language models invent on demand — and the problem is escalating into legal...

Neil Headrick’s quiet hobby has become a vivid public service: using readily available AI tools to repair, colourize and animate century-old photographs from Prince Albert’s archives, turning fragile black‑and‑white images into striking, shareable windows on local history. Background / Overview...

Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 region suffered a high‑impact outage on October 20, 2025 that knocked hundreds of consumer and enterprise services offline, exposed a brittle set of control‑plane dependencies (notably DNS resolution for Amazon DynamoDB), and renewed urgent debate about how the...

Microsoft’s decision to draw a line under Windows 10 has done more than close a chapter in PC history — it has also sparked an unexpected hardware revival in Japan, where disc drives once thought extinct are suddenly in demand across Akihabara and specialty retailers nationwide. As millions...

Steam will stop supporting Windows 32‑bit installations on January 1, 2026, a move that, if confirmed and implemented as reported, will leave the vanishingly small number of users still running Windows 10 in its 32‑bit form without client updates, security fixes, or official Steam Support help —...

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...

Family Weekend at Baylor unfolded this year as a familiar campus ritual — food trucks, concerts, and a football kickoff — while simultaneously revealing an often-overlooked counter-narrative: for many international students the weekend is less a reunion than a careful juggling act of time zones...

Typepad’s abrupt shutdown notice is a hard wake-up call for long-form bloggers: after more than two decades online the service will be deactivated on September 30, 2025, and users have been given a short window to export and preserve their content before access and export capability are...

LibreOffice’s blunt charge that Microsoft is using an “artificially complex” Office XML schema as a deliberate lock‑in tool landed like a splash of cold water—and the splash matters because it exposes how fragile interoperability, user choice, and long‑term digital access really are in a world...

The routine posting of “meeting notices” is where civic procedure meets real people — and where a quiet failure in process can become a headline. Overview and context Source item: a GazetteXtra article titled “Meeting notices” (by DAILY TIMES STAFF) was published August 10, 2025 and runs as...

A quiet, yet profound transformation is underway in Qatar’s digital landscape, marked by a new strategic partnership between the National Archives of Qatar (NAQ) and Microsoft Qatar. This collaboration, officially sealed in a recent signing ceremony attended by prominent leaders such as NAQ...

I was unable to add files to one specific folder on a Blu-ray disc. Later, there was a zero-byte file dated 1974-07-25 that would result in error 0x80070570 when trying to rename it in Windows Explorer. Trying to open it with Notepad or through the "type" command inside CMD results in an error...

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The archival utility WinRAR has been updated to Version 3.90. The changes include a range of new features and bug fixes.

The archival utility WinZip has been upgraded to Version 12.1.

The final Version 4.62 of the free 7-Zip archival utility has been released. The changes include a range of bug fixes and several new features and optimizations since the last final release.