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A new national survey shows AI chatbots have moved from novelty to routine in many U.S. teenagers’ lives: roughly two-thirds of teens report using chatbots and nearly three in ten say they use them every day. The finding arrives amid legal, regulatory, and industry shifts that make this moment...

Microsoft’s decision to stop routine support for Windows 10 did not magically turn millions of still‑functional PCs into useless junk — but it did force an urgent question onto the agenda: obsolete to whom? For households, charities, hospitals and stretched school budgets, the end of Windows...

Microsoft's latest Insider preview effectively closes the easiest doors that let people set up Windows 11 with a purely local account during the Out‑of‑Box Experience (OOBE), and for privacy‑minded users the timing is provocative enough to push a real conversation about whether now is the right...

Windows 10 reaches its official end-of-support on 14 October 2025 — a calendar milestone that collides with International E‑Waste Day and has prompted Auckland Council to issue a blunt, practical message: “Ditch your obsolete tech responsibly.” The council’s appeal is not just an environmental...

A fresh telemetry snapshot from remote‑support sessions underscores a stark reality: as Microsoft’s Windows 10 support deadline approaches, a large share of real‑world endpoints remain on an OS that will soon stop receiving routine security patches—creating an urgent migration and...

Pennsylvania officials and local groups have joined a broader U.S. campaign pressing Microsoft to reverse or soften its plan to end routine, automatic security updates for Windows 10—arguing the move will expose millions of machines to cyber risk, force premature hardware replacement, and...

Microsoft’s decision to end mainstream support for Windows 10 has shifted from a distant event to an immediate policy flashpoint — and local coverage of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG)‑led campaign calling the “End of 10” troubling captures why the debate now mixes cybersecurity...

Microsoft’s deadline is now unavoidable: Windows 10 will stop receiving regular security updates on October 14, 2025, and the immediate fallout in India—where millions of machines still run Windows 10—has forced consumers, small businesses, and large organisations into a compressed set of...

Windows 10 will stop receiving free security fixes on October 14, 2025 — and if your PC can’t take the free Windows 11 upgrade, you have five realistic paths forward: enroll in Extended Security Updates (ESU), buy or rent a new Windows 11 PC (including cloud PCs), perform an unsupported upgrade...

Consumer Reports has formally asked Microsoft to extend free security updates for Windows 10, arguing that the company’s current end-of-support plan will strand millions of still-functional PCs, widen digital inequity, and accelerate electronic waste unless Microsoft changes course. Background...

Consumer watchdog Consumer Reports has formally urged Microsoft to extend free security updates for Windows 10 beyond the company’s announced October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support date, arguing that the current one‑year consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) option and paywall risk leaving hundreds...

Consumer advocates have formally asked Microsoft to keep the lights on for Windows 10 security updates for ordinary consumers, arguing that the company’s announced October 14, 2025 cutoff and the narrowly scoped, account‑linked or paid Extended Security Updates (ESU) option will leave millions...

Consumer Reports has formally asked Microsoft to keep delivering free security updates for Windows 10 consumers beyond the company’s announced October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support date, arguing that the current plan — a one‑year consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) bridge combined with paid...

Consumer advocates have formally demanded that Microsoft reverse course and continue providing free security updates for Windows 10 beyond the company’s announced end‑of‑support date, warning that the planned cutoff on October 14, 2025 will leave hundreds of millions of still‑working PCs exposed...

Microsoft’s October deadline for Windows 10 support has arrived like a ringing bell for an industry that—by several measures—wasn’t ready: large numbers of consumer and corporate endpoints still run Windows 10, many organisations face compatibility and budget constraints, and the safety net...

Consumer Reports has formally urged Microsoft to extend free support for Windows 10, warning that tens — possibly hundreds — of millions of still-working PCs will be left exposed when mainstream updates and security patches stop on October 14, 2025. The advocacy group’s letter to Microsoft’s CEO...

Microsoft’s latest education push folds generative AI into the everyday toolkit of U.S. college students by making Microsoft 365 Personal with Copilot available free for eligible students—an aggressive expansion of earlier trial offers that places Copilot, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook...

For more than a decade the cannabis category has been locked out of mainstream digital advertising playbooks—blocked by platform policies, throttled by opaque moderation, and scattered across short-lived social hype cycles—but paid editorial placements on high‑authority cultural publishers give...

Google and Microsoft have publicly committed to sweeping new AI-in-education initiatives announced at the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Education, pledging broad product access, large-scale training programs, educator grants, and multi‑year investments intended to put...

Microsoft’s package of education pledges — announced at a White House AI education event and consolidated under the new Microsoft Elevate umbrella — promises a major, fast-moving push to put generative AI into students’ hands: free Microsoft 365 Personal with Copilot for every eligible U.S...