The European Union is moving toward treating Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as Digital Markets Act “gatekeepers” after opening cloud market investigations in Brussels on November 18, 2025, with stakeholder roundtables scheduled for July 1, 2026. The decision is not merely another...
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Nvidia and Amazon Web Services used GTC 2026 in March to expand a 15-year AI infrastructure partnership, tying Nvidia’s latest GPUs, networking, inference software, and enterprise AI stack more tightly into AWS cloud services for companies moving generative AI from experiments into production...
More than a billion Secure Boot-capable Windows PCs entered a staged certificate transition on June 24, 2026, as Microsoft’s 2011-era Secure Boot trust anchors began reaching expiration, forcing Windows, OEM firmware, deployment media, Linux bootloaders, and enterprise recovery workflows onto...
GitHub told employees on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, that June was “by far” its best month ever, with CTO Vladimir Fedorov crediting a surge in Copilot usage after the Microsoft-owned developer platform shifted its AI coding tool to usage-based billing on June 1. That is not just a victory lap. It...
Microsoft is telling Windows users and IT administrators in June 2026 to continue phased Secure Boot certificate deployments using Windows updates, OEM firmware, validation tooling, and staged rollout practices as the ecosystem moves from aging 2011 certificates toward newer 2023 Secure Boot...
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Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman said on June 24, 2026, in New York that a securities class action has been filed against Microsoft and certain officers over alleged AI and Copilot-related misstatements affecting investors between May 1, 2025, and January 28, 2026. The complaint turns Microsoft’s...
Microsoft released KB5095093 on June 23, 2026, as an optional preview update for Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2, moving 24H2 to Build 26100.8737 and 25H2 to Build 26200.8737. The patch is not just another late-month bundle of small fixes. It is a revealing snapshot of where Windows is being...
Microsoft updated KB5072911 on June 23, 2026, to say that a Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 enterprise provisioning bug affecting Explorer, Start, Settings, Taskbar, Search, and other XAML-dependent components is addressed starting with the KB5095093 preview update. The fix matters because the breakage...
Microsoft is preparing Windows 11 26H2 for Insider testing in June 2026 as a second-half annual update delivered through an enablement package on the 24H2 and 25H2 servicing branch, emphasizing reliability, interface polish, and security warnings rather than a slate of headline features. That...
Microsoft was compared this week with four software-industry peers in a Benzinga analysis published June 2026, and the headline result was that its 0.14 debt-to-equity ratio looked unusually conservative for a company spending aggressively on cloud and AI infrastructure. That single metric...
A Seeking Alpha analysis argues that Invesco QQQ Trust has become a concentrated wager on artificial intelligence because its largest technology holdings dominate the Nasdaq-100, while the business case for funding ever-larger AI infrastructure buildouts remains financially unsettled in 2026...
More than 35,000 users reported problems reaching X on Monday morning, June 22, 2026, as outage reports also spiked for Microsoft Teams, Reddit, Zoom, Robinhood and Canva during a broader disruption linked in timing to Cloudflare service degradation. The incident was brief in the way modern...
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On June 24, 2026, Microsoft’s original Secure Boot Key Exchange Key from 2011 reaches its expiration date, forcing Windows PCs, servers, virtual machines, and dual-boot systems to move onto Microsoft’s newer 2023 Secure Boot certificate chain. The deadline will not brick ordinary Windows...
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Microsoft is resuming automatic installation of the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on eligible Windows devices with commercial Microsoft 365 desktop apps between mid-June and mid-July 2026, unless administrators opt out through the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center. The move is not a Windows Update in...
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Microsoft’s 2026 Work Trend Index says Hong Kong AI users are adopting AI faster than their organizations are redesigning work around it, with 18 percent classified as “Frontier Professionals” versus 16 percent globally, even as local employees report weaker leadership alignment and fewer...
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On June 21, 2026, Kalkine Media published three UK market pieces arguing that Sage, Kainos, Arm, Renishaw, RELX, and Experian are being pulled into the AI trade because infrastructure spending now reaches software, chips, engineering, data, and analytics. That framing is useful, but incomplete...
Microsoft announced on June 19, 2026 that Windows 11 version 26H2 is now available to Windows Insiders in the Experimental channel, alongside new Beta and Experimental builds, with the release delivered as an enablement package for systems sharing the 24H2/25H2 servicing lineage. That is the...
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Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman said on June 21, 2026, in New York that a securities class action has been filed against Microsoft and certain officers on behalf of investors who bought Microsoft shares between May 1, 2025, and January 28, 2026. The complaint turns Microsoft’s AI victory lap into...
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OpenAI is reportedly preparing to launch GPT-5.6 as early as the week of June 22, 2026, with standard, Mini, and Pro variants that are said to improve coding, agent workflows, 3D generation, context length, efficiency, and pricing. The report, if accurate, points to a company trying to turn...
NVIDIA used Computex 2026 in Taipei to announce RTX Spark, a Windows-on-Arm PC platform built with MediaTek that combines a Grace Arm CPU, Blackwell-class RTX graphics, unified memory, and Microsoft-backed software work for laptops and compact desktops. The announcement is huge because it gives...