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Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka: Rust Coreutils, RC Kernel, GNOME 49, X11 Tradeoff
Ubuntu’s next interim release, Questing Quokka (25.10), has entered its User Interface Freeze as Canonical rides a wave of late-cycle engineering changes: Rust-based system utilities moving into the default image, an aggressively modern kernel target that could ship as a release candidate at...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 25H2 Release Preview ISO (Build 26200.5074) for Imaging and IT
Microsoft has quietly made the official x64 ISO for Windows 11, version 25H2 (Build 26200.5074) available to Release Preview Insiders, completing a key piece of release scaffolding that IT teams, OEMs and imaging specialists have been waiting for even as Microsoft continues to deploy the update...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 KB5065426 Patch Tuesday: Copilot+ on-device AI, UI polish, and privacy controls
Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday brings a substantial, feature‑heavy cumulative update to Windows 11—KB5065426—delivering a mix of visible UI polish, staged Copilot+ AI capabilities, privacy controls for on‑device generative features, and a set of bug and security fixes that administrators...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 25H2: Release Preview Enablement Package & ISO Delay Explained
Microsoft quietly pulled back the promised ISO images for Windows 11, version 25H2 this week, updating its Release Preview announcement to say the ISOs are “delayed and coming soon” even as the update itself lands in the Release Preview channel as an enablement-package style release. Background...- ChatGPT
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Windows AI Actions in File Explorer: One-click Image Edits & Visual Search
Microsoft’s latest Insider whispers fold AI deeper into the Windows shell: right‑click a picture in File Explorer and you may now see an “AI actions” submenu offering Bing Visual Search, background blur, object erase, and background removal — a small set of micro‑workflows that signal a broader...- ChatGPT
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Windows Tiling Window Managers: Four Standout Options for Power Users
Tiling window managers aren’t a Linux-only productivity secret anymore — Windows has a healthy, maturing ecosystem of tilers that can radically change how you work, and four projects stand out right now for stability, polish, or sheer ambition. Overview Tiling window managers automatically...- ChatGPT
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Lenovo VertiFlex and Smart Motion: Practical ThinkBook Concepts at IFA 2025
Lenovo’s newest laptop concepts fold familiarity into a tiny act of mechanical theater — a 14‑inch ThinkBook that rotates from landscape to portrait and a motorized docking stand that follows your face — but the company’s bravado raises a practical question: are these clever engineering demos...- ChatGPT
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Flyoobe 1.6: Polished OOBE Installer & Debloat Toolkit for Windows 11
Flyoobe’s latest update tightens the shift from a simple Windows 11 requirements bypass into a polished, OOBE-centric installer and debloat toolkit — delivering smarter app removal, refreshed views for first-run setup, and performance tweaks while also raising fresh support and security...- ChatGPT
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WINUX: Windows-Style Linux on Ubuntu 24.04 for Windows 10 EOL
WINUX is, in practice, Ubuntu with a very convincing Windows 11 costume — and that disguise is the point: for many Windows 10 users facing the October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support deadline, WINUX (also marketed as Linuxfx/Winux) promises the familiarity of Windows while running entirely on Linux...- ChatGPT
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Dell 14 Plus Review: A Reliable, Boring Workhorse for Fleet and Students
The Dell 14 Plus arrives not as a headline-stealer but as a steady, unimaginative workhorse: modestly priced, competent where it needs to be, and unapologetically conservative in every visible choice. For buyers whose priority is reliability over razzle-dazzle—IT fleets, students, knowledge...- ChatGPT
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Chrome Safety Check auto-revokes idle clipboard permissions in Canary
Google’s Chrome is quietly treating copy-and-paste as a first‑class privacy risk: Canary builds now show Safety Check automatically removing clipboard permissions from sites you haven’t visited recently, surface a clear “Removed permissions for [x] sites” notice in the menu, and give users a...- ChatGPT
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Understanding Chrome’s 'Your browser is managed' banner: inspect and remediate
Google Chrome’s terse banner — “Your browser is managed by your organization” — is both a useful audit cue and a common source of anxiety for home users who didn’t expect any outside control. The message is honest: Chrome has detected at least one non-default policy or managed preference. For...- ChatGPT
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Android on Windows: The Your Phone/Phone Link Streaming Journey
Microsoft’s long‑running experiment to make Android feel like an extension of the PC — rather than a separate device you constantly pick up — first promised native-like access to mobile apps on Windows 10, and over the years that promise evolved into a practical streaming model under the Your...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 Insider: Studio Effects expands to USB webcams on Copilot Plus PCs
Microsoft is rolling out a long-awaited change to Windows 11 that finally lets many users apply Windows Studio Effects to additional cameras — including USB webcams and rear-facing laptop cameras — on supported Copilot+ PCs, while also shipping a suite of related Copilot and accessibility...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 Insider Build 26220/26120: Copilot+ Upgrades, Studio Effects, Hover Actions
Microsoft shipped matched Insider updates this week — Build 26220.5790 to the Dev Channel (25H2 track) and Build 26120.5790 to the Beta Channel — and both bring a focused set of Copilot+ enhancements, camera and File Explorer polish, plus stability fixes and a handful of persistent known issues...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft 365 Copilot Pricing Rewrite: Bundled Roles and Usage Credits
Microsoft’s internal pricing playbook for Copilot appears to be getting a major rewrite that will materially lower the sticker price for many enterprise customers while shifting the company’s long-term monetization toward consumption-based agent billing and a centralized “agent management”...- ChatGPT
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PowerToys: The Essential Windows Productivity Toolkit You'll Use Daily
Microsoft PowerToys is no longer a niche tweak for obsessive tinkerers — it’s a practical, polished productivity suite that many Windows users now install the moment they set up a new PC. A recent roundup that highlights “8 PowerToys you’ll use every day” captures why: the suite bundles small...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft 365 Copilot Arrives in OneDrive for Windows: File Explorer AI Actions
Microsoft’s push to fold generative AI into everyday file management just moved a major step closer to most Windows users: Microsoft 365’s Copilot is now integrated with OneDrive inside Windows, letting subscribers invoke Copilot actions from File Explorer and the OneDrive Activity Center on the...- ChatGPT
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PowerToys Theme Scheduler: Auto Light/Dark Switch for Windows 11
Microsoft’s PowerToys is about to solve one of Windows 11’s longest-running little annoyances: a Theme Scheduler that can automatically flip between Light and Dark modes on a timetable, and the feature is being shipped as a new PowerToys module in the update cycle following the v0.94 release...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 Clipboard Sync to Android Keyboards: Instant PC-to-Phone Paste
Microsoft is quietly testing a Windows 11 feature that pushes whatever you copy on a PC directly into a linked Android phone’s keyboard — making paste-ready text appear almost instantly in Gboard, Samsung Keyboard and other Android IMEs. Background Microsoft has been expanding clipboard...- ChatGPT
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