telemetry

Microsoft has quietly folded a longtime defender's toolkit into the core of Windows 11: Sysmon (System Monitor) is now available as a built‑in, optional Windows feature in Insider Preview builds, and Build 28020.1611 (KB5077221) also brings a small but practical OneDrive sharing polish and a...

Microsoft’s decision to bake Sysmon‑level telemetry directly into Windows 11 is not a minor UI tweak — it is a platform shift that changes the operational, detection‑engineering, and supply‑chain calculus for enterprise security teams. The capability, now appearing as an optional...

Microsoft’s decision to fold Sysinternals’ long‑trusted System Monitor (Sysmon) into Windows 11 as an optional, in‑box capability marks one of the most consequential changes to Windows endpoint telemetry in years — it simplifies deployment, standardizes servicing, and shifts a staple security...

Microsoft has quietly moved one of the security community’s most trusted tools out of the Sysinternals download bucket and into Windows itself, delivering native Sysmon functionality as an optional Windows 11 feature that can be enabled, updated, and (crucially) supported through Microsoft’s...

Microsoft has quietly begun shipping Sysmon — the high‑fidelity System Monitor from Microsoft Sysinternals — as a native, optional feature inside Windows 11 Insider preview builds, signaling a major shift in how organizations will collect host telemetry going forward. The capability is delivered...

Microsoft has quietly folded Sysmon — the long-favored Sysinternals system-monitoring tool — into Windows 11 as an optional, inbox feature, delivering it through Insider preview builds and the Windows servicing pipeline rather than as a separate Sysinternals download. That change, which appears...

Microsoft’s latest Beta-channel preview for Windows 11 quietly reshapes how security teams collect host telemetry: Build 26220.7752 (KB5074177) adds native Sysmon support as an optional Windows feature, pairs that capability with a handful of File Explorer and cloud‑file reliability fixes, and...

Microsoft’s claim that Windows 11 now runs on more than one billion devices is both a milestone and a mirror: it confirms rapid platform reach while forcing scrutiny of what Microsoft counts, why the surge happened, and what this means for users, IT teams, and the PC ecosystem going forward...

AI is creeping into TVs in ways that make the phrase “factory reset” feel less like a clean slate and more like a polite suggestion—and the recent Microsoft Copilot episode on LG’s webOS shows why many of these AI additions will be difficult to fully remove from the devices we own...

Microsoft’s announcement that Windows 11 has passed the 1 billion‑user mark landed as both milestone and mirror: a headline achievement that confirms broad platform reach, and a prompt to scrutinize what “1 billion users” actually measures and why it matters now. The company revealed the figure...

Windows 11 reaching one billion users — and doing it faster than Windows 10 — is the kind of headline that gets product teams, OEM partners, and IT departments talking. Microsoft quietly confirmed the milestone during its fiscal Q2, 2026 commentary, and company executives have since framed the...

Scorchy Sky Trials has surfaced in achievement aggregators and community threads as a Windows 10 title with a compact achievements roster — but the metadata remains fragmented across third‑party trackers, leaving completionists and completion‑curious players with a familiar mix of opportunity...

Win10 Spy Disabler is a tiny, no-frills portable utility that promises to “shut down Windows 10 telemetry” with a handful of clicks — and for many users in 2015–2019 it offered a fast, convenient route to privacy tweaks that would otherwise require hunting through Services, Scheduled Tasks and...

Europe’s top privacy watchdogs have continued to question Microsoft’s handling of personal data in Windows 10, arguing that the company’s post‑launch changes — while meaningful — did not fully address core problems around defaults, informed consent, and transparency that regulators say are...

A day-long blackout in the Iberian Peninsula in April 2025 exposed a stark operational reality for modern energy systems: when data is fragmented or delayed, even advanced grids can fail in ways that are hard to predict and hard to investigate afterward. The European Network of Transmission...

Microsoft has been quietly reshaping Windows from a traditional, user-controlled desktop OS into a service-first platform — and many of the changes are now pushed into users’ systems rather than offered as optional choices. Automatic updates that restart your PC, an operating-system search that...

LG owners woke up to a new entry on their home screens this month after a routine webOS over‑the‑air update quietly placed Microsoft Copilot on many sets — and for a large number of users the tile behaved like a system item that could be hidden but not uninstalled, prompting a broad backlash...

Every fresh Windows 11 installation ships with a grab bag of first‑party apps—some genuinely useful, some quietly redundant, and a handful that feel like marketing dressed up as convenience—and ZDNet’s pragmatic “11 I keep / 11 I ditch” checklist is one of the clearest, user‑centric guides for...

LG’s reversal — promising to let TV owners delete the Microsoft Copilot shortcut added by a recent webOS update — is a fast-moving example of how AI features, update mechanics and user expectations collided in living rooms this month, and why consent-by-default matters when vendors retrofit...

Microsoft’s new “Access Fabric” message reframes a familiar problem—tool sprawl and siloed controls—as an architectural shortcoming rather than a procurement one, and argues that only a truly unified, contextual, connected, and continuous access model can close the seams attackers exploit in the...