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  1. Sony Expands PlayStation Link to Windows with PC Driver for PULSE Gear

    Sony appears to be widening its PC support for PlayStation audio gear: a newly reported PlayStation Link PC Driver for Windows — said to support the PULSE Elite headset and PULSE Explore earbuds — would let PC users update firmware and tune audio without needing a PS5, while September’s...
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  3. Windows USB-C Notifications: OEM ACPI/UCSI, UcmCx, and WHCP

    Microsoft has quietly pushed PC makers to stop treating USB Type‑C as merely a cosmetic port and to implement the platform-level hooks Windows needs to deliver consistent, actionable notifications when Type‑C connections misbehave — a move that aims to end years of “plug‑and‑pray” frustration...
  4. Microsoft Copilot August 2025: GPT-5, governance, and multimodal AI across Windows, Edge, Teams

    Microsoft’s August 2025 Copilot push is one of the broadest enterprise- and user-facing updates yet — expanding admin controls, folding GPT‑5 into day‑to‑day workflows, and embedding multimodal editing and semantic search across Windows, Edge, Teams, and the Microsoft 365 Copilot surfaces...
  5. Windows 11 Migration: Prepare for Windows 10 End of Support in 2025

    Businesses have entered the critical phase between planning and full-scale implementation for the Windows 10 → Windows 11 transition, and the calendar is unforgiving: Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025 — which means device readiness, compatibility validation and a staged deployment plan...
  6. Microsoft's In-House AI Push: MAI-Voice-1, MAI-1-Preview & Phi-4 on GPUs

    Microsoft has quietly but decisively moved from being a heavy consumer of third‑party AI models to a company shipping its own, first‑party foundation and voice models — and it has paired those models with an explicit expansion of internal, large‑scale training and inference infrastructure that...
  7. Microsoft MAI: First‑Party Models for Faster, Safer AI in Copilot and Windows

    Microsoft’s announcement that it has deployed two first‑party models — MAI‑Voice‑1 for speech generation and MAI‑1‑preview as a consumer‑focused foundation model — marks a deliberate strategic shift toward productized, in‑house AI and a clear attempt to reduce operational dependence on...
  8. PowerToys Replaces Paid Windows Utilities with a Free Unified Toolkit

    PowerToys has quietly eaten a lot of the small, focused utilities that used to be paid staples of the Windows power‑user toolkit — and for many people that means a one‑time purchase or subscription is no longer necessary. A recent XDA piece argued that five paid apps...
  9. Claude-Notion Integration: AI-Driven Task Prioritization & Scheduling

    I hooked Claude into my Notion workspace and, within a few minutes, the chaos of dozens of interdependent tasks—scattered deadlines, vague titles, and hidden prerequisites—began to feel manageable in a way no purely human triage had delivered. What started as an experiment with an AI assistant...
  10. ChatGPT Dominates 2025 AI Chatbots—Why Billion-Scale Claims Need Verification

    Jagran Josh’s roundup that purports to name “the most-used AI chatbots in 2025” landed in inboxes and social feeds with a punchy list—ChatGPT at the top with a jaw‑dropping 46.59 billion “users,” followed by a clutch of U.S. and China‑based rivals—but a closer look shows the headline numbers...
  11. Seelen UI: A web-based Windows desktop environment with tiling, themes, and plugins

    Seelen UI has matured from an experimental curiosity into the closest thing Windows currently has to a true, user‑replaceable desktop environment — a unified, extensible shell built on web technologies that reimagines the taskbar, menus, window management, and theming in a single package...
  12. Microsoft Announces MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-Preview: In-House AI for Copilot

    Microsoft has quietly shipped its first fully in‑house AI models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — marking a deliberate shift in strategy that reduces dependence on OpenAI’s stack and accelerates Microsoft’s plan to own more of the compute, models, and product surface area that power Copilot...
  13. Windows Ambience: Multimodal, Agentic AI with Copilot+ for Enterprise

    Microsoft’s Windows lead has just sketched a future in which the operating system becomes ambient, multimodal and agentic — able to listen, see, and act — a shift powered by a new class of on‑device AI and tight hardware integration that will reshape how organisations manage and secure Windows...
  14. Microsoft 365 Copilot August 2025: On‑Device AI, Semantic Search, Explorer Actions

    Microsoft 365 Copilot’s August 2025 feature drop is less a single-release checklist and more a broad widening of the Copilot ecosystem: Microsoft expanded AI-driven file and image actions inside File Explorer, launched a redesigned Copilot home and semantic file search, extended Copilot+...
  15. KB5065848: Windows 11 24H2 OOBE Enrollment & ESP Update

    Microsoft released KB5065848 on August 29, 2025 — a targeted Out‑of‑Box Experience (OOBE) update for Windows 11, version 24H2 and Windows Server 2025 — that changes how device provisioning and enrollment behave during first‑time setup and supplies updated management/enrollment components used...
  16. Microsoft unveils MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-Preview: Product-driven in-house AI strategy

    Microsoft’s AI unit has publicly launched two in‑house models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — signaling a deliberate shift from purely integrating third‑party frontier models toward building product‑focused models Microsoft can own, tune, and route inside Copilot and Azure. Background...
  17. Boost File Explorer with PowerToys: 6 Add-Ons for Faster File Management

    File Explorer is fine for most people — and with six focused PowerToys add‑ons it can be quietly transformed into a faster, smarter, and more forgiving file manager without leaving the familiar Windows shell. Overview Windows File Explorer has improved over the years, but it still leaves gaps...
  18. Fix a Disappearing Mouse Pointer in Windows: Causes, Fixes & 24H2 Workarounds

    Few things interrupt work faster than a mouse pointer that seems to vanish into thin air — but the disappearance of the mouse pointer is almost never supernatural. Whether it’s a program that hides the cursor on purpose, a driver hiccup, a multi-monitor alignment issue, or a power-management...
  19. Windows Replaces Mobile Plans with Web Carrier Portals and Settings eSIM

    Microsoft is removing the built‑in Mobile Plans app from Windows and replacing the in‑app storefront with a web‑first flow that uses carrier websites plus the native Settings eSIM provisioning experience, a change that will affect how always‑connected PCs buy and manage cellular data...
  20. Microsoft MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-Preview: In-House AIs Power Copilot at Scale

    Microsoft has quietly moved from partner-dependent experimentation to deploying its own, production‑focused models with the public debut of MAI‑Voice‑1 (a high‑throughput speech generator) and MAI‑1‑preview (an in‑house mixture‑of‑experts language model), rolling both into Copilot experiences...