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A small but concrete libpcap memory-safety bug—assigned CVE‑2025‑11964—was disclosed at the end of December 2025: on Windows systems, the library’s UTF-16LE → UTF-8 conversion helper can undercount the space consumed by four‑byte UTF‑8 sequences and write past the end of a provided buffer. The...

MSI’s Claw arrives as a confident — if imperfect — reimagining of the Windows handheld: hardware that reads like a gaming laptop shrunk to your palms, a comfortable Xbox‑style grip, and Hall Effect sticks that promise to solve the drift problem that’s haunted other handhelds, but it still...

A fresh machine feels like a promise: clean, fast, and ready for whatever you need to do next. Whether you’ve just unboxed a Windows laptop, switched to a Mac, or reinstalled the OS, the first software choices you make shape performance, privacy, and productivity for months. This feature unpacks...

Windows is trying to do for AI agents what it once did for applications: make the desktop the obvious place to discover, run, and manage intelligent helpers that can do work for you — not just answer questions — and Microsoft has already shipped the plumbing and the guardrails that will decide...

Microsoft’s 2025 push to bake autonomous AI agents into Windows is the company’s most consequential platform play since the Internet era — a deliberate attempt to make the operating system not just an interface, but an agentic layer that orchestrates apps, data, and cloud services on the user’s...

I get it: that flat white arrow that ships with Windows works reliably, but it’s easy to lose on pale backgrounds and it’s boring. If you want a fast, low‑risk way to inject personality into Windows or your browser — from starship‑grade lightsabers to tiny game characters, holiday mascots, or a...

Warframe refusing to start on Windows is an annoyingly common problem for Tenno — and the good news is that a short, methodical troubleshooting sequence will fix the vast majority of cases without reinstalling Windows or sending off a support ticket. Background Warframe is a free-to-play...

Microsoft has quietly turned up the pressure on Windows users who try to install a competing browser: when you open Google Chrome’s download page in Microsoft Edge, some Windows installations now display a native banner that reframes the decision as an online-safety choice rather than a simple...

Notepad was the little, unflappable workhorse of Windows for decades — and that’s exactly why the recent parade of feature upgrades, AI prompts, and subscription nudges has driven many users to abandon it in favor of alternatives like Notepad++. A good number of Windows enthusiasts and tech...

Microsoft’s shelved dual‑screen phone OS — the long‑rumored Andromeda — has finally been pulled into the daylight: a leaked build has been packaged into a flashable image and made runnable on the original Surface Duo, giving enthusiasts the first hands‑on look at the mobile Windows that never...

If your Windows PC ever stops and shows a blue screen that reads KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED, it’s a sign the kernel encountered an exception it couldn’t resolve — and while it’s alarming, this BSOD is usually diagnosable and often fixable without a full reinstall. Background / Overview The...

Microsoft’s rapid retreat from an apparent plan to “rewrite Windows with AI” crystallizes a deeper story about how research, recruitment language, and public perception can collide — and why the difference between research experiment and product roadmap matters for every IT pro who manages...

Microsoft’s terse clarification ended a brief but intense wave of headlines: a viral LinkedIn hiring post by a senior Microsoft engineer drew interpretations that the company planned an immediate, AI-driven rewrite of Windows in Rust — a reading Microsoft and the post’s author explicitly denied...

Imagine an AI assistant that understands the tools you use every day, can intake entire documents, generate images, and run multi‑step, citation-backed research — then hands you editable, exportable results you can drop straight into Word, Excel, or PowerPoint; that is the practical promise...

If you want live, NORAD-backed Santa tracking on an Alexa-capable device this Christmas Eve, the short answer is: enable the official NORAD Tracks Santa Alexa skill (or use an Echo device that’s already signed into your Amazon account), then say a simple query such as “Alexa, where’s Santa?” or...

Microsoft’s engineering gamble — to use AI to rewrite millions of lines of legacy C and C++ into Rust by 2030 — landed squarely in the spotlight this winter after a months‑long string of Windows 11 malfunctions and a formal Microsoft support advisory that traced the outages to XAML registration...

Apple’s new macOS 26 “Tahoe” brings a striking visual refresh and a raft of Apple Intelligence features — but the four headline items that made ZDNet’s checklist of “things Mac users can gloat about” aren’t as novel as they might seem: Windows has long offered comparable capabilities for window...

Windows is the invisible workhorse in millions of workflows — but beneath the familiar desktop lies a toolkit that can turn a good user into a true power user. This feature walks through ten practical, tested hacks that accelerate common tasks, reduce friction, and give you more control over how...

The moment you finish the out-of-box setup on a fresh Windows PC, there’s a small toolkit I install before I ever open Edge: a compact set of free, focused utilities that close gaps in Windows’ defaults and get the machine productive fast. That checklist — highlighted recently in a How‑To‑Geek...

Environment: - Windows Server 2022 - IIS 10.0 Issue Summary: I regularly collect IIS performance metrics using Windows Performance Counters. Initially, the IIS-related counter sets were all available: - Web Service - Web Service Cache - APP_POOL_WAS - WAS_W3WP - W3SVC_W3WP After a few days...