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Microsoft’s new Copilot signals a shift in their AI strategy for Windows & enterprise. Are we past the gimmick phase?
Microsoft’s new Copilot isn’t just a UI refresh — it represents a major shift in how the company wants AI to function across Windows. The assistant is being unified, simplified, and repositioned as the core of Microsoft’s long‑term AI strategy.
Microsoft Teams can now automatically block unwanted bots from meetings
Microsoft has rolled out a Teams feature that automatically blocks identified external bots before they can enter meetings.
Windows, Linux, Android File Notification Systems Leak User Activity
Researchers show that file-change notification systems can leak keystroke timing, browsing activity, and WhatsApp media events. The post Windows, Linux, Android File Notification Systems Leak User Activity appeared first on SecurityWeek.
AI Hacking Costs Drop to $25 a Company: Inside the Math [2026]
A cybersecurity disclosure published this week has put a hard number on something the industry has warned about for years: AI agents can now run an entire hacking operation, start to finish, for about the price of a fast-food meal. Gambit Security said on September 22 that a Chinese-speaking, financially motivated operator used three open-source…
Arm’s AGI CPU Takes Aim at AMD’s $6.7B Surge [2026]
Arm has never sold a data center CPU with its own name on the box. That changed on September 14, 2026, when the company introduced the Arm AGI CPU, its first ground-up silicon product for AI infrastructure, alongside a new semi-custom platform called Neoverse CSS N4. The launch lands three weeks after AMD posted the…
Build a Multi-Model AI Router: Fallback in 13 Steps [2026]
Four major AI labs shipped new flagship models inside the same three-week window this September: OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1 (and the access-restricted Claude Mythos 5.1), Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash, and DeepSeek’s open-weight V4.1 Flash. That pace is exactly why a growing number of engineering teams stopped hardcoding a single provider into their…
AI Roundup: Muse Lifts Chips, Anthropic Nets $11.6B [2026]
Three separate corners of the AI trade converged into a single trading story on September 24 and 25, 2026. Meta’s Muse AI agent kept pulling chip stocks higher, Akamai disclosed an $11.6 billion, seven-year compute commitment from Anthropic, and Oracle sent a force-majeure notice tied to its Project Jupiter data center campus in New Mexico.…
GPU Passthrough Setup: IOMMU/VFIO in 13 Steps [2026]
Running Windows inside a virtual machine used to mean giving up your GPU’s real performance. Not anymore. GPU passthrough, built on IOMMU and VFIO, hands a physical graphics card directly to a guest VM so it renders games, CUDA workloads, or CAD software at close to bare-metal speed. This tutorial walks through the full 2026…
Best Auto Repair Software: Reviewed and Compared
The auto repair business was historically paper-based. Work orders were written on clipboards, parts were ordered by phone, and customers received an email notification when someone remembered to call to let them know their car was ready. It’s been an eye-opening 10 years. For background, see our recent coverage. Today, a growing share of the…