Windows 11 25H2 Pulls WMIC: How to Scrub Your Systems Before It’s Too Late
Windows 11 version 25H2, which began rolling out on September 30, 2025, removes the WMIC command-line utility during the feature update. The underlying Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)...
OneDrive Now Flags Outlook Attachments as ‘From the Internet,’ Breaking Macros by Default
OneDrive’s Latest Update Automatically Flags Email Attachments as Untrusted, Disabling Macros If you’ve ever saved an Excel workbook or Word document from an Outlook email straight into your...
Radeon RX 9070 XT Buyers Need a CPU. Two New Guides Disagree on the Best Pick.
In July 2026, gamers building or upgrading PCs around AMD’s new Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card have two conflicting CPU guides vying for their attention. A community-sourced analysis published on...
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D Review: A Stellar Gaming CPU That Only Makes Sense Below $300
AMD quietly unleashed the Ryzen 7 7700X3D on July 16, and it instantly became the most affordable 8-core X3D processor for the AM5 platform. At $329, it packs 96MB of L3 cache, eight Zen 4 cores, and...
Obsidian Is Making a New Fallout Game—and Fallout 5 Is Now in Pre-Production
Bethesda has confirmed that Fallout 5 is in pre-production, that Obsidian Entertainment is developing a separate Fallout project, and that remasters of Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas are in the...
Zenless Zone Zero Lands on Microsoft Store July 29 with Xbox Play Anywhere and Free S-Rank Agent
HoYoverse is bringing its hit free-to-play action RPG Zenless Zone Zero to the Microsoft Store on Windows on July 29, 2026. The launch coincides with the Version 3.1 update, “The Long Goodbye,”...
Microsoft Abandons 'Halo: The Endless' Trademark—What It Means for You
On April 1, 2026, Microsoft abandoned its U.S. trademark application for “Halo: The Endless”—a name that had fanned three years of anticipation among Halo fans. The move, first spotted by Halo...
July 17 Gemini outage: What happened and why Google hasn't said a word
{ "title": "July 17 Gemini outage: What happened and why Google hasn't said a word", "content": "Google’s Gemini AI assistant stumbled on Friday afternoon, July 17, 2026, as users across the...
Your RTX 5000 GPU Is Missing a Hotspot Sensor in Afterburner—Here’s the Fix
If you’ve recently plugged in an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5000-series GPU—whether a desktop 5090 or a laptop 5080—and launched MSI Afterburner to check temperatures, you likely noticed that the...
RTX 50 GPU Hotspot Data Now Available: How to Test Your Card and Prevent Thermal Throttling
After 18 months of silence from NVIDIA, RTX 50-series graphics card owners can finally read their GPU's true peak temperature. On July 16, 2026, CPUID released HWMonitor 1.65.1, a minor update that...
Acura’s Free Gemini Upgrade Is Rolling Out Now: Check Your Model, Trim, and Account Settings
On July 16, 2026, Acura quietly confirmed that Google’s conversational Gemini AI is coming to a narrow slice of its lineup—at no charge. The over-the-air update lands automatically on eligible...
Radeon RX 9070 XT Missing from 'Best 4K GPUs' List — What Buyers Need to Know
A freshly published roundup of the best 4K gaming graphics cards for 2026 has a glaring hole: it ignores AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 XT entirely. The guide, published July 17 by PropelRC, crowns...