Articles from June 27, 2026
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No More Registry Hacks: Windows 11 Adds Official Taskbar Compact Mode
{ "title": "No More Registry Hacks: Windows 11 Adds Official Taskbar Compact Mode", "content": "Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system is finally getting an official, built-in toggle to resize...
Texas Supreme Court Freezes Harris County Deportation Defense Spending, Siding with AG Paxton
The Texas Supreme Court has issued a temporary injunction barring Harris County from using taxpayer dollars to fund private legal representation for immigrants facing deportation. The ruling, handed...
Agentic AI on Windows Raises Red Flags: How Autonomous Assistants Outrun Accountability
Microsoft’s push to embed agentic AI directly into Windows and Microsoft 365 is accelerating, but security researchers warn that the technology’s ability to plan, act, and delegate tasks is...
Judge Denies Union Bid to Halt FEMA Layoffs of Thousands of Disaster-Response Temps
A federal judge in San Francisco has declined to issue a preliminary injunction that would have temporarily halted the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s plan to lay off thousands of temporary...
Sovereign Immunity Blocks Federal Takings Suit Over Dulles Greenway Toll Denial
A federal judge in Virginia has dismissed a lawsuit by the operator of the Dulles Greenway, ruling that the Commonwealth’s sovereign immunity bars the company from pursuing its claim that state...
Federal Claims Court Tosses Factor2 2FA Patent Suit, Citing Alice Preclusion Following Prior Inventor Loss
A patent infringement lawsuit targeting the United States government over two‑factor authentication technology has been dismissed before trial, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims ruled, after...
AMD Venice to Outship Nvidia Vera by 1M Units in 2027, But Platform War Looms
A new analyst forecast from Morgan Stanley predicts AMD’s next-generation EPYC “Venice” server CPU will reach 6.75 million units shipped in 2027, outperforming Nvidia’s rival “Vera” CPU...
Tinkerer Runs Windows 11 on a 2005-Era DDR1 AGP PC, Proving Microsoft’s OS Has ‘Elastic Compatibility’
A vintage PC enthusiast known as Omores has pulled off what many would call a technological impossibility: getting Windows 11 to boot and run smoothly on a desktop from the mid‑2000s, a machine...
Zorin OS 18.1 Can Mimic Windows 11 for Free—Here’s the Step-by-Step Guide
The free Core edition of Zorin OS 18.1 can now convincingly impersonate Windows 11, and you don’t need a penny or a Pro license to pull it off. In a detailed walkthrough published this week,...
7 AI Tools Windows Power Users Need in Their Workflow, According to Analytics Insight
Microsoft Copilot now ships as a native part of Windows 11, but it’s just one piece of a rapidly expanding puzzle. According to a new analysis by Humpy Adepu on Analytics Insight, Windows users who...
Intel’s Nova Lake-S Flagship Tipped to Feature 52 Cores and 474W PL2: Z990 Boards Brace for Extreme Cooling
The rumor mill is churning at full speed with claims that Intel’s next-generation desktop platform, allegedly codenamed Nova Lake-S, will push the boundaries of power consumption. Leaked platform...
Tesla Draws a Hard Line on Infotainment Upgrades: Why MCU 2 Won't Get the Ryzen MCU 3 Retrofit
Tesla has quietly confirmed what many owners feared: the Intel Atom-powered MCU 2 infotainment system in older Model 3 and Model Y vehicles will never see an official retrofit to the AMD Ryzen-based...