Articles from June 28, 2026
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ChatGPT Dominates U.S. AI Adoption with 44% of Adults, Pew Reveals, as Search Shifts
ChatGPT has now become the most-used AI chatbot in the United States, marking a fundamental shift in how Americans search for information and threatening the business models of countless online...
Zoom’s 2026 Vision: How Enterprise-Grade Security and AI Will Redefine the Windows Meeting Experience
Zoom Communications has set an ambitious course for its cloud video-conferencing platform, targeting a 2026 experience where joining is frictionless, security is invisible yet ironclad, and AI does...
Cordyceps CI/CD Attacks Exploit Workflow Trust to Threaten Hundreds of Open Source Repos
A widespread CI/CD supply‑chain attack pattern, dubbed Cordyceps, left hundreds of open source projects dangerously exposed in June 2026. Novee Security’s automated scan of roughly 30,000 popular...
Build 2026: Microsoft Releases Azure Linux 4.0 Public Preview, a Free Fedora-Based OS for VM Scale Sets
Microsoft surprised the cloud computing world at its Build 2026 developer conference by launching Azure Linux 4.0 into public preview. The free, Microsoft-maintained Linux distribution, built on a...
One Registry Key to a Snappier Windows 11 File Explorer: Disable Automatic Folder Type Discovery
Windows 11’s File Explorer has faced its share of criticism for sluggish performance, especially when navigating directories with mixed content. A single registry tweak—reviving a decades-old...
Thermal Cameras Meet Windows: The Ultimate Home Diagnostic Toolkit for Detecting Leaks and Electrical Faults
A decade ago, owning a thermal camera meant either a deep corporate budget or a career in building inspection or firefighting. Today, for less than the cost of a mid-range graphics card, you can clip...
April 2026 Deadline Looms for App-V Hosting 5.0: Microsoft Pushes AVD and MSIX App Attach
Microsoft’s Application Virtualization Hosting (AVH) 5.0 for Windows Desktops will exit support on April 14, 2026. Organizations still relying on this aging App-V infrastructure have less than 14...
Indy Data Partners Doubles Down on Microsoft’s Data Platform with Expanded SQL and Azure Offerings
Indy Data Partners, a veteran-owned IT consulting firm founded in 2014 and headquartered in Indianapolis, has expanded its Microsoft data services portfolio with a sharpened focus on SQL Server and...
ZDNET Exposes OBD2 Fuel Saver Dongles as Empty LED Blinking Scams – Here’s What to Buy Instead
A tiny $20 gadget plugged into your car’s OBD2 port promises to slash fuel consumption by up to 35% using “advanced ECU optimization.” An investigation by ZDNET’s Adrian Kingsley-Hughes in...
Thermal Cameras Go Mainstream: How DIY Enthusiasts and IT Pros Are Using Them to Spot Heat Leaks and Hardware Failures
A puff of smoke from a server rack can ruin an entire workday. But long before that dramatic moment, a quiet, invisible problem grew: heat. Until recently, spotting a dangerously warm power supply or...
Royal AI Blunder: Waimakariri Council's Computer-Generated King's Birthday Video Prompts Public Sector AI Reckoning
A routine social media post by a small New Zealand council has ballooned into an international cautionary tale, exposing the perilous gap between the promise of generative AI and the reality of...
Linux 7.2-rc1 Unveils AMD HDMI 2.1 and Rust ZerroCopy — What Windows Developers Need to Know
Linus Torvalds released Linux 7.2-rc1 on Sunday, June 28, 2026, marking the beginning of the public stabilization phase for the next mainline kernel. The release follows two weeks of intensive...