Articles from June 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in June 2026
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...
As EU DMA Targets AWS and Azure, Alphabet’s Stock Teeters on 100-Day Moving Average
Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) shares slipped in early Monday trading to hover just above the closely watched 100-day moving average, a level that has repeatedly acted as support in recent months, as...
AMD Zen 6 CPUs Leaked via AIDA64 Beta: Mustang Peak and Olympic Ridge Detection Added
AIDA64 Extreme’s latest beta has quietly added support for two unreleased AMD processors, signaling that Zen 6 silicon is inching closer to reality. The update, version 8.30.8332, dated June 27,...
Intel Panther Lake and RTX 5070 Ti give 2026 Zephyrus G14 13-hour battery record
The ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 has long been the darling of compact gaming laptops, but the 2026 model marks a seismic shift. Gone is the AMD silicon that defined the series; in its place sits Intel’s...
Spyro: A Realm Beyond Announced – Toys for Bob’s Multiplatform Return Sets Spring 2027 Launch
On June 7, 2026, during the jam-packed Xbox Games Showcase, Toys for Bob stepped onto the screen to announce Spyro: A Realm Beyond, a fresh entry in the beloved platforming series slated for a spring...
Meta's Arena App Bets on Prediction Markets to Reshape Your Feed—What It Means for Windows Users
Meta is quietly building a standalone smartphone application called Arena, a prediction market where users can forecast real-world events on everything from politics to pop culture. The initiative,...
Microsoft’s Forgotten Trailblazers: Surface Duo, Zune HD, and the Pocket PC Era
Three devices, separated by decades but united by a common thread—ambitious design, genuine innovation, and a premature end—have resurfaced in a MakeUseOf retrospective that forces a reckoning...