Articles from July 12, 2026
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Bank of America: South Korea Is Top AI Investment Bet Beyond US, China — Impact on Your Windows PC
Bank of America has identified South Korea as the world’s top beneficiary of artificial intelligence investment outside the United States and China, a projection that could ripple through the...
ChatGPT iOS App Hit by 403 Errors Sunday Morning—Here’s What You Can Do
The ChatGPT iOS app sputtered for many users early Sunday morning, with a flood of reports pointing to HTTP 403 errors that blocked access to the chatbot. Outage tracking account @status_is_down...
From Cancer to Core: How Microsoft Marbled Linux Into Every Copy of Windows
Microsoft just shipped a Linux kernel to a billion PCs—and most owners never noticed. That quiet shift, culminating in the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2), marks the end of a decades-long war...
Joplin’s Self-Hosted Encryption Lures Users Away from Google Keep—Here’s How It Works
When a How-To Geek contributor recently abandoned Google Keep after years of use, the decision wasn’t impulsive—it was a careful pivot toward data ownership, cross-platform support, and robust...
Beelink EQi Hands-On: A 10GbE Mini PC Powerhouse, Unless You Need an eGPU
Beelink’s latest compact desktop, the EQi, arrives with a standout feature rarely seen in its class: built-in 10-gigabit Ethernet. But early testing reveals a critical shortcoming: Thunderbolt...
OpenAI's Safety Brain Drain Continues: Sixth Leader Exits in Two Years
Johannes Heidecke, OpenAI's head of safety systems, plans to leave the company by July 24, according to sources familiar with the matter who spoke with Bloomberg. His departure makes him the sixth...
AI Delivers Measurable Returns for 40% of Early Adopters, Morgan Stanley Data Shows
Business leaders and IT decision-makers who have been cautiously investing in artificial intelligence just received one of the strongest signals yet that the technology is paying off. A sweeping...
Win11Debloat Update Gives Users a Safety Net: Preview Bloatware Removal Before It Happens
On July 11, 2026, the open-source Win11Debloat project shipped a new release that finally addresses a long-standing request: a WhatIf preview for its Get.ps1 script. The update—versioned...
Black Flag Resynced Mod Crashes Windows Gamers with DirectX 12 Device Hangs – Workarounds Inside
A community remaster of a classic Assassin’s Creed title is leaving a growing number of players on Windows 10 and Windows 11 with a cryptic crash to desktop and the DirectX 12 error code...
Microsoft Discloses Edge RCE Vulnerability, Omits Version and Attack Details
Microsoft published a security advisory for CVE-2026-58281, a remote code execution vulnerability in the Chromium-based Edge browser, but omitted critical information including which versions are...
Chrome 150 Patches Tint Sandbox Escape—Why Windows Users Need to Update Now
Google has released Chrome 150.0.7871.46 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, and it’s not just another routine update. Tucked inside the change log is a fix for CVE-2026-14392, a high‑severity bug that...
Google Rushes Out Chrome 150 Emergency Patch for Windows—Here’s Why You Need It Now
Google shipped an unscheduled Chrome security update on Tuesday, pushing version 150.0.7871.46 to Windows users after discovering a vulnerability that attackers are already exploiting in the wild....