Articles from July 16, 2026
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FCC Filing Suggests Pixel 11’s Tensor G6 Will Ditch Samsung Modem for MediaTek
Google’s next flagship phone may finally solve one of the Pixel line’s longest-running grievances: cellular modem performance. An FCC filing for an upcoming foldable model, spotted by Android...
Azure's NVv4 GPU VMs Are Getting Decommissioned—Here's How to Move Before the 2026 Deadline
Microsoft will retire its entire Azure NVv4-series GPU virtual machine fleet on September 30, 2026. After that date, any remaining instances will be forcibly deallocated—they stop working, stop...
OneDrive Pulls Support for Older Windows 10 Versions on August 15, 2026 — What You Need to Know
Microsoft has set a hard deadline for OneDrive sync on Windows 10: starting August 15, 2026, PCs running versions older than 22H2 will no longer be supported. The sync client won’t instantly stop...
Torvalds Tells Linux Devs to ‘Fork It’ Over AI Reviews—What Windows Shops Must Know
Linus Torvalds has reportedly drawn a hard line in the escalating debate over AI-assisted code review in the Linux kernel: the project will not become anti-AI, and contributors unwilling to accept...
Rust Becomes Mandatory for Some New Linux Kernel Drivers as Experiment Ends
Greg Kroah-Hartman, the stable kernel maintainer for Linux, delivered a definitive message at Open Source Summit India in Mumbai on July 15, 2026: Rust is no longer an experiment in the kernel...
Torvalds Sets Linux Kernel AI Policy: Use It Responsibly, or Fork It—What Windows Devs Need to Know
Linus Torvalds sent a blunt message to the Linux kernel mailing list on July 15, 2026: Linux is not an “anti-AI” project, and contributors who object to others using artificial intelligence in...
Microsoft-Oracle GPU Deal Collapse: A Compliance Red Flag for Azure Workloads
Reports emerged on June 16, 2026, that high-stakes cloud infrastructure talks between Microsoft and Oracle had fallen apart—with security and compliance concerns at the center of the breakdown. The...
1,000+ Xbox Games Can Now Stream to Your Phone — If You Meet These Requirements
Microsoft quietly took Xbox Cloud Gaming out of beta in December 2025, and with that milestone it unlocked streaming for more than 1,000 owned titles to smartphones. The move turns any recent Android...
AsyncAPI Hack Executes Malware the Second You Import—Install Safeguards Are Useless
On July 14, 2026, five packages from the widely used @asyncapi npm organization were infected with malware that springs to life the moment any application loads them. This isn’t the usual...
New Windows Bind Link Tricks Let Attackers Turn EDR Tools Blind After Compromise
On July 16, 2026, security researchers at Bitdefender disclosed three techniques that weaponize a little-known Windows filesystem feature called bind links to blind endpoint detection and response...
When Windows 11 Cries GPT Header Corruption, Here’s How to Get Back to Work (Without Erasing Anything)
When your Windows 11 PC fails to boot and instead presents a cryptic "GPT header corruption" error, your immediate reaction might be panic—but that message does not automatically mean your files...
Intel’s Panther Lake Chips Are First to Use $400M High-NA EUV Tools
Intel Foundry has begun shipping a subset of its Core Ultra Series 3 processors with layers patterned by ASML’s next-generation High-NA EUV lithography, a manufacturing milestone that cements...