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Edge Canary Flags Reveal Microsoft's Plan to Sync Passkeys Across Devices via Microsoft Account
Microsoft has begun testing a significant upgrade to Edge that would allow the browser to sync passkeys across devices, signaling a major step toward a passwordless future. The latest Canary builds...
Microsoft's $13 Billion Bet: How ChatGPT Became the Brain Behind Copilot—Without Microsoft Owning a Byte
ChatGPT is not a Microsoft product. Let’s get that straight first: the conversational AI that has upended search, coding, and content creation was built, trained, and is operated entirely by...
Windows 11 Is the Hardest Place to Set Chrome as Default: Here’s the Complete Multi-Device Fix
Setting Google Chrome as your default browser should be one of the simplest tweaks you make on a new device. The promise is enticing: click a link in an email, a document, or a chat message, and it...
Microsoft's Mu Model Brings On-Device AI Agent to Windows 11 Settings — But Only for Copilot+ PCs
The August 2025 Windows 11 update shipped a quiet but transformative feature: a natural-language agent inside the Settings app that can understand commands like "make my mouse pointer bigger" and...
Windows 10’s 2025 Deadline Arrives With Surprise Lifelines for Edge, Office—and a $30 Escape Hatch
Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025. That hard deadline, confirmed by Microsoft, means no more free security patches, quality updates, or technical support for the operating...
Microsoft Research India's Dual Mission: Advancing Foundational AI While Deploying Copilots at Scale
Microsoft Research India is quietly orchestrating a dual-pronged strategy that few labs can match: it is pushing the boundaries of generative AI fundamentals while simultaneously deploying copilots...
Azure Sphere 18.11 Update Bolsters Microsoft’s Secure Edge AI and Digital Twins Vision
Microsoft has shipped a critical update to its Azure Sphere microcontroller security platform, reinforcing the company’s end-to-end IoT architecture that spans from silicon to cloud. The 18.11...
From Myriad X to NPUs: How Windows ML and Intel\'s VPU Sparked the On-Device AI Revolution
Seven years ago, Microsoft and Intel forged an alliance that would quietly reshape where and how artificial intelligence runs on Windows. The partnership paired Windows Machine...
GPT-5's Windows Debut Brings Smarter AI, But Cautionary Tales Remain
Microsoft has embedded OpenAI’s new GPT‑5 reasoning engine into Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and Visual Studio just days after launch—bringing expanded context windows, model‑routing “Smart...
Chrome 139 Fixes High-Severity libaom AV1 Heap Overflow; Edge Patch to Follow
Google has rolled out a stable-channel update for Chrome that patches CVE-2025-8879, a high-severity heap buffer overflow in the libaom AV1 codec library. The fix landed on August 12, 2025, in Chrome...
Urgent Chrome 139.0.7258.127 Update Closes V8 Race Condition (CVE-2025-8880) — Patch Now for Windows, Edge, and Chromium Browsers
On August 12, 2025, Google rushed out Chrome 139.0.7258.127 with an urgent fix for CVE-2025-8880 — a high-severity race condition in the V8 JavaScript engine that could hand remote attackers the...
Microsoft’s Agentic Windows: The Cloud-PC and Copilot+ Blueprint for an Ambient AI Future
Microsoft is not just adding AI to Windows; it is redesigning the operating system around a radical premise: your PC becomes a conversational partner that lives in the cloud, sees what you see, hears...