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Windows 11 Quietly Tests Handoff-Style Android-to-PC Resume—Starting with Spotify
Microsoft just took a page from Apple’s playbook, and then tried to erase it. During its Build 2025 developer conference, the company demoed a new Cross-Device Resume feature that mirrors Apple’s...
Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs Test AI-Powered Semantic Search: Find Files Without Knowing the Name
A sizable update to the Copilot app on Windows 11, currently shipping to Windows Insiders on Copilot+ PCs, lets you retrieve local files and images by describing what you’re looking for in plain...
Microsoft Silently Patches Copilot Audit Blind Spot That Allowed Silent Data Exfiltration
Microsoft quietly fixed a critical gap in Microsoft 365 Copilot’s audit logging in mid‑August 2025 after researchers proved that a simple prompt tweak could make the AI assistant summarize...
Edge Journeys: Microsoft Gating On-Device AI Summaries Behind $20 Copilot Pro Subscription
Microsoft is testing Journeys, a new Edge feature that uses on-device AI to automatically group tabs, search history, and browsing activity into tidy, context-aware summaries—but early Canary...
Zed’s GPU-Accelerated Windows Port Stalls as Native Rendering Multiplies Cross-Platform Complexity
Zed’s promise of a blazing-fast, GPU-accelerated code editor is colliding with the harsh realities of cross-platform development on Windows. The team behind the Rust-based editor confirmed this...
KB5063878 Triggers Cross-Vendor NVMe SSD Disappearances, Phison Disowns Forged Warning
A forged internal memo claiming Windows 11’s August cumulative update was catastrophically destroying Phison-based SSDs was publicly disowned by Phison this week, even as the storage controller...
Windows 11 SSD Turmoil: Back Up Now as Vendors Probe Update Bug and Phison Battles Fake Leaks
Users who installed Microsoft’s August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 are facing a demonstrable threat to their data, as multiple independent tests have confirmed that sustained...
Zscaler CEO's 'Wonderful AI' Remarks Ignite Customer Log Training Controversy—Company Denies Using Private Data
Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry set off a firestorm when he boasted that the company harnesses over half a trillion daily transactions—including full URLs and proprietary logs—to train its AI models,...
KB5063878 Triggers SSD Failures During Heavy Writes; Phison Pursues Legal Action Over Forged Advisory
SSD reliability on Windows 11 took a sharp hit this week after Microsoft's August 12 cumulative update, KB5063878, was linked to NVMe drives vanishing under sustained write loads. Phison, a leading...
Windows 11 Update KB5063878 Triggers SSD Failures: Phison Investigates, Denounces Fake Report
Phison is actively investigating a storage regression in Windows 11's August 2025 cumulative update that causes NVMe SSDs to vanish mid-transfer, while simultaneously denouncing a falsified internal...
Copilot and Office.com Outage Traced to Botched Microsoft Configuration Change
Microsoft’s cloud productivity suite hit a roadblock on August 20 when users across North America found themselves locked out of Office.com and the Copilot AI assistant. The company declared a...
Windows 11 Insider Build 26100.5061: Dark Dialogs for File Ops, BSoD Becomes Black
Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Release Preview build finally delivers a long-sought fix for one of the operating system’s most persistent visual discontinuities: file copy, delete, and conflict...