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Microsoft Ships OAuth Risk Scores to Block ShinyHunters’ Silent Salesforce Data Theft
Microsoft released a set of OAuth governance controls and risk-scoring models inside Defender for Cloud Apps on July 13, aimed squarely at the abuse of trusted Salesforce integrations that...
EU Threatens Meta with Fines Over Addictive Features—Here’s How It Affects Your Windows Apps
On July 10, the European Commission dropped a regulatory bomb: Meta’s Facebook and Instagram are designed to be addictive, and that could cost the company billions. The preliminary finding, part of...
16GB RAM, 512GB Storage: The New Windows 11 Mini PC Baseline
The mini PC market in 2026 has quietly dropped the budget-label pretenses. These palm-sized machines are now fast enough to handle daily work, multiple browser tabs, and even local AI tasks, but the...
What TSMC’s Arizona Fab Means for Your Next Windows PC
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company started high-volume chip production using its advanced 4-nanometer process at its new Arizona factory in the final quarter of 2024. The milestone marks the...
After a Hack, a Brazilian Court Forces Microsoft to Reopen a Gamer’s Account and Digital Library
{ "title": "After a Hack, a Brazilian Court Forces Microsoft to Reopen a Gamer’s Account and Digital Library", "content": "On July 10, 2026, a Brazilian court handed down a ruling that could...
Navitas Vows to Fight 'Baseless' Wolfspeed Lawsuit That Threatens GaN and SiC Power Chips
A patent fight over the future of power-efficient electronics broke into the open on July 7 when Wolfspeed sued rival Navitas Semiconductor in Delaware federal court, alleging infringement of five...
Windows Server 2016 Can Jump Directly to 2025 — Here’s When That Works
Microsoft has quietly enabled a four-version leap for Windows Server upgrades: nonclustered Server 2016 systems can now move straight to Server 2025, no intermediate hops required. The catch is that...
Microsoft Word’s Table of Contents: Web vs. Desktop — What You Can and Can’t Do
Microsoft’s official support channels confirm that Word for the web now handles automatic tables of contents—a feature once locked to desktop installs. The catch? The browser version’s...
Windows 10 Is EOL, WMIC Is Gone: How to Find Every CPU Detail in Windows 11 Now
Microsoft pulled the plug on Windows 10 support on October 14, 2025, leaving an estimated 240 million PCs worldwide without security updates. For users clinging to the decade-old OS, or those finally...
Google Cloud’s $20B Quarter and $460B AI Backlog Reshape Enterprise IT Options
Google Cloud revenue topped $20 billion for the first time in a single quarter, and its backlog of future AI-related contract value nearly doubled to $460 billion. Those numbers—reported in...
FOXTRON Taps MediaTek and NVIDIA for AI-Powered Vehicle Cockpits — What Windows Users Should Know
MediaTek has inked a multi-year deal with FOXTRON to put its Dimensity AX C-X1 chip into premium vehicles, pulling NVIDIA’s GPU and AI technology into the cockpit. The agreement was first reported...
Apple’s M7 Ultra 1.5TB RAM Plan: The Windows Workstation Reality Check
Apple is reportedly skipping three M6-series chips to deliver an M7 Ultra processor with up to 1.5 terabytes of unified memory by 2028, a move that would eliminate the last meaningful capacity gap...