Articles from May 2026
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Microsoft Named Top AI Pick as Compute Scarcity Reshapes Cloud Economics
On a late May afternoon in 2026, Argent Capital Management portfolio manager Jed Ellerbroek sat down with BNN Bloomberg and named three companies poised to ride the next wave of artificial...
Microsoft Build 2026 to Unveil Homegrown AI Model Powering GitHub Copilot
Microsoft plans to unveil a suite of homegrown AI models at its Build developer conference in San Francisco on June 2–3, 2026. Chief among them is a specialized coding model engineered to...
How a 2005 IBM ThinkPad T43 Runs Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 10 22H2 Bare-Metal: A Retro Computing Marvel
Reddit user MatiHalek has pushed a 2005 IBM ThinkPad T43 to its absolute limits, documenting a bare-metal compatibility audit that spans twenty years of Windows releases. From Windows NT 4.0 through...
FROST Browser Side-Channel: How JavaScript and OPFS Timing Can Expose Your Other Open Apps
Security researchers at Graz University of Technology have unveiled a new browser-based side-channel attack they call FROST. The technique abuses the Origin Private File System (OPFS) in...
Windows 365 Cloud PC Review 2025: Boring, Reliable, and Perfect for Business?
If you're looking for excitement, Windows 365 Cloud PC isn't it. And that's exactly the point. Microsoft's fully managed virtual desktop service has been quietly expanding since its 2021 debut, and...
Disable Windows Fast Startup to Fix Dual-Boot, Updates, and Hidden System Issues
Your Windows PC's shutdown button has been lying to you. For over a decade, Microsoft has quietly replaced the traditional shutdown with a hybrid hibernation that keeps the operating system kernel in...
DOE Genesis Mission to Turn AI into Core Infrastructure for Scientific Discovery
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) researchers took center stage at the AI+ Expo in Washington, D.C., from May 7–9, 2026, to champion the Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission—a bold...
Microsoft Build 2026: AI Agents, Copilot, and Windows Local AI Lead the Way
Microsoft’s annual developer conference, Build, returns to San Francisco on June 2–3, 2026, and it’s shaping up to be an AI-first event. On the historic Fort Mason Center campus and streamed...
Broadcom Wi-Fi 8 SoCs Bring Mesh Reliability to Mainstream Homes
Broadcom has thrown down the gauntlet for the next generation of home networking. On May 27, 2026, the company unveiled three new Wi‑Fi 8 systems‑on‑chip (SoCs) — the BCM6772, BCM6774, and...
Malicious npm packages hit Windows dev machines in two-day dependency confusion campaign
Microsoft Threat Intelligence disclosed on May 29, 2026 that a fresh wave of dependency confusion attacks targeting the npm ecosystem leveraged malicious postinstall scripts to conduct reconnaissance...
Microsoft Copilot super app leak reveals unified chat, coding, cowork, and autopilot hub
Microsoft is quietly developing an expansive Copilot “super app” that would bundle chat-based AI, GitHub Copilot coding assistance, a new Copilot Cowork collaboration tool, and an agentic...
U.S. Interior Launches MAPLand & MAPWaters Datasets for Outdoor Recreation
The U.S. Department of the Interior dropped a long-awaited geospatial bomb on the outdoor community May 28, 2026, unveiling MAPLand and MAPWaters—the first comprehensive federal datasets detailing...