Articles from July 30, 2026
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AMD's Latest WHQL Driver Fixes FSR 4.1 Crashes on Windows 10, Adds Early RX 9050 Support
{ "title": "AMD's Latest WHQL Driver Fixes FSR 4.1 Crashes on Windows 10, Adds Early RX 9050 Support", "content": "AMD shipped its Adrenalin 26.7.1 WHQL driver on July 28, quietly opening the...
Microsoft's Echoverse Teaches AI Agents That Clicks Have Consequences
The latest training platform from Microsoft Research doesn’t care what a website looks like. It cares whether an action actually changed something in a database. That distinction, released to...
Steam's Newest Free Shooter The Division Resurgence Requires Ring-0 Anti-Cheat – What to Know Before August 5
On August 5, Ubisoft will launch its free-to-play tactical shooter The Division Resurgence on Steam, delivering a mobile-first experience to PC players—along with a kernel-level anti-cheat system...
Stop Chasing CVEs: Microsoft Defender's New Dashboard Tells You What to Fix First
Microsoft has given security teams a new reason to visit the Defender portal: a prioritized to-do list for their most dangerous exposures. On July 30, the company rolled out a public preview of the...
Winamp’s Desktop Player Is Now ‘Legacy Software’ as Company Pivots to Artist Services
Winamp’s owners have officially relegated the classic Windows media player to legacy status. The application that once dominated PC audio playback is now labeled the “Legacy Player” on...
Microsoft’s EvoLib turns black-box AI agents into lifelong learners—no fine-tuning required
Microsoft Research has introduced EvoLib, a test-time learning framework that enables API-hosted large language models to improve from their own experience without ever touching the model’s...
Farmers in Arid Mexico Now Use a PWA Powered by Edge AI to Cut Water Waste — Here’s How
A startup in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, has deployed an edge AI platform that tells farmers exactly when and how much to irrigate — and it delivers those recommendations through a progressive web app...
Veeam v13.1 Hands Windows Admins an Automated Lifeline for Active Directory Disasters
Veeam is automating one of the most painful disaster-recovery tasks for Windows shops: rebuilding an entire Active Directory forest after a cyberattack. The newly released Veeam Data Platform v13.1,...
Mac App Store Blocks Windows Task Manager Creator’s New Tool Over Force-Quit Ban
Dave Plummer, the original developer of Windows Task Manager, is building a lookalike utility for macOS—but his plan to release it through the Mac App Store has hit a wall. Apple’s App Sandbox...
CISA Drops Open Source Security Guidance: SBOMs, AI Models, and the Governance Gap Every Windows Admin Must Close
On July 30, 2026, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released a document called Open Source Software: Security Principles and Practices that federal agencies must follow—but its...
Six Apps Windows 11 Power Users Should Install on a Fresh Build, According to Windows Central
On July 30, 2026, Windows Central writer Sean Endicott published a personal shortlist of six applications he reaches for immediately after a clean installation of Windows 11. The collection is not a...
Microsoft Whiteboard Countdown: Export Personal Boards by Sept 5, Enterprise Migration Ends Aug 22
Microsoft has confirmed a double-barreled deadline for Whiteboard users: personal account holders must export their boards before September 5, 2026, or see them permanently wiped, while enterprise...