Articles from 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2026
Gamer Test Finds Disabling Windows 11 Memory Integrity Delivers Almost No FPS Gain
A recent hands-on test by MakeUseOf has thrown cold water on one of the most stubborn pieces of Windows gaming folklore: the idea that flipping off Memory Integrity will unlock a noticeable...
7AI's Partner Program Puts Agentic Security Operations Within Reach for Windows Shops
7AI has formalized its go-to-market strategy with the launch of the 7AI Alliance Partner Program, a two-tier ecosystem designed to help partners sell, deploy, and operate agentic security operations...
Spellcheck Is Failing You: How Free AI Proofreading Outsmarted Microsoft Editor in a Real-World Test
A month-long proofreading experiment by a veteran Windows reporter has delivered a startling verdict: free versions of Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini consistently outperformed Microsoft Editor...
Your next e-book will talk back: AI reading assistants arrive on Kindle and Audible
Reading is about to get a lot more interactive. As of December 2025, Amazon’s Kindle and Audible platforms have introduced AI-powered assistants that let you ask questions about a book while...
AMD's Helios AI Racks Go Into Production: What Windows Shops Need to Know
AMD has begun full production of its Helios rack-scale AI server platform, with the first customer shipments slated for the end of September 2026. That schedule, drawn from AMD’s own product page...
Intel’s Q2 Beat, AI Spending Jitters, and What Windows Users Need to Know
A sudden drop in oil prices brought a moment of relief to tech stocks last week, but the deeper story isn’t about crude. It’s about whether the enormous sums pouring into artificial intelligence...
AI-Powered Chip Design Just Got Real: DAC 2026 Shows Debug Times Slashed from Hours to Minutes
At this year’s Design Automation Conference (DAC) in Long Beach, the conversation around artificial intelligence in chip design took a sharp turn from theoretical promise to measurable production...
The Substrate Is No Longer Just a Stage: VO₂ Discovery Could Enable Brain-Like AI Hardware
Researchers at the University of California San Diego have overturned a decades-old engineering assumption: the substrate beneath a thin-film device is not just an inert platform. In a study...
Claude's New Business Travel Skill: Booking Flights and Hotels Without Leaving Chat
American Express Global Business Travel is plugging Claude directly into its managed travel ecosystem. On July 27, the company announced an Egencia AI connector for Anthropic’s assistant that lets...
Why a Bug’s Nose on a Chip Could Bring Chemical Sensing to Windows Edge Systems
A research team at the University of California San Diego has fabricated a graphene field-effect transistor that uses an insect’s olfactory receptor to sniff out 16 different volatile...
Volkswagen’s AI Engineers Are Already on the Job, Testing Infotainment So Humans Don’t Have To
Volkswagen isn’t just using AI to draft emails or summarize meetings. The automaker has quietly put generative AI to work on real engineering tasks—automatically poking at touchscreens, managing...
The Silent Microsoft 365 Killer: Configuration Drift Leaves Your Security Blind
A single wrong toggle in your Microsoft 365 tenant can undo years of security hardening — silently, and often without anyone noticing until it’s too late. That’s the blunt warning from a recent...