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Samsung Embeds Microsoft Copilot in 2025 TVs, Turning Screens into Shared AI Companions
Microsoft Copilot is breaking out of its productivity shell and landing on the biggest screens in the home. Samsung’s 2025 lineup of Neo QLED, OLED, Micro LED, and select Smart Monitors will ship...
Samsung Embeds Microsoft Copilot in 2025 TVs, Rolls Out One UI and 7-Year Support for Smart Appliances
At IFA 2025, Samsung abandoned the usual parade of individual product launches and instead presented a single, interconnected vision: the AI Home. The company announced it will embed Microsoft...
Flyoobe 1.6 Transforms Windows 11 Bypass Tool Into Full-Featured Setup Suite with Ventoy and Debloat
Flyoobe 1.6 lands with a redesigned home screen, Ventoy multi‑ISO USB support, a hardened bloatware remover, and a wave of UI polish that collectively shift the utility from a niche requirements...
Windows 10 Gains a One-Year Reprieve—But Only If You Activate OneDrive Backup by October 14
Starting October 14, 2025, Microsoft will stop issuing security updates for Windows 10—unless users enroll in the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, and the free path requires syncing with...
Microsoft Copilot Now Reads and Connects Multiple Files for Free on Windows 11 and Web
Microsoft has quietly equipped its Copilot assistant with the ability to reason across multiple files at once, bringing a ChatGPT-like multi-document analysis workflow to the web and Windows 11 app...
KB5064081 Brings AI-Powered Recall Upgrade and Task Manager Fix to Windows 11 24H2
Microsoft shipped an optional preview cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 on August 29, 2025—KB5064081—bumping eligible PCs to OS Build 26100.5074 and laying the groundwork for a wave of AI...
Free AI Chat Tools in 2025: The Hidden Trade-offs Between Cost, Privacy, and Power
{ "title": "Free AI Chat Tools in 2025: The Hidden Trade-offs Between Cost, Privacy, and Power", "content": "Choosing a free AI chat tool in 2025 feels like picking a cable package: the basic...
Microsoft Secure Boot Certs Expire June 2026 — Act Now on Windows 10 ESU
Microsoft’s Secure Boot certificates for Windows will expire in June 2026, the company warned this week, adding a new layer of urgency for the millions of PCs still running Windows 10 after its...
Windows 11 Beta Adds App Recommendations to Start Menu: How to Opt Out
Microsoft has begun testing a new feature that places app recommendations directly inside the Windows 11 Start menu’s Recommended area. Limited to a small set of Windows Insiders in the Beta...
Vivaldi CEO Declares War on AI in Browsers: 'Web Browsing Belongs to People, Not Bots'
{ "title": "Vivaldi CEO Declares War on AI in Browsers: 'Web Browsing Belongs to People, Not Bots'", "content": "Jon von Tetzchner, the outspoken CEO of Vivaldi Technologies, has drawn a line in...
Microsoft's Copilot Free Tier Now Runs on GPT-4 Turbo, Offering 128K Context and April 2023 Cutoff
Microsoft has silently shifted the free tier of its Copilot AI assistant onto OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo model, a move that brings a dramatically larger context window, more recent training data, and...
PowerToys Replaces Paid Windows Utilities: The Hidden Trade-Offs
Microsoft’s PowerToys, once a collection of experimental utilities, has quietly matured into a comprehensive, free toolkit that replaces a surprising number of paid Windows productivity apps. A...