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LG Monitors Silently Install McAfee Adware via Windows 11 — How to Stop It
Connecting a new LG UltraGear monitor to a Windows 11 PC can trigger a silent installation of LG’s Monitor App Installer, which then pushes unsolicited McAfee promotions to your desktop. The app...
Anthropic melds Claude’s chat and agent modes, bringing file-aware automation to Windows desktops
Anthropic has retired the wall between Claude’s chat experience and its Cowork agent workspace, merging both into a single home screen on the Windows desktop app and the web. The change, announced...
iOS 27 Beta Too Buggy? Your iPhone Can Go Back to iOS 26.5.2 — Here’s How
For the thousands of early adopters who jumped onto Apple’s iOS 27 beta train, the ride has been bumpy. From crashing apps to battery that barely lasts past lunch, the preview software is showing...
Copilot Crowned Best Free AI for Microsoft 365 in 2026 Guide—Here’s the Reality Check
Microsoft Copilot just earned a crown. On July 17, Cloudwards released its comprehensive guide to the best AI apps in 2026, and in a field of 27 tools, it named Copilot the best free option for...
Chatto 0.4 Delivers Native Windows Builds for Its Open-Source, Self-Hosted Chat Platform
Chatto, a privacy-first team chat platform, has released version 0.4 as open-source software, delivering a self-hosted solution that runs on Windows as a single executable. This release, unveiled...
GMKtec’s EVO-X1 Pro: A Pocket-Sized Windows PC with Ryzen AI and OCuLink Lands July 14
On July 14, GMKtec will globally launch the EVO-X1 Pro, a compact Windows mini-PC that pairs AMD’s newest Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 processor with 64 GB of RAM and high-speed OCuLink expansion, following...
Euromonitor Overhauls Passport with Copilot and MCP, Bringing AI Chat to Enterprise Market Intelligence
Euromonitor International has rebuilt its flagship market-intelligence platform, Passport, from the ground up to embed a Microsoft Copilot agent and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration, turning...
WSL2 Kernel 6.18.35.2 Arrives to Fix x86 Timekeeping Regression Caused by Incorrect MSR Access
Microsoft has shipped an emergency update for the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2), delivering kernel version 6.18.35.2 on June 19, 2026. The release addresses a timekeeping regression that was...
Microsoft Unveils Windows AI Runtime with Offline Models at Build 2026
Microsoft chose the first day of its Build 2026 conference on June 2 in San Francisco to flip the script on PC artificial intelligence. Rather than another cloud-dependent Copilot upgrade, the...
How Microsoft Plans to Stop AI Agents from Running Wild on Your PC
On June 2, 2026, at its annual Build developer conference, Microsoft announced an early preview of Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC), a software development kit designed to confine what autonomous...
Edge Copilot, Chrome Gemini, and six rivals redefine browsing—seven AI browsers compared for privacy and speed.
The battle for the best AI browser in 2026 isn’t just between Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome. A wave of challengers—Brave, Opera, Arc, Dia, and Perplexity Comet—have shipped deeply integrated...
2026 Free AI Image Generators Face Daily Quotas and Hidden Licensing Traps
Microsoft Copilot Designer, Google Gemini, Leonardo AI, and a handful of other platforms now dominate the free AI image generator scene. But the real story isn’t about which one renders the...