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After a Hack, a Brazilian Court Forces Microsoft to Reopen a Gamer’s Account and Digital Library
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Navitas Vows to Fight 'Baseless' Wolfspeed Lawsuit That Threatens GaN and SiC Power Chips
A patent fight over the future of power-efficient electronics broke into the open on July 7 when Wolfspeed sued rival Navitas Semiconductor in Delaware federal court, alleging infringement of five...
Windows Server 2016 Can Jump Directly to 2025 — Here’s When That Works
Microsoft has quietly enabled a four-version leap for Windows Server upgrades: nonclustered Server 2016 systems can now move straight to Server 2025, no intermediate hops required. The catch is that...
Microsoft Word’s Table of Contents: Web vs. Desktop — What You Can and Can’t Do
Microsoft’s official support channels confirm that Word for the web now handles automatic tables of contents—a feature once locked to desktop installs. The catch? The browser version’s...
Windows 10 Is EOL, WMIC Is Gone: How to Find Every CPU Detail in Windows 11 Now
Microsoft pulled the plug on Windows 10 support on October 14, 2025, leaving an estimated 240 million PCs worldwide without security updates. For users clinging to the decade-old OS, or those finally...
Google Cloud’s $20B Quarter and $460B AI Backlog Reshape Enterprise IT Options
Google Cloud revenue topped $20 billion for the first time in a single quarter, and its backlog of future AI-related contract value nearly doubled to $460 billion. Those numbers—reported in...
FOXTRON Taps MediaTek and NVIDIA for AI-Powered Vehicle Cockpits — What Windows Users Should Know
MediaTek has inked a multi-year deal with FOXTRON to put its Dimensity AX C-X1 chip into premium vehicles, pulling NVIDIA’s GPU and AI technology into the cockpit. The agreement was first reported...
Apple’s M7 Ultra 1.5TB RAM Plan: The Windows Workstation Reality Check
Apple is reportedly skipping three M6-series chips to deliver an M7 Ultra processor with up to 1.5 terabytes of unified memory by 2028, a move that would eliminate the last meaningful capacity gap...
Your Windows PC Has a Hidden ID That Survives VPNs — and It’s Now a Federal Case
On June 30, 2026, a federal cybercrime complaint unsealed in the case against an alleged Scattered Spider member did more than detail a botched ransomware attempt. It laid bare a Windows feature that...
Cyberattack Downtime Kills: What Windows-Dependent Businesses Can Learn from a German Factory's Collapse
On March 29, 2026, a cyberattack struck ZEGO Textilveredelungszentrum, a 37-year-old German textile-finishing company. The intrusion paralyzed production for nearly six weeks. By mid-July, the...
Russian FSB Targeting Routers via SNMP Flaws: How Windows Users Must Respond
On July 13, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre and 12 allied nations issued an urgent advisory: Russian intelligence is actively scanning the internet for routers with poorly secured SNMP...
Vectra AI CEO: Why Network Telemetry Is the Missing Data Layer in Windows Threat Detection
Vectra AI President and CEO Hitesh Sheth has put network telemetry back at the center of the Windows security conversation. In a July 2026 interview with BankInfoSecurity, he argued that network data...