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Blackmagic Releases Free Fairlight Live Mixer for Windows — But ASIO Hardware and ATEM 10.3 Are Mandatory
Blackmagic Design has shipped the final version of Fairlight Live, a free, standalone audio mixing application for Windows that brings professional broadcast mixing capabilities to anyone with...
Microsoft's First AI Datacenter Goes Live in Wisconsin, Bringing New Compute Power to Azure
Microsoft's first purpose-built AI datacenter in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, entered full operation on June 23, 2026, after months of startup work that began in April. The Fairwater facility—part of...
Silence the Noise: 5 Windows 11 Notification Types You Should Disable Today
Windows 11’s notification system, while intended to keep you informed, often buries useful alerts under a pile of low-value interruptions. After examining the most common sources of distraction,...
Teams on Mac? Update Now to Avoid Black Screen Sharing, Microsoft Warns
Microsoft has issued an advisory for Teams users on Mac: if you're running a version of macOS older than Tahoe 26.4, your screen sharing may suddenly go black, fail entirely, or sputter with...
Refurbished Tech Sales Soar: Back Market Sees 62% MacBook Jump, but Windows Buyers Have Even More Options
Back Market, one of the largest refurbished electronics marketplaces, just reported a 62% year-over-year surge in MacBook sales during the first quarter of 2025. The spike follows a series of Apple...
PC Shipments Slide 4.9% in Q2 2026, Ending Two-Year Growth Streak as Memory Prices Soar
Worldwide PC shipments fell 4.9% year over year in the second quarter of 2026, snapping a two-year streak of growth and marking the first annual decline since early 2024. The culprit, according to...
Microsoft 365 Routing Failure Takes Down Outlook Logins and Copilot Access
Thousands of Microsoft 365 users were unable to sign into Outlook or access Copilot on Friday after a routing configuration change triggered a widespread outage. The disruption, which began just...
What Windows’ Ultimate Performance Power Plan Actually Changes—and When You Should Use It
Microsoft’s Ultimate Performance power plan has been shrouded in myth since its debut, with many users believing it magically overclocks their CPU or unlocks hidden performance. The reality is more...
Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Get 2026 Deadline to Meet UK Financial Sector Resilience Mandate
The UK Treasury has formally designated Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Oracle as Critical Third Parties (CTPs) to the financial sector, giving them until July 13, 2026, to prove...
Inside Microsoft’s 24-Hour, 70 TB SAP Cutover: A Blueprint for Windows Shops
In August 2025, Microsoft’s internal IT team pulled off an SAP migration many would have called reckless. They moved a 70-terabyte Billing and Revenue Innovation Management system—the financial...
Microsoft’s Cross-Tenant Message Recall for Exchange Online Arrives in August
Microsoft announced on July 10, 2026, that Exchange Online will gain a cross-tenant message recall feature, rolling out in mid-August. The new capability allows a sender in one Microsoft 365 tenant...
Surface Laptop 7th Edition Gets a $400 Price Cut as 8th Edition Launches at $1,600
Microsoft's 2026 Surface Laptop 8th Edition will start at $1,600, packing the new Snapdragon X2 Plus or X2 Elite processors. But while the company pushes its latest flagship, the real value story is...