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DXVK 3.0.2 Ships New Hang Debugger to Pinpoint Vulkan Crashes, Plus Fixes for Five Titles
DXVK 3.0.2 arrived on July 17, and the standout feature this time isn’t a game fix—it’s a new diagnostic tool that helps users and developers get to the bottom of one of Vulkan’s most...
Valve Rolls Out Steam Deck-Like Quick Menu for SteamVR — Here's How to Get It
On July 17, Valve released SteamVR beta 2.17.4, and it comes with a feature VR users have wanted for years: a quick-access dashboard that puts critical settings and Steam features right inside the...
Nvidia’s HBM4 Deal With SK hynix Will Reshape Windows AI — Here’s How
SK hynix has locked down roughly 70% of Nvidia’s initial HBM4 memory orders for the upcoming Vera Rubin AI platform, according to South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency. The allocation gives SK hynix a...
United Airlines Outage: Why a Broken Check-In System Paralyzed Hub Airports on a Busy Saturday
United Airlines passengers faced chaos Saturday morning as a widespread systems outage brought check-in, boarding, and baggage handling to a standstill at major airports. The disruption began around...
Your Azure Blob Storage Bills Could Spike if You Miss This October 2026 Deadline
Microsoft will automatically migrate any remaining legacy Blob Storage accounts to the newer general-purpose v2 (GPv2) format after October 13, 2026. The company warns that customers who let the...
Azure Virtual Desktop Classic Retires September 2026: What You Must Do Now
Microsoft has confirmed that Azure Virtual Desktop (classic) will reach end of life on September 30, 2026, after which it will no longer be supported. Organizations still running the older platform...
Microsoft postpones Azure Synapse firewall retirement to 2027 — but the clock is ticking
A deadline that sent shivers through Azure Synapse administrators has quietly been rolled back. Microsoft is now giving teams until June 1, 2027, to stop relying on a long-standing firewall bypass...
Nvidia's First Arm64 GPU Driver for Windows 11 Lands, Paving Way for RTX Spark PCs
Nvidia has quietly released the first native Arm64 GPU driver for Windows 11, version 616.00, according to a report by Windows Latest. The driver is currently aimed at Microsoft’s Surface RTX Dev...
RTX Spark Is NVIDIA’s Boldest PC Bet Yet—Here’s Why You Might Want to Hold Off
On May 31, 2026, NVIDIA announced RTX Spark, a new platform that pairs a custom 20-core Arm processor with up to 6,144 Blackwell RTX CUDA cores and 128GB of unified memory. ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo,...
Microsoft’s July Office Update Unlocks Copilot for SAEC PCs—Now IT Must Ask Hard Questions
On July 14, 2026, Microsoft released Version 2606 of Microsoft 365 Apps, a seemingly routine update that quietly erases the biggest technical barrier to Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption across...
Kimi K3 Open-Weight AI Arrives July 27: What Windows Developers and IT Pros Need to Know Now
Moonshot AI's new Kimi K3 model, released July 16, immediately shot to the top of Arena's front-end coding benchmark. On July 27, its full model weights go public—a move that reshapes the AI coding...
VS Code 1.129.1 Rolls Out Agent Host That Lets AI Sessions Span Multiple Windows
Microsoft shipped Visual Studio Code 1.129 on July 15, 2026, and followed it up with the 1.129.1 servicing update on July 17. The release is notable for two changes that move the editor in very...