KB5127936 (builds 26200.9807 and 26300.9807) is now available in the Release Preview channel for Windows 11 versions 25H2 and 26H2. This preview build adds Cloud rebuild in WinRE, lets WinRE draw on saved Wi-Fi profiles, and brings IPv6 CLAT support for IPv6-only networks. It also signals the end of prompt-based DPAPI protection, broadens memory integrity (HVCI), and adds a customizable File Explorer context menu. Additional fixes target Remote Desktop, BitLocker, and Smart App Control.

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai joins Alex Kantrowitz to discuss Google’s AI strategy, compute constraints, and emerging AI products. Pichai describes why Google continues to pursue frontier models while also developing smaller models for practical uses. The conversation explores AI safety, agent-based interfaces, data-center investment, and the opportunities and risks of rapid technological change.

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Google is adding a business landing page to Gemini, bringing small-business marketing, finances, customer insights, and connected apps into one hub. The new tools begin rolling out globally to all Gemini app users in the coming days. Owners can save brand guidelines for consistent visuals and turn spreadsheets and receipts into financial graphics and interactive models.

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Chrome’s Enhanced Protection can now detect ClickFix scams that trick users into copying and running malicious commands disguised as fixes. Chrome sends suspicious clipboard content to Safe Browsing after removing personally identifiable information, then warns users if a command is judged dangerous.

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Mistral has launched Voxtral 3, a speech-model family and SDK for voice agents that can listen, reason, call tools, and speak in a live conversation. The stack combines transcription, speech generation, and a LiveKit-based SDK, letting agents handle tasks such as checking invoices or booking appointments. Mistral offers deployment on your own infrastructure or through its EU-hosted API.

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OneDrive is adding live co-authoring for Markdown files alongside richer editing for both Markdown and HTML, bringing shared document work into its canvas. The update also makes shared libraries easier to find in search and the file picker.

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Microsoft’s Azure DevOps plugin brings work items, pull requests, test plans, and pipelines into Copilot Chat, Cowork, and Code. It can turn requirements and meeting notes into backlog updates, reducing the need to switch between tools. Users can also ask Copilot to review a backlog and surface priorities.

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An inference framework is the software that runs AI models and manages the hardware and processes needed to generate responses. DeepSeek has released DeepInfer, the inference framework behind its large-scale production services, for teams to run themselves. But the open-source drop is offline inference—not a ready-to-deploy service—and initially supports DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on NVIDIA SM100 GPUs and Huawei Ascend 950 NPUs.

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Replit is a browser-based platform for building and deploying software with AI. Replit is making OpenAI its preferred provider for Replit Agent, while keeping Anthropic models available to users. CEO Amjad Masad said the decision reflects cost, partnership, and performance, and claimed OpenAI’s Sol and Astra models perform better on Replit’s coding benchmarks. The shift changes the default—not the platform’s access to other providers.

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DHS has ordered U.S. civilian federal agencies to remove DeepSeek products—including third-party services built using its technology—and bar them from future purchases. The order cites concerns about sensitive government data reaching China and security vulnerabilities; it does not apply to private or consumer use.

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Huntress has now found suspicious sign-in activity from an IP address tied to the ConnectWise breach in nearly 1,000 Entra tenants, with more than 300 successful sign-ins. That is a sharp increase from the 162 tenants reported in the initial investigation; a successful sign-in does not necessarily mean the attacker gained access in every tenant.

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Microsoft will provide Surface Laptop Ultra driver and firmware updates through October 16, 2032. The six-year support window applies to the new laptop, which 4sysops covered for its 128GB memory configuration for local AI workloads. Owners must run a Windows 11 version released within the previous 30 months to remain eligible.

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Microsoft has rolled back a service-side change that stopped Edge 155 from launching on some managed enterprise PCs, but that does not repair devices already affected. Administrators can use a workaround while Microsoft investigates a client-side fix, with no release date announced.

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Microsoft plans to remove seven Copilot actions from the OneDrive submenu in Windows 11 File Explorer, with rollout scheduled to start in mid-November 2026 and finish by early December. The actions will disappear from the menu, but Microsoft says the features will remain available through other Copilot entry points.

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Microsoft has reversed its claim that the October 13 update fixed Always On VPN failures, saying the issue remains mitigated rather than resolved. The bug appeared after September updates, and Microsoft had said the October patch fixed it in its October update. A permanent fix is now planned for an update in the coming weeks.

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OpenAI reports that GPT-6.1 Sol passed 97.9% of tests in its high-reasoning COBOL migration evaluation, compared with 5.4% for GPT-5.6 Sol at low reasoning effort. The source discusses low-resource languages including COBOL, Fortran, Visual Basic, and OCaml, as well as migrations to C++, Java, Kotlin, Python, and Rust. In a separate benchmark spanning 20 languages, GPT-6 Astra averaged 87.4%—but COBOL remained its weakest language, at 72.1%.

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A disruption in Google Cloud’s London region, europe-west2, is affecting multiple cloud services and causing outages at businesses including Revolut. The incident is also disrupting other UK websites and apps, underscoring how a problem in one cloud region can reach services beyond its direct customers.

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Microsoft is expanding Sovereign Cloud with new tools for monitoring controls, managing encryption keys, and keeping critical services running offline. The update also brings more data, development, and AI capabilities to customer-operated Azure Local environments, giving organizations more options to place workloads under local control.

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