Microsoft’s plan to fix Windows 11 drivers is falling into place — and that includes some great news for your laptop’s battery life

New ‘Driver Quality Initiative’ aims to shore up quality and prevent bad drivers from proving to be an unnecessary battery drain.
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How to watch Google I/O 2026 — and what announcements to expect

Google I/O is the company’s big developer show, covering Android, AI, and more — here’s how to watch the keynote live.
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Microsoft’s finally letting you change the Copilot key back to what it was before Windows 11’s AI assistant existed

‘Oh, yes: steal the Right Ctrl and now return it as an improvement’: Microsoft’s finally letting you revert Windows 11’s Copilot key back to what it used to be.
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Linus Torvalds says flood of duplicate AI-generated vulnerability reports have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’ — private list ‘a waste of time for everybody involved’ in switch to new public system

“AI detected bugs are pretty much by definition not secret, and treating them on some private list is a waste of time for everybody involved.”
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5 things to expect at Google I/O 2026 — from Android XR smart glasses to Gemini Remy

It’s almost time for Google I/O 2026, and we’re likely to see new hardware and software, with a particular focus on AI and XR.
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Windows 11 is getting some much-wanted features for the Start menu and taskbar, and that’s great to see — but it’s not the change I really want

What dare we hope for next from Microsoft? The company is clearly serious about making Windows 11 better.

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Googlebook has only just been revealed, but here are 5 things that people hate about the laptop already

Should Google be booking a plot in the ‘Google Graveyard’ in advance? Some folks think the Googlebook will be DOA.

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Google floats reduced initial 5GB free cloud storage limit, users claim — 15GB to require extra security measures, company confirms it is ‘testing a new storage policy for new accounts’

While Google has not publicly announced the change, the company confirmed that it is testing a new approach designed to improve account security and data recovery.
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Save a huge $229 on a two-year NordVPN subscription and get three extra months free — massive 73% saving for privacy-focused VPN with no-logs policy unlocks access to over 7400 servers across 118 different countries for just $83

NordVPN has a huge sale right now that drops the cost of a two-year subscription to just $83, the equivalent of just $3.09 a month, with three extra months thrown in for free.
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Microsoft is working on a fix to downgraded GPU drivers in Windows Update — new system uses multiple IDs

Microsoft has finally confirmed that Windows Update downgrades GPU drivers in certain circumstances. A partial fix is coming later this year to reduce the chances of driver downgrades occurring on newer devices.
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