Microsoft Rushes Out Emergency Windows Update After September Patch Tuesday Breaks RDS, Hyper-V Linux Apps and USB Audio

System Developments | 15 September 2026

Microsoft has moved quickly to address several serious problems introduced by its September 2026 Patch Tuesday updates, releasing an out-of-band Windows update only days after the original patches began reaching users. The emergency release fixes iss...

Homebrew 7.0.0 Arrives With a Native GUI, Built-In Vulnerability Scanning and Stronger Security

System Developments | 15 September 2026

Homebrew has long been one of the easiest ways to install software on macOS, particularly for developers who prefer managing applications and command-line tools through the Terminal. With the release of Homebrew 7.0.0, however, the project is becomin...

Microsoft Expands Copilot Model Choice With Grok From SpaceXAI

System Developments | 14 September 2026

Microsoft is continuing to broaden the range of artificial intelligence models available through Copilot, this time bringing Grok models from SpaceXAI into selected Microsoft 365 experiences. The move forms part of Microsoft's wider multi-model strat...

Windows 11 Removes WMIC as Microsoft Pushes Admins Away From a Tool Long Abused by Ransomware

System Developments | 11 September 2026

Microsoft has finally removed one of Windows' oldest command-line management utilities from Windows 11, closing the door on a tool that had become increasingly associated with abuse by ransomware and other malware families. The latest mandatory Windo...

Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS Arrives With Linux 7.0, Mesa 26.2 and Updated Installation Media

System Developments | 11 September 2026

Canonical has released Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS, the fifth point release in the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS "Noble Numbat" series and one that is likely to be the final major refresh of its installation media. The release arrives around six months after Ubuntu 24.04....

Microsoft Wants IT Admins to Move Windows Activation Automation From slmgr.vbs to PowerShell

System Developments | 11 September 2026

Microsoft's long-running effort to retire VBScript is beginning to have a more practical impact on Windows administration. One of the tools now caught in that transition is slmgr.vbs, the familiar Windows licensing script that many administrators hav...

IJM Launches AI-Powered Smart Highway System for Faster Incident Detection

System Developments | 09 September 2026

IJM Corporation Bhd has launched a new Smart Highway Traffic Control Centre that uses artificial intelligence, data analytics and Internet of Things technology to monitor traffic conditions and detect incidents across three major highways in real tim...

KDE Introduces a New Photos App as a Modern Alternative to Gwenview

System Developments | 08 September 2026

For more than two decades, Gwenview has been one of the default image viewers associated with KDE Plasma. It is fast, familiar, feature-rich and deeply integrated with the Qt-based KDE ecosystem, which is why so many Linux users have relied on it for...

MesaOS Reaches Major Milestone as From-Scratch Rust Kernel Boots on a Real Laptop

System Developments | 07 September 2026

Building an operating system from scratch is one of those programming projects that sounds exciting until you realise just how much work sits between displaying a few lines of text in an emulator and actually running on real hardware. Memory manageme...

MyRepublic Launches Hyperpeer in Malaysia With Claims of Up to 30% Lower Gaming Ping

System Developments | 04 September 2026

MyRepublic has launched Hyperpeer in Malaysia and Singapore, introducing a gaming-focused network service designed to improve how traffic travels between players and supported game servers. Unlike a faster broadband package, Hyperpeer is not meant to...

Windows 11 KB5120998 Brings Back Movable Taskbar, Resizable Start and Local Search

System Developments | 28 August 2026

Microsoft has released Windows 11 KB5120998, and this optional preview update is shaping up to be one of the more substantial Windows 11 releases of the year. Rather than focusing on another collection of background changes, KB5120998 finally address...

Microsoft Paint and Photos Add Invisible Watermarks to AI-Generated Images

System Developments | 28 August 2026

Microsoft appears to be doing more than placing a visible Copilot logo on images created or modified with AI inside Windows 11. Developer Xusheng Li has reverse engineered parts of Microsoft Paint and Photos and found that the apps also embed an invi...

Windows 11 KB5121003 Can Clash With RGB Software and Crash Games

System Developments | 25 August 2026

Another Windows 11 update is causing headaches for some PC gamers, with Microsoft confirming that KB5121003 can conflict with certain RGB lighting software and the low-level drivers installed alongside it. The August 2026 security update, released on...

Postcard Is a New GNOME Email Client Built With the Help of AI

System Developments | 24 August 2026

The Linux desktop has no shortage of email clients, but finding one that feels truly modern, lightweight and closely integrated with GNOME can still be surprisingly difficult. A new open-source application called Postcard is attempting to fill that g...

Windows 11 Smart App Control No Longer Needs a Clean Install to Enable

System Developments | 24 August 2026

Microsoft has quietly removed one of the biggest frustrations surrounding Smart App Control (SAC) in Windows 11. Users no longer need to perform a completely clean installation of Windows just to gain access to the feature, making it considerably eas...

Why Microsoft’s Classic 3D Pinball Disappeared From Windows

System Developments | 24 August 2026

For anyone who grew up using Windows 95, Windows 98 or especially Windows XP, 3D Pinball: Space Cadet is probably one of those games that instantly brings back memories. It was simple, colourful and always sitting there inside Windows whenever you ne...

Windows 11 KB5121003 Is Causing Game Crashes and Other Problems on Some PCs

System Developments | 17 August 2026

Microsoft's August 2026 security update for Windows 11 is proving troublesome for some users, particularly gamers. The mandatory KB5121003 update, released on 11 August, includes fixes for more than 400 security issues and moves Windows 11 25H2 syste...

Windows 11 August 2026 Security Update Brings a Much Bigger Patch Bundle Than It First Appears

System Developments | 16 August 2026

Opening Windows Update this month reveals quite a collection. Instead of a single Windows patch, Microsoft is delivering updates across Windows 11 itself, Microsoft Defender, .NET 8, .NET Framework, Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio 2022.

Multicloud Looks Efficient on Paper — Until Disaster Recovery Is Put to the Test

System Developments | 16 August 2026

Multicloud has become an attractive strategy for organisations that want flexibility, redundancy and less dependence on a single provider. On paper, spreading workloads across multiple cloud environments appears to reduce concentration risk and give...

Microsoft Says Windows 11 Is Not Getting A Transparency Slider Anytime Soon

System Developments | 11 August 2026

Windows 11 users hoping for finer control over the operating system's transparency and blur effects may be waiting for quite a while. Microsoft has confirmed that it has no immediate plans to add a native transparency slider, despite growing interest...