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Microsoft Edge shuts off notifications from scam sites

Written by Felipe Santos on November 3, 2026. Posted in Software.

Microsoft Edge now automatically disables website notifications from a site when Microsoft Defender SmartScreen or Scareware blocker detects that the site pushed a scam. It also adds a “Block and report” option to notification permission prompts. The goal is to stop scammers from turning a useful browser feature into a persistent channel for fake virus warnings and security alerts. Microsoft says Edge has been fighting notification spam for years, with multiple workstreams detecting and blocking it by the billions. The problem: one “Allow” can become a persistent...

Investors flinch at Big Tech’s $740 billion spending

Written by Felipe Santos on November 2, 2026. Posted in Technology.

Investors are getting nervous about AI infrastructure spending just as the Big Tech companies double down. Over the past two weeks, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft have outlined plans to spend more than $740 billion on capital expenditures this year, which Wall Street is reading as AI infrastructure spending, including data centers and chips. Only Microsoft escaped the free cash flow squeeze. Key Results at a Glance Market reaction: The Nasdaq fell 2.9% on Friday. Nvidia dropped 4%, Broadcom more than 5%, and Qualcomm 11%. Alphabet: Its stock plummeted 12% on Thursday, its worst day...

Bing Image Search swaps endless grids for guided groups

Written by Felipe Santos on October 25, 2026. Posted in Software.

Bing is redesigning image search to help people move from scrolling to understanding. The new opt-in experience replaces the dense grid of default results with AI-labeled categories, short group summaries, and sources, so users can see how images relate to one another and decide where to look next. Image search has been hard to use for exploration. Results often arrive as endless grids with repeated images, minimal context, and little guidance on where to start. Bing says the new version addresses this by organizing results rather than adding more to look at. Behind the scenes, AI...

NVIDIA Cosmos delivers up to 2x faster inference

Written by Felipe Santos on October 22, 2026. Posted in AI.

NVIDIA has expanded its Cosmos platform with new training tools, simulation checkpoints and Cosmos Data Factory blueprints, aimed at developers building world models, which help physical AI systems understand and simulate the real world. NVIDIA says the platform ranks in the top five on six different open model leaderboards. It pairs the frontier open models with data, training and optimization tools and recipes so builders can scale training data, adapt models, test behavior and optimize performance before deployment. .abn-galeria .uk-slidenav, .abn-galeria...

Windows Photos opens images up to 30% faster

Written by Felipe Santos on October 20, 2026. Posted in Software.

Windows Photos opens images up to 30% faster Windows 11 is getting three new Photos experiences, a Gallery, a native Editor, and a redesigned Viewer, which start rolling out to Windows Insiders today. The Viewer opens photos up to 30% faster. If your pictures are spread across your PC, OneDrive, and iCloud, the new Gallery brings them together. .abn-galeria .uk-slidenav, .abn-galeria .uk-slidenav:hover, .abn-galeria .uk-slidenav:active { background: transparent !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; ...

NVIDIA RTX Spark delivers 4.6x coding agent performance

Written by Felipe Santos on October 19, 2026. Posted in Hardware.

NVIDIA's RTX Spark is a laptop and compact desktop platform built for AI development. Its GB10 system-on-a-chip and large unified memory let developers run local coding agents, access AI frameworks, and code, test, and deploy on a single PC. The workflow that developers now split across a laptop, a cloud model API, and a cloud VM can, according to NVIDIA, be completed on one machine. Compared with Intel's Panther Lake 12Xe, NVIDIA says RTX Spark delivers 4.6x performance on coding agents, 2.7x on fine-tuning, and 1.8x on code compilation. One machine for the whole workflow AI agents are...

Windows Hello – Welcome to NVIDIA RTX Spark chip

Written by Felipe Santos on October 19, 2026. Posted in Software.

Microsoft is releasing new Windows 11 Insider Preview builds across its Beta, Experimental, and Release Preview channels, and the release coincides with the launch of a new range of Windows 11 devices powered by the NVIDIA RTX Spark chip. Microsoft says it “never been a better time” to join the Windows Insider Program, and it expects a new group of Insiders and devices to join and help shape Windows. The builds cover several Windows versions. On the Beta channel, Windows 11 Insiders get Build 26220.9739. The Experimental channel gets Build 26340.9750. Insiders on specific...

NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops

Written by Felipe Santos on October 18, 2026. Posted in Hardware.

NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops are now available, bringing NVIDIA Blackwell RTX graphics, up to 128GB of unified memory and the full NVIDIA AI platform to slim, premium Windows PCs. Starting at $2,399, laptops from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI bring local AI, content creation and gaming to a portable device, and NVIDIA says additional systems are on the way. A Superchip for Windows PCs RTX Spark brings decades of NVIDIA accelerated computing innovation into a single superchip. It combines an NVIDIA Blackwell RTX GPU with an NVIDIA Grace CPU, delivering up to 1 petaflop of AI compute...

Vercel AI Gateway adds Microsoft’s MAI-Image-2.6 models

Written by Felipe Santos on October 14, 2026. Posted in AI.

MAI-Image-2.6 and MAI-Image-2.6-Flash from Microsoft are now available on AI Gateway. Developers can generate images from text or edit existing images with one API key and no provider account, with output sizes up to 1536 × 1536. Use MAI-Image-2.6 for final assets where image quality matters more than speed. Use MAI-Image-2.6-Flash when you need many iterations, such as exploring prompts or generating variations. Key Features at a Glance Spec Value Photorealism and text rendering Both models support photorealistic imagery and text rendering. Targeted edits Edit products,...

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