It's (unfortunately) time to start prepping for another back-to-school season, and I found a bunch of the best deals on NVIDIA RTX laptops for students who need some extra power in their PC.
https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/nvidia/nvidia-rtx-best-back-to-school-laptop-deals
Copilot Mode in Microsoft Edge is a new experimental feature that transforms the browser into an agentic AI experience, but it's only free for a limited time.
Xbox users in the U.K. will start being encouraged to verify their identity, with new procedures in alignment with the country's Online Safety Act.
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-age-verification-uk-changes-2026
ByteDance, best known in the west for TikTok, has a new AI-infused code editor forked from Microsoft's Visual Studio Code. Shockingly (or not) it seems it might well be phoning home quite a lot, even if you turn off telemetry.
AdGuard for Windows now includes a new feature called "Disable Windows Recall," designed to prevent the controversial Windows Recall tool from capturing snapshots of Copilot+ PC users’ activity.
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/adguard-joins-the-windows-recall-backlash-party
Xbox has announced some huge news for Hollow Knight: Silksong fans, at least if they're going to be at Gamescom in Cologne next month.
Microsoft’s “Real or Not” quiz shows humans can barely detect AI images, averaging just 62% accuracy.
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NVIDIA's N1 and N1x SoCs, built in collaboration with MediaTek, have not yet been officially announced. That hasn't stopped several info leaks, and the latest suggests some stellar GPU performance.
https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/nvidia/nvidia-n1x-opencl-leak-cuda-cores-rtx-5070