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This article from The Old New Thing explains that Windows thread pools are optimized for throughput, not latency, and provides solutions for low-latency scheduling, such as creating a custom thread pool or using a dedicated worker thread, with code examples in C++ and C#.
A vulnerability named GreatXML has been discovered that exploits the state after Windows Defender offline scans. By injecting an unattend.xml via WinRE, it bypasses BitLocker encryption and gains access to the hard drive.
Microsoft has released Coreutils for Windows, bringing 78 Unix-like commands to the native Windows terminal, enabling AI agents (such as Hermes, Claude Code) to use commands like grep and ls directly on Windows, reducing translation overhead. The article details installation steps, alias conflicts, and acceptance methods.
Built a Windows operating system using the Claude Fable 5 model, showcasing the amazing capabilities of AI.
Microsoft's June 2026 Patch Tuesday sets a record with nearly 200 security fixes, including three publicly exploited zero-days. AI tools are increasingly used to find bugs, with security researchers like Nightmare Eclipse releasing exploits.
Microsoft fixed a 0-day vulnerability disclosed by researcher Nightmare Eclipse amid a heated rivalry, alongside other vulnerabilities like MiniPlasma, YellowKey, and others. The researcher published exploit code for a new Windows Defender vulnerability.
Jiuer thanks Teacher Canghe for open-sourcing the Codex practical guide codexguide, and contributed his collected Windows error and troubleshooting skill, which has been merged. Looking forward to more people contributing Codex error cases on Windows.
MuJing is an open-source English learning tool that helps users immerse themselves in vocabulary learning through real contexts from movies, TV series, and other videos, supporting subtitle browsing, shadowing practice, and spelling training.
Microsoft has announced the official OpenClaw Windows app, enabling AI assistants to control Windows with built-in permissions, complete system tray control, and secure container-based execution.
WSL 2 is receiving a performance improvement where each virtio device gets its own dedicated DMA (SWIOTLB) pool, eliminating contention on the virtiofs path for cross-OS file access between Windows and Linux. This change, merged in May 2026, is the latest in a series of incremental improvements to Windows/Linux file I/O performance in WSL 2.
At Microsoft Build 2026, CEO Satya Nadella put Windows front and center alongside Nvidia's new RTX Spark chips, positioning local AI compute on Windows PCs as a cost-effective alternative to cloud-based AI workloads. The partnership aims to enable powerful on-device AI agents, with RTX Spark capable of running 120-billion-parameter models locally.
Perplexity has launched a Personal Computer for Windows that lets users run AI agents across local files and apps.
Mouseless is a cross-platform tool that enables keyboard-driven control of macOS, Linux, and Windows, allowing users to operate their computer without a mouse.
Microsoft has released Coreutils for Windows, a set of native Unix-style core tools (such as cat, cp, ls, etc.), aimed at reducing cross-platform script and development environment differences. It can be installed via WinGet and is currently in preview.
Nvidia announced RTX Spark laptops at Computex, combining unified memory, RTX graphics, and a custom CPU to create true AI PCs capable of running local AI models, challenging the MacBook Pro.
Microsoft announces new developer features for Windows at Build 2026, including Coreutils for Windows, WSL containers, an Intelligent Terminal, and the Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC) SDK for secure agent execution.
NVIDIA announced the DGX Station for Windows, a desktop supercomputer designed to run trillion-parameter AI models locally, with humorous commentary on quantization and community reaction.
Microsoft announced two new on-device AI models at Build 2026: Aion 1.0 Instruct, an open-weights small language model, and Aion 1.0 Plan, a 14B parameter reasoning and tool-calling model for local agentic workflows.
Microsoft announces the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a compact developer PC powered by NVIDIA RTX Spark for local-first AI development.
NVIDIA and Microsoft expanded their partnership to deliver a unified stack for agentic AI deployment, spanning Windows PCs (RTX Spark, DGX Station), Azure cloud, and local environments, with new open models and secure runtimes.