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A review of the Chuwi UniBook, a $450 Windows laptop with an Intel Wildcat Lake chip, finds that while it's cheap with good battery life, its poor screen, trackpad, speakers, performance, and build quality make it too good to be true.

Raymond Chen explains how to use std::unique_ptr to manage a registration cookie in a fake agile wrapper, discussing integer-to-pointer round-tripping and the wil::unique_any alternative.

A developer tests cross-compiling a Wails v2.11.0 Svelte app on Ubuntu, successfully building Windows and Linux executables/installers, and notes issues with static linking for Linux.

A reverse engineer's analysis of a hidden Windows executable stored in a registry key used by UCPD's Dynamic Rules, revealing it contains no code and is likely broken, highlighting the continued need for human reverse engineering in the age of AI.

Apple is developing a feature to enable iPhone-to-Windows copy and paste, responding to a Microsoft interoperability request under the EU's Digital Markets Act, with a developer beta expected by fall 2027.

Recommending the open-source project WindowsCleaner, a C drive cleanup tool for Windows 10/11. It can clean temporary files, system cache, update leftovers, and app junk with one click, supports deep cleaning and log viewing, and is completely free and open source.

Raymond Chen describes a technique for creating a fake agile wrapper in COM that uses the Global Interface Table to automatically release an object when its source apartment shuts down, addressing a problem with context callback failures.

Termexo is a local Windows workbench that provides a graphical interface for working with Claude Code and Codex.

Valve has sponsored Collabora engineers to port the open-source RADV Vulkan driver to Microsoft Windows, with initial work showing successful demos of Counter-Strike 2. The project aims to leverage AMD's Windows kernel driver and involves reverse engineering to adapt the driver.

Collabora reports on porting the open-source RADV Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs from Linux to Windows, successfully running Counter-Strike 2 via reverse-engineering of the WDDM2 interface.

Microsoft announces general availability of Video Super Resolution for NPU and CPU, using on-device AI to enhance lower-resolution video quality.

Perplexity has launched a Windows version of its Personal Computer AI agent tool, enabling users to perform actions across local files, Microsoft Office 365, and the web. The tool is rolling out to paying Max and Enterprise Max subscribers starting at $200 per month.

NovaClaw is a local-first AI agent OS that runs on your own machine, supporting local models, no telemetry, and features like self-healing and multi-instance networking.

optimizerDuck is a free, open-source tool that cleans up Windows 10/11 by removing bloatware, disabling unnecessary services, and optimizing performance and privacy, with built-in restore capabilities.

This article kicks off a series on building a debugger from scratch in Rust, starting with attaching to a Windows process using OS debugging APIs.

Microsoft pressured LG to disable unwanted McAfee pop-up ads that were automatically installed on Windows 11 when connecting LG monitors, following user backlash.

Z-Library China has released a new version update of the desktop application for Windows and Linux.

Microsoft confirms that LG monitors can automatically install the LG Monitor App Installer and McAfee ads via Windows Update without user consent, raising privacy concerns.

A blog post detailing a local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2026-50343) in the Windows Install Service on Windows 11, allowing a standard user to execute code as SYSTEM by exploiting a writable plugin map and a user-plantable COM server.

An article explaining how Windows carries a persistent identifier (GDID) that tracks users even behind a VPN, and how to disable the services that send it out.