Microsoft has removed the Support and Recovery Assistant (SaRA) from Windows, according to recent reports. Once a handy troubleshooting companion for Office and other Microsoft products, SaRA helped users diagnose and fix a variety of common issues. Its absence changes the options available to end users and IT teams when problems arise, but there are practical alternatives and steps you
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I’m an IT/DevOps professional with many years of hands-on experience across Windows, Linux, Automation, Backup and Cloud. I love building real-world automations to make infrastructure reliable, secure, and self-healing. Through this blog, I share practical learnings from enterprise projects and my home-lab experiments on Cloudflare, Self-Hosting and everything in between. Always tinkering, always improving.
LinkedIn’s BrowserGate: Scanning Visitors for 6,236 Chrome Extensions and Device Data
A recent security analysis has raised alarms about how LinkedIn inspects the browsers of people who visit its site. Researchers at Fairlinked e.V. published what they call the “BrowserGate” report, and independent testing by BleepingComputer corroborated many of the findings: LinkedIn appears to inject client-side JavaScript that probes visitors’ browsers for thousands of Chrome extensions and collects a range of
Accio and Alibaba: How AI Is Rewiring Sourcing for Small Online Sellers
When Mike McClary decided to revive a discontinued flashlight that had once been one of his best sellers, he didn’t dust off the old supplier spreadsheet or spend weeks emailing factories. Instead, he opened Accio, an AI-powered sourcing assistant on Alibaba.com, and started a conversation. Within weeks he had a redesigned product, a recommended factory in Ningbo, and a projected
Announcing General Availability of Server Logic in Power Pages
Power Pages has taken a significant step forward: Server Logic is now generally available for production use. What began as a preview capability to bring server-side processing closer to makers and developers has matured into a production-ready feature designed for enterprise scenarios. With this GA release, organizations gain a native, governed, and extensible way to run server-side operations directly within
Price Elasticity: The One Data Point That Could Clarify AI’s Impact on Jobs
Silicon Valley’s conversations about AI often sound like inevitabilities: sweeping automation, mass displacement, and workplaces remade by powerful models. Those scenarios have driven anxiety among workers and intense debate among researchers. But one practical problem underlies much of the confusion: we lack the right economic data to predict how AI-driven productivity gains will actually affect employment. Without that missing piece,
Microsoft Links Medusa Ransomware Affiliate to Zero-Day Exploitation Campaign
Microsoft’s recent analysis tying a Medusa ransomware affiliate to a campaign that leveraged zero-day vulnerabilities has put a renewed spotlight on the evolving tactics of extortion groups and the threat posed by previously unknown software flaws. For security teams and executives, the announcement is a reminder that threat actors are combining rapid vulnerability exploitation with tried-and-true ransomware playbooks to increase