Nathan Fielder, best known for his Comedy Central show, Nathan For You (and cringe comedy), writes, directs and stars in this new HBO series. In the show, the comedian goes to extraordinary lengths to let people rehearse moments before they happen. In the first episode, Fielder helps a man prepare for a confession to a friend, and builds an exact replica of the bar they’re planning to meet at (the attention to detail is incredible). After planning for any outlandish thing that might happen, we see how the real exchange between the two friends plays out. Bizarre and truly fascinating, The Rehearsal should get some time on your screen.

Glen Anderson has been brokering trades in private company shares since 2010, back when the number of institutional investors focused on the late-stage private market could be counted on two hands. Today, he says, there are thousands.

As president of the investment bank Rainmaker Securities, whose focus includes private securities markets — it facilitates transactions in roughly 1,000 stocks — Anderson has a front-row seat to one of the most nail-biting moments in the history of the secondary market. And right now, he suggests, the narrative has three main characters: Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX.

But the storyline is more complicated than the headlines suggest.

Anderson’s read on Anthropic is consistent with what Bloomberg reported earlier this week: demand for the company’s shares has become almost insatiable. Bloomberg quoted Ken Smythe, founder and CEO of Next Round Capital, saying that buyers had indicated to his outfit that they had $2 billion of cash ready to deploy into Anthropic, even as roughly $600 million in OpenAI shares that investors are trying to sell haven’t found takers.

Anderson sees something similar at Rainmaker. “The hardest stock to source in our marketplace is Anthropic,” he told TechCrunch yesterday afternoon from his Miami home. “There’s just no sellers.”

Part of what turbocharged that demand, Anderson argues, was Anthropic’s very public standoff with the Department of Defense — a turn of events that initially seemed like bad news for the company but has wound up becoming a gift.

“The app got more popular, people rallied around the company as kind of a hero, taking on big government,” he said. “I think it amplified the story and made it even more differentiated from OpenAI.”

That distinction is becoming increasingly meaningful to investors navigating a market where, for years, the prevailing logic was to bet on everyone. Anderson notes that many institutional investors still want exposure to both Anthropic and OpenAI. “The jury’s still out,” he said, on which AI model will ultimately win – but the momentum, at least in the secondary market, has shifted.

That doesn’t mean OpenAI has fallen off a cliff. Anderson pushes back slightly on a binary reading of the situation.

“I wouldn’t say it’s a one-or-the-other conversation,” he said.

But the excitement isn’t there. “It’s not nearly as vibrant a market as Anthropic right now,” he acknowledged.

On valuation, Anderson broadly confirmed Bloomberg’s reporting that OpenAI shares on the secondary market are trading as if the company were valued at $765 billion — an appreciable discount to the company’s newest $852 billion primary-round valuation. He cautioned that he was working from memory, but said the Bloomberg figure was “in the right range.”

OpenAI itself has tried to assert more control over secondary trading. “People should be extremely cautious of any firm that purports to have access to OpenAI equity, including through an SPV,” an OpenAI spokesperson told Bloomberg, noting the company had established authorized channels through banks, with no fees, to counter what it described as a high-fee broker model.

Perhaps tellingly — at least for now — banks including Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs have begun offering OpenAI shares to their high-net-worth clients without charging carry fees, according to Bloomberg. Goldman, meanwhile, is charging its customary carry – often 15% to 20% of profits – for clients seeking Anthropic exposure.

What none of this accounts for is SpaceX, which stands apart amid shifting sentiment around these other powerful brands. Anderson describes it as one of the only names in Rainmaker’s universe that never experienced the punishing correction that hit much of the private market between 2022 and 2024, a period when many private companies’ shares fell 60% to 70% from their peaks (after their valuations were run up just as fast).

The rocket and satellite behemoth has “been pretty much consistently up and to the right,” Anderson said.

Anderson, who, naturally, has an economic interest in flattering the company and its earlier backers, credits SpaceX’s management with disciplined pricing and not squeezing every last dollar out of each funding round or tender offer.

“A lot of companies will fall for the temptation to maximize the price of their stock in every round,” he said. “The problem is that that doesn’t leave any room for error.”

SpaceX, by contrast, played it conservatively, by “not getting too greedy,” and the payoff for earlier investors has been enormous. “You can imagine if someone got in in 2015 what kind of gain they’re sitting on right now,” said Anderson.

To put a finer point on that comment: SpaceX was valued at roughly $12 billion in 2015, when Google and Fidelity jointly invested $1 billion in the company. Someone who got in at that price is now sitting on a gain of more than 100x, with the company valued at more than $1 trillion ahead of its planned IPO.

That IPO is now imminent, seemingly. SpaceX filed confidentially this week for an initial public offering, setting the stage for what could be one of the largest market debuts in history, with Elon Musk reportedly aiming to raise between $50 billion and $75 billion, possibly in June. Only Saudi Aramco’s 2019 debut, which valued the energy giant at $1.7 trillion, has come close.

Unsurprisingly, the rumored filing has already changed the dynamics of the secondary market for SpaceX shares, according to Anderson.

“Today, I saw a flood of SpaceX investors coming to me saying, ‘Can you give me SpaceX?’” he noted. “It’s been a very active buy side.” But supply is drying up. The closer a company gets to an IPO, the less incentive existing shareholders have to sell because they can see the liquidity event on the horizon.

That’s where things get a little dicier for OpenAI and Anthropic. Both companies are reportedly exploring public offerings of their own and have signaled they could move this year. But SpaceX, by filing first, is about to test the market’s appetite in a major way, and Anderson suggested that whoever follows will be at a disadvantage.

“SpaceX is going to soak up a lot of liquidity,” he said flatly. “There’s only so much money out there allocated to IPOs.” The first mover gets to the trough first; those who follow face both more scrutiny and, potentially, less capital.

It’s a dynamic that plays out in every so-called vertical and from which the AI companies aren’t completely immune, despite the attention being showered on them right now. Time your IPO too early and you’re the one testing market receptivity. Wait for someone else to go first, and you may find the biggest checks have already been written.

You can hear more of our interview with Anderson in the upcoming episode of the StrictlyVC Download podcast, which drops every Tuesday. In the meantime, check out recent episodes, including those with Whoop CEO Will Ahmed and investor Bill Gurley.

At a media workshop at Samsung’s US headquarters last month, we got to spend some quality time with Samsung’s new 2026 OLED TVs, including the S90H and S95H flagship. Both sets offer impressive performance but they do differ in some important ways like peak brightness and color gamut coverage. In fact, both TVs feature the same video processor and 165Hz native OLED panels, but they’re tuned for different performance levels with the S95H offering much higher peak brightness, making it better suited for bright room viewing.

Bot the S90H and S95H also feature the latest version of Samsung’s Glare Free screen treatment which reduces the reflection of ambient room light. Meanwhile, Samsung’s S85H OLED comes with a more traditional glossy screen with a 120 Hz native OLED panel.

One thing that varies significantly on the S90H and S95H is the cosmetic design. The S95H sports a new “Float Layer” industrial design which features an integrated (non-removable) picture frame around the edges of the panel. The set also comes with an innovative flush wall-mount bracket that allows the TV to sit completely flat against the wall. The design makes the S95H look more like artwork when not in active use. But unlike Samsung’s “The Frame” and “The Frame Pro” TVs, the outer frame itself is neither replaceable nor customizable.

Museum Quality TV?

For the first time on an OLED TV, Samsung has given owners of the S95H access to the Samsung Art Store, a curated collection of artwork which can be displayed on the set when you’re not actively using it to watch video. Although “given” is an odd word to use here. While customers can access up to 30 different pieces of art per month for free, access to the full art store with over 5,000 pieces of art incurs a subscription fee, currently $5.00/month or $50/year.

Compared to last year’s flagship S95F, the S95H does away with the separate One Connect box which had moved all the inputs and outputs to a separate component, connected to the TV by a proprietary cable. This year, all of the inputs and outputs on the set are integrated into the side of the TV itself, but in a discrete manner in which they are not visible when the TV is mounted to the wall using the included flush wall-mount hardware.

Customers who want a simpler installation for the S95H can purchase a wireless One Connect dongle which plugs into a proprietary port in the back of the TV. This allows you to connect all your video source and components to a separate wireless One Connect box, located up to 30 feet away from the TV. With this option, the only cord the S95H needs is a power cord. And, since all of the HDMI ports on the TV and on the OneConnect box are accessible, technically you can connect up to 8 separate sources via HDMI 2.1 if you use the wireless OneConnect box. That’s a lot of ports!

Meanwhile the S90H offers a more traditional cosmetic design, with a thin black bezel and all input and output ports recessed into the side/back of the TV. Unlike last year’s S90F, the S90H now includes Samsung’s Glare Free screen treatment which reduces reflections from ambient room lighting. If you prefer a glossy type of screen, Samsung offers the S85H OLED TV without the Glare Free coating.

QD or Not QD?

In terms of underlying panel differences, Samsung is once again using different panels within a specific model line, depending on screen size. Some use a QD-OLED (Quantum Dot Organic Light-Emitting Diode) panel from Samsung Display, while others use a WOLED (White Organic Light-Emitting Diode) from LG Display. Both offer exceptional black levels thanks to self-emissive pixels, as well as excellent off-axis viewing and freedom from artifacts like Dirty Screen Effect, blooming and haloing around bright objects. QD-OLED panels generally have a slightly wider color gamut than WOLED panels, though this isn’t normally evident while viewing real world content on Blu-ray, streaming or even UHD Blu-ray Disc.

From what we could see (and measure) the 65-inch S95H seems to be using the latest QD-OLED panel from Samsung Display. BT.2020 color gamut tests came in at around 88.4% of BT.2020, which is consistent with a QD-OLED panel. If Samsung takes the same strategy as last year, then we expect that the 55-inch and 77-inch screen sizes of the S95H will also use a QD-OLED panel (at least in the United States), while the 83-inch screen size will use a WOLED panel. The S85H will use a W-OLED panel in all screen sizes.

It gets a little trickier with the S90H. Last year, the “90” model (S90F) used a QD-OLED panel in select screen sizes (55, 65 and 77 inches), but the measurements we made on the S90H in a 65-inch screen size suggest that this new model actually uses a WOLED panel. While it can reach 98.6% of the P3 color standard, it only manages to reproduce 74.77% of the BT.2020 color gamut. And while this isn’t a serious limitation on most of today’s content, it does suggest that the underlying panel is actually WOLED, not QD-OLED.

This may be subject to change, particularly outside the North American market. And we can only report on the actual sample that we viewed and measured at the workshop. Production samples may differ.

Samsung Vision AI – The Next Generation

All of Samsung’s 2026 MiniLED, Micro RGB and OLED TVs are taking full advantage of Artificial Intelligence, both in picture processing and in the overall end user experience. More than simple recommendations about what else to watch, Samsung’s Vision AI allows you to interact with your TV with normal language questions and get not only content recommendations but also natural answers to these questions. You can even get real time language translations in a number of different languages via on-screen subtitles (on select content).

Both the S90H and S95H use Samsung’s NQ4 AI Gen3 Processor, the same processor from last year’s flagship OLED TV. This brings several AI-based picture enhancement options to bear, including 4K AI Upscaling Pro to improve the look of lower-resolution content, AI Motion Enhancer Pro, and an Adaptive Picture function that uses AI to optimize the image based on the content being viewed. This assures that sports programs will have blur-free fast motion while movies will preserve a more cinematic look.

In honor of this year’s World Cup, Samsung is offering a new AI Soccer mode which accentuates the green grass of a soccer pitch and enhances the detail and clarity of the moving soccer ball while also giving the crowd noise a more spacious sound effect. We saw a demo of this and have to say it was pretty effective at making you feel like you’re actually at a match, but without any pesky football hooligans.

One UI Tizen FTW

All three of Samsung’s 2026 OLED TVs include the latest version of Samsung’s Tizen Operating System. This platform offers all of the major streaming apps and is one of the better user interfaces when it comes to finding and presenting content without excessive advertising. In our use, we found the menu navigation and apps to be smooth and zippy, and the AI-enhanced search found content from a variety of streaming apps and sources as expected. Samsung says they will provide free upgrades to the O/S for up to 7 years, so customers will get enhanced operation and new features over time without having to buy a new TV every year.

As with Samsung’s 2025 TVs, the S85H, S90H and S95H support HDR10 and HDR10+ HDR options, but not Dolby Vision. They do support Dolby Atmos audio as well as Samsung’s new Eclipsa Audio immersive audio format (but not DTS).

Thoughts on Performance

We spend several hours with both the S90H and S95H using a Kaleidescape Strato E movie player loaded with challenging content as well as a few UHD Blu-ray Discs. Initial tests showed that both the S90H and S95H offer excellent color saturation and detail. Black levels in a darkened room were exceptionally inky, and still pretty strong when we turned on the lights. Unlike the first generation of Samsung’s Glare Free screen treatment, the latest version manages to nearly eliminate light reflections on the screen without sacrificing black levels too drastically.

Skin tones were particularly well represented on both sets as evidenced by test clips on Spears and Munsil’s UHD Benchmark discs. And using 4K/HDR content mastered for 4,000 nits of peak brightness (like the film “Alpha”), we could see that both sets’ on-board HDR Tone Mapping did a great job adjusting the HDR scale so that bright specular highlights were maintained as well as dark shadow details, even when both appeared on screen at the same time.

The S95H provided a more punchy and dynamic image overall, thanks to its higher peak brightness, though this advantage was less obvious when we dimmed the lights.

S90F vs. S95H, By the Numbers

Using the latest version of CalMAN software on the S95H, we measured a peak brightness of 2,553 nits in a 10% field white window in Standard mode and 1,072 nits in Filmmaker mode. The brightness measurement in Standard mode is exceptionally high for an OLED TV and about 25% higher than last year’s S95F. And the lower brightness in Filmmaker mode seems to be consistent with recent OLED TVs from both LG and Panasonic, each of which is targeting a closer visual match to the broadcast reference monitors in use in the film industry to master theatrical content for home. Meanwhile the S90H peaked at 1,190 nits, again using a 10% window in Standard mode and 1,295 nits in Filmmaker mode.

In terms of color gamut, both sets were able to reproduce close to 100% of the P3 color standard (99.9% on S95H, 98.6% on S90H), but they differed a bit on the BT.2020 color gamut tests, as we mentioned earlier. The S95H was able to hit 88.4% of BT.2020 while the S90H only managed to hit 74.77% of BT.2020 in the CalMAN tests. This leads us to believe that the S95H is using a QD-OLED panel while the S90H may be using a WOLED panel. Does this matter in real life? Maybe not. Most content on streaming and even on UHD Blu-ray Disc stays within the P3 color space, which both sets are more than capable of reproducing,

In terms of overall color accuracy, we measured the average “Delta E” (color variation from reference) at under 3 for grayscale and under 2 for color on both sets, both in Filmmaker mode. Specifically the S95H averaged 2.9 dE for grayscale and 1.6 for color dE. The S90H actually turned in slightly better out-of-the-box measurements with an average dE for grayscale of 2.8 and an average dE for color of 1.1. These are both impressive measurements for out-of-the-box settings and it’s likely that even better results could likely be attained with a full calibration.

Overall, both sets offered solid performance for an OLED TV. Or really for any display. Whether you’re gaming, streaming, watching HD Blu-ray Discs or 4K UHD Blu-rays, or 4K/HDR movies on Kaleidescape, you’ll be in for a visual treat with either of these sets.

Check out Al Griffin’s S95H hands-on review for additional measurements, specs and details.

Specs and pricing of the S85H OLED TV are also included below with the S90H and S95H details, but we have not yet spent any hands-on time with the S85H.

Sizes and U.S. Pricing of Samsung’s 2026 OLED TVs:

S95H OLED TV

• 55-inch S95H: $2,499.99
• 65-inch S95H: $3,399.99
• 77-inch S95H: $4,499.99
• 83-inch S95H: $6,499.99

S90H OLED TV

S85H OLED TV

The Bottom Line

With Samsung’s 2026 line-up of OLED TVs, it’s clear that the company is still committed to this category, even as they continue to enhance their LCD TV line-up with both Mini LED and Micro RGB backlighting. The 165 Hz OLED panel, impressive peak brightness, advanced AI processing, deep black levels and accurate color reproduction should appeal to those who want exceptional picture performance without the requirement to turn out the room lights or close the drapes.

Samsung’s industrial design has always had its share of fans and detractors. Incorporating a picture frame into the chassis of the S95H will likely appeal to those who want their TVs to pass as artwork when not in use, but it may be a sticking point for those who want a more traditional thin bezel design. For those who like the idea of the Frame TV but want something with higher picture performance, we believe the S95H will offer a compelling choice.

We also believe moving away from the required One Connect box on the S95F by including the input/output ports on the S95H TV itself and offering a wireless One Connect option for those who want to move the cables to a separate box is a great move. This makes the S95H even easier to install than its predecessor with more options for the consumer and custom installer.

For those who appreciate the wider color gamut reproduction of a QD-OLED panel but dislike the matte finish of Samsung’s Glare Free screen treatment or aren’t fans of the framed design of the S95H, Samsung isn’t really offering an alternative this year. Whether this turns out to be a misstep or just a trivial checklist item remains to be seen.

But what we’ve seen so far of the Samsung OLED line suggests that the flagship S95H will likely be one of the top performing TVs of the year.

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New renders of the Pixel 11 Pro XL have surfaced, giving us one of the clearest looks yet at Google’s next flagship.

Fresh CAD-based images suggest Google is reworking its signature camera bar, swapping the familiar two-tone look for a more unified, monochromatic design that stretches cleanly across the rear. This is a subtle shift on paper. However, it could give the Pixel 11 lineup a noticeably sharper, more modern feel.

The renders, first shared by Android Headlines, follow earlier leaks of the standard Pixel 11 and Pixel 11 Pro. They complete the picture of Google’s 2026 non-foldable range. While CAD renders aren’t official, they’re typically based on manufacturing dimensions. This makes them a fairly reliable preview of overall shape and layout.

Mikko Hyppönen is pacing back and forth on the stage, with his trademark dark blonde ponytail resting on an impeccable teal suit. A seasoned speaker, he is trying to make an important point to a room full of fellow hackers and security researchers at one of the industry’s global annual meet-ups.

“I often call this ‘cybersecurity Tetris’,” he tells the audience with a serious face, reeling off the rules of the classic video game. When you complete a whole line of bricks, the row vanishes, leaving the rest of the bricks to fall into a new line.

“So your successes disappear, while your failures pile up,” he tells the audience during his keynote at Black Hat in Las Vegas in 2025. “The challenge we face as cybersecurity people is that our work is invisible… when you do your job perfectly, the end result is that nothing happens.”

Hyppönen’s work, however, has certainly not been invisible. As one of the industry’s longest serving cybersecurity figures, he has spent more than 35 years fighting malware. When he started in the late 1980s, the term “malware” was still far from everyday parlance; the terms instead were computer “virus” or “trojans.” The internet was still something few people had access to, and some viruses relied on infecting computers with floppy disks. 

Since then, Hyppönen estimated he has analyzed thousands of different kinds of malware. And thanks to his frequent talks at conferences all over the world, he has become one of the most recognizable faces and respected voices of the cybersecurity community.

While Hyppönen has spent much of his life trying to keep malware from getting into places it is not supposed to, now he is still doing much of the same, albeit a slightly different tack: His new challenge is to protect people against drones. 

Hyppönen, who is Finnish, told me during a recent interview that he lives about two hours away from Finland’s border with Russia. An increasingly hostile Russia and its 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, where the majority of deaths have reportedly come from unmanned aerial attacks, have made Hyppönen believe he can have renewed impact by fighting drones.

For Hyppönen, it is also a matter of recognizing that while there are still long-standing problems to solve in the world of cybersecurity — malware is not going anywhere and there are plenty of new problems on the horizon — the industry has made huge strides over the last two decades. An iPhone, Hyppönen brought up as an example, is an extremely secure device. The cybersecurity aspects of drone warfare, on the other hand, remain almost uncharted territory.

From viruses and worms to malware and spyware…

Hyppönen started early in cybersecurity by hacking video games during the 1980s. His love for cybersecurity came from reverse engineering software to figure out a way to remove anti-piracy protections from a Commodore 64 games console. He learned to code by developing adventure games, and sharpened his reverse engineering skills by analyzing malware at his first job at Finnish company Data Fellows, which later became the well-known antivirus maker F-Secure. 

Since then, Hyppönen has been on the front lines of the fight against malware, witnessing how it evolved.

In the early years, virus writers developed their malicious code often exclusively out of passion and curiosity to see what was possible with code alone. While some cyberespionage existed, hackers had yet to discover ways to monetize hacking by today’s standards, like ransomware attacks. There was no cryptocurrency to facilitate extortion, nor a criminal marketplace for stolen data.

Form.A, for example, was one of the most common viruses in the early 1990s, which infected computers with a floppy disk. A version of that virus did not destroy anything — sometimes just displaying a message on the person’s screen, and that was it. But the virus travelled around the world, including landing on the research stations at the South Pole, Hyppönen told me.

Hyppönen recounted the infamous ILOVEYOU virus, which he and his colleagues were the first to discover in 2000. ILOVEYOU was wormable, meaning it spread automatically from computer to computer. It arrived via email as a text file, purportedly a love letter. If the target opened it, it would overwrite and corrupt some files on the person’s computer, and then send itself to all their contacts. 

The virus infected over 10 million Windows computers worldwide.

Malware has changed dramatically since then. Virtually no one develops malware as a hobby, and creating malicious software that self-replicates is practically a guarantee that it will get caught by cybersecurity defenders capable of neutralizing it quickly, and potentially catching its author.

No one does it for the love of the game anymore, according to Hyppönen. “The age of viruses is firmly behind us,” he said. 

Seldom do we now see self-spreading worms — with rare exceptions, such as the destructive WannaCry ransomware attack by North Korea in 2017; and the NotPetya mass-hacking campaign launched by Russia later that year, which crippled much of the Ukrainian internet and power grid. Now, malware is almost exclusively used by cybercriminals, spies, and mercenary spyware makers who develop exploits for government-backed hacking and espionage. Those groups typically stay in the shadows, and want to keep their tools hidden to continue their activities and to avoid cybersecurity defenders or law enforcement. 

The other differences today are that the cybersecurity industry is now estimated to be worth $250 billion. The industry has professionalized, in part as a necessity, to fight the increase in malware attacks. Defenders went from giving away their software for free, to turning it into a paid service or product, said Hyppönen. 

Computers and newer inventions like smartphones, which began to take off during the early 2000s, have become much harder to hack. If the tools to hack an iPhone or the Chrome browser cost six-figures or even a few million dollars, Hyppönen argued, this effectively makes an exploit so expensive that only the highly resourced, like governments, can use them, rather than financially motivated cybercriminals. That’s a huge win for consumers, and for the cybersecurity industry that’s a job well done.

From fighting spies and criminals… to countering drones

In mid-2025, Hyppönen pivoted from cybersecurity to a different kind of defensive work. He became the chief research officer at Sensofusion, a Helsinki-based company that develops an anti-drone system for law enforcement agencies and the military. 

Hyppönen told me that was motivated to get into a developing new industry because of what he saw happening in Ukraine, a war defined by drones. As a Finnish citizen, who serves in the military reserves (“I can’t tell you what I do, but I can tell you that they don’t give me a rifle because I’m much more destructive with a keyboard,” he tells me), and with two grandfathers who fought the Russians, Hyppönen is acutely aware of the presence of an enemy just over his country’s border.

“The situation is very, very important to me,” he tells me. “It’s more meaningful to work fighting against drones, not just the drones that we see today, but also the drones of tomorrow,” he said. “We’re on the side of humans against machines, which sounds a little bit like science fiction, but that’s very concretely what we do.”

The cybersecurity and drone industries may seem leagues apart from one another, but there are clear parallels between fighting malware and fighting drones, according to Hyppönen. To fight malware, cybersecurity companies have come up with mechanisms, known as signatures, to identify what is malware and what is not and then detect and block it. In the case of drones, Hyppönen explained, defenses involve building systems that can locate and jam radio drones, and by recognizing frequencies that are being used to control the autonomous vehicles. 

Hyppönen explained that it’s possible to identify and detect drones by recording their radio frequencies, known as their IQ samples. 

“We detect the protocol from there and build up signatures for detecting unknown drones,” he said. 

He also explained that if you detect the protocol and frequencies used to control the drone, you can also try to conduct cyberattacks against it. You can cause the drone’s system to malfunction, and crash the drone into the ground. “So in many ways, these protocol level attacks are much, much easier in the drone world because the first step is the last step,” Hyppönen said. “If you find a vulnerability, you’re done.”

The strategy in fighting malware and fighting drones is not the only thing that hasn’t changed in his life. The cat-and-mouse game of learning how to stop a threat, and then the enemy learning from that and devising new ways to get around defenses, and on and on, is the same in the world of drones. And then, there’s the identity of the enemy.  

“I spent a big part of my career fighting against Russian malware attacks,” he said. “Now I’m fighting Russian drone attacks.”

Starting this week, Microsoft has begun force-upgrading unmanaged devices running Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro editions to Windows 11 25H2.

According to the company’s Lifecycle Policy site, Windows 11 24H2 will reach end of support in roughly six months, on October 13, 2026.

Also known as the Windows 11 2025 Update, Windows 11 25H2 began rolling out in September to eligible Windows 10 or Windows 11 devices as a minor update installed through enablement packages less than 200 KB in size.

“The machine learning-based intelligent rollout has expanded to all devices running Home and Pro editions of Windows 11, version 24H2 that are not managed by IT departments,” Microsoft said in a Monday update to the Windows release health dashboard.

“Devices running these editions will no longer receive fixes for known issues, time zone updates, technical support, or monthly security and preview updates containing protections from the latest security threats,” it added.

“These devices will automatically receive the update to Windows 11, version 25H2 when they’re ready. No action is required, and you can choose when to restart your device or postpone the update.”

Those who don’t want to wait for the automatic upgrade can manually check whether the update is available in Settings > Windows Update and click the link to download and install Windows 11 25H2.

If you’re not ready to upgrade, you can also pause updates from Settings > Windows Update by selecting the amount of time you’d like to pause them. However, you must install the latest updates after the time limit has passed.

Microsoft also provides a support document and a step-by-step guide to help users resolve problems encountered during the Windows 11 25H2 upgrade process.

Since the March 2026 Patch Tuesday updates were released, Microsoft has issued several emergency updates, including one that addresses a known issue breaking sign-ins with Microsoft accounts across multiple Microsoft apps, such as Teams and OneDrive.

It also pushed out-of-band updates for hotpatch-enabled Windows 11 Enterprise devices that fixed a Bluetooth device visibility issue and security vulnerabilities in the Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) management tool.

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[Washington, DC – April 2, 2026] – IREX, a global pioneer in ethical AI and intelligent video analytics deployed across 10+ countries and over 300,000 cameras, announced a major update to its FireTrack smoke and fire detection module. The update doesn’t require any additional hardware and broadens FireTrack’s applicability to critical infrastructure such as energy facilities and transportation hubs, public institutions including schools and hospitals, residential and commercial buildings, and parks, national parks, and forests.

Built on IREX’s ethical AI platform, the new module processes visual data in just 75–105 milliseconds – or about 0.1 second -, identifying danger almost instantly. This advancement – combined with improved model accuracy and resilience in poor lighting or weather – empowers early intervention by first responders, reducing the risk of catastrophic loss. 

The updated model analyzes how fire and smoke evolve over time, distinguishing genuine hazards from harmless visuals like fog, headlights, or glare. This dramatically cuts down false alarms, allowing safety teams to focus on incidents that truly require attention.

To boost accuracy, IREX changed how the system “sees” fire and smoke. Instead of traditional bounding boxes around objects, the updated module uses segmentation, applying a color mask over the exact areas where fire or smoke appears: green for fire and red for smoke, thus better reflecting their irregular shapes. This approach improves the system’s ability to localize hazards precisely within the scene.

The updated FireTrack delivers early warning that is significantly faster than traditional optical or heat-based detectors by analyzing live video feeds for the visual signatures of smoke and fire in real time. 

“Because the IREX AI platform seamlessly operates on existing camera networks, cities and organizations can strengthen fire safety without installing specialized sensor hardware – simply by connecting their CCTV systems to IREX,” said Serge Smirnoff, Head of PR at IREX. “Each detection event comes with a video snapshot for instant visual verification, enabling operators and first responders to quickly assess the situation and respond effectively.”

By leveraging the surveillance infrastructure already in place, the new FireTrack model offers a cost-effective path to comprehensive fire safety across both built environments and natural landscapes. 

“The pride I feel for the IREX team today is immense. This FireTrack launch is a monumental achievement that reflects our core mission, to deploy ethical, intelligent AI to solve the world’s most critical problems,” said Calvin Yadav, CEO of IREX. “We are strengthening the resilience of entire communities globally, proving that every hour of hard work put into responsibly designed artificial intelligence is actively saving lives long before a single alarm sounds.”