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Microsoft has updated its CPU compatibility list for Windows 11 24H2, excluding pre-11th-generation Intel processors for OEMs building new PCs. The Register reports: Windows 11 24H2 has been available to customers for months, yet Microsoft felt compelled in its February update to confirm that builders, specifically, must use Intel's 11th-generation or later silicon when building brand new PCs to run its most recent OS iteration. "These processors meet the design principles around security, reliability, and the minimum system requirements for Windows 11," Microsoft says. Intel's 11th-generation chips arrived in 2020 and were discontinued last year. It would be surprising, if not unheard of, for OEMs to build machines with unsupported chips. Intel has already transitioned many pre-11th generation chips to "a legacy software support model," so Microsoft's decision to omit the chips from the OEM list is understandable. However, this could be seen as a creeping problem. Chips made earlier than that were present very recently, in the list of supported Intel processors for Windows 11 22H2 and 23H2. This new OEM list may add to worries of some users looking at the general hardware compatibility specs for Windows 11 and wondering if the latest information means that even the slightly newer hardware in their org's fleet will soon no longer meet the requirements of Microsoft's flagship operating system. It's a good question, and the answer -- currently -- appears to be that those "old" CPUs are still suitable. Microsoft has a list of hardware compatibility requirements that customers can check, and they have not changed much since the outcry when they were first published.

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The Yellowstone prequel 1923 paid tribute to a fallen cast member when it aired its long-awaited season two premiere on Sunday night.

Ryan Reynolds was branded a 'mean girl' by fans over an awkward interview he conducted with his wife Blake Lively's It Ends With Us love interest, Brandon Sklenar.

To show their continued and unwavering support for the eastern European country, last night nations such as France, Germany, Poland and Denmark illuminated some of their most famous landmarks.

Martial arts pioneer and former judo Olympian Syd Hoare was a major driving force behind the development of amateur sumo in the UK, an interest that he picked up while studying in Japan.

Not if he peruses a copy of Rick Reilly's Commander In Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump. 'He doesn't just cheat at golf,' writes Reilly.

Proposals drawn up by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) would allow intimate body searches of women be carried out by biological males identifying as female.

A poll of 1,000 current and past university students has revealed nearly half of them were either often or always worried during their academic years.

Jose Mourinho has become embroiled in a racism row in Turkey after an explosive derby between his Fenerbahce side and Galatasaray. The Istanbul derby is one of the fiercest rivalries on earth.

President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron have again grabbed hands in such a way that the encounter has gone viral.

With such a profusion of chatshows, memoirs, radio talk-ins, podcasts and blogs, we are living through the heyday of the unecdote.

Very often, each newspaper carries a different story on its front page. Not this morning, though. Hundreds of titles will run exactly the same 'splash' on their print and online editions.

Chegg has filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing the tech giant of using AI-generated overviews to undermine publishers by reducing site traffic and eroding financial incentives for original content. Chegg claims this practice violates antitrust laws and threatens the integrity of the online information ecosystem. Reuters reports: This will eventually lead to a "hollowed-out information ecosystem of little use and unworthy of trust," the company said. The Santa Clara, California-based company has said Google's AI overviews have caused a drop in visitors and subscribers. Chegg was trading at around $1.63 on Monday, down more than 98% from its peak price in 2021. The company announced it would lay off 21% of its staff in November. Nathan Schultz, CEO of Chegg, said on Monday that Google is profiting off the company's content for free. "Our lawsuit is about more than Chegg -- it's about the digital publishing industry, the future of internet search, and about students losing access to quality, step-by-step learning in favor of low-quality, unverified AI summaries," he said. Publishers allow Google to crawl their websites to generate search results, which Google monetizes through advertising. In exchange, the publishers receive search traffic to their sites when users click on the results, Chegg said. But Google has started coercing publishers to let it use the information for AI overviews and other features that result in fewer site visitors, the company said. Chegg argued the conduct violates a law against conditioning the sale of one product on the customer selling or giving its supplier another product.

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The row over the BBC'S Gaza documentary deepened on Monday after it emerged the corporation spent £400,000 on the controversial film.

Campbell Scott, 58, had been in the country to attend a conference in its capital Nairobi but disappeared within hours of arriving more than a week ago.

The new strategy proposes interventions to ensure that car use is reduced by 20 per cent by 2030, and specifically targets vehicles owned by people 'likely to be on higher incomes'.

Government catering contracts worth £5billion will now face new requirements to favour high-quality, high-welfare products from local farms and producers when supplying public buildings.

'Appropriate action will be taken,' we're told – as federal HR email sparks uproar, ax falls on CISA staff

Visitors to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development's headquarters in the capital got some unpleasant viewing on Monday morning after TV screens across the building began showing a deepfake video of President Trump kissing and sucking Elon Musk's toes.…

Matthew Hertgen, 31, was charged with first-degree murder, various weapons offenses and animal cruelty for killing his 26-year-old brother Joseph Hertgen and a pet cat on Saturday.

At 87, she is one of our most celebrated actresses, but Susan Hampshire has proved that no one is safe from the epidemic of violent crime afflicting London.