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Windows 11 Updates Trigger False Antivirus Warnings & Cursor Glitches

There's plenty of good and bad news abound for Microsoft and Windows 11 this week, but two new Known Issues have been getting a lot of attention. Namely, there's an issue where Windows erroneously reports that "Microsoft Defender Antivirus is turned off" and an issue where mice customization settings are being lost.

First things first, the Defender side of the story. While it's a documented Known Issue, it is thankfully a harmless bug that isn't impacting the antivirus operations of Defender whatsoever. So if you happen to be getting hit with that warning message despite having enabled Defender already (which we recommend to most readers, barring extreme circumstances,) don't sweat it. Sadly, there's no known fix beyond waiting for Microsoft to update the problem away.

The same applies to the mouse customization issues, which users started experiencing with the August 27th update for Windows 11. Basically, customization settings don't...

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Alienware’s budget-friendly QD-OLED is discounted for the first time

Brad Bourque is a tech journalist and commerce writer based out of Portland, Oregon. He’s contributed to sites like Digital Trends, Business Insider, and WIRED. While memory and storage prices are still high, there are still good discounts on other gaming-related hardware. Take Alienware’s AW2726DM, for example. Dell

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Apply now to host a Side Event at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

We’re getting close to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026! From October 13-15, more than 10,000 innovators, founders, investors, and industry leaders will attend our event in San Francisco’s Moscone West, but the community gathering in the Bay Area stretches beyond those three days. With our Disrupt Side Events program,

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Google's Gemini Notebook Is Changing How It Limits Your Daily AI Use

Google is changing how Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) manages usage limits. Starting September 2, the company will switch from daily caps to a usage-based budget system. This tracks how much processing power each task uses instead of counting how many times a person uses a tool, so if your actions

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Security policies fail to keep up with a hybrid cloud world

Dive Brief Roughly two-thirds of companies have suffered a business-critical app outage due to misconfigured security policies, a Cloud Security Alliance report found. Published Aug. 31, 2026 Dive Brief: * Security policy misconfigurations are leading to application outages, failed audit findings and multiday remediation windows, according to a report from the

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Alienware’s budget-friendly QD-OLED is discounted for the first time

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Google's Gemini Notebook Is Changing How It Limits Your Daily AI Use

Security policies fail to keep up with a hybrid cloud world