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This July 1st will mark 40 years since the first wireless call in Canada, which was sent over the Rogers network in 1985: youtu.be/QxBDGyiiQCw?...

Oh, and the Global Secure Access client is now available on ARM64 devices... 👀

Attention sys admins - if you need help with the recent announcement of new Secure Boot keys, check out this script which can query which keys you have and force the DB to update to the latest keys (includes x86, x64 and ARM Windows versions): github.com/cjee21/Check...

Why is Doug Ford SO OBSESSED WITH BOOZE toronto.citynews.ca/2025/06/27/p...

Discord has finally announced that a native ARM version for Windows is on its way, and you can try it out now: www.theverge.com/news/692551/...

A social media platform built by and for Canadian's is coming! YES PLEASE! gandersocial.ca

But I thought Canada was overrun by Mexican drug cartels? Surely this isn't true 😂

The Canadian Center for Cyber Security released a roadmap to migrate the Government of Canada to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) to mitigate upcoming risks of quantum computers breaking current encryption standards (IMO everyone should be doing this): www.cyber.gc.ca/en/guidance/...

Hello #Windows community! There's a weird bug in Terminal/Windows 11 24H2 where if you are domain joined and run the Terminal app as admin, then try and open *another* app as admin (prompting a UAC window) your system will completely freeze up and require a hard reboot. 1/2

I spotted this little gem the other day on the Dell support site. It's the first time an OEM directly mentions "next gen ARM" chips 👀 www.windowslatest.com/2025/06/24/d...

New from me: Why you should care about your networks DNS and why you should use @cira.ca's 'Canadian Shield' DNS resolver: open.substack.com/pub/devinthr...

You could say it's a tad hot outside today

Microsoft is introducing a new language model dubbed 'Mu' to power the AI agent in Windows Settings and is run completely on-device in the NPU: blogs.windows.com/windowsexper...

Petro Canada: We are committed to our EV charging network Also Petro Canada:

Excellent article @sproudfoot.bsky.social: "...was Mr. Carney talking about the Creamsicle-coloured plasticine volcano sitting just off his left elbow?" www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/97a8322...

Hope everyone is enjoying the first day of summer! 🌞

@cira.ca I am using CIRA DoH on my local DNS servers (using cloudflared proxy) but keep receiving BOGUS DNSSEC requests from sites, including the CIRA test - any reason? Most sites with DNSSEC are working fine, just random requests fail.

No offense but these look way goofier than the Rayban version

Steam is having a Canadian Game Sale, starting on Canada Day! (July 1) 🇨🇦 store.steampowered.com/curator/4554...

Tools like SnagIt are slowly losing their value

I was today years old when I found out you can use Ctrl+Backspace to delete a whole word in Windows shell 🙃

Microsoft Intune's latest update allows you to specify your OS architecture for Win32 app packages, including ARM64. This change makes it super easy to implement Windows ARM devices into your environment. More info: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/intune... #WindowsOnARM #ARM #WindowsOnSnapdragon

Autodesk has started adding ARM64 into their Windows system requirements 👀 www.autodesk.com/support/tech...

This thread makes me smile

New Qualcomm Adreno X1-85 driver from June 2, 31.0.112.0 - changes unknown

This new PowerToys redesign looks amazing www.windowscentral.com/software-app...

Happy father's day to all the dad's out there (and dad's that are no longer with us, and people who are not your dad but are in the dad role).

Adobe After Effects Beta now supports Windows on ARM via emulation in the latest release: community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...

Microsoft Edit 1.2.0 has been released with a TON of fixes & some goodies thrown in: github.com/microsoft/ed...

Another monthly update successfully applied without needing a reboot via hotpatch from Microsoft. We are truely living in the future 😁

My Intel powered work computer "downloading updates" 🫠

Have you used Fortnight mobile lately? You can now enable ASR, which is a temporal upscaling tech from ARM, which works great: newsroom.arm.com/blog/arm-asr...

If you are upgrading your old Windows 10 PC, you NEED to check out the Snapdragon X Series Copilot+ PC's. This will make your Windows 11 experience the BEST it can be: www.windowscentral.com/hardware/lap...

People actually own the Vision Pro? 😆

Bummer! www.theverge.com/news/684313/...

I finally have it!

I am thankful as f*** for being Canadian and I'm glad our country finally did the right thing here. The USA is no longer "the land of the free". www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...