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Dr. Frankopan is a professor of global history at Oxford and the author of “The Earth Transformed: An Untold History.” This month Tehran, a city of 10 million people, was questioning its viability.

Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, a planned update to standard Java due March 17, 2026, has reached an initial rampdown phase for bug fixes, with the feature set now frozen. The following 10 features are ...

Which background processes can you end in Windows 10? As you might know, high-end software and PC games often perform slower than usual as unnecessary background processes eat up system resources.

Despite the demise of Windows 10 support in mid-October, close to a billion PCs may still be running the outdated OS. According to November stats from StatCounter, Windows 10 still has 42.62% of the ...

In a nutshell: Microsoft ended mainstream support for Windows 10 in October but the aging operating system still has a strong install base. According to Dell, roughly a billion PCs are still running ...

The Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for Windows 10 provides customers with a more secure option to continue using their Windows 10 PCs after October 14, 2025, while they transition to Windows ...

Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 10 in October. Many PCs with Windows 10 don't pass Microsoft's strict requirement check. It's possible to bypass this and install ...

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