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The living-room television is supposed to be simple: a large, passive window for moving pictures and sound. Increasingly, it isn't. Over the last year that simple promise has been compromised by a steady industry shift — from displays that show content to platforms that serve content, ads, data and, now, embedded AI assistants that are often installed without explicit user consent. The latest flashpoint is LG’s recent webOS update that added a Microsoft Copilot shortcut to many TVs’ home...

Microsoft appears to have completed the global rollout of Scheduled Copilot prompts to Microsoft 365 Copilot users in Teams and related surfaces — but the story is less a single “flip-the-switch” moment than a staged, admin-controlled deployment that brings real automation power to everyday collaboration while raising new governance and privacy considerations for IT teams. Background / Overview Scheduled Copilot prompts let users convert a useful Copilot prompt into a recurring automation...

Every organisation that rushed to deploy meeting transcriptions, copilots, and automated workflows now faces the same uncomfortable question: are those tools actually improving judgment and outcomes, or just generating more artifacts to measure activity with? Background / Overview The first wave of AI in unified communications focused on convenience: faster notes, draft emails, and search across documents. Vendors promoted uptake by pointing to headline numbers — Zoom reported more than one...

The software market has entered a corrective, confidence-testing phase — a “software winter” in which AI-driven structural change, a dramatic reallocation of capital toward infrastructure, and a rapid re‑pricing of legacy SaaS assumptions have combined to erase hundreds of billions in market value and force a fundamental rethink of how enterprise software creates and captures value. Background / Overview For much of the past decade, enterprise software followed a tidy, high‑margin script...

Big technology firms are increasingly asserting that artificial intelligence can be a major weapon against climate change — but a new, data-driven analysis argues those claims are muddled, often unsupported, and in some cases amount to greenwashing as companies expand the energy-hungry infrastructure that underpins modern AI. Background The debate over AI and climate change has shifted from academic curiosity to frontline policy argument. Hyperscale investments in datacentres, specialised AI...

Phison’s chief executive has given one of the starkest public warnings yet about the memory market: a worsening shortage of DRAM and NAND flash that he says will force many consumer electronics companies to shut down or exit product lines in 2026. The claim — confirmed by multiple industry reports and echoed by memory makers and OEMs — is not just a price-shock headline. It describes a structural reallocation of wafer capacity toward high-margin AI and data‑center products that is already...

Intel’s next‑generation desktop chips may be preparing one of the biggest shifts in on‑device AI since NPUs first arrived on client silicon: recent leaks claim the Core Ultra 400 “Nova Lake‑S” family will ship with an NPU6 block rated near 74 TOPS, a figure that would not only eclipse Intel’s current desktop NPUs by a large margin but would also comfortably clear Microsoft’s Copilot+ threshold. Those numbers, if true, would reshape conversations about what “AI PCs” mean for desktop users —...

GitHub has opened a technical preview of Agentic Workflows — a new way to run AI agents inside GitHub Actions that promises to extend repository automation from deterministic CI/CD tasks into a continuous AI paradigm where agents act on events, triage issues, review pull requests, and even propose code changes under tightly scoped guardrails. Background: what GitHub is building and why it matters Agentic Workflows are an evolution of prior "agent mode" features and the broader Copilot...

Mozilla pushed a small but important maintenance release for the stable channel this week: Firefox 147.0.4 ships a targeted user-experience fix that stops some users from seeing a blank New Tab (about:home/about:newtab) and closes a heap-buffer-overflow in the libvpx video codec (tracked as CVE‑2026‑2447) that Mozilla has backported to multiple ESR branches. Background Firefox’s 147 train has delivered a steady stream of feature and stability work since its January rollout, but as with any...

Microsoft’s February 2026 Windows 11 cumulative update appears to have rolled back a gaming‑crippling kernel crash that’s haunted some players since the January patches — but the fix comes alongside a messy rollout that continues to remind users and admins that patching Windows is still as much art as it is science. Background / Overview Microsoft released the February 10, 2026 cumulative update for Windows 11 — identified as KB5077181 (OS builds 26200.7840 and 26100.7840) — as part of Patch...

AI-powered answers are rewriting how people start — and finish — their journeys online, shifting attention away from link lists and into conversational summaries that often end the click before it begins. Background: the seismic shift from links to answers For two decades, the web’s discovery layer has been built around ranked lists of links: users type a query, engines return a page of results, and readers click through. That model still exists, but it is rapidly being complemented — and in...

Auni’s rapid adoption — 3,500 business sign-ups in just three months — is more than a product milestone; it is an early indicator that practical, low-friction AI tools can move from concept labs into the everyday workflows of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). This Nairobi-built mini app, developed by Fastagger and deployed inside Safaricom’s M-Pesa Business Super App, turns routine M-Pesa PDF statements into usable, visual business intelligence using optical character recognition...

The Windows landscape has shifted from debate to momentum: after years of cautious uptake, Windows 11 is now the dominant platform for new and many existing PCs, while Windows 10 has moved from “ubiquitous” to legacy following Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 end-of-support deadline. This is not a single flash migration but a structural transition driven by lifecycle calendars, OEM refresh cycles, hardware requirements, and security priorities — and it will reshape enterprise road maps, consumer...

Major employers in technology and finance are no longer asking whether new hires should know how to use AI — they are saying it is a basic requirement, and that simple proficiency with generative tools is now part of the job description. This shift from curiosity to competency is being driven by rapid rollouts of workplace AI (from Microsoft Copilot to bespoke bank assistants), executive memos that make AI use a performance criterion, and early but growing evidence that the technology is...

Tech-industry claims that generative AI and large language models (LLMs) are a decisive lever against climate change have moved rapidly from hopeful rhetoric to corporate orthodoxy — and a new, careful analysis shows much of that rhetoric is greenwashing in plain clothes. Background: what the new analysis found An independent study commissioned by climate advocacy groups including Beyond Fossil Fuels and Climate Action Against Disinformation examined 154 public statements from major...

Capita’s decision to put Microsoft Copilot at the front line of its recovery plan for the Civil Service Pension Scheme is a striking gamble: it promises faster triage, automated summarisation and smarter prioritisation for an inherited backlog that has already created real hardship for retired civil servants — but it also amplifies risks around data protection, auditability and the limits of present-day AI in mission-critical public services. Background The Civil Service Pension Scheme...

Proofpoint’s new global partner programme is a clear bet on one strategic idea: make it easier and more profitable for partners to sell human‑ and agent‑centric security by aligning incentives, simplifying engagement and opening hyperscaler marketplaces as new routes to market. Announced in February 2026, the Proofpoint Partner Network replaces prior, regionally inconsistent models with a three‑tier structure — Select, Elite and Elite+ — and layers in new financial protections, enablement...

The Microsoft Azure outage that began at 19:46 UTC on February 2, 2026, and stretched into the next morning is not just another bullet point on a vendor status page — it is a textbook example of how small, automated changes inside a hyperscale cloud can cascade into long, painful outages that stop development pipelines, block VM provisioning, and cripple identity-dependent services for hours. Background / Overview On February 2–3, 2026, Azure customers across multiple regions experienced two...

As the latest wave of alarmist headlines around a supposed “Windows crisis” washes over tech social feeds, the reality is far more nuanced: Windows remains the dominant desktop platform, but the debate driving the crisis narrative is not about market disappearance — it’s about trust, transition costs, and the shape of an AI‑first future that many organizations are still assessing. Background The past three years have seen two simultaneous trends reshape how IT leaders and end users evaluate...

YASB is the kind of small, focused tool that changes how you look at your desktop: a top-mounted, highly configurable status bar that surfaces the data you actually want — system health, media controls, clocks, a Pomodoro timer, an audio visualizer and shortcuts — all without hunting through the tray, toggling menus, or leaving the window you’re working in. What started as several independent forks and experiments has become a community-driven project with an installer, a theme gallery, and...