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Microsoft appears to be rolling back one of Windows 11’s most controversial design choices: sources say the OS will soon let you move and resize the taskbar again, restoring the long‑lost ability to dock it to the left, right, or top of the screen and to change its thickness. Background Windows users grew up with a highly customizable taskbar. Since Windows 95, you could move the taskbar to any screen edge and change its size to suit workflows and display setups. When Microsoft rebuilt the...

Apple's announcement that Apple Podcasts will natively support video episodes — delivered using HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and paired with dynamic video ad insertion — is a landmark shift that brings the company squarely into the fastest-growing corner of the podcast economy and reshapes the commercial plumbing for creators, hosts, and advertisers. Apple says the update will arrive as a public rollout this spring, with HLS video available to test today in the iOS 26.4, iPadOS 26.4, and...

Gentoo has opened a presence on Codeberg and is now accepting pull requests there for its primary ebuild mirror — the first concrete step in a planned, gradual migration away from Microsoft-owned GitHub driven largely by objections to GitHub Copilot and related AI-driven workflows. Overview Gentoo’s move is surgical rather than wholesale: the project’s primary Git hosting and infrastructure remain under Gentoo’s control, while Codeberg will act as a community-friendly mirror and an...

Enterprise leaders who treat AI as a feature will fail; those who treat AI as the fabric of how people work must secure the workplace differently — not by bolting old defenses onto new tools, but by redesigning controls, governance, and operational practices for an AI-native era. Background Capgemini's recent thinking on scaling AI — captured in its research and expert perspectives on building the "AI-powered enterprise" — argues that moving beyond pilots to enterprise-wide AI adoption...

Gentoo’s first public step away from Microsoft’s GitHub to Codeberg crystallizes a wider, uncomfortable reality for open source: as AI assistants get easier to use they’re also becoming an operational and ethical liability for projects that prize provenance, license fidelity, and maintainability. Background / Overview Gentoo is not your average Linux distribution. It is a source-centric, highly customizable distribution anchored by Portage and an extensive ebuild tree that is curated...

Homes.com’s new Homes AI, launched today by CoStar Group, plugs advanced conversational AI into residential property search — voice and text search powered by Microsoft Azure OpenAI that promises to turn brittle filter-based browsing into a real-time, consultative experience for home shoppers. Background / Overview The real estate portal wars have entered a new phase: winners will be defined less by raw listings and more by how effortlessly consumers can find, evaluate, and understand those...

Charles Hoskinson’s announcement that Cardano’s privacy-first chain Midnight will launch its mainnet at the end of March — and that early infrastructure partners include heavyweights such as Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Telegram — has provoked a sharp, publicly aired disagreement about what decentralization should mean in practice. At Consensus Hong Kong 2026, Leo Fan, founder of ZK-acceleration startup Cysic, challenged Hoskinson’s embrace of hyperscalers, arguing that relying on the...

Microsoft’s pivot from a software‑first company into a cloud‑and‑AI platform heavyweight is no longer theory — it’s measurable in revenue mix, unit economics, and capital intensity — and the Seeking Alpha thesis that Microsoft’s Azure and AI businesses provide stability backed by structural moats deserves careful attention and scrutiny. ttps://windowsforum.com/threads/microsofts-ai-first-strategy-fuels-growth-azure-and-copilot-lead.387239/latest) Background / Overview Microsoft’s recent...

Winhance’s latest update does something more than add rounded corners: it migrates the app to WinUI 3 so the interface now looks and behaves like the native Windows Settings app, while also tightening up memory use, improving startup resilience, and exposing advanced deployment tools that shift the conversation about “debloaters” from risky hack to deliberate deployment utility. Background / Overview Winhance began as an open-source PowerShell GUI project aimed at simplifying common Windows...

KDE Plasma 6.6 landed on February 17, 2026, and with it comes a concentrated set of quality-of-life features, accessibility wins, and foundational improvements that continue to push Plasma’s Wayland-first vision toward maturity for power users, OEMs, and everyday desktops alike. Background / Overview Plasma 6 represents KDE’s transition to a modern graphics and UI stack built on Qt 6, KDE Frameworks 6, and a Wayland-first architecture. Since the 6.0 mega-release, the project has shipped...

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...