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Exchange Online is beginning to gain cross-tenant Message Recall, letting a sender try to remove an email from a recipient’s mailbox in another Microsoft 365 tenant—but only when the recipient organization has explicitly enabled the feature and allow-listed the sender’s tenant ID. Microsoft’s roadmap entry, RM561330, moved to “Rolling out” on August 18, while the Exchange Team says deployment began in mid-August and is expected to finish by mid-September. The significant change is not a...

Microsoft Purview is scheduled to gain a new retention clock for OneDrive and SharePoint files: when an item was last accessed by someone in the organization. Microsoft’s August 18 Message Center update says the control will arrive in preview beginning at the end of October 2026, with worldwide general availability beginning at the end of December and completing by the end of January 2027. The practical change is larger than the terse Microsoft 365 Roadmap entry suggests. Today, Purview...

Microsoft has put a September 2026 general-availability target on a new Microsoft 365 Roadmap entry for federated Copilot connectors in GCC, GCC High, and Department of Defense tenants. The practical change is not a new kind of Copilot connector: commercial Microsoft 365 Copilot customers have had federated connectors since May. The new Roadmap ID 569212 instead signals that Microsoft is scheduling the MCP-based, real-time connector model for its government cloud environments. The...

Microsoft has put an automatic Copilot catch-up summary for Teams chats on its Microsoft 365 Roadmap, but the feature is still in development and is not scheduled for general availability until February 2027. Roadmap ID 501201 says Copilot will generate a summary of new messages when someone has missed activity in a chat, avoiding the current requirement to open Copilot and request a recap manually. The important change is the trigger. Teams already lets users ask Copilot questions such as...

Westpac has hired Amp Frontier Corporation to put a dedicated AI-engineering team alongside its developers in Sydney, moving the Australian bank beyond general employee copilots and into a more consequential experiment: using agentic software development tools inside a regulated institution’s technology delivery work. Finextra reported the partnership as Westpac’s latest AI investment. A Westpac announcement distributed on August 7 and Amp’s own July 29 post confirm the basic arrangement...

Samsung’s $445.5 million patent verdict is real, but the practical result is narrower than the “landmark infringement” framing suggests: a Texas court has refused to block sales of Samsung products, and the only patent Collision Communications sought to enforce through an injunction was already the last meaningful patent term left in the case. California Globe’s account correctly identifies the core event in Collision Communications Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co.: an Eastern District of...

Samsung Electronics has switched its internal NOW Talk board from anonymous posting to a real-name system, removing a channel employees had used for more than a decade to discuss compensation, management and workplace issues without attaching their identities. The change took effect at midnight on Tuesday, August 18, according to Korea JoongAng Daily, while posts already published under the old rules remain anonymous. The immediate operational change is simple: names now accompany new posts...

Samsung-owned FläktGroup’s new Pune, India, HVAC factory is now a live supply-chain addition for AI data-centre cooling, but reports published August 18 present a months-old launch plan as a newly completed opening and add operational claims that the company’s own announcement does not substantiate. For infrastructure teams planning high-density deployments in India or Asia-Pacific, the important development is the local manufacturing capacity—not the ceremony framing. Machine Maker and...

TinyRetroPad is a real, open-source Windows text editor that compresses its own executable to roughly 2.5KB, but the figure is a measure of clever packaging rather than a like-for-like measure of how much code or memory the editor uses. The project is a useful response for people who want a traditional Notepad-style interface without Copilot controls, yet it is not a safe or complete replacement for Microsoft’s supported Notepad in every situation. MakeUseOf’s account of the project...

The danger from a data breach is rarely the password exposed on day one. It is the detailed dossier that remains useful months or years later: a name, phone number, address, tax identifier, insurance history, medical report, email address and enough supporting documents to make a fraudulent request look credible. The 2024 breach involving Star Health and Allied Insurance illustrates why victims should treat a breach notice as the start of an incident-response process, not a reason to change...

France is moving to put artificial intelligence into government cybersecurity work after attackers extracted tax and personal data tied to roughly 678,000 individuals and businesses from the country’s tax administration. The immediate lesson for IT teams is less about AI than about identity: reporting by Le Monde indicates the compromise involved access to an internal DGFiP tool, while the French government has yet to publicly identify the security control that failed or disclose the...

The Minisforum MS-02 Ultra can house a low-profile, dual-slot Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060-class graphics card inside a 4.8-liter chassis, but the more consequential finding is that this is a compact workstation platform with meaningful expansion trade-offs—not a conventional mini gaming PC with an unrestricted desktop PCIe slot. Geeky Gadgets, citing ETA Prime’s hands-on coverage, presented the system as a buildable Windows 11 machine pairing Intel’s 14-core Core Ultra 5 235HX with an RTX 4060...

FiiO’s $69.99 FG3 is a wired gaming headset worth a close look from PC players—but its most useful feature is also the part buyers need to understand before plugging it in. The FG3 is not simply a 3.5 mm headset with a detachable microphone: its USB-C inline module contains the DAC, amplification, EQ storage and most of the processing that separate it from a basic analog headset. GamingNexus’s enthusiastic review calls the FG3 the best wired multipurpose headset the reviewer has used...

Razer’s Naga V3 Pro is a $179.99 modular wireless MMO mouse that improves the sensor, switches, weight and button layout of the Naga V2 Pro—but the upgrade arrives with an awkward qualification for a premium PC peripheral: its advertised 8,000 Hz wireless polling rate requires another purchase. PC Gamer’s review finds the new Naga to be the best MMO mouse it has used, while also reaching the harder conclusion for existing owners: the V2 Pro is close enough that there is little reason to...

be quiet!’s Dark Power Pro 14 IO is heading to retail as a 1,300W and 1,600W flagship PSU family, adding something its previous high-end supplies did not offer: software control over cooling and 12V rail behavior. The important detail for buyers is not the 1,600W headline figure. It is that the company is moving a safety- and stability-relevant PSU setting—single-rail versus multi-rail operation—into its IO Center application. XiaomiToday reports that the Dark Power Pro 14 IO models will be...

The Village of Key Biscayne has put artificial intelligence on its FY27 planning agenda, with staff already testing ChatGPT, Claude and Microsoft Copilot for limited research, summarization and drafting work. The immediate significance is not a municipal chatbot or a sweeping automation contract. It is that the Village is trying to establish rules, training and department-level use cases before turning generative AI into a routine part of public administration. Key Biscayne Independent first...

Revizto’s new Model Context Protocol server can now be connected to a Microsoft 365 Copilot Studio agent, giving construction teams a way to query Revizto coordination data from an approved AI workflow rather than exporting issue logs into spreadsheets. But administrators should read the implementation documentation before treating the launch as a general-purpose BIM-model copilot: Revizto’s own current guidance says model and object properties are not yet exposed through MCP. The...

Microsoft has begun testing a redesigned Windows 11 File Explorer context menu that it says will open faster, show less by default, and finally let users decide which built-in commands and app extensions appear after a right-click. The important qualification is that this is a File Explorer-only Insider experiment, not a system-wide replacement for every right-click menu in Windows 11—and Microsoft has not announced a release date for ordinary PCs. The company’s August 17 Windows Insider...

Microsoft 365 tenants that share calendar availability, shared calendars, or MailTips with another Microsoft 365 organization now have a migration project—not a background service change—to complete before Exchange Web Services begins shutting down on October 1, 2026. As Petri reported, Microsoft is replacing the old Exchange Online sharing mechanisms with Microsoft 365 Cross-Tenant Access Policy, or CTAP. The immediate risk is simple: organizations that leave an active Organization...

Windows 11 Experimental build 26340.9212 appears to add per-application camera, microphone, location, and voice-activation controls for traditional Win32 desktop software—a change that would close a long-standing gap in Windows privacy settings if Microsoft ships it. Neowin first reported the hidden-looking addition on August 18 after Windows enthusiast Jakub posted screenshots showing individual toggles for desktop programs in the Settings app. For years, Windows has offered granular...