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Microsoft resumed automatic installation of the Microsoft 365 Copilot app in June 2026 on eligible Windows devices that already run Microsoft 365 desktop apps, with rollout continuing into July and administrators required to opt out if they do not want it deployed. That is the plain...

Microsoft resumed automatic installation of the Microsoft 365 Copilot app in June 2026 on eligible commercial Windows devices that already have Microsoft 365 desktop apps installed, with the rollout expected to continue into July outside the European Economic Area. That is the plain version of...

On June 27, 2026, Asian AI companies Sakana AI in Tokyo and 360 Security Technology in Beijing moved into the market space opened by U.S. restrictions on Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models. The timing is not just a startup land grab. It is an early test of whether export controls on...

Microsoft said on June 25, 2026, that Forrester named it a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Endpoint Management Platforms, Q2 2026, crediting Microsoft Intune’s role across Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, security policy, identity, compliance, and emerging AI-agent governance. The announcement is not...

Parallels announced Parallels RAS 21.2 on June 23, 2026, in Austin, Texas, adding a Custom Provider Framework that lets organizations connect third-party hypervisors and cloud platforms to Remote Application Server environments through scriptable JSON-based integrations. The release is not just...

Samsung SDS will begin supplying ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude to Samsung Group affiliates by the end of June 2026, acting as the internal reseller and operator for a groupwide enterprise AI transformation spanning R&D, manufacturing, marketing, management support, and software development. The...

Microsoft is again automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on eligible Windows PCs running commercial Microsoft 365 desktop apps between mid-June and mid-July 2026, while excluding European Economic Area tenants and giving administrators an opt-out in the Microsoft 365 Apps admin...

Microsoft documented CVE-2026-12446 in the Microsoft Security Update Guide because the bug is in Chromium open-source code consumed by Microsoft Edge, and Microsoft’s June 2026 Edge update is its statement that current Chromium-based Edge builds are no longer vulnerable. That answer is...

Microsoft’s Security Update Guide now lists CVE-2026-8376, a Perl vulnerability affecting versions through 5.43.10, in which 32-bit builds can suffer a heap buffer overflow while compiling regular expressions that repeat a fixed string. The bug is narrow, old-fashioned, and still worth taking...

National Gas worked with Capgemini after its 2023 separation from National Grid to build a greenfield Microsoft Azure environment using Azure Virtual Desktop, giving developers, data scientists, vendors, and later thousands of users secure cloud desktops without waiting for traditional laptop...

Microsoft’s Copilot Cowork is being positioned in June 2026 as an AI task-automation layer for Microsoft 365 that can plan and execute multi-step work across apps, files, meetings, messages, and enterprise data under administrator-controlled access. That makes it more than another Copilot chat...

OpenAI is preparing to make ChatGPT available on GenAI.mil in early July 2026, giving as many as 3 million Pentagon civilian and military personnel access to a secured version of the chatbot through the Defense Department’s enterprise AI platform. The deployment is not simply another enterprise...

Google Chrome CVE-2026-11695 was published by NVD on June 8, 2026, after Google disclosed a high-severity Passwords-component flaw fixed before Chrome 149.0.7827.103 that could let a remote attacker leak cross-origin data through a crafted HTML page. The important story is not just another...

Google Chrome before version 149.0.7827.115 contains CVE-2026-12012, a high-severity use-after-free flaw in the browser’s Network component, published by Chrome on June 11, 2026, and described as exploitable by an attacker with a privileged network position using malicious network traffic. The...

OpenAI released GPT-5.5 on April 23, 2026, rolling the model into ChatGPT and Codex for paid users while positioning it as a major step forward in coding, computer control, long-context work, and agent-style task execution. The release is not merely another leaderboard refresh. It is OpenAI’s...

Microsoft Copilot suffered a service disruption on Thursday, June 11, 2026, with outage trackers showing thousands of user reports in the afternoon Pacific window and users describing failures across the Copilot website, app access, authentication, and prompt responses. The interesting part is...

Microsoft is making Microsoft 365 Business Standard with Copilot and Microsoft 365 Business Premium with Copilot permanent small-business SKUs on July 1, 2026, priced at $23.50 and $32 per user per month respectively for one to 300 seats on annual billing. That is not merely a packaging change...

Microsoft’s guidance for CVE-2026-44819 says Office customers must install every security update offered for the affected Office software on their systems, even when the Security Updates table lists multiple packages for what appears to be the same product. That small sentence matters because it...

Microsoft is cutting hundreds of Azure-related jobs in Beijing and Shanghai, with affected employees reportedly told last week that their roles will end on July 6 as the company reassesses its mainland China cloud footprint amid tighter US and Chinese data rules. The reported cuts are not a...

Strategic preparation remains the decisive factor in passing IT certification exams in 2026, as cloud, cybersecurity, networking, and project-management credentials increasingly test practical judgment rather than rote recall across global exam programs. That is the useful truth inside a...