Entra Domain Services RC4 Kerberos Encryption Shutdown Starts July 6: Prepare Now with These Audit Steps
Microsoft is disabling RC4 encryption for Kerberos authentication in Entra Domain Services, and the first fire drill lands on Monday, July 6, 2026. If any of your workloads still rely on that legacy...
Claude AI Moves Into Industrial Engineering as LTTS Joins Anthropic Partner Network
L&T Technology Services (LTTS) has struck a deal with Anthropic to weave the Claude AI model family into its engineering and manufacturing platforms, the companies announced on July 14, 2026. The...
EU Parliament Readies Internal AI Hub to Keep Lawmakers Off Public Chatbots
{ "title": "EU Parliament Readies Internal AI Hub to Keep Lawmakers Off Public Chatbots", "content": "The European Parliament is building an internal, secure AI platform to stop lawmakers and...
Moonshot’s Kimi K3 Surpasses Claude and GPT in Front-End Coding — Here’s What Windows Developers Should Know
On July 17, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model from Beijing startup Moonshot AI shot to the top of the Frontend Code Arena leaderboard, unseating Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI’s...
Anthropic's Claude Code Creator Says the 'AI Harness' Is Here — What Windows Developers Must Know
Boris Cherny, the head of Anthropic's Claude Code project, says the era of developers typing out every line is giving way to a new model where they instruct, supervise, and constrain AI agents that...
Claude Code Course Advertised with Wrong Time Zone — Here’s How to Avoid Getting It Wrong
A paid promotion for a “Claude Code Master Training” program scheduled to start Monday, July 20, 2026, at 8:30 p.m. Eastern contains a time-zone labeling mistake that could cause prospective...
Augment CEO: Without Deep Project Context, Even the Smartest AI Coding Assistants Will Fail You
AI coding assistants can now generate syntactically flawless code in dozens of languages, but Augment CEO Scott Perneti warns that without a deep understanding of your specific project—its...
Don’t Let Users Archive SharePoint Files Without a Plan: Disable the Default Before Your Pilot
Microsoft’s SharePoint Online now includes file-level archiving for every site that has Microsoft 365 Archive enabled—and it’s turned on by default. Any employee with edit permissions can...
Samsung GAIA NPU: The Add-on AI Chip That Could Sidestep Microsoft's Copilot+ Rules
Samsung Electronics has begun testing a standalone neural processing unit (NPU) for Windows PCs with HP and Lenovo, according to a report from South Korean outlet ChosunBiz. The chip, codenamed GAIA,...
Bigdata.com Launches Token-Based Content Licensing: A 100× Cheaper Way to Ground Copilot?
On July 20, 2026, RavenPack lifted the lid on a content licensing overhaul that could reshape how Windows-centric organizations pay for Copilot’s external grounding. The new system, built into its...
Microsoft Ships Coreutils for Windows with Conflict Manager: A Safe Adoption Roadmap
Microsoft released Coreutils for Windows on June 2, 2026, bringing native Unix-style commands like ls, cat, and grep directly to the Windows command line. A June 16 servicing update added the...
Azure Taps AMD's Helios AI Racks to Ease Compute Crunch, but Capacity Details Remain Scarce
Microsoft committed to a large-scale deployment of AMD’s Helios rack-scale artificial intelligence infrastructure, giving Azure’s own services and its paying cloud customers access to...