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Lawsuit Seeks Emergency Injunction Against Meta Layoffs, Citing AI Bias Against Protected Leave
On July 13, 2026, twenty-six anonymous Meta employees filed a federal lawsuit asking a judge to urgently block their July 22 terminations, alleging that the company’s internal AI systems...
Canva Allots AI Budgets and a Week Off to 5,300 Employees Instead of Mandating One Tool
Canva cofounder and chief product officer Cameron Adams disclosed in a July 15 interview with Rapid Response that the design platform gives its more than 5,300 employees the freedom to choose their...
Firefox 153 finally unlocks HDR video playback on Windows — here’s who gets it and who doesn’t
Mozilla shipped Firefox 153 Beta with HDR video playback for Windows, and the feature is on track for a stable release on Tuesday, July 21, 2026. The move closes a multi-year gap that left Windows...
IT Admins Get Central Control of Windows 11 Multi-App Camera in 26H1, But Only for New Devices
Microsoft released a Group Policy setting in Windows 11 26H1 Release Preview build 28000.2333 on June 12, 2026, giving administrators centralized control over whether multiple applications can share...
Windows 11 Finally Patches the 500GB Storage Drain: What You Need to Do Now
The July 2026 Patch Tuesday update for Windows 11, KB5101650, contains a fix for a database logging bug that has been silently consuming up to 500GB of drive space on some PCs since early this year....
Xbox Store Gets a New Hidden-Object Game: Sweet Home Collector’s Edition Surfaces Without Pricing or Details
A product page for Sweet Home: Look and Find Collector’s Edition has appeared on Microsoft’s Xbox digital storefront, signaling the casual hidden-object game’s arrival on console. Spotted on...
Teams Android Management Moves to Pro Portal: The July Readiness Checklist
In mid-2026, Microsoft began phasing out Android device management from the Teams Admin Center (TAC) and moving it into the Teams Rooms Pro Management Portal (PMP). Starting in August, TAC workflows...
June 2026 Copilot Update: Free Notebooks Arrive, but Cowork Billing Now Demands a Hard Cap
Microsoft has quietly redrawn the price tags around its most advanced AI tools. The company’s June 2026 update to Microsoft 365 Copilot makes the Notebooks workspace—previously locked behind a...
Microsoft Purview's New Simulation Mode Aims to End Noisy Data Classification
Microsoft is preparing a tool that lets compliance administrators test custom data classifiers against real production content before those classifiers ever influence a live policy. The capability,...
Microsoft Cancels Copilot Feature That Would Have Scheduled Tasks with Plain English
A feature that many Microsoft 365 Copilot users had circled on their calendars has been erased from the roadmap entirely. On July 14, 2026, Microsoft updated its official roadmap to mark item 531913...
Microsoft Purview DLP Now Lets Admins Block Specific External Users from SharePoint, OneDrive Files
Microsoft has begun rolling out a new Data Loss Prevention action that lets organizations block individual external users or entire domains from accessing sensitive files in SharePoint Online and...
Microsoft Purview Now Reads Images: OCR Comes to Data Security Investigations
Microsoft flipped the switch on optical character recognition for Purview Data Security Investigations, a move that gives security teams the ability to extract and analyze text trapped inside images....