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Meta’s AI Rewrites Live Ad Campaigns Without Warning: How to Audit and Lock Down Your Creative
On July 13, 2026, a pair of investigative reports laid bare a growing advertiser revolt: Meta’s AI-powered ad tools are silently altering live campaigns, turning pajama dresses into separates,...
Your Government Cloud Screenshots Are About to Get Audited: Purview OCR Lands in 2026
Microsoft will bring optical character recognition to Microsoft Purview Endpoint Data Loss Prevention in US government cloud environments, enabling agencies and contractors to scan images for...
Microsoft Suspends Expansion of OCR Scanning in Purview Endpoint DLP for Office Files and Archives
Microsoft has pulled back the rollout of expanded optical character recognition (OCR) capabilities in its Purview Endpoint Data Loss Prevention service, even as the official roadmap marks the feature...
Microsoft Purview Scanner Gets SQL Tables for Custom Compliance Reports, GA Set for September 2026
Microsoft plans to give compliance teams direct SQL-table access to Purview Information Protection scanner data, bypassing the current scramble of local CSV exports. According to a Microsoft 365...
Microsoft 365 Action Segments Let IT Auto-Target Inactive Copilot Users With In-Product Prompts
Microsoft has officially rolled out Action Segments for Organizational Messages in Microsoft 365, a feature that lets IT administrators dynamically direct adoption prompts at users who haven’t...
Outlook for Windows Finally Closes the Offline Attachment Gap — Worldwide Rollout Complete
On July 13, 2026, Microsoft marked Roadmap ID 496371 as launched, putting a long-awaited feature into users’ hands: the new Outlook for Windows can now attach files to email drafts while completely...
Microsoft 365 Copilot now taps private Viva Engage chats — permissions still block snooping
Microsoft has quietly flipped the switch on a long-awaited integration: Microsoft 365 Copilot can now ground its responses in content from private Viva Engage communities and events. The change,...
Microsoft Fixes Copilot's Permission Blindspot for Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow
Microsoft has quietly rolled out a critical security update to its Microsoft 365 Copilot connectors. Starting in April 2026, connectors for Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow can now evaluate nested...
Copilot Chat’s New Source Picker Narrows AI Focus — And Arrives This Month
Starting in July 2026, Microsoft 365 business users can finally define which documents, emails, and chats Copilot Chat considers when generating an answer. The new source selection control appears...
Microsoft’s RMS Connector Kills Off Shared Secrets: Your 2026 Prep Starts Now
Microsoft’s Rights Management (RMS) connector—the critical middleware that links on-premises Exchange, SharePoint, and file servers to cloud-based protection—will stop accepting shared-secret...
U.S. Government Clouds to Get Purview's AI Agent Watchdog in October 2026
Microsoft is planning to arm U.S. government cloud tenants with long-awaited tools to monitor AI agents for risky behavior, according to a roadmap entry published July 13. The company aims to bring...
Microsoft Purview Now Monitors AI Agent Risks, But a Preview Label Confuses Rollout
On July 13, 2026, Microsoft updated its 365 roadmap to declare general availability for a long-awaited security feature: Insider Risk Management in Microsoft Purview now monitors AI agents. The...