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Surface Hub 3, Rally Board, or Flip Pro? Navigating Digital Whiteboards for Windows Workplaces
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Drag-and-Drop Attack Steals Microsoft 365 Access After You Pass MFA
Cybercriminals have figured out how to hijack Microsoft 365 accounts without ever touching a password—even if you've completed multi-factor authentication. A technique called ConsentFix, detailed...
Meta Quest’s Horizon+ Now Includes Xbox Game Pass — But There’s a 10-Hour Cloud Limit
Starting July 21, 2026, Meta is baking a starter edition of Xbox Game Pass directly into its Quest VR headset subscription, Horizon+, giving owners access to over 50 Xbox games streamed through the...
Samsung’s First Clip-On Earbuds Slip to Fall 2026 — What Windows Users Need to Know
Samsung won’t introduce its first clip-on, open-ear earbuds at the July 22 Galaxy Unpacked event in London. A new report from Korea’s Electronic Times says the company has pushed the launch to...
Samsung's Wider Galaxy Z Fold 8 Promises a Pocketable Tablet — and a Better Windows Companion
Samsung will announce a redesigned Galaxy Z Fold 8 at its July 22 Unpacked event that abandons the tall, narrow silhouette of previous book-style foldables for a shorter, wider body, according to...
Microsoft Copilot Can Now Complete Purchases In-Chat as ESW Agentic Commerce Launches in the US
The next time you ask Microsoft Copilot for a product recommendation, you might not have to leave the AI chat to buy it. ESW, the cross-border commerce platform, launched ESW Agentic Commerce today,...
China’s 29-Nation WAICO Will Reshape AI Rules for Windows—Here’s How to Prepare
Twenty-nine governments signed a founding agreement on July 19, 2026, to create the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, or WAICO, giving China a permanent institutional base from...
East Africa’s AI Future Depends on Logistics, Not Large Language Models
A shipment from Mombasa to Kampala can pass through seven different record-keeping systems before it reaches its destination. Each handoff—from port authority to customs broker, freight forwarder...
Grok Lands in Outlook: A Practical Guide to AI-Powered Email
On July 21, 2026, xAI released an official Grok add-in for Microsoft Outlook, turning the AI assistant into a sidebar companion that can draft emails, triage inboxes, schedule meetings, and search...
SpaceX-Pentagon AI Talks Could Pressure Azure Pricing: What Windows Pros Should Know
SpaceX is in discussions with the U.S. Department of Defense about a multibillion-dollar agreement to supply AI computing capacity, according to reports from The Wall Street Journal and Reuters. If...
Shadow AI, Slop, and RAG: The Microsoft 365 Governance Terms You Can't Afford to Ignore
Artificial intelligence has barreled into the Microsoft 365 workplace, bringing not just chatbots and copilots, but a whole new language of risk: shadow AI, AI slop, retrieval-augmented generation,...
Windows 11 Cuts Copilot Clutter: Why Gen Z’s Analog Revival Is Reshaping Your PC
Microsoft is stripping its Copilot AI assistant from Windows 11’s Notepad, Photos, and Snipping Tool, marking a sharp retreat from the “AI everywhere” strategy that defined its Copilot+ PC...