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Apple’s Touchscreen MacBook May Debut Oct. 28 Apple may finally stop treating fingerprints on a Mac screen as a criminal offense. Apple is reportedly planning an Oct. 28 product experience in Los Angeles for its first touchscreen MacBooks, an OLED iPad mini, and M6 Macs, and is already inviting selected media to attend. Note that …

Anthropic Commits 5% of Its Stock to a New ‘Public Benefit’ Fund Anthropic has announced plans to commit 5% of its shares to a fund supporting the “public good,” a move that could be worth approximately $48 billion based on its latest reported valuation. The initial 5% share commitment is subject to shareholder approval. Anthropic …

OpenAI’s rogue-agent ledger is up to 19 OpenAI added four more misbehaving-agent incidents to the disclosures page it created after July’s Hugging Face hack, bringing the public total to 19 incidents spanning January through October 6. All four new ones happened in June. Three of them were not discovered until August or September. Two are …

Summary Microsoft is retiring several OneDrive Copilot actions from the File Explorer context menu by early December 2026, simplifying usage. Users can still access Copilot features via right-click “Ask Copilot,” the File Explorer Home icon, or the OneDrive activity center. No admin action is needed. Message ID: MC1515940 Published: Oct 19, 2026 Service: Microsoft OneDrive …

With the October 2026 Windows security update, Quick machine recovery is now available for Windows Server 2025. Quick machine recovery can help servers recover from critical boot failures by using Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) to search Windows Update for an applicable remediation. Recovery is dependent on an applicable remediation being available. On Windows Server 2025, …

Beginning on October 26, 2026, we are expanding support for.NET Framework 4.8 across plug-ins and custom workflow activities in Microsoft Dataverse. Migration to this framework follows the standard .NET Framework upgrade approach, while accounting for Dataverse-specific compatibility and deployment requirements. Message ID: MC1515315 Published: Oct 19, 2026 Service: Microsoft Dataverse How does it affect me? …

Azure DNS now provides DNS based load balancing by seamless integration with Azure Traffic Manager. Customers can directly associate an Azure DNS record set with a Traffic Manager profile, eliminating the need to create a CNAME record pointing to the trafficmanager.net domain. Azure update ID: 573917 Published: Oct 19, 2026 Status: Launched Timeline: October 2026 …

Metrics usage insights is now generally available, giving you greater visibility into what’s driving metrics usage across your Azure Monitor workspace. Monitor workspace utilization, identify unused metrics, understand usage trends, and investigate changes in ingestion volume to help optimize costs and plan capacity. Azure update ID: 577165 Published: Oct 19, 2026 Status: Launched Timeline: October …

We are announcing the ability to store multiple lines of text as prompt column output to enable makers to save longer and more detailed AI-generated insights in Dataverse tables. This feature will reach general availability on November 16, 2026. Message ID: MC1515841 Published: Oct 19, 2026 Service: Microsoft Dataverse Tag: New feature How does this …

Summary Microsoft Fabric will enable Database Hub by default on November 17, 2026, allowing authorized users to access database insights without admin activation. Admins can opt out via the Fabric admin portal. No databases or permissions change, and usage remains subject to existing roles and licensing. Message ID: MC1515917 Published: Oct 19, 2026 Service: Power …