Microsoft to Cut Windows 365 Price for SMBs
Microsoft announced a permanent 20% price reduction for its Windows 365 Business subscription, effective May 1, 2026 for new customers and at renewal for existing users. The cut follows a promotional discount introduced last October and coincides with a new on‑demand start experience that may slightly delay the first boot after an hour of inactivity. Analysts, however, expect the lower price to have limited impact on adoption among small and mid‑size businesses, noting that total cost of ownership is only one factor in DaaS decisions. The broader DaaS market is projected to grow to $6 billion by 2029, with virtual desktops becoming cost‑effective for most workers by 2027.
Can Microsoft Really Meet Its Carbon-Negative Goal by 2030?
Microsoft pledged in 2020 to be carbon‑negative by 2030, but rapid AI‑driven data‑center growth is straining that goal. The company announced a 2025 milestone, claiming 100% renewable electricity matching, yet the achievement relies heavily on carbon offsets rather than direct...
Adobe Summit 2026: How Adobe Hopes to Redesign Marketing and Creativity with AI
Adobe’s annual Summit kicks off in Las Vegas on April 20, 2026, with a parallel virtual stream, marking a pivotal moment as CEO Shantanu Narayen announces his departure after 18 years. The event will spotlight Adobe’s response to the surge...
Microsoft Adds Hidden Feature Flags to Windows Insider Builds
Microsoft is quietly adding a new "Feature Flags" setting to upcoming Windows Insider builds, allowing participants to manually toggle experimental features. Until now, Insiders relied on random assignments via the Controlled Feature Rollout program or third‑party tools like ViVeTool. The...
Meta Moves Fast Toward a World Where AI Builds the Software
Meta has launched a new Applied AI (AAI) engineering organization and is forcibly reassigning its top software engineers to the unit. AAI’s long‑term goal is to have autonomous AI agents handle the majority of building, testing and shipping Meta’s products,...
This Problem Might Not Need a Solution: Customer-Service Bots that Code for Free
A new wave of "token freeloaders" is siphoning free compute from AI‑powered customer‑service bots by posing complex queries that consume large language‑model tokens. CIO.com outlines mitigation tactics such as capping token usage per answer and adding AI‑driven validation, but each...
Chrome, Vivaldi, and the Challenge of Changing Browsers
Longtime Chrome user JR Raphael switched to Vivaldi after discovering its extensive customization and privacy tools. While Chrome still commands roughly three‑quarters of the desktop market in early 2026, the author found Vivaldi’s Android app painless to adopt and its...
Apple Worst, Asus Best for Laptop Repairability
The US PIRG Education Fund’s fifth Failing to Fix survey ranks Asus as the most repairable laptop brand, though its score slipped from the previous year, while Apple earned the lowest C‑minus rating. Dell, HP and Lenovo sit in the middle...
It’s iPhone Speculation Time: Flips, Flaps — and Fold
Apple’s rumored iPhone Fold is back in the spotlight as Nikkei warns of engineering snags that could push launch to 2027, while Bloomberg‑cited analyst Mark Gurman insists the device remains on track for a September debut alongside the Pro models....
Z.ai Unveils GLM-5.1, Enabling AI Coding Agents to Run Autonomously for Hours
Chinese AI firm Z.ai released GLM-5.1, an open‑source coding model designed for autonomous, long‑running software‑engineering agents. The model sustained performance over 600 iterations and 6,000 tool calls, achieving 21,500 queries per second—six times faster than its best single‑session result. Benchmark...
A Core Infrastructure Engineer Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges in Insider Attack
Core infrastructure engineer Daniel Rhyne pleaded guilty to a $750,000 bitcoin extortion scheme after using ordinary admin tools to shut down his former employer's network. He opened unauthorized RDP sessions, deleted admin accounts, altered passwords, and scheduled tasks on the...
As Cheap PCs Vanish, Enterprises Might Still Find Value in Upgrades
Cheap PCs are disappearing, prompting Dell and HP to launch new business machines built on Intel’s Panther Lake Core Ultra Series 3 processors. Benchmarks claim up to 80% graphics improvement, 34% faster productivity, and four‑times AI performance, while battery life stretches to...
Beware of Headlines Touting Impossible AI Benefits, Analysts Warn
Researchers at Tufts University and a Vienna lab demonstrated that a neuro‑symbolic, rule‑based approach can train a robot‑manipulation model using dramatically less energy than a comparable vision‑language‑action neural model. Media outlets amplified the finding with headlines claiming a "100× power...
Now that We Have the MacBook Neo, Could Apple Make a Mac Neo Desktop?
The MacBook Neo’s launch has sparked speculation that Apple could introduce a low‑cost desktop dubbed the “Mac Neo,” potentially priced around $399—well below the current $599 Mac mini. The imagined device would be a compact silver box with a few...
Cyber Criminals Too Are Working From Home… Your Home
The FBI has issued formal guidance warning that cyber‑criminals are exploiting residential proxies by hijacking home IoT devices, smartphones and routers. A January incident revealed nine million Android phones were co‑opted into a proxy network, and recent research uncovered vulnerable...
