Articles from June 18, 2026
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Microsoft Confirms Exchange Online Lacks Native Resource Utilization Reports, Urges Admins to Use Calendar Queries
Microsoft’s Exchange Team confirmed on May 21, 2026, that Exchange Online provides no built-in utilization reports for resource mailboxes, forcing administrators to manually query calendar data to...
Microsoft Turns Teams Rooms Into AI Workflow Hubs at InfoComm 2026
Microsoft kicked off InfoComm 2026 in Las Vegas on June 17 with a bold vision: Teams Rooms are no longer just for video calls. They’re becoming intelligent, AI-driven command centers for workplace...
Hands-On Help: Microsoft Recruits Chronically Ill Remote Workers for Tactile Device Study
Microsoft Research published a recruitment notice on June 17, 2026, seeking adults with chronic illnesses who perform computer-based work from home to test “small, tangible devices” designed to...
Microsoft's Object-Centric Residual RL Gives Robots Human-Like Reflexes From Simulation
Microsoft Research has unveiled a novel object-centric residual reinforcement learning method that trains a lightweight corrective policy entirely in simulation and layers it onto a frozen...
Nvidia’s $2 Billion Photonics Bet in Texas Signals AI Factory Era Amid Power Crisis
Jensen Huang stood on a dusty lot in Sherman, Texas, this week and declared that the next industrial revolution would be built not on steel and steam, but on lasers and artificial intelligence. The...
Next-Gen AI Memory: SK hynix Samples HBM4E at 16Gbps with 20% Power Reduction
SK hynix has shipped engineering samples of its 12-layer HBM4E high-bandwidth memory to major customers, the company announced on June 18, 2026, in Seoul. The new memory chips achieve a blistering 16...
Surface Pro 12 Launches June 16 with Snapdragon X2 and AI Smarts, But the Price May Sting
Microsoft officially unveiled the 12th-generation Surface Pro on June 16, 2026, and it’s clear the company is all-in on Arm and AI. The new tablet—a flagship for Windows on Arm—packs...
Barracuda Unveils AI-Powered Email Protection with Post-Delivery Cleanup for Microsoft 365
Barracuda Networks has taken a decisive step into the post-delivery email security arena with the June 2026 launch of Barracuda Integrated Email Protection, a cloud-native service engineered to hunt...
Tom Holland Says Artists Are 'Safe' From AI, But Windows Users Know Control Is the Real Fight
Tom Holland dropped a provocative take on AI and creativity this week, telling a Spanish talk show that actors and artists have nothing to fear from generative AI when it comes to their...
Wake County's Draft AI Policy Takes Aim at Generative Tools in Schools
The Wake County Public School System, North Carolina’s largest school district, moved closer to enacting formal guidelines for artificial intelligence on June 17, 2026, as officials debated key...
Inforcer Joins Pax8 Marketplace to Help MSPs Stop Microsoft 365 Drift and Accelerate Copilot Readiness
Pax8 will add inforcer to its cloud marketplace this summer, the company said on June 9, 2026, opening a new procurement and management channel for managed service providers who need to harden...
Microsoft Launches Copilot Cowork: Agentic AI for M365 Exits Preview with Pay-Per-Use Pricing
June 18, 2026 — Microsoft has officially ended the preview phase of Copilot Cowork, the agentic-work automation engine deeply embedded in Microsoft 365. The general availability launch, confirmed...