Articles from June 29, 2026
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South Africa's SITA Issues 5-Year Tender for SD-WAN and Wireless Networks, Putting Windows Security and POPIA in Focus
South Africa’s State Information Technology Agency (SITA) has published a landmark five-year transversal networking tender, inviting suppliers to bid for the provision of LAN, wireless, WAN, and...
WSL 2.7.10 Ships with Critical TOCTOU Fix for SYSTEM Token Impersonation in VHD Restore
Microsoft shipped Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) version 2.7.10 on June 26, 2026, a security update that neutralizes a dangerous privilege-escalation vulnerability in the handling of virtual hard...
Microsoft Purges 119 Edge Extensions in StegoAd Takedown: The Steganography Malware Campaign Exposed
On June 16, 2026, Microsoft's Edge Extensions Security Team confirmed they had disabled and removed 119 malicious browser add-ons linked to a long-running cyber-espionage and fraud campaign dubbed...
AI Agents Trigger a KYC Revolution: How ‘Know Your Agent’ Will Secure Windows Copilot Delegate and Banking in 2026
Banks and software vendors have spent decades perfecting Know Your Customer (KYC) protocols to verify human identities. Now, with AI agents acting autonomously on behalf of people, the same level of...
Agentic AI Control Planes Become the New Enterprise Battleground, CRN 2026 List Reveals
The enterprise AI market has crossed a threshold. By mid-2026, the conversation is no longer about chatbots that summarize meetings or draft emails. It's about autonomous agents that can plan...
Microsoft Copilot Fails History Test: Why Students Never Doubted AI’s Accuracy
A first‑year ancient global history course at a large public university became an unexpected proving ground for generative AI when the instructor decided to turn a map‑analysis assignment into a...
Microsoft Rushes Outlook for Mac Hotfix After 16.110 Update Wipes Replies and Forwards Clean
A critical bug in the latest Outlook for Mac update is driving users to frustration as every reply or forwarded email arrives with a completely blank message body, eliminating the original thread and...
Meta Vistara: How a Custom CXL Chip Is Repurposing Old DDR4 and Cutting AI Server Needs by 25%
Meta has started deploying a custom-designed CXL memory controller that breathes new life into millions of DDR4 memory modules pulled from decommissioned servers, a move that is cutting the number of...
Microsoft Intune’s June 2026 Update Delivers Auto-Patching for Third-Party Apps, Zero-Trust Privilege Controls, and Frictionless Apple Onboarding
Microsoft is rolling out a significant update to its Intune endpoint management platform, with June 2026 bringing general availability for automated application patching, expanded privilege...
Digital Tax Stress Test: How Kenya’s iTax Overload Is Tripping Up Windows Filers
As the June 30, 2026 deadline for filing 2025 income tax returns looms, Kenya’s iTax platform has lurched into a full-blown stress test, leaving thousands of taxpayers staring at timeout errors,...
Qualcomm Targets $3.9B Revenue with Dragonfly CPUs, AI Accelerators, and Azure HBC Partnership
Qualcomm leapfrogged into the data center arena on June 24, 2026, at its Investor Day in New York, laying out a comprehensive strategy built around the new Dragonfly server CPU family, purpose-built...
Excel's Copilot Gets Personal: June 2026 Update Introduces Persistent Formatting and Output Preferences
Microsoft is giving Excel users a long-awaited quality-of-life upgrade: Copilot will now remember how you like your data presented. In a June 2026 update rolling out to Microsoft 365 subscribers,...