Articles from July 2026
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Copilot in PowerPoint: The AI Assistant That Can Draft, Edit, and Even Anticipate Audience Questions
Microsoft’s Copilot in PowerPoint has grown far beyond a design assistant. It can now draft entire presentations from a text prompt, transform a Word report into a polished slide deck, rewrite...
Your Small Business Can Now Use GPT-5.6 Agents to Automate Workflows — Here’s How
OpenAI just made its most capable AI agent available to America’s smallest companies, pairing the GPT-5.6-powered ChatGPT Work with a training program designed to turn chaotic solo operations into...
Forget That Top 10 List: The Gaming CPUs You Should Actually Buy in July 2026
A gaming CPU buyer’s guide published on July 21, 2026, crowned the Ryzen 7 7800X3D the “undisputed king” of gaming processors. The ranking appeared in a widely-read roundup on Propel RC, backed...
Fortinet Taps Intel for Next-Gen Security Chip, Delivering a Concrete Foundry Win but Not a Knockout
Intel has landed its first named external customer for its contract chip-making business under CEO Lip-Bu Tan. Cybersecurity firm Fortinet will use Intel Foundry to manufacture the upcoming SP6...
October 2026 Microsoft Deadline Storm: What IT Must Do Before Office, Publisher, and Entra ID Vanish
On October 1, 2026, Microsoft will retire the legacy risk-based policies inside Entra ID Protection. Two weeks later, Office LTSC 2021 will stop receiving security updates, Windows Server 2022 will...
ASUS ROG Gjallar Pairs Dolby Atmos With Acoustic Echo Cancellation for Desktop Gaming
ASUS Republic of Gamers announced its first dedicated gaming soundbar this week, and the ROG Gjallar isn’t just another speaker system. It combines a 2.1.2-channel Dolby Atmos array with an...
Valve: 'Whole PC Catalog' Is the Only Exclusive Needed for $1,049 Steam Machine
Valve’s new Steam Machine is now shipping for $1,049, and the company has made clear it won’t fight the exclusives war. Instead, it’s pitching your existing Steam library as the only platform...
Your Next Windows Upgrade Might Be a Mouse: Logitech’s 2026 Father’s Day Guide Explains Why
Logitech’s 2026 Australian Father’s Day gift guide landed this week, and while it contains no new products, it reads like a manifesto for the modern Windows workspace. The curated picks—from...
An Apprentice Spotted a Lesson in Accenture’s 740K Copilot Rollout—and Built a Hackathon
In July 2026, when Microsoft UK apprentice Kasheef McLennon scrolled past his CEO’s LinkedIn post celebrating Accenture’s 740,000-seat Microsoft 365 Copilot deployment, he didn’t see just a...
Steam's July 21 Update Ends NVIDIA Linux Crashes, Tightens Remote Play and Overlay Reliability
Valve released a stable Steam Client update on July 21, 2026, that directly targets a long-standing crash on Linux systems with NVIDIA GPUs when hardware acceleration is enabled. The patch also...
LG Uplus and LS Electric Take 800V DC to the Data Center Floor for NVIDIA Vera Rubin
On July 21, 2026, South Korean telecom giant LG Uplus and electrical systems maker LS Electric signed a memorandum of understanding to develop an 800-volt direct-current power distribution platform...
Battlefield 6's New Water Map Crashes RTX 50 GPUs—EA Says Roll Back to Older Driver
Battlefield 6 launched its long-awaited Season 4 naval warfare expansion on July 21, 2026, but for many PC players the first day on the new Tsuru Reef map ended not with a victory, but with a DirectX...