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Windows 11 Release Preview Adds Voice Isolation, Touchpad Controls, and Wider Biometric Security
Microsoft shipped Windows 11 Builds 26100.8942 and 26200.8942 to the Release Preview Channel on July 20, 2026, targeting versions 24H2 and 25H2 respectively. The update lands with a long list of...
GPT-5.6 Claims to Solve Erdős Problem #119 with a One-Page Proof: Here’s Why Skeptics Are Wary
On July 20, 2026, the mathematical world was rocked by claims that OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol, working with mathematician “Korsky,” had solved a decades-old problem from the legendary Paul...
Windows 11 Beta Build 26220.8925: Start Menu Sections Become Optional, Sizes Go Small or Large, and File Explorer Drops the Kilobyte Obsession
Microsoft delivered a Windows 11 Beta build this week that gives users something they’ve been asking for since October 2021: genuine control over what the Start menu shows, how big it is, and...
Windows 11’s Start Menu Can Finally Be Resized—and That’s Just the Start
Microsoft shipped two Windows 11 Beta builds on July 20, 2026, and the marquee addition is a Start menu you can shrink, enlarge, or let Windows size automatically. Build 26220.8925 doesn’t stop...
NotebookLM’s AI Podcasts Can Distort News Stories: What Windows Users Need to Know
A group of journalists asked Google’s NotebookLM to turn their own carefully reported articles into AI-generated podcast conversations—and then listened closely. What they heard ranged from...
Microsoft 365 Copilot Gets Granular Web Control: Admins Can Exclude Specific Sites from Grounding
Microsoft shipped a long-awaited governance tool for Microsoft 365 Copilot that lets administrators block specific websites from shaping AI-generated answers. The domain exclusion feature, listed...
Microsoft Cancels Teams Frontline BYOD Wizard, Retires Preview This August
Microsoft has cancelled its planned Teams frontline bring-your-own-device onboarding wizard just weeks before the feature was set to reach general availability. The decision, quietly posted to the...
Microsoft Cancels Copilot License Justification Field: What IT Admins Need to Do Now
Microsoft has quietly shelved a planned feature that would have let employees explain why they need a Microsoft 365 Copilot license when submitting a request through the admin center. The...
Microsoft Purview’s AI Agent Now Delivers Investigative Narratives, Not Just Isolated Alerts
Microsoft has begun rolling out a significant upgrade to its Purview Insider Risk Management service, empowering the built-in Data Security Triage Agent to generate plain-language summaries of...
Microsoft Finally Forces Internal SharePoint Links to Expire — What Admins Must Do Now
Microsoft closed a significant governance gap on July 20, 2026, when it officially launched expiration policies for “People in your organization” sharing links across SharePoint and OneDrive....
Microsoft Purview’s File Archiving Feature Arrives September 2026—Here’s What to Expect
Microsoft is preparing to give organizations a new way to handle the growing pile of old documents in OneDrive and SharePoint: a built-in, policy-driven archive button. The company has updated its...
Microsoft Fixes Blocking Update Bug and Overhauls File Explorer in New Experimental Build
Microsoft shipped Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.8935 to the Experimental channel on Monday, July 20, delivering a fix for a stubborn update failure — error 0xc0000409 — that had left...