Software
The Software section covers the applications, platforms and developer tools that run modern business and personal computing. We report on operating system and app releases, cloud and enterprise software, open-source projects and licensing disputes, and the growing role of AI coding assistants and agents in how software gets written. Our focus is on what a release or policy change means for the people who build with it and the people who depend on it, including pricing changes, deprecations, security implications and competitive moves among the largest platform vendors.
Microsoft’s Copilot Gets a Massive Makeover: What Today’s Unified App Rollout Means for You — and What’s Coming Next
August 18, 2026 — If you open the Microsoft Copilot app on your phone or browser today, things may look a little...
57 Days and Counting: What Windows 10 Users Must Do Before October 13
August 17, 2026 — Mark your calendars. In exactly 57 days, the last security lifeline for millions of Windows 10 devices will...
Linux Kernel 7.2 Arrives Today — And AI Changed How It Was Built
August 16, 2026 — The Linux kernel 7.2 stable release landed today, right on schedule. What should have been a routine milestone...
Oracle Is Cutting People to Pay for Machines: Inside the AI Capex Squeeze
Oracle is preparing yet another round of layoffs before September 1, even as it borrows tens of billions of dollars to build...
Microsoft’s MAI-Code-1.1-Flash Promises Cheaper AI Coding — But DeepSeek Has Other Ideas
Released August 11, 2026 | Microsoft AI Microsoft dropped its latest coding model last week with confident messaging: MAI-Code-1.1-Flash is faster, cheaper,...
Oracle Powers Up Enterprise AI: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, H100 Multi-Node, and Natural-Language SQL Hit OCI
Oracle’s August 2026 AI update is one of the company’s most substantive single-month releases, stacking a half-dozen infrastructure and developer upgrades that...
Adobe’s New ChatGPT Plugin Puts 70+ Creative Tools Into a Single Conversation
Adobe has collapsed its entire creative software lineup into a single ChatGPT plugin, letting users edit photos, cut video, design marketing assets,...
Microsoft’s August 2026 Patch Tuesday Arrives Amid the AI-Driven ‘Patch Apocalypse’
August 11, 2026 — Today marks another milestone in what security professionals are calling the “Patch Apocalypse.” Microsoft has released its August...
Microsoft Bets Big on Maia 300: The AI Chip That Could Break Nvidia’s Grip on the Cloud
Microsoft is preparing to reveal its next-generation Maia 300 AI chip as early as this September, and the company is quietly lining...