Kareem Anderson

it was supposed to start disappearing on October 1 . The perpetual versions (Office 2021 and LTSC 2021) lose support on October 13

It's not finished. Epic calls this first build a speedboat, not a yacht, and says it's light on features, though it does have a shopping cart, which the company describes as advanced digital commerce technology. You can buy games. That much works.

It's a tiny change, but Edge has a long history of changing things to end up exactly where it started. It began as Internet Explorer's replacement with its own engine, then got scrapped for a Chromium rebuild, and now it's quietly retiring one of its last bits of vocabulary that didn't match Chrome's. At this rate the only difference left will be the logo, and I wouldn't bet on that surviving a few more Canary builds.

and said he might get fired for admitting you can prompt a game into existence. Gaming's the only industry where leaders are scared to talk about AI, he says. Users want the truth: “We're using AI.”

Microsoft breaks it into three parts. Copilot can look at your files and recent activity to get a sense of what you're working on, but only if you say yes. It can take actions for you, things like organizing files, running diagnostics, troubleshooting, even coding. And it can use AI models running on your PC, then lean on the cloud when the job gets too big. The official line is that you're in control at every step. Maybe, but anyone who's had Windows ask them to confirm the same setting four times in a row is going to read “with your permission” with a raised eyebrow.

The official excuse is the RAM crunch. AI companies are hoovering up memory, consoles are the least glamorous thing left on the shelf, and Corden notes that Microsoft is one of the companies doing the hoovering. Sit with that one for a minute. The shortage is real and it's hitting everybody, but the company asking you for your spare console is also part of why there's no memory to build new ones.

in front of roughly 60,000 of its employees. That is over a quarter of their global headcount essentially being politely asked if they wouldn't mind taking a payout and a hike.

TAO Clean is going after that problem with the BioShield Travel Case 2.0, a portable UV-C sanitizer made for its Sonic Toothbrush. It's available now in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand on

Apple just dropped its brand new MacBook Pro with an OLED touchscreen. Anyone who has been poking at Windows clamshells and 2-in-1s for the last decade is probably having a massive case of deja vu.

Underneath, the company is racing to build capacity for a business that's becoming more demanding and more expensive to run. The cloud is booming. The data centers have to catch up.