AI AND ML Oracle adds Google Gemini to the agent menu Chocolate Factory LLMs join Big Red's Fusion automation party
applications Moscow slaps Telegram founder on wanted list, Durov responds with one-finger salute FSB claims Ukrainian spies use chat platform to recruit Russians for sabotage and arson
APPLICATIONS The Document Foundation says Microsoft's file formats keep users on a short leash OOXML may carry an ISO certificate, but only Office can be trusted to render it properly
applications Outlook for Mac bug makes font choice a purely decorative feature Monospaced code snippets among the reported casualties
Applications Microsoft to switch off OWA Light after nearly two decades Nobody needs a simple web client for Exchange, do they?
paas and iaas Tech divorce from Walmart cost Brit retail giant Asda £1.22B Project which included new SAP system saw delays and costs rise from an £800m estimate while causing financial disruptions
Brussels shows how to remove friction from collaboration SPONSORED FEATURE: Flemish Government explores the radical notion that meeting rooms should just work
Security India gives WhatsApp three days to defend username rollout amid security fears Government of the messenger's largest market demands a pause while Meta explains how it plans to stop impersonators
Applications UK regulator wants Apple and Google to let devs steer clear of app store fees Proposals could open cheaper routes for purchases made through third parties
os platforms Former Microsoft engineer shrinks Notepad down to size Rolling back the years and the bloat for veteran text editor
APPLICATIONS Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats up Now with Markdown support and smarter formula error handling – plus integrated AI, though it's off by default
Applications Apple version of Office 2019 becomes useless in a month The only solution is to buy an upgrade (or switch providers)
Applications LibreOffice brands Euro-Office a 'de facto ally' of Microsoft's lock-in strategy The Document Foundation accuses newly launched Euro-Office of undermining digital sovereignty by defaulting to Microsoft's OOXML document format
Applications Google accused of pushing 'free for life' G Suite users onto paid plans Users claim personal family domains are being falsely flagged for commercial use, leaving long-time G Suite Legacy customers facing a pay-up-or-lose-access ultimatum
Applications User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave For once, Oracle ERP wasn’t the problem
Applications EU waves through open source age-check tool to keep kids safe online 'Online platforms can rely on our app,' says Commish, 'there are no more excuses'
Applications Microsoft beefs up Remote Desktop security with ... hard-to-read messages Ailing scaling blamed by Windows-maker for unreadable missives
Applications Microsoft gives your Word documents an AI co-author you didn’t ask for Also rolls out agentic Copilot in Excel and PowerPoint, letting 21st century Clippy lend a... hand
Applications Hybrid clouds have two attack surfaces and you’re not paying enough attention to either Windows Admin Center flaws mean on-prem can attack cloud, and vice-versa
Applications Thunderbird in hand worth 2 Outlooks as fresh FOSS fave and Firefox arrive Still here, still changing, still relevant, still your best choice
Applications Microsoft software resale appeal catches eye of £3.5B class action Court of Appeal hearing in ValueLicensing dispute may shape parallel proceedings
Applications NHS staff resist using Palantir software Staff reportedly cite ethics concerns, privacy worries, and doubt the platform adds much
Applications Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash Meanwhile, Collabora splits from LibreOffice Online amid claims TDF ejected 'all Collabora staff and partners'
Applications Artemis II astronaut: 'I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working' In space no one can hear you scream, at Microsoft
Applications Gmail celebrates 22 years by finally letting users change their addresses Congratulations, XxXh4xx0r420xXx, you can now use that account in your professional life, too
Applications UK fines Irish Apple outpost over sanctions-busting payments to Russian dev Regulator says payments totaling £635K reached entity owned and controlled by a designated person
Applications Oracle: AI agents can reason, decide and act - liability question remains Fusion Agentic Applications promise autonomous enterprise decisions. Gartner urges caution
Applications Firefox 149 adds a free VPN and finally plays nice with Linux dialogs In other browser news, Opera now caters to penguinista gamers
Applications Microsoft publishes a workaround for Samsung's C:\ drive woes Friends and family support techs: get ready for permission changing and batch file creating
Applications Microsoft points at Samsung after Galaxy app bug locks users out of C:\ 'Access denied' errors hit certain Windows 11 machines running vendor utility
Applications After years of being stood up, ARM64 Linux users finally get Chrome date Someone, somewhere, ticked a box on a build farm. The wait is over
Applications Lloyds Banking Group apps play mix-and-match with customer transactions Some account holders see names, salaries, and child benefit payments… just not their own
Applications Microsoft 365 confirms new premium tier, stuffed with AI and few discounts E7 arrives with a hefty price. Got to keep those shareholders happy
Applications LibreOffice learns to speak Markdown in version 26.2 Plain-text fans rejoice as Writer gains native CommonMark import and export
Applications LibreOffice Online dragged out of the attic, dusted off for another go Browser-based version back on the menu, reopening questions about TDF's relationship with Collabora
Applications Lovable-hosted app littered with basic flaws exposed 18K users, researcher claims Who's to blame – the vibey platforms or the humans who ignore security warnings?
Applications Hide from Meta's spyglasses with this new Android app Academic urges users not to harass those suspected of snooping with (sp)eyewear
Applications Indie web browser Ladybird flutters toward Rust with a little help from AI Project ditches Swift and translates C++ with LLM assistance
Applications Resilient, continuously active data – with no compromise When the gap between data generation and action is a strategic liability, it's time for a fix
Applications Contain your Windows apps inside Linux Windows Can't live without Adobe? Get on board WinBoat – or WinApps sails a similar course
Applications Microsoft starts the countdown for the end of Exchange Web Services Windows giant might try turning it off and on again to see who notices
Applications Why high-performance Java is becoming a business imperative A new generation of JVM technologies is reshaping how businesses build, deploy, and scale mission-critical Java applications.
Applications Palantir declares itself the guardian of Americans' rights CEO Alex Karp meets criticism with soaring revenues and a sermon
Applications Microsoft illegally installed cookies on schoolkid's tech, data protection ruling finds Austrian education ministry unaware of tracking software until campaigners launched case
Applications Microsoft Intune changes to start biting unprepared admins Mobile application management updates mean apps could soon be blocked
Applications Accenture bets AI will ring up retail sales with Profitmind investment Let the bots figure out what to sell for how much
Applications Brave refurbishes Rust adblocking engine for reduced memory footprint Have your privacy cake and consume the web too
Applications StockHistory function becomes StockMystery as Microsoft Excel bugs out New Year glitch leaves users staring at connection errors instead of market data
Applications Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching It's January 2026, and Google is finding innovative new ways to make one of its services worse
Applications Finally - a terminal solution to the browser wars A full-featured, Sixel-capable terminal browser for those who’d rather skip AI assistants
Applications Devs say Apple still flouting EU's Digital Markets Act six months on Coalition for App Fairness warns App Store fees remain unlawful despite non-compliance ruling
Applications Salesforce has come up with the most credible threat yet to ServiceNow, and Benioff is crowing about it Some within the CRM giant balked, but Benioff prevailed
Applications Irish Excel whiz sheets all over the competition in Vegas showdown Diarmuid Early takes world title after outpacing 11 rivals
Applications Vendor's secret 'fix' made critical app unusable during business hours Medical software maker also had a vastly unhealthy approach to security
Applications You are likely to be eaten by the MIT license: Microsoft frees Zork source Redmond dusts off Infocom's classic text adventures and puts the originals into public hands
Applications Lawsuit seeks to probe Uncle Sam's role in ICE-tracking app takedowns EFF wants to know if citizens had their First Amendment rights violated
Applications PHP 8.5 lays down long-awaited pipe operator, adds new URI tools Unfashionable web workhorse refreshed for its ongoing run
Applications Thunderbird 145 finally adds ‘native’ Exchange support EWS-powered email only for now, with calendars and contacts still on the to-do list
Applications Mastodon CEO steps down with €1M payout and a deep sigh Burnout and slowing growth push Eugen Rochko into an advisory role after nearly a decade in charge
Applications UK tribunal says reselling Microsoft licenses is A-OK Windows giant disagrees and plans to appeal
Applications Developer battled to write his own documentation, but lost the boss fight Org chart games were more important than speed and accuracy
Applications Avalonia brings Linux, browser support to Microsoft's MAUI cross-platform app solution Third-party framework builds alternative backend using its own renderer and WebAssembly
Applications MS Task Manager turns 30: Creator reveals how a 'very Unixy impulse' endured in Windows Dave Plummer's 85 KB troubleshooting tool shipped with his home number on the code
Applications OWASP Top 10: Broken access control still tops app security list Risk list highlights misconfigs, supply chain failures, and singles out prompt injection in AI apps
Applications Microsoft Configuration Manager to switch to an annual release cadence Intune is where the party's at, even if admins might prefer the Configuration Manager kitchen
Applications Gorge on Microsoft Store apps with 16-at-once installer For now it works only with the web version of the Microsoft Store
Applications International Criminal Court kicks Microsoft Office to the curb Rough justice? Redmond out as Germany's openDesk judged a better fit
Applications Anthropic's Claude is learning Excel so you don't have to Good luck to the 1,000 enterprise guinea pigs on the initial preview
Applications Apple faces £1.5B payout after losing UK App Store case iPhone maker overcharged devs and users, says competition court
Applications Excel is three sheets to the window on iOS as update borks everything iPhone and iPad users vexed by denial of spreadsheets
Applications End of support for older Office and Windows Server versions pile on the pain for admins Windows 10 is the least of some people's problems
Applications Schleswig-Holstein waves auf Wiedersehen to Microsoft stack Germany's northernmost state bins Outlook – and tens of thousands of Redmond licenses
Applications Britain's biggest nuclear site looks set to outlast SAP support again Sellafield considers using legacy ECC software beyond extended 2030 cut-off
Applications Exchange Online will start archiving your oldest emails before your inbox bursts Microsoft promises fewer 'mailbox full' errors in face of message deluge
Applications Lowercase leaving you cold? Introducing Retrocide Dropping descenders to achieve a perfect baseline
Applications Apple ices ICE agent tracker app under government heat Cupertino yanks ICEBlock citing safety risks for law enforcement
Applications Dirty little Electron secret tanks macOS 26 performance Apple's bad QA or poor coding by developers?
Applications Google's dev registration plan 'will end the F-Droid project' Open source Android app store cannot exist if Google's plans go ahead, says F-Droid board member
Applications HCL stretches support window for Domino v9/v10 despite repeated end-of-life deadlines The corpse of Lotus Notes keeps twitching
Applications British spreadsheet wizard will take mad skillz to Vegas after taking national Excel crown Q: How many Excel users do you need to correctly set the number formatting of a cell? A: Monday, January 1st, 1900
Applications Word to the wise: Don't tell your IT manager they're not in Excel Contractor sneakily fired after pointing out odious ignorance
Applications Rust-style safety model for C++ 'rejected' as profiles take priority Safe C++ proposal author claims that 'will not ever work'
Applications Rethinking application delivery for the hybrid world Why bake apps into your OS when you can deliver them as a side dish?
Applications The AI-powered future of work arrives at Zoomtopia 2025 This year's Zoomfest promises some exciting innovations
Applications Windows Mobile Plans app to be disconnected in 2026 Microsoft shifts cellular management to Settings and the web
Applications Not in my browser! Vivaldi capo doubles down on generative AI ban Web browsing belongs to the people, not the bots
Applications Whisper it: FFmpeg 8 can now subtitle your videos on the fly Media multitool taps Vulkan for GPU encoding, adds VVC support, and dusts off some ancient formats
Applications AmiBrowser brings 21st century web to 20th century Amigas Also, not one but two new models of the classic 1200
Applications Word to autosave new docs to the cloud before you can even hit Ctrl+S Feature rolls out to Microsoft 365 Insiders, stashing unnamed files in OneDrive by default
Applications Classic Psion fan releases proof-of-concept language server for OPL Vintage computing boffinry to please palmtop enthusiasts
Applications Russia expected to pass experimental law that tracks foreigners in Moscow via smartphones
Applications Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft. Readers say it's all been downhill since Clippy
Applications When even Microsoft can’t understand its own Outlook, big tech is stuck in a swamp of its own making
Applications You know that generative AI browser assistant extension is probably beaming everything to the cloud, right?
Applications Accenture wins £35M more UK tax work without competition despite promise to 'disaggregate'
