A wave of Microsoft products, including Windows 11 24H2 and the standalone Office 2021, are scheduled to reach their end-of-support dates in 2026. This means no more security updates, pushing users toward newer versions or subscriptions. The move highlights the accelerating update cycle and its cost
Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, detailed his personal workflow on X. It involves running five AI agents simultaneously, using the slowest model, and a shared file that teaches the AI from its mistakes. Developers are calling it a watershed moment.
Garmin has launched a major new nutrition tracking feature within its ecosystem. It includes macro tracking, barcode scanning, and AI-powered food recognition. However, access is locked behind the company’s Connect+ subscription service.
Plaud has launched the $179 Plaud NotePin S, an AI recorder with a button. Meanwhile, journalist Kara Swisher is calling out Big Tech’s lack of safety foresight and its political pivot. The industry faces a pivotal 2026 to prove AI’s worth.
Instagram Reels has become a massive financial success for Meta, hitting a $50 billion annual revenue run rate. The short-form video platform, once struggling to compete with TikTok, is now expanding to television screens as its next frontier.
According to XDA-Developers, the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.6.0 update will solve a long-standing annoyance for gamers by making controller input count as user activity, preventing the system from sleeping or locking during play. The fix, targeting a mid-February release, is part of a batch of improvemen
The team behind the Aeryn OS Linux distribution has published a 2025 retrospective. It confirms the quiet departure of founder Ikey Doherty and outlines a continued 2026 focus on underlying tooling and infrastructure.
The former boss of Zenimax Online confirmed he resigned after Microsoft axed Project Blackbird, a game he’d waited his “entire career to create.” The cancellation came amid layoffs and a reported push for a 30% profit margin across Xbox studios.
According to CRN, 2025 was a landmark year for Microsoft and its partners. The company cracked a $4 trillion market cap, officially ended support for Windows 10, and reported a staggering $392 billion commercial backlog. They’re forecasting double-digit growth into 2026 on the back of major AI and p
A tech enthusiast built a completely offline voice assistant using a ReSpeaker Lite board and a custom 3D-printed enclosure. The system uses Whisper for speech-to-text, a local LLM for responses, and Piper for GLaDOS-style voice synthesis, all managed through Home Assistant. This DIY project offers
