ZUPT, an open source backup, compression, and data protection utility, has officially been accepted into openSUSE Factory, bringing a new security-focused backup option to the openSUSE ecosystem. The project combines backup creation, compression, integrity verification, and encryption in a single tool, allowing users to package files and directories into compact...
Commercial Journeys helps information workers stay on top of their most important work when browsing in Microsoft Edge. Powered by AI, it proactively surfaces unfinished, new, and recurring tasks on the Copilot new tab page- with context-rich cards that explain why each task matters now. One click opens a guided execution flow that delivers ready-to-use outputs (emails, documents, presentations, a…
Business Skills are natural language instructions authored and stored in Microsoft Dataverse that teach Sales Agent how work gets done within a specific organization. Business Skills enable organizations to create natural language instructions for Sales Agent to follow, which represent their business processes, policies, and business knowledge. Business skills can represent common sales workflows…
Users will be able to access models that require usage-based billing (UBB) from the model selector in Chat. Tenant admins will need to allocate credits so that users can interact with these models. If users consume their allotted credits, they will be able to request credits from their tenant admins.GA date: October CY2026
This release expands the optimization capabilities of the Scheduling Operations Agent to include the ability to create recurring optimizations on a schedule. The agent considers the availability of the resources, their current schedules, and unscheduled requirements. It suggests a schedule that honors configured constraints and optimizes it according to the selected goal. The agent automatically r…
Extends the modern, refreshed look to embedded app experiences so model-driven app content retains consistent Fluent styling and interaction patterns when it appears inside another host. This was previously enabled for the monthly channel with the 2602.1 release and is now being enabled for the semiannual channel with the 2609.3 release. Availability Field Value Impacted Products All model-driven…
Impersonation Protection for Teams meetings helps users identify potentially deceptive participants and meeting organizers. When Teams detects a potential impersonation attempt, it surfaces warnings and risk indicators to help users recognize suspicious identities and make more informed decisions when joining or participating in a meeting.GA date: November CY2026
How it works Quick add reuses the existing numpad on the transaction screen, so there is no new input control to learn and no additional space consumed in the transaction grid. The associate enters a full or partial item number on the numpad. On an exact match, the item is added directly to the transaction. On a partial match, instead of navigating to the search results page, an inline dialog…
In Outlook, Copilot now works side by side with users to draft, refine, and format emails conversationally, powered by the same agentic capabilities available in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.GA date: November CY2026
Organizations can enhance meeting security with synthetic audio and video (deepfake) detection solutions provided by certified third-party providers. Third-party detection solutions analyze meeting media for signs of synthetic or manipulated audio and video and send detection signals to Teams, enabling integrated in-meeting experiences and controls. Important: Synthetic media detection is performe…
Help people get started faster by automatically connecting new team members to relevant channels when they join a team. Improve engagement, accelerate onboarding, and make it easier to discover important information from day one.GA date: November CY2026
How a few bytes of difference means your data might be locked to hardware or a vendor you can’t easily replace. You chose a ZFS-based NAS for the right reasons. ZFS has a decades-long track record of data integrity, mature tooling, and a thriving open-source community behind it. It’s the file system that storage engineers […] The post Is Your ZFS NAS Actually Running OpenZFS? appeared first on Tru…
Hello Windows Insiders, Today, we’re releasing new Windows 11 Insider Preview builds to the Beta and Experimental channels. New builds this week Select your channel below to view its release notes: Beta:
Confidential computing is essential when an organization needs to process sensitive data on infrastructure where the operators should not have access to it. You might have seen this requirement before: it appears commonly in public cloud deployments (where organizations want to prevent the cloud vendor seeing data), but also when hospitals evaluate proprietary AI models […]
We’re pleased to announce the stable release of Qubes OS 4.3.2! This patch release aims to consolidate all the security updates and bug fixes that have occurred since the previous stable release. Our goal is to provide a secure and convenient way for users to install (or reinstall) the latest stable Qubes release with an up-to-date ISO. The ISO and associated verification files are available on th…
B2B users, including internal guest users and external users, will be able to register and sign in with passkeys issued by a resource tenant to meet that tenant's multifactor authentication (MFA) requirements. Today, passkeys are supported for member users in their home tenant. With this update, B2B users can register a resource tenant passkey from the resource tenant's My Security Info page, or i…
Enables admins to delete both content and containers for departed users at scale thereby keeping your tenant compliant without any manual effort.GA date: December CY2026Preview date: November CY2026
Keep collaboration moving without disrupting the main discussion. Start and continue one-to-one or small-group conversations directly from a meeting to ask questions, coordinate next steps, share information, and collaborate in parallel while staying engaged in the conversation, reducing context switching and helping teams stay focused and productive.GA date: November CY2026
The self-service environment migration feature moves management of an existing finance and operations apps environment from Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services to the Microsoft Power Platform admin center.More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/fin-ops-core/dev-itpro/lifecycle-services/migrate-lifecycle-services-environments-power-platform-admin-centerGA date: December CY2026Pre…
The S3FS Translation Tax If you’re setting up OME-Zarr for high-throughput microscopy, you probably assume you need to use S3 for the entire pipeline. That’s a mistake that will bottleneck your local ingest. OME-Zarr is an encapsulation format and programming library for storing microscopy pictures and bundling metadata. While OME-Zarr supports object storage, it adds […] The post The OME-Zarr S3…
How on-demand Android environments turn validation into a repeatable pipeline stage In the first article, we looked at automation: how Android environments can be created and managed programmatically. In the second, we looked at scaling: how shared infrastructure can make those environments available to more developers, tests, and workloads. This third article looks at the […]
Make sure the Raspberry Pi products you buy are a good match for your requirements. The post Price increases for 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
There were several software package updates for openSUSE Tumbleweed during the month of September and with openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 about to begin, we are bringing the monthly review to you early. September delivered a stacked month of snapshots across the desktop, developer tooling, and security surface. KDE Plasma 6.7.5 landed...
Incoming Teams calls don't wait for a break in your day. Intelligent call delegation provides AI-powered calling assistance so you can focus on the conversations that matter most. It answers calls and gathers context, helping you decide whether to pick up and engage the caller. It can also schedule follow-up appointments through an integration with Microsoft Bookings so you can reconnect with call…
"Let an AI agent schedule profiling for a Business Central session, collect CPU and memory data, identify costly AL paths, and summarize SQL and HTTP activity. Business value: Developers and administrators can investigate slow Business Central sessions with help from an AI agent instead of manually collecting and interpreting performance profiles. The agent can capture the affected session, identi…
"Build and query static AL call graphs to trace public-to-internal calls, debugging boundaries, elevated code, and cross-app relationships, with visual exports. Business value: Extension developers can understand how public APIs expose internal implementation details and where execution crosses debugging boundaries. This visibility helps teams review extension architecture, reduce unintended API e…
"Use compiler diagnostic AL0926 to identify AL object sections declared in the wrong order instead of interpreting multiple secondary and less specific parser errors. Business value: Developers and coding agents receive a direct explanation when sections of an AL object are declared in the wrong order. The clearer diagnostic reduces time spent interpreting secondary parser errors and makes automat…
"Run the standalone AL language server to provide completion, navigation, references, rename, formatting, and other project-aware LSP features outside Visual Studio Code. Business value: Teams can use full AL language intelligence in AI coding agents and development environments that support the Language Server Protocol (LSP), without requiring Visual Studio Code as the client. This opens AL devel…
"Search objects installed in a connected Business Central environment, including owning-app metadata needed to add dependencies and download the correct symbols. Business value: Developers and coding agents can discover AL objects that are installed in the target Business Central environment even when the corresponding symbols haven't yet been downloaded into the workspace. This reduces failed sea…
Business Value Set Use Shopify Order No. and Process Returns as on the Shopify Shop Card, then review contacts before you choose Create Sales Document. Details The Shopify connector gives you more control before it creates sales documents. Although the connector already stores the Shopify order number in dedicated fields on sales documents, using the same document number in Shopify and Business Ce…