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Windows, Azure, and Copilot; OpenAI’s biggest backer.
Releases 2 shipped
9 Aug 2026 Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a x64 port — Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a (1990) now runs natively on x64 Windows 11 via community port SOFTWARE Tom's Hardware
6 Aug 2026 Kimi K3 — Kimi K3, an open-weight language model, is now available as an option in GitHub Copilot for coding tasks MODEL GitHub Changelog
Products 1 tracked
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AUGUST 2026
The Register Mozilla revokes Firefox signing key after unencrypted copy lands in GitHub Tom's Hardware Windows 11's built-in weather app hogs more than 1.2 gigabytes of RAM just to tell the forecast — memory-sucking web wrapper filled with ads masquerades as an actual application Tom's Hardware x64 port of Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a arrives — you can now run this seminal 1990 word processor natively in Windows 11 GitHub Changelog GitHub Copilot weekly releases — August 3 GitHub Changelog Enterprises can now install third-party GitHub Apps GitHub Changelog Copilot impact dashboard adds a return on investment section GitHub Changelog Copilot code review effort levels are generally available GitHub Changelog Copilot usage metrics API adds agent app activity The Verge Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did GitHub Changelog GitHub Code Quality no longer adds Copilot as a reviewer The Register Microsoft tosses Teams Live chat into its feature graveyard The Register Attacker phished way into US defense supplier's Microsoft 365 account trevmex.com I got a 1998 CD-ROM world atlas running on Windows 11 The Register Latest GitHub outage squeezes Actions, Pages to death GitHub Changelog Kimi K3 is now available in GitHub Copilot GitHub Blog How we took malware advisories beyond npm githubstatus.com GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability The Register Next step for LINK spacecraft – a software update that won't make things worse. Are you listening, Microsoft? The Register Microsoft excludes Domain Exclusion from MS 365 Copilot – days after rolling it out The Register Azure CTO pastes Doom into Paint one frame at a time Ars Technica Anthropic’s AI used fake identities, malware in rogue attack on GitHub project Tom's Hardware Microsoft wants the next-gen Xbox Helix to play every Xbox game ever made as it urges publishers to opt in — New report also claims Xbox 360 games coming to PC soon The Register AI helps Microsoft bug hunters chase a record $20M payday The Verge Microsoft is bringing Xbox 360 games to PC The Register Microsoft says 8 GB of RAM should be enough for anyone running Windows 11 Tom's Hardware Microsoft Paint used as a 'monitor' to run Doom at up to 35 fps, project released by firm's Azure CTO — runs actual Doom engine and loads real shareware DOOM1.WAD darknavy.org Patch In, Exploit Out: How deepsec Reconstructed the Pwn2Own Microsoft Edge Sandbox Escape Tom's Hardware Microsoft vows to make Windows 11 fly on 8GB RAM amid memory shortage — optimizations to reduce OS memory footprint have begun JULY 2026
Tom's Hardware Legendary Windows developer codes Task Manager for the Mac, says Apple’s ‘Activity Monitor blows’ — Microsoft gave original Windows Task Manager dev permission to reference Windows XP source code GitHub Changelog Copilot code review: Agent skills and MCP now generally available Ars Technica Anthropic is finding bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them enklypesalt.com Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word GitHub Blog Disrupting supply chain attacks on npm and GitHub Actions GitHub Blog The harness is all you need (mostly)