LibreOffice 26.8 is now available for Windows, macOS, and Linux, adding major Writer, Calc, Impress, and compatibility improvements while maintaining The Document Foundation’s deliberate decision to exclude generative AI. The suite continues to process documents locally, work without an internet connection, and collect no telemetry.

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Google is upgrading Gemini Live from a voice chatbot into an assistant that can carry out multi-step work across Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Drive, and the web. The rollout adds background tasks through Spark, spoken daily briefings, voice-controlled inbox management, and Personal Intelligence that uses connected app data and past conversations to provide more relevant answers.

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OpenAI has made ChatGPT Business Premium seats generally available, giving organizations a way to remove the Standard plan’s five-hour usage ceiling for selected employees instead of upgrading an entire workspace. Premium costs $100 per user per month with annual billing or $125 month to month, while Standard remains $20 or $25 respectively.

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Microsoft has made Intelligent Discovery in Microsoft Marketplace generally available worldwide, giving customers a conversational way to find, compare, and evaluate cloud, AI, and agent solutions. Instead of starting with a product name or keyword, buyers can describe a business problem in natural language; Microsoft says preview users were 68% more likely to find a suitable solution and proceed toward purchase.

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ChatGPT Scheduled Tasks can now respond to activity in connected services instead of waiting for a fixed time. ChatGPT Work users can configure automations for new Gmail messages, Slack posts, and supported GitHub events, turning the feature from a reminder tool into a basic event-driven assistant.

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Microsoft’s August 2026 Excel update makes Copilot more useful for investigating and reshaping workbooks, adding tools for change history, chart and PivotTable creation, and Python-based analysis. The release is available across Windows, Mac, and the web, but most of the new functionality requires a Copilot license, with Python support initially limited to Excel Insiders.

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Microsoft has delayed Microsoft Whiteboard’s retirement, giving personal users and enterprise administrators more time after Whiteboard migration tooling was due to end August 22. The revised schedule moves the main cutoff to September 25, while permanent deletion and standalone-app changes now happen later in October and November.

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Microsoft will retire Excel’s Exchange Connector in April 2027, potentially breaking workbooks that pull mail or calendar data from Exchange. Workbook authors must manually migrate to Microsoft’s replacement connectors, while users on Office 2021 and older perpetual versions may need to upgrade because the replacements are limited to Microsoft 365 and Office 2024.

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Mirage2FA has potentially compromised 4,532 organization email domains between 2024 and 2026, using phishing-as-a-service infrastructure to steal Microsoft 365 credentials, 2FA codes, and active session cookies. The campaign’s estimated 48% compromise rate shows why conventional MFA may not protect accounts when attackers proxy the entire sign-in process.

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Microsoft’s `Invoke-ChangeMeetingOrganizer` cmdlet can move the Exchange calendar event while leaving the Teams online meeting tied to the former organizer. A new Microsoft Graph and PowerShell workaround now recreates the Teams meeting for the replacement owner, building on the earlier discovery that the organizer-transfer cmdlet leaves Teams links behind.

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Microsoft Teams is adding an admin policy that automatically rejects identified external bots instead of leaving organizers to approve them manually. The control extends Teams bot controls that sent detected external apps to the lobby, helping prevent unauthorized recording, transcription, and other automated services from entering meetings.

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Microsoft Planner is set to gain a capacity view that shows who is assigned to which work and highlights overloaded or underused team members. The Microsoft 365 Roadmap lists the feature under ID RM569733, with availability targeted for after October 2026.

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Microsoft is rolling out a Teams meeting-policy control that detects external recording and AI notetaking bots and places them in the lobby for approval. Targeted-release tenants are receiving the feature now, with worldwide availability expected by the end of September 2026, giving administrators a way to prevent unapproved applications from entering confidential meetings.

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Two years after Salesforce launched Agentforce, its partners report growing customer curiosity but no meaningful revenue from the AI platform. Salesforce partners are consulting firms, technology providers, resellers, and implementation specialists that help customers adopt Salesforce products. A TD Cowen survey found that early trials and buying activity have not yet turned Agentforce into a source of partner bookings, challenging Salesforce’s claims that demand is accelerating.

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Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Business Standard, and Business Premium now include an extra 50 GB of primary Exchange Online mailbox storage, raising the supported limit from 50 GB to 100 GB. The primary mailbox is the user's active inbox, calendar, and contacts. Microsoft delivers the increase as a licensing change through a new service plan, a named capability inside the product license, rather than as a new mailbox type. The packaging rollout started in June 2026 and continues through September 2026. You should verify the result per user, because not every mailbox in a tenant receives the extra quota at the same time.

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A newly identified malware family called SynkLoader is being delivered through Microsoft Teams phishing messages that impersonate corporate IT staff. Its most deceptive component displays a fake Windows lock screen to capture passwords, while other modules provide persistence, remote control, network tunneling, and reconnaissance that could support ransomware attacks.

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AI agents are turning the familiar per-user SaaS model into a budgeting and governance problem for IT teams. Non-human identities may outnumber employees by 25 to 50 times, while the software work they perform generates inference, API, tool-call, and automation costs that seat counts cannot measure.

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GitHub Copilot in Slack is now in public preview, letting teams mention `@GitHub` in a channel, thread, or direct message to investigate issues, plan changes, and hand coding tasks to an agent. Copilot works asynchronously in a secure cloud sandbox, then can open a pull request and return a review link to Slack, with Slack Code providing a dedicated workspace for the task.

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Microsoft is rolling out an optional Classic Outlook theme for New Outlook on Windows and Outlook on the web, giving users the familiar appearance of the desktop client without switching applications or changing mailbox data. The setting is off by default for most users, with deployment running through October 2026 and no administrator action required.

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