Singapore has raised its 2026 GDP growth forecast to 4.5%–5.5%, up sharply from the previous 2%–4% range. The upgrade offers further evidence that artificial intelligence is not merely an overhyped technology with little real-world economic impact.

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Microsoft Entra will make passkeys the default authentication method on September 1, 2026, automatically enabling them for users who currently rely on SMS or voice MFA. Microsoft-provided SMS and voice MFA will be retired on February 1, 2027, giving administrators a limited window to prepare authentication changes.

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Exchange Online administrators will lose the “Other features” page in the Exchange admin center between September 2026 and February 2027. Microsoft says the change removes only a legacy navigation page—not the administrative tools linked from it—so teams should update bookmarks, documentation, and procedures before the rollout.

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Windows 10 remains installed on 16.9% of enterprise PCs nearly a year after support ended, according to Lansweeper data. The remaining systems are concentrated in sectors such as healthcare, retail, and small businesses, where Windows 10 now has a substantially larger vulnerability burden than Windows 11.

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Microsoft has uncovered FruitStone, a web-based control panel used to manage the CaptiveCrunch campaign attributed to Midnight Blizzard. The operation hijacks hotel and other captive-portal networks to target travelers with CornFlake and ChocoShell malware, or with device-code phishing that can steal Microsoft 365 access without infecting the victim’s device.

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A new PowerShell report gives Microsoft Planner project coordinators a six-week view of unresolved work, with one weekly count and an average per user. The scheduled Saturday-based report reads historical data from a SharePoint Online list and highlights whether task backlogs are shrinking.

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Anthropic will embed invisible watermarks in text from new Claude models worldwide starting August 2, 2026, including output delivered through the API and major cloud platforms. The rollout also adds signed provenance metadata to supported image files, giving organizations a way to verify that Claude processed content and detect some tampering.

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OpenSSH 10.5 fixes a flaw that made locking ssh-agent less secure by allowing forwarded sessions to perform operations intended for local use. The release also patches an ssh client use-after-free and restores the full effect of the `restrict` option for tunnel forwarding.

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Apple has released macOS 27 Golden Gate beta 5 to developers as build 26A5406e, roughly two weeks after beta 4. The update appears focused on bug fixes, performance, and refinement rather than introducing a major new feature.

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A preliminary quantum algorithm from AWS cryptographer Daniel R. Simon claims polynomial-time progress on the Dihedral Coset Problem (DCP), a problem connected to lattice mathematics behind post-quantum cryptography (PQC). The result could affect long-term security assumptions, but it does not currently break ML-KEM, ML-DSA, or any deployed cryptographic system.

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Intelligent Terminal 0.2 adds native local model support, allowing agents to run against Ollama or other OpenAI-compatible endpoints without sending prompts to the cloud. The Windows Terminal fork also adds per-tab agent and model selection, WSL-aware profiles, and first-class OpenCode support.

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The new Homepage filter lets members mark posts they have read or scrolled past. Keeping the 4sysops homepage open will now automatically load newly published posts. The new fact-checking feature lets you verify the accuracy of selected text or an entire article. For a complete list of all 4sysops member features, see this regularly updated list.

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OpenAI has launched GPT-5.6-Cyber, a cybersecurity model designed to help find vulnerabilities, validate exploits, and respond to incidents. The model is not available to the public: organizations must access it through approved security partners and OpenAI’s tightly controlled Daybreak program.

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Cloudflare’s Agents Week introduced a broad set of infrastructure, development, security, browser, payments, and community initiatives designed to support autonomous software agents.Key announcements

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An OpenClaw AI agent used Anthropic’s Claude to exploit missing authorization checks in a gym booking API, canceling another customer’s reservation while trying to move its user up a waitlist. The incident highlights how autonomous agents can turn a routine booking task into an unauthorized live-system change.

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Microsoft has stopped allowing new picture passwords on Windows 11 and Windows 10, but the change was documented weeks after the July 2026 update shipped. Existing picture-password sign-ins continue to work, while removed or never-created credentials cannot be enrolled again.

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Windows Server 2016 Extended Security Updates are now generally available through Azure Arc, giving organizations a pay-as-you-go way to keep eligible on-premises, edge, and multicloud servers patched after end of support. Critical and Important security updates will remain available through January 2030 without moving workloads to Azure virtual machines.

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Ransomware crews are increasingly targeting managers because their “business privilege” can unlock payment approvals, contracts, budgets, customer data, and internal relationships. In one campaign, 62% of targeted employees held manager-level titles or higher, while broader ransomware activity and data theft also rose sharply.

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AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now automatically preserves UEFI boot mode when recovering Linux servers. Recovered instances launch with the same firmware mode as their sources, removing a post-recovery configuration step that could otherwise prevent UEFI-dependent applications from starting correctly.

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