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Since November 5, 2026, Microsoft's consumer email service has been rejecting a portion of incoming mail from domains that have not published a DMARC DNS record, even when those domains have working SPF and DKIM. Affected senders receive a 550 5.7.1 bounce citing missing SPF/DKIM/DMARC authentication, and Microsoft has not issued any public notice explaining the change.
Goldman Sachs has updated internal guidance to restrict use of Anthropic's Claude Code and Microsoft's GitHub to its engineering staff, cutting off traders and bankers who previously used the tools, Bloomberg reported. The change follows a review of productivity and risk concerns, and comes after Goldman barred Hong Kong bankers from Claude in April. Strats, who work across trading and engineering, retain access.
Microsoft is updating the Sticky Keys dialog in Windows to include a checkbox that lets users permanently turn off the accessibility feature's prompt. Previously, users had to dig through Settings to disable the repeated pop-up, which appears when a key like Shift is pressed five times in a row.
OpenAI received about $11 billion by November 6, 2026, the first tranche of a round priced at a $1.25 trillion pre-money valuation, CFO Sarah Friar confirmed on television. SoftBank and Abu Dhabi's MGX participated, with reports suggesting the round could eventually grow to $20 billion or more, though remaining terms and lead investors haven't been disclosed. OpenAI did not comment on the funding.
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman posted on X clarifying an earlier essay on 'model welfare,' stating current AI systems are not conscious and don't feel or suffer. He said he would reconsider his stance only if evidence of AI consciousness emerged, while adding he'd prefer that such consciousness never develop at all.
Microsoft has removed the PC-to-PC Migration feature from Windows 11, which let users move files and settings between two computers over Wi-Fi or Ethernet. Its support documentation now directs users instead to Windows Backup, which requires a Microsoft account and stores Desktop, Documents, Pictures, Videos and Music folders via OneDrive cloud storage.
A former Microsoft Research leader has written that the AI Frontiers (AIF) sub-organization, a roughly 50-person group formed in 2023 after ChatGPT's release to pursue coordinated AI research, has ended. The group had worked on agent frameworks like Autogen and the Fara computer-use agent, alongside fundamental research such as the Next Latent objective, Dion3, and the Full Bandwidth Transformer, and had built a shared monorepo used across Microsoft Research.
GeoWorks began as GEOS, a graphical operating system for the Commodore 64 built by Berkeley Softworks, known for running efficiently on cheap, low-power hardware. In the early 1990s it was ported to PCs under the renamed GeoWorks, and AOL even built a DOS version of its client using the platform before Microsoft Windows became dominant.
New data shows a surge in no-employee business formation in AI-exposed industries, with such applications up 26.8% from Q1 2024 to Q1 2026, according to economist Liya Palagashvili of George Mason University's Mercatus Center. Meanwhile applications more likely to become employer firms fell 6.4% in those sectors. Entrepreneurs like Alex Willen, running 12 e-commerce brands solo, and Kristin Ginn, founder of AI consultancy trnsfrmAItn, report six-figure revenues without hiring staff.
Microsoft maintains PowerToys, a free collection of more than 30 utilities for Windows 11 and Windows 10 (version 2004 and later) on x64 and ARM64 machines, distributed under an MIT license on GitHub. Users can install it via the Microsoft Store, GitHub, or WinGet, and switch individual tools on or off as needed, including a window-arranging module called FancyZones.
Google's Gboard keyboard includes an optional clipboard tool, disabled by default, that lets Android users copy multiple text snippets or images at once instead of just the last item copied. Items persist on the clipboard for an hour unless pinned permanently, and the feature can be enabled via the clipboard icon in the keyboard toolbar. Third-party apps like Microsoft Phone Link or KDE Connect can extend this clipboard across synced desktop and mobile devices.
A Reddit user known as Meta4X has decommissioned a self-hosted Microsoft Exchange installation that began with Exchange 5.5 on Windows NT 4 in 1999, replacing its final role as a network alert relay with Postfix on Ubuntu Server LTS. The user had already migrated mailboxes and email delivery to Microsoft 365 a couple of years earlier, keeping Exchange around only for internal alerting. Over the decades the setup was upgraded through Exchange 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019.