Samsung is rolling out a new option letting Gallery app users sync photos and videos directly to Google Photos, replacing the native Microsoft OneDrive integration that shuts down September 30. The feature requires a compatible Samsung phone running Android 13 or later and a personal (non-Workspace, non-supervised) Google account, and is rolling out gradually with availability varying by device, region and account type.
cnet.com
· 2026-09-18
Court documents made public show a Microsoft executive privately warning that AI tools risk creating a 'doom loop,' where AI-generated answers siphon traffic away from the news publishers whose content trains and feeds those same systems. The filings suggest Microsoft's internal discussions about this risk contrast with its public messaging about AI and journalism.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-18
Newly unredacted court documents from copyright lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal internal comments from executives acknowledging that scraping published journalism to train chatbots amounted to theft on a massive scale. Microsoft's Brent Hecht reportedly described it as possibly 'the largest theft of labor in human history,' while an OpenAI executive warned that products like ChatGPT posed an 'existential threat' to publishers.
cnet.com
· 2026-09-18
Newly unsealed court documents in The New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal internal statements warning that their AI models were creating a 'doom loop' harming the web. A Microsoft applied science director reportedly described the companies' data scraping practices as the 'largest theft of labor in human history' and a mockery of fair use. Microsoft has distanced itself from these remarks, calling them one employee's personal opinion rather than the company's official stance.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-18
Security firm Sublime found that malicious calendar invites sent via email, known as ICS phishing, have surged dramatically, rising 282% in June, 338% in July, and 1,216% in August, with a projected 2,852% jump in September. These fake invites exploit a default feature in Outlook, Gmail, and Apple Mail that auto-adds ICS files to a user's calendar before they accept or decline them.
zdnet.com
· 2026-09-18
Microsoft has officially designated Rust as a Tier One language, granting it the same organizational priority and support as long-standing languages such as C++ and C#. This classification signals broader internal adoption across Microsoft's engineering teams and platforms, including Windows and Azure infrastructure.
developers.slashdot.org
· 2026-09-18
Newly unsealed portions of a legal brief in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft show internal admissions from both companies' executives. Microsoft's director of Applied Science, Brent Hecht, reportedly called AI training data scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history,' while OpenAI's Head of ChatGPT, Nick Turley, described the chatbot as an 'existential threat' to publishers. The filing also cites data showing Copilot slashed click-through traffic to the Times by up to 93% compared to Bing search.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-18
Newly unredacted court documents from The New York Times' copyright lawsuit reveal Microsoft's Dr. Brent Hecht warned that OpenAI's training practices resembled the 'largest theft of labor in human history,' while OpenAI's Nick Turley called it an 'existential threat to publishers.' The filings also detail how OpenAI's training pipeline bypassed paywalls and stripped copyright notices from scraped articles used to build its datasets.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-18
Best Buy is offering a limited-time deal on Lenovo's Yoga Slim 7X, a 14-inch laptop with a 2K OLED touchscreen, Snapdragon X2 Elite 12-core processor, 16GB RAM, and 1TB storage, for $1,000. The deal undercuts comparable Windows machines like Microsoft's Surface Laptop, which costs significantly more for less storage.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-18
A Wire survey found that 61% of security leaders say access to shared files in Microsoft 365 often stays active far longer than intended, while more than a third struggle to even identify who currently has access to sensitive shared content. The report points to routine sharing habits—like adding freelancers to SharePoint folders or inviting new members into Teams channels—as common ways access quietly persists beyond its original purpose.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-09-18
Microsoft plans to update Teams' Weaponizable File Protection feature so administrators can customize which file types get blocked in chats and channels, rather than relying solely on Microsoft's default list. The change is listed on the Microsoft 365 roadmap and is expected to roll out starting November 2026 across Android, desktop, iOS, macOS and web.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-09-18
Newly unsealed documents in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal internal remarks from Microsoft's Brent Hecht, who predicted the public would eventually see large language model training as unprecedented theft of labor. The filing also cites OpenAI's Greg Brockman acknowledging that ChatGPT can reproduce and complete sentences from NYT articles verbatim.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-18
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