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Newsday and The Seattle Times are the latest news organizations to sue OpenAI and Microsoft for stealing their copyrighted content “without permission or compensation” and then using “the content in those datasets to train, fine-tune, and ground the large language models (‘LLMs’) underlying their generative AI products.” The suit mirrors suits brought against OpenAI, Microsoft, and other Big Tech and Big AI companies by other new organizations, most notably The New York Times, which used...

Two years ago, Sonos committed the ultimate consumer service sin when it rearchitected its app, breaking just about everything. I coined the resulting debacle Sonosgate, but this wasn't the first time Sonos had coughed up a hairball. How quickly we forget. Lest we forget First and mostly obvious, the previous version of the app was freaking horrible to begin with, and it says a lot about the quality of the newer app that customers were suddenly nostalgic for the old one.

Last night, we left the hotel here in Berlin, Germany to a heavier than expected rainfall that made the two-block walk to dinner more ordeal than enjoyable. And especially for me, as I didn't bring or jacket here or have an umbrella. But as we made our way from cover to cover--an overhang here, a tree there--and my shirt started soaking through, I was confronted with another all-too-familiar familiar annoyance.

At IFA 2026 this week, HP announced two laptops and a desktop PC powered by the Nvidia RTX Spark chipset. “As AI transforms the way people create, develop, game, and work, HP is focused on delivering devices that help bring intelligent experiences directly into everyday workflows,” HP president Samuel Chang said.

Microsoft has published a documentary about the creation of Visual Studio Code, its free, cross-platform, open source code editor. “Discover the story behind VS Code, from its early beginnings to the platform millions of developers use today, and the community that helped shape it along the way,” Microsoft writes in the release notes for the latest version of Visual Studio Code.

Blog Podcasts First Ring Daily Post Subscribe to the Podcast On this episode of First Ring Daily, Microsoft changes reporting, Zenith is a new Windows thing, and a bench in Berlin. The content we make available on this website [and through our other channels] (the “Service”) was created, developed, compiled, prepared, revised, selected, and/or arranged by us, using our own methods and judgment, and through the expenditure of substantial time and effort.

Blog Podcasts Windows Weekly Post Leo, Richard, and Paul discuss solving the 26H2 mystery, IFA 2026 in Berlin, more revenues, AI, WinUI, XBOX and gaming, and more. Stream this episode and subscribe Enjoy Windows Weekly on YouTube Windows The mystery of 26H2 is now less mysterious Last week: Week D came and went without a preview release, triggering speculation Microsoft issues Windows 11 version 26H2 to Release Preview, a first This means a September or October release to stable.

Happy Friday! We've been in Berlin this week for IFA 2026 and we're heading back to Pennsylvania on Sunday. But let's get the weekend started first. "Initial foldable iPhone production is limited to only a 'few hundred' units" Apple is going to need a bigger boat. 📖 Fictional helix2301 asks: I was wondering if there is a reason you never wrote fiction or anything along those lines. I know you are a big fan of books and reading. I was just wondering why you never got into that genre.

Netflix has just raised the price of all of its plans in the UK, with the ad-supported plan now priced at £7.99/month. As reported by Deadline, this is the second Netflix price bump in the country this year, following a previous increase in February. If you’re in the UK, the two Netflix Standard plans are now £1 more expensive, while Netflix Premium, which unlocks 4K and HDR/Dolby Vision quality on up to 4 screens, now costs an extra £2.

Google is starting to roll out new voice features in Gmail, Docs, and Keep for Google AI subscribers. Gmail is adding support for conversational search, which will allow users to find a specific email by just asking what they’re looking for. In Google’s note-taking app, Keep Live will let Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers just describe what goes through their head, and Google’s AI will be able to refine it into an organized note with actionable tasks.