Move over, Apple: Meet the alternative app stores available in the EU and elsewhere

People in the European Union are now allowed to access alternative app stores thanks to the Digital Markets Act (DMA), a regulation designed to foster increased competition in the app ecosystem. Like ...

You Can Now Install—and Update—Microsoft Store Apps Using the Command Line

By typing simple, text-based commands into Windows' PowerShell, you can quickly install apps directly from the Microsoft ...
Redmondmag.com

Microsoft Unveils Agentic AI Suite for Retail

A Broader Push Into Agentic AI Microsoft said the new retail-focused capabilities reflect a broader strategy to embed agentic AI across enterprise operations, helping businesses anticipate change, ...
Nature

This chunk of glass could store two million books for 10,000 years

Microsoft unveils a laser-modified glass that could store huge amounts of data for millennia — plus, a trial of mRNA vaccines ...
InfoQ

OpenAI Publishes Codex App Server Architecture for Unifying AI Agent Surfaces

OpenAI has recently published a detailed architecture description of the Codex App Server, a bidirectional protocol that decouples the Codex coding agent's core logic from its various client surfaces.

Fake ad blocker breaks PCs in new malware extension scam

Chrome and Edge users warned about NexShield browser extension scam that causes crashes and tricks users into installing ...