Software

Windows Search learns to take orders

Preview lets users change settings and carry out tasks directly from a tidier results list

“Software is over”: Developer uses AI to build free Adobe clones after frustration with cancellation fees

As Ars Technica reports, developer Brandon Thomas is taking on seven of Adobe’s best-known applications through Artcraft. The project extend beyond Adobe’s famous photo editing program to video production, vector graphics, page layouts, and PDF tools.

Presentation: Multi-Agent Patterns from Spotify’s AI Powered Advertising Platform

Pratik Rasam discusses how Spotify Ads Manager runs production-grade multi-agent systems at scale using Google ADK Java. He shares key architectural patterns, domain ownership models, deterministic guardrails, and tracing-based evaluation strategies, detailing hard-learned lessons on drawing agent…

Microsoft Edge to retire legacy sign-in on Windows in version 157

With this deprecation, Microsoft is attempting to standardize authentication flows across Microsoft 365 client applications.

The Microsoft 365 Targeted Release channel for Office apps is being retired

Microsoft 365 admins have only months to prepare for a major change to how their organizations receive new Office app features.

Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all

Multiple Adobe creative tools were recreated using Claude and made open-source by one person.

These Android Photo Picker features could be good news for app devs, bad news for gallery apps

You might soon be able to flip, rotate, and crop photos directly from the Photo Picker.

This new free app brings an underrated uBlock Origin tool to Windows 11

Windows 11 users can now have a tool similar to uBlock Origin’s, thanks to a new free open-source app.

Your Pixel can turn into a mini TV studio, now in 11 more apps

Google is expanding Pixel’s Connected Camera feature to Zoom, Teams, Slack, and other popular work apps.

Technological Sovereignty Requires Choice, Skills, and Support, Panelists Say During OSS EU

European organisations can enhance their technological sovereignty by developing credible alternatives and acquiring necessary skills, rather than completely avoiding global providers. A panel discussion at the OSS EU highlighted the importance of understanding dependencies in cloud and hardware…

ICANN reveals bids for new top-level domains

Big tech has piled in with plenty of asks, but faces a fight as eight applicants want .api and seven seek .agi

“Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones

Opus-built Creative Cloud alternatives are ambitious, free, and nowhere near finished.

First RCs for macOS Sequoia 15.8.2 and macOS Tahoe 26.7.2 now available [U]

Update, October 7: Apple has now released both RCs to public beta testers as well. The build numbers are unchanged from the developer RCs. In addition to releasing macOS 27.2 Golden Gate public beta 2, Apple is now rolling out the first Release Candidates of macOS Sequoia 15.8.2 and macOS Tahoe…

Part 3: Knowing when your agent doesn’t know: the confidence layer

Part 2: Evals as a deployment gate — and how to know when they drift

Prime Day Android app deals and freebies: Ash of Gods, Foretales, Dungreed, ScourgeBringer, more

The clock is ticking on the 2026 Amazon fall Prime Day deals, but we are taking a quick break to surface the best Google Play app and game deals. We have now added several highlights to our Primke Day lineup below, including Ash of Gods: Redemption, Backflip Madness 2, Foretales, Dungreed…

Part 6: An operating system for coding agents: the disciplined build

Coding agents are great for an afternoon and mediocre for a quarter. Here’s the small set of files and rules — with the actual configs — that keeps quality from decaying across months and thousands of edits, whether you run one agent or a fleet of them on the same repo.

Implementing a Modular Master-Agent Telemetry & Diagnostic Framework in Python: Prime-Sentinel Command (PSC)

Attackers hijacked top-level domains, minted fake security certs for Google and other orgs

Trusted brand impersonation without the usual browser certificate warnings spells trouble

Star Wars: Zero Company studio is bringing “as many people back as possible” after furloughing “most” of its developers

Star Wars: Zero Company maker Bit Reactor is bringing back developers who were furloughed ahead of launch.

Visual Studio Code 1.141 tracks how much disk space dead agent sessions waste

The latest release also introduces Copilot sandboxing across platforms, session grid layouts, multi-instance GitHub Enterprise logins, and block pasting.

Attackers Hijack .gh, .sl, and .as Registries to Obtain Certificates for Google Domains

Attackers compromised three country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) and obtained unauthorized HTTPS certificates for several Google domains, Google said on October 6. Google’s own systems were not breached, but any domain ending in .gh (Ghana), .sl (Sierra Leone) or .as (American Samoa) was put at…

Windows 11 fixes buggy DLL file that lead to crashes on new insider build

Microsoft has released new Windows 11 builds under the Beta channel. It brings some new features and improvements.

watchOS 27 adds three new apps to your Apple Watch

watchOS 27 is the latest major software update for Apple Watch, and among its variety of new features, it adds three new apps to your Watch. more…