WhatsApp working on customizable emoji reaction sets on iOS
New references in the latest WhatsApp beta for iOS suggest users may soon be able to replace the app’s standard set of emoji reactions with their own selection. Here are the details
End-User Computing & Collaboration
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Friday, August 14, 2026
6 storiesAnnouncing new Release Preview builds for 14 August 2026
Hello Windows Insiders, Today we’re releasing new builds for Release Preview across our supported versions of Windows 11. Please see the build numbers and links to the release notes below: Windows 11 version 24H2/25H2: The post Announcing new Release Preview builds for 14 August 2026 appeared first on Windows Blog
Hackers exploit macOS Screen Sharing flaw to deploy Monero miner
The Netherlands' National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is warning that hackers are actively exploiting a macOS authentication bypass vulnerability after public exploit code emerged
The MSI Claw EX is the most important PC handheld since Steam Deck — I still wouldn’t buy one
As The Verge's resident handheld reviewer, I have nearly every portable gaming PC on a shelf in my house. The MSI Claw 8 EX AI Plus is now the first one I reach for. Thanks to a next-gen Intel chip and improved MSI design, the Claw EX is the most powerful handheld that truly feels […]
iOS 27 beta leaks all 6 new models in Apple’s iPhone 18 lineup
Macworld On Monday, Apple released iOS 27 beta 5 to developers on Monday after a weeklong delay, bringing another round of changes and refinements ahead of the update’s public release next month. But hidden inside the software are also some interesting clues about what Apple has planned for the iPhone over the coming m
Presentation: The Right 300 Tokens Beat 100k Noisy Ones: The Architecture of Context Engineering
Baruch Sadogursky and Patrick Debois discuss why coding agents fail due to bloated context windows and stuffed prompts. They explain practical context engineering fixes, including lazy-loaded skills, versioned context artifacts, externalized memory banks, and LLM-as-a-judge evals. Software architects & engineering leaders will learn how to turn raw markdown files into reliable agentic workflows. By Patrick Debois, Baruch Sadogursky
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
1 storyHow GitLab tracks vulnerabilities through refactors and reformatting
Every day, security scans face the same problem: an agent or a developer adds a comment, reformats a file, or moves a function, and a naive vulnerability tracker suddenly reports the same finding twice. Security teams end up re-triaging issues they already dismissed, which causes futile auditing effort and erodes trust in the scan results. In 2022, we introduced advanced vulnerability tracking to tackle exactly this problem of code volatility . It is based on our Scope+Offset fingerprinting meth
Tuesday, August 11, 2026
4 storiesAmazon Quick agentic AI capabilities are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West)
Today, AWS announces that Amazon Quick's agentic AI capabilities are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West), bringing an agentic AI teammate to government and regulated-industry teams within an isolated, FedRAMP Class D (formerly High) authorized environment. Building on the analytics and business intelligence capabil
Amazon Bedrock expands IAM principal cost allocation to the bedrock-mantle endpoint
Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that provides secure, enterprise-grade access to high-performing foundation models from leading AI companies, enabling you to build and scale generative AI applications. Amazon Bedrock now supports cost allocation by AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principal, including IAM users and roles, for model inference requests made through the bedrock-mantle endpoint. This extends the capability previously available for the bedrock-runtime endpoint, help
Media3 1.11 - What's new?
Posted by Toni Heidenreich, Software Engineer, Android Media3 1.11 is out. Powering the vast majority of top Android media apps, this release brings new features, bug fixes, and improvements across playback, editing, and UI components. We're expanding our Jetpack Compose UI modules with customizable Player slots and ea
CISA Adds Three Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog
CISA has added three new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-20349 Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Heap Inspection Vulnerability CVE-2026-68820 Microsoft Windows Ancillary Func