All news with #product update tag

🤖 Anthropic's Claude Fable has been restored for all users, including Max subscribers, but comes with strict usage caps and degraded behavior. Users report frequent fallbacks to Opus 4.8 and tighter guardrails that block or reduce performance on security‑adjacent and systems‑level prompts. The model will shift to a pay‑to‑play usage credits system after July 7, further limiting access.

🛠️ Microsoft has resolved an issue that caused the Copilot Chat and Copilot buttons to vanish in Classic Outlook for Windows users with the Copilot Chat (Basic) license. Affected users might have seen the button missing from the top-right ribbon, the left app bar, or More Apps, and some Copilot commands appeared unavailable or unresponsive. The Outlook Team implemented a service change on June 29, 2026, and recommends restarting Outlook or updating to the latest build; workarounds include reverting to the prior Current Channel build or using new Outlook/OWA. The company is also investigating Outlook crashes tied to Kaspersky's Mail Checker module and advises contacting Kaspersky support if impacted.

🚀 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore has increased default runtime quota limits to enable larger-scale agent workloads. The update raises active concurrent sessions to 5,000 in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon), and 2,500 in other supported Regions. All Regions now support 200 agent interactions per second and 25 new sessions per second, improving out-of-the-box throughput for agent deployments. Customers should review the AgentCore Quotas documentation and Developer Guide for details.

📣 Partners can now associate existing AWS Marketplace listings directly to co-sell opportunities in AWS Partner Central. This removes the need to maintain separate co-sell-specific solutions, allowing up to 10 Marketplace Solutions and 10 Marketplace Products per opportunity, including listings from subsidiary-linked accounts. The capability is available in the AWS Console and via the AWS Partner Central Selling API, and an associated listing is required to progress an opportunity to Committed or Launched.

🚀 Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Express Mode now supports custom task definitions, enabling teams to reuse existing ECS configurations and CI/CD workflows while benefiting from Express Mode’s simplified deployment. This update brings advanced task-level options—like observability and security sidecars, custom health checks, ulimits, Linux runtime settings, and FireLens log routing—into Express Mode services. Available in all AWS Regions, you can add a custom task definition via the AWS Console, CLI, SDKs, or infrastructure-as-code tools to manage deployments either through task definition updates or Express Mode.

🔧 Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports Kubernetes minor version rollback, letting you revert to the prior minor version within 7 days if an upgrade causes issues. You can start a rollback via the Amazon EKS console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs, and EKS evaluates cluster rollback readiness with automated checks for API compatibility, version skew, add-on compatibility, and cluster health. For clusters using EKS Auto Mode, worker nodes are automatically managed during rollback to respect configured disruption controls, and the feature is available at no additional cost in all AWS Regions where EKS is offered.

🔍 Cloudflare outlines initiatives to make AI-driven search more efficient and to compensate creators fairly. The company will launch a research program using network signals to surface fresher, higher-quality content and reduce unnecessary crawling. It is also evolving Pay Per Crawl toward Pay Per Use, experimenting with partners like Ceramic.ai and You.com to enable pay-per-query and other payment models.

🛠️ Microsoft has restored GIF functionality in the Windows Emoji Panel after Tenor retired its API on June 30, causing GIF options to show as 'GIF service is not available' for some users. The company switched the provider to GIPHY in the preview KB5095093 cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2/25H2/26H1 released on June 23. Users can install the optional update via Settings > Windows Update or the Microsoft Update Catalog. Microsoft is still working on fixes for Windows 11 23H2 and Windows Server 2025.

🔒 Amazon RDS for Db2 now lets customers join DB instances directly to self-managed Microsoft Active Directory domains, whether on-premises, in AWS, or in another cloud. Using Kerberos for authentication, this enables single sign-on and allows customers to authenticate and authorize database users without deploying AWS Managed Microsoft AD or creating a domain trust. Domain join is available when creating or modifying instances using a delegated AD service account stored in AWS Secrets Manager and encrypted with AWS KMS, and the feature is generally available in all Regions where RDS for Db2 is offered, including GovCloud.

📰 Anthropic confirmed the US Department of Commerce lifted export controls on its top models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, and said it will begin restoring access to Fable 5 on Wednesday. The company noted Mythos 5 will remain available only to select partners, while broader rollout details — including availability outside the United States — remain unclear. Recent site references to KYC have raised concerns that access may initially be limited to US users.

🔧 AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) now supports managed in-place Slurm major version upgrades for existing clusters, allowing moves up to three versions ahead without disrupting running jobs. Administrators update the cluster configuration via the Console, CLI, or UpdateCluster API and PCS upgrades the controller, accounting database, and REST API while preserving accounting data. Running jobs continue uninterrupted, queued jobs resume after completion, and compute nodes can be updated separately at administrators’ convenience. The feature is available in all Regions where PCS is offered and documentation is in the PCS User Guide.

⚙️ Amazon ElastiCache now supports T4g node types in Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Osaka), AWS GovCloud (US-East), and AWS GovCloud (US-West). T4g nodes use AWS Graviton2 processors and deliver a baseline CPU performance with burst capability, suited for workloads with intermittent spikes. Users can create or modify clusters via the AWS Management Console, CLI, or API and should consult the ElastiCache pricing and user guide for details.

📱AWS End User Messaging now supports rich media and interactive RCS messaging across all 22 supported countries through the new SendRcsMessage API. You can send rich cards, carousels, images, videos, and interactive suggestion buttons so recipients can take actions—confirm appointments, browse catalogs, complete payments, share locations, or interact with AI—without leaving their messaging app. The release supports four RCS types (text, files, rich cards, carousels) with six action types and configurable SMS/MMS fallback. AWS also introduced RCS Conversation pricing in 21 countries as a flat rate for unlimited messages within a 24-hour session.

🤖 AWS now offers Claude Sonnet 5, Anthropic’s latest Sonnet-generation model, delivering high capability at Sonnet pricing for coding, agents, and professional workflows. The model excels at navigating large codebases, performing multi-file changes, debugging, and refactoring with fewer corrections. For agentic use it maintains state, calls tools precisely, and recovers from errors to increase successful runs. Customers can access Sonnet 5 via Amazon Bedrock or the Claude Platform on AWS, with Bedrock providing AWS-managed features like guardrails and regional data residency.

🛠️ Kali Linux 2026.2, the second release of 2026, is available with 9 new tools, kernel and package updates, and numerous Kali NetHunter improvements. The release upgrades the default kernel to 6.19 (with 7.0 in kali-experimental), updates desktop environments to GNOME 50 and KDE Plasma 6.6, and refines service helper scripts. VM images now omit graphics firmware to shrink initrd sizes and speed boot times, while NetHunter gains Magisk standalone kernel flashing, new kernels, and various bug fixes.

🔧 Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) Serverless now supports shared VPC subnets, removing a prior validation error when creating Serverless workflows with subnets shared via AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM). This change aligns MWAA Serverless subnet ownership validation with MWAA Provisioned environments, enabling centrally managed network architectures to launch workflows in member accounts without workarounds. The update also benefits customers using Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Workflows with shared VPC networking and is available in all Regions where MWAA Serverless is supported.

🛠️ Microsoft has extended hotpatching for Windows Server 2022 Datacenter: Azure Edition through October 2027, one year beyond the mainstream end date of October 2026. This extension is effective immediately and applies only to systems enrolled in Hotpatch updates, preserving the existing monthly hotpatch cadence. Hotpatching applies security fixes to in-memory code of running processes to avoid restarts, though updates from the regular channel still require reboots. The change helps maintain uptime and reduce servicing disruptions while non-hotpatch updates, such as non-security and .NET patches, still need restarts.

🔐 WhatsApp has begun global reservations for usernames to let users connect without sharing phone numbers. The optional feature allows creation and reservation of a unique username now, ahead of a wider rollout later this year. Users can also set a username key for extra protection, requiring both the exact username and key to message someone initially. Content creators and businesses may claim matching Instagram or Facebook names, and once enabled others cannot view a user's phone number.

🔍 Microsoft highlights tighter integration for PostgreSQL on Azure by embedding performance tools directly into Visual Studio Code. The PostgreSQL extension centralizes query authoring, server metrics, Azure‑specific telemetry, and Azure Advisor recommendations to shorten detection-to-resolution time. Enhanced query plan visualization and AI‑assisted analysis help teams troubleshoot and tune queries faster, while schema‑aware authoring and Entra ID integration support secure, consistent workflows at enterprise scale.

🖥️ Anthropic appears to be testing mobile support for Claude Cowork, enabling users to start and monitor long-running Claude tasks from their phones. Cowork, a desktop-focused agentic mode that performs extended knowledge-work tasks, can access files, generate documents and continue working in the background. Screenshots shared on X indicate the mobile experience will act as a remote control while the heavy processing remains on the user’s PC. Anthropic has not officially announced full mobile rollout yet.