Laurent Giret

Spotify announced today that it’s laying off approximately 17% of its employees, which represents approximately 1,500 jobs. This is the third time the company has announced job cuts this year following two previous rounds in January and June.

Sony has started notifying PlayStation users who purchased Discovery content that they will lose access to it at the end of the year.

The November optional “D” release for Windows 11 versions 22H2 and 23H2 is now available, and it includes various Copilot improvements.

Despite the recent turmoil at OpenAI, Microsoft is planning to bring new capabilities to its Copilot assistant, which is the new name of the ChatGPT-powered Bing chatbot that launched earlier this year. Yusuf Medhi, Executive Vice President and Consumer Chief Marketing Officer at Microsoft detailed today what’s coming to Copilot very soon, including OpenAI’s latest GPT-4 Turbo model.

We’ve known for quite some time that Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025, but Microsoft has just announced that organizations who want to keep using the OS past that date will be able to do that if they’re willing to pay for security updates. Indeed, the company has just announced an Extended Security Update program for Windows 10, which will provide organizations with monthly security updates, but no new features.

The European Commission is reportedly not planning to add Apple’s iMessage app to its list of core platform services that need to be regulated under its Digital Markets Act (DMA). According to a report from Bloomberg, the European Commission considers iMessage to be not popular enough among business users to deserve regulation.

Microsoft is reportedly changing its Windows roadmap following an internal reorg that saw the departure of Panos Panay in September. Earlier this year, the same Panay said that “AI is going to reinvent how you do everything on Windows,” and the next Windows release coming in 2024 may really deliver on that front.

After 2023 was the first year where Apple didn’t release a single new iPad model, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman is reporting that new iPad Air and iPad Pro models are coming early next year. Moreover, Apple is also planning to launch a bigger 12.9-inch iPad Air to complement the existing 10.9-inch version.

Meta has started rolling out end-to-end encryption for all messages and calls on Facebook Messenger. Encryption will be enabled by default (including on Facebook), and it’s a positive development for a platform used by over 3 billion monthly active users today.

AMD unveiled its new Ryzen 8040 Series Mobile CPUs during an AI-focused event yesterday. The new chips still use the same Zen 4 architecture and RDNA 3 GPUs as the company’s Ryzen 7040 Series mobile CPUs announced earlier this year, but there’s a brand new AI NPU on select models.