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School is back. So are the fake parent-portal emails.
Thursday, August 27, 2026East Texas classrooms filled back up this month. Athens started Monday, August 3, and Palestine ISD followed on Friday, August 7. Cumberland Academy opened Tuesday, August 11. Tyler ISD and Brook Hill in Bullard started Wednesday, August 12, and Winona ISD started Thursday, August 13. The Tyler Morning Telegraph ran the first-day pictures.... Read More
SpaceX Plans $100 Billion Starship Launch Site in Louisiana
Wednesday, August 26, 2026SpaceX announced Tuesday that it will build a $100 billion Starship launch complex in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. The company is calling the project Starbase Louisiana. The site covers roughly 125,000 acres around Pecan Island on land formerly owned by Exxon. Construction is expected to begin in 2027, with the first launch targeted for 2029.... Read More
Thomson Reuters just built its own AI model
Tuesday, August 25, 2026Thomson Reuters has released its own large language model, named Thomson. The company invested approximately $40 million to build the model in-house on an open-source foundation, training it exclusively on its own content from Westlaw, Practical Law, Checkpoint, and Reuters.... Read More
One sharing link you can change later
Monday, August 24, 2026Microsoft 365 is rolling out a single main sharing link for files and folders in OneDrive and SharePoint. Late August through October. Copy link, email it, or grab the address out of the browser — it’s the same link. You can change who it works for after you’ve already sent it, instead of making a new one and hoping people use the new one.... Read More
Microsoft glued its two Copilot apps together. A few things disappeared with them.
Friday, August 21, 2026Microsoft spent two years selling two Copilots. One was the consumer chat. The other sat next to Word and Outlook. This month they started folding both into a single app,...... Read More
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