July 2026

Xbox players around the world have spent most of Monday locked out of their accounts and their game libraries, in an outage that started Sunday night and is still not fully resolved. Microsoft's status page shows major outages across four services: Account & profile, Store & subscriptions, Games & gaming, and Apps & mobile. The...

Nvidia is back at it again, this time it has pulled together roughly 40 companies to launch the Open Secure AI Alliance, a group that will build and share open source tools for defending AI systems against cyberattacks. It was announced Monday and will operate under the Linux Foundation. The founding roster has big names...

Apple has released iOS 26.6 for iPhone and iPadOS 26.6 for iPad users.  You can download the latest update by going to Settings > General > Software Update. Don't expect any major new features with iOS 27 set to launch in September. iOS 26.6 focuses on performance tweaks and background prep for upcoming Siri features....

A retired Canadian business executive has started a petition asking the CRTC and the federal government to set enforceable customer service standards for telecoms, including a hard cap on how long you can be left on hold. Frank Brown, former president of Wahl Canada, launched the Change.org petition after hitting his limit with his own...

Amazon has asked the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for permission to launch up to 5,105 low Earth orbit satellites that would bring talk, text and data directly to your smartphone in areas with no cell coverage. Dubbed the Amazon Leo Direct-to-Device (D2D) System, the company would launch the service starting in 2028. Amazon is...

AppleCare One protects up to three devices with the ability to add more at any time for additional fees.

Apple's smart glasses reportedly feature "a slew of new hardware and software-related privacy features."

Telus has opened a 195-unit rental building in downtown Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, B.C., built on the site of a former telecommunications property at 235 Wallace St. The multi-storey mixed-use development is part of Telus Living, the company's push to turn old network buildings into rental housing as it retires copper infrastructure and moves everything...

Google has added a new way to get back into your account if you forget your password or lose your phone: recording a short selfie video. The feature went live on Thursday and is rolling out globally in phases to eligible personal Google accounts. Setup happens on your device's camera, either your phone's front camera...

Another day, another AI model launch. Keeping up with this race is turning into a full-time job. Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on Friday, and the pitch is that you get close to the intelligence of its top-end Fable 5 model for half the price. It's live across all of Anthropic's platforms right now, becoming...

TekSavvy and other independent internet service providers have jointly asked the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to fix wholesale fibre internet prices that they say make competition impossible. The coalition submitted an application to the CRTC asking it to review Telecom Order 2026-77. Under the current rules, the rates independent providers must pay big telecom...

We keep a portable power station around for two reasons, and both of them show up every year without fail. The first is winter, when a storm knocks out power in our area and you're suddenly counting how many devices are still charged (like your precious iPhone). The second is the cottage, where the grid...