Instagram’s ‘First Draft’ feature aims to make editing Reels less tedious

Instagram is making one of the most tedious parts of creating Reels easier. The company announced Tuesday in a Threads post that it’s rolling out “First Draft,” a new editing feature that automatically trims selected video clips and removes pauses, pulling together the best moments into an initial cut.  Instagram says the process can produce … Read more

Agentic observability with Amazon OpenSearch Service MCP Apps

Observability agents are fast. They query alerts, correlate logs with traces, and produce a root cause hypothesis in minutes. The part that still takes time is verification. You read the agent’s text summary, open your observability tools in a browser, navigate to the trace waterfall, check the service map to scope impact, and cross-reference what … Read more

Take a look at Microsoft’s new 25th anniversary Halo accessories

The new Designed for Xbox 25th Anniversary collection features a handful of limited edition gadgets available for pre-order today. Paying homage to the Halo special edition of the original Xbox, almost everything in the collection is translucent “OG Green,” matching the Xbox Series X25 limited edition console it announced in June at E3. That includes … Read more

Nothing OS 5.0 brings a new Glyph Interface app and a more customizable homescreen

With the new design of Nothing OS 5.0, app icons and widgets can use adaptive color to get color tints pulled from your wallpaper, which update whenever your wallpaper changes. Alongside Android’s built-in Dynamic Colors, the company says it allows you to have specific elements change to match your wallpaper “while Nothing’s predominantly monochrome character … Read more

Governed reports with Amazon Quick Desktop and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Amazon Quick Desktop brings governed, AI-assisted reporting to the files your team already manages on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP (FSx for ONTAP), cutting weekly report preparation from hours to minutes. Today, producing those reports takes hours of manual effort each week. Teams re-read the same documents, reformat metrics, and copy summaries into Slack. Leaders … Read more