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Russia's homegrown Microsoft Office rival is in serious trouble. MyOffice has shuttered development centers in Saint Petersburg and Innopolis, moving remaining staff into Kaspersky Lab's Moscow offices. The parent company restated its two thousand twenty six accounts, revealing losses had more than doubled to roughly one hundred seven million dollars, while revenue fell by half. When your backer is Kaspersky and you're still bleeding that badly, the road ahead looks steep.
Roku is making a different kind of bet, launching Fairground AI, what it's calling the first free ad-supported streaming channel dedicated entirely to AI-generated video. Critics aren't impressed, with some calling it, bluntly, the cutting edge of slop. Whether it's a genuine milestone in AI content distribution or just filler dressed up as innovation is a question audiences will answer with their remote controls.
And a quieter story worth pausing on — SvelteJobs, a niche job board built around the Svelte JavaScript framework, has posted its farewell. It's a small reminder that the tools and communities developers rally around can be fragile, and that even genuinely useful projects don't always find a sustainable path forward.
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