The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe
… One example that was announced this week is Autograph, motion design software akin to Adobe After Effects. …
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Canva’s AI 2.0 update goes all in on prompt-powered design tools
… Canva users are also getting some tooling updates, including support for HTML imports in Canva Code, and a unified connector interface for third-party integrations like Slack, Gmail, Google Drive, and Calendar. …
The AI code wars are heating up
… Claude Code may have captured a lot of the software world’s imagination, but Anthropic’s competition hasn’t been far behind. OpenAI’s Codex, which launched in 2025 a few months after Claude Code, has gotten a series of updates and is also a powerful and popular tool for writing code. …
Attack of the killer script kiddies
… You can write exploits for software that only one company has. You can write exploits for software that exists in only one configuration that one company has. …
DaVinci Resolve adds new photo editing tools to take on Lightroom and Photoshop
Blackmagic Design announced an update to its powerful multipurpose post-production software today adding new tools and improved workflows for editing photos. …
Microsoft Teams is trying to fix accidental hand-raising
… Microsoft is redesigning its online meeting software, which will move the raise hand button from the main toolbar and allow users to personalize the controls displayed there. …
Welcome to the personal software revolution
… They’re also giving way to an entirely new kind of software: the software we make just for ourselves. Not to raise venture capital for, not to eventually sell to Google. The era of personal software is upon us, and it is changing our relationship with technology forever. …
Amazon’s color screen Kindles are finally getting a system-wide dark mode
… The software update introducing the system-wide dark mode to Colorsoft devices “will be rolling out to readers worldwide” in the coming weeks, and available for download through Amazon’s website. …
Google is launching its own version of OpenClaw
… There’s also a new Antigravity command-line interface and a software development kit that developers can use to build their own AI tools.
CEO Melanie Perkins explains Canva’s big pivot to AI
… You’re fundamentally a software CEO. I think that’s a fair description. I think you make software. The nature of software development itself seems to be undergoing some kind of existential crisis. …