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Microsoft is expanding its Arm-powered PC lineup with fresh internal upgrades for its most portable form factors. Announced at the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, the company is refreshing both the Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop...
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Over on the NeoGAF forums, which are popular among gaming industry insiders, credible leaker Kepler_L2 appeared in a thread claiming that the PlayStation 6 would have performance surpassing NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5080, citing support for dual-issue compute as the reason why. Kepler did not back...
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Sony has caught a lot of flak from fans after it announced that it’s no longer going to be producing game discs for its PlayStation consoles beyond January 2028. Microsoft, meanwhile, is taking a different approach with the Xbox. It just...
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Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division is the midst of a big reset as outlined earlier this year when the company laid off hundreds of employees and shed several smaller studios. The next phase of this shakeup is now in motion and will see more...
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According to patent documents originally spotted by Respawn First, Microsoft is studying ways to enhance in-game advertisement solutions. Specifically, Microsoft showcased a context-aware ad system that times ad interruptions to specific...
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It’s only been about two weeks since Hideo Kojima rocked the gaming world with the announcement that the much anticipated Physint, which is the successor to the iconic Metal Gear series, would now be happening in collaboration with...
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The most vocal critics of generative AI view the technology as overt labor theft, due to how the underlying web scraping and AI training works, and internal documents from Microsoft and OpenAI revealed by The New York Times v. Microsoft...
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During its first few years of existence, Xbox Game Pass was often referred to as the best deal in gaming, but Microsoft has been chipping away at the service’s benefits. First, the company decided to no longer offer new entries in the Call...
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While the latest wave of Patch Tuesday security updates for Windows 11 once again broke Microsoft's previous best record for the most security patches in one update, those 974 fixes still broke some stuff. The good news is that Microsoft...
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The latest security update for Windows 11 is inadvertently silencing some PCs due to a known bug affecting USB Audio Class 1.0 devices—reminiscent of prior USB audio glitches in Windows 11 24H2. Microsoft confirmed the bug in a support...
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Microsoft broke its previous Patch Tuesday record with yet another record-setter this week. September's Patch Tuesday will contain 974 total fixes, with 113 of them rated "Critical" for high likelihood of exploitation. So far this year...
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Keyword smuggling, which is the practice of obfuscating spam keywords to bypass detection filters, has been common practice for quite some time. Microsoft is warning that this traditional tactic has been enhanced by a new-school method of...
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Microsoft has announced that starting with October's Patch Tuesday update, Windows 11 will automatically enable Memory Integrity on all eligible PCs where the feature is currently turned off. Also known as Hypervisor-protected Code...
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There's plenty of news regarding Microsoft and Windows 11 this week, both good and bad, but two new issues have cropped up that have been getting a lot of attention. Namely, an issue where Windows erroneously reports that "Microsoft...
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In an interview with the BBC, Xbox division CEO Asha Sharma had a lot to say about the current state of gaming hardware, and let slip that Project Helix is not a single console.
Specifically, when the BBC reporter asked Sharma if...
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Windows 11 version 26H2 is now available via the Release Preview channel for Windows Insiders. Users of existing Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2 both qualify for the upgrade, and in fact some of the features available in this update are...
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Microsoft's rumored disc-to-digital program is coming to fruition as an opt-in for Xbox Insiders on the Xbox Series X and Xbox One consoles. It doesn't apply to all games across the Xbox One and Xbox Series X consoles and at least for now...
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Despite the ongoing drive to polish and stabilize Windows 11, Microsoft's efforts are occasionally detoured by severe bugs. The latest known issue to stall Microsoft's progress is a problem where certain games become unresponsive, close...
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Microsoft is celebrating the Xbox’s 25th anniversary and plans to release a limited edition Xbox Series X25 sporting the classic translucent green colorway that many fans fondly remember. The celebration isn’t stopping there, though, as...
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Microsoft nemesis Nightmare-Eclipse is at it again, this time with a bypass exploit for his original RoguePlanet Windows Defender privilege escalation exploit. The new exploit, dubbed ShieldBreak, also allows for elevation of privilege...
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In line with pledges made to improve Windows 11, Microsoft is unleashing some cool new features in the latest Insider Experimental Preview build. The headline feature of Windows 11 Experimental Preview Build 26340.9212 is its newly...
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To celebrate the launch of Gears of War: E-Day, Microsoft will be offering two limited edition Xbox wireless controllers. The red Gears of War: E-Day Limited Edition Xbox controller variant is already available, starting at $89.99 USD on...
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