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Microsoft Exchange has quite a storied history of security vulnerabilities and breaches given its widespread usage in the corporate world. While there has not been much news regarding Exchange for a while, the Zero Day Initiative has found...
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Microsoft halted all of its AI-generated polls on news articles after the tech company caught heat for having a poll appear beside a story about a woman’s death. The poll ran within Microsoft’s curated news aggregator platform Microsoft...
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Much to the dismay of gamers who own certain third-party controllers and peripherals, Microsoft has begun actively blocking unauthorized accessories on its Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S game consoles. If you own an affected product and...
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Tomorrow, October 25th, the Xbox Partner Preview will showcase both updates and new games coming to Xbox and Windows from the plethora of Microsoft third-party partners. We’ll also get to see info on upcoming Game Pass titles and quite a...
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The acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft has been an item of interest for gamers everywhere. Government regulators have taken a keen interest too, resulting in delays. Microsoft is a dominant force in both the PC world and the...
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Well, the Microsoft purchase of Activision-Blizzard-King has finally closed, and we're now observing what may well be the the first knock-on effect of the acquisition. Anyone who didn't expect major ripple effects from the purchase hasn't...
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Now that Microsoft has cleared all the regulatory hurdles that stood in the way of its Activision-Blizzard acquisition, it can focus on how best to put its newly-acquired IP to good use. One of those IPs is Diablo and as such, it's...
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It seems like it was just yesterday that Minecraft hit 10 years old, but that was actually a half a decade ago. Since then, much has changed as the popular block-based game has continued to grow in popularity. However, with those changes...
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You want to get fat paid by Microsoft without having to sign a pesky employment contract? Just find a major security hole in one of the company's many new AI-powered services. That'll earn you a cash prize of between $2,000 and $15,000...
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The UK has given its blessing to Microsoft to acquire Activision-Blizzard after the tech giant agreed to exclude cloud gaming rights from the deal. The new deal has Ubisoft acquiring cloud gaming rights instead of Microsoft.
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It's a rallying cry frequently heard among certain groups ever since the "Occupy" protests: a demand for corporations to "pay their share" of tax obligations. The truth and fairness of these demands is still debated to this day by people...
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Every year, Mojang and Microsoft host Minecraft Live, a livestream dedicated to news and updates from Minecraft and Minecraft: Legends as well as a peek into the future of Minecraft in general. This is also accompanied by the now...
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This month marks the two-year anniversary of Windows 11 and by the numbers, many of you reading this on a Windows PC are rocking Microsoft's latest-generation operating system. However, even more of you are running Windows 10. A lot more...
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella commented during his testimony in Google's antitrust trial that the company cannot compete with Google and that Google's dominance in the search engine market is so significant the internet has more or less...
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AI chatbots and assistants are being integrated into nearly every software product and services at a blistering pace. Take, for example, Windows, which has recently been infused with Bing Chat AI via a feature called “Copilot.” While this...
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After what feels like ages and ages (but has really been less than two years), Microsoft is finally drawing near the finish line of its $68.7 billion dollar attempt to purchase Activision-Blizzard. The last roadblock, placed in the way of...
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Microsoft announced its new Surface Laptop Studio 2 with RTX graphics and a dedicated AI chip yesterday. The tech giant also revealed its latest Surface Laptop Go 3 and Surface Go 4.
Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio 2
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Misconfigured cloud storage seems to be a recurring problem for Microsoft, who just last year had customer information leak through an exposed Azure Blob Storage server. Now, the Redmond-based company has had 38TB of private internal data...
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Microsoft will reportedly announce a pair of new Surface devices next Thursday on September 21, including the new Surface Laptop Studio 2 and Surface Go 3. The new Laptop Studio 2 in particular will reportedly come with Intel’s latest...
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I'm dating myself here, but in the old days of gaming, players competed to see who could earn the highest score (the Atari 2600 generation knows all about sending in Polaroid evidence of a high score). This is still a thing in the world of...
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Bethesda's Starfield is a huge hit, according to Head of Xbox Phil Spencer, as he reports the game has reached the incredible milestone of 1 million concurrent players across all platforms. The news comes after Starfield officially...
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Apple is insisting that its iMessage feature is not popular enough to be designated under EU legislation as a "gatekeeper." Microsoft is also arguing that its Bing search engine is not popular enough to be considered a gatekeeper under the...
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