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Chris Harper - Wed, Jul 29, 2026
When we covered the planned PlayStation service blackout, I pointed out that both the Xbox and PlayStation platforms had seen major downtime in their online services that week, rendering digital games unplayable. At the time, the Xbox...
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Chris Harper - Tue, Jul 28, 2026
Windows 11 has been plagued by many complaints of bloat and poor performance, but Microsoft seems to have been taking the recent clean-up and optimization effort seriously. Next on the agenda, the company will be converting more Windows...
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Alan Velasco - Tue, Jul 28, 2026
As Microsoft continues to work on its next generation box codenamed Project Helix, which will combine a PC and console into one device, the company is looking to make the transition to the new system as seamless as possible. Its latest...
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Aaron Leong - Tue, Jul 28, 2026
To mark the launch of Halo: Campaign Evolved, Microsoft's Xbox division and Lamborghini have teamed up to create a real-life SUV fit for a Spartan: the one-off Lamborghini Urus SE Master Chief 117 Edition.
Unveiled with the ground-up...
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Tim Sweezy - Tue, Jul 28, 2026
Microsoft wants to fight AI-powered cyberattacks with AI defenders of its own. The company has unveiled Project Perception, a new agentic security system designed to hunt down weaknesses, investigate threats, and strengthen defenses at...
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Chris Harper - Fri, Jul 24, 2026
It's an interesting time for emulation and game preservation, and Microsoft's official Xbox-for-PC emulation efforts have added fuel to the fire. Officially, the Xbox Backward Compatibility for PC program only supports a tailored selection...
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Aaron Leong - Fri, Jul 24, 2026
Xbox is opening a new, zero-cost tier in the cloud gaming wars by letting users stream games they already own in exchange for watching a few commercials. So basically, rather than requiring a paid subscription like Xbox Game Pass Ultimate...
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Chris Harper - Thu, Jul 23, 2026
Just days ago, we reported on a controversy that had emerged surrounding LG monitors and smart TVs that turned out to contain egregious bloatware and tracking functionality. Per WindowsLatest, Microsoft has at least taken action against...
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Chris Harper - Thu, Jul 23, 2026
Another new vulnerability for Microsoft SharePoint, tracked as CVE-2026-50522, is now being actively exploited in the wild, Microsoft warns. Security team watchTowr found evidence of exploits in use, and noted that attacks started the same...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Jul 22, 2026
Back in the day when Microsoft first released the Xbox, it wasn't shy about explaining the device. It was a custom Pentium III-based PC with NVIDIA GeForce 3 graphics and a severely stripped-down version of Windows 2000. We all wondered...
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Tim Sweezy - Tue, Jul 21, 2026
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has landed another major win in the AI infrastructure race, with Microsoft preparing to roll out AMD's next-generation hardware across its Azure cloud platform. The expanded partnership stretches across AMD...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jul 20, 2026
All eyes are on Microsoft and its 100-day reset plan for its Xbox division as it navigates into a future without longtime Xbox boss Phil Spencer in control of the ship, or Sarah Bond, both of whom exited the firm earlier this year...
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Chris Harper - Thu, Jul 16, 2026
Microsoft's drive to improve Windows security with AI-driven vulnerability discovery has led to another record-breaking Patch Tuesday. This time around, there's a whopping 570 security fixes for Windows 11, which is more than double the...
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Chris Harper - Wed, Jul 15, 2026
As it turns out, the batch of expiring Secure Boot certificates isn't the only Secure Boot-related concern that Microsoft and the public need to worry about this year. ESET Researchers have uncovered 11 vulnerable UEFI shim bootloaders...
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Chris Harper - Tue, Jul 14, 2026
It's been a tumultuous time for game preservationists as of late, with Sony potentially ditching physical media despite vocal outcry, and numerous stories of digital content being deleted after it's been bought and paid for. Today though...
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Tim Sweezy - Tue, Jul 14, 2026
Windows 11 users have long voiced their frustrations regarding the cluttered and confusing nature of the operating system's search function. For years, pressing the Windows key and typing a query often resulted in a messy screen filled...
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Chris Harper - Mon, Jul 13, 2026
Microsoft's ongoing efforts to improve Windows 11 don't always go to plan. One major cause behind Windows 11 performance issues was increased use of web apps (including webview, PWA, etc.) rather than native applications, and the latest...
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Tim Sweezy - Fri, Jul 10, 2026
There has never been a better time to be a bug hunter, whether the goal is patching Windows or breaking into it. With AI now capable of digging up software flaws faster than any human team could manage, Microsoft has announced a sweeping...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Jul 10, 2026
NVIDIA made a big splash at Computex when it announced RTX Spark, an Arm-based AI super-chip designed in collaboration with MediaTek and Microsoft to power next-generation Windows systems. Or to put it in NVIDIA's own words, a chip...
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Alan Velasco - Thu, Jul 09, 2026
Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division is making major changes under recently installed CEO Asha Sharma, leading to layoffs and a reshuffling of many projects. Even a productive studio like Obsidian hasn’t been spared, which lost 25% of its...
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Chris Harper - Tue, Jul 07, 2026
A recently-discovered Windows 11 bug is devouring up to 500 GB of storage, but how do you check to see if you're affected and how do you fix it if you are? It can be a rather expensive glitch in this day an dage, after all. Fortunately...
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Tim Sweezy - Tue, Jul 07, 2026
A Windows PC that refuses to boot has a way of ruining an entire day. The standard fix involves digging up a spare USB flash drive, borrowing a working computer, downloading Microsoft's Media Creation Tool, and hoping the dead machine does...
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