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- July 31
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- Reddit CEO says it's “a real pain in the ass to block these companies" from crawling the site, says Microsoft refuses to negotiate
- Bummed you can't get the Deadpool Cheeky Controller? You can still get your hands on that badonkadonk without spending a ton.
- NVIDIA CEO and Mark Zuckerberg exchange jackets and visions of a future where every business has an AI assistant
- Discord on Xbox is about to get much, much better with the addition of this highly requested feature
- Sony-owned Bungie is laying off hundreds of employees as it integrates further into PlayStation
- This new Xbox controller doesn't have Deadpool's thickness, but brings some retro transparent style instead
- PowerToys' latest update is small but it's the latest chapter in an excellent year for the app
- Halo Infinite's latest Operation is bringing back a mode from Halo: Reach and an iconic weapon feature
- Delta's new attorney seeks over $350 million from Microsoft and CrowdStrike after the global outage — a $10 gift card won't cut it
- One of my favorite PC accessory brands has considered probably the worst design decision I've ever seen for its new mouse
- Microsoft removes ads from Skype but leaves them in Windows 11's Start menu
- Intel officially confirms 'Lunar Lake' mobile CPU launch date with Core Ultra 200 to challenge Snapdragon X and Ryzen AI 300
- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella describes a three-pronged gaming approach, across Xbox console, PC, and mobile
- The First Descendant's biggest update ever brings a ton of new content and enough improvements to make Alpha cry tears of joy
- Microsoft: Yesterday's Azure and 365 server outage was caused by a DDoS attack ... at least at first
- July 30
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- Microsoft reports $64.7 billion FY24 Q4 revenue, the seventh consecutive Surface decline, and big jumps for Xbox and cloud
- Xbox FY24 Q4 gaming revenue up 44% year-over-year, mostly thanks to the Activision Blizzard acquisition
- Activision releases open source data for one of Call of Duty: Warzone's biggest maps — here's why it matters
- Diablo 4: Season of the Infernal Hordes is on the way, bringing 50 new Uniques and more
- Microsoft wants Congress to pass "a comprehensive deepfake fraud statute" to prevent AI-generated scams and abuse
- My favorite soulslite just reached an impressive milestone — It's not surprising, considering it makes this kind of game more approachable
- Another Adobe app is ARM native on Snapdragon X laptops, but probably not the one you really want
- This long-overdue comeback of a classic JRPG series now has a playable demo available on Xbox and PC
- Microsoft 365 and Azure gets hit with a big new server outage, as Microsoft investigates (update)
- Google CEO says the “risk of under-investing in AI is dramatically greater than the risk of over-investing,” as investors mount pressure on Microsoft for its extravagant spending on AI projects
- Elden Ring 1.13 official patch notes: Spirit Ashes get a big buff, are no longer second fiddle to Mimic Tear
- Is GenAI a dying fad? A new study predicts 30% of investors will jump ship by 2025 after proof of concept
- Your Microsoft 365 subscription now comes with a free VPN on PC and phone
- These Govee X Evangelion smart gaming RGB lights will have you pouring one out for your bank account
- July 29
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- The developers of Forza Horizon and Fable at Xbox appear to be getting a third studio, but for what?
- Xbox Mobile Store for games may be launching soon
- This breakthrough tech could solve Microsoft's AI power consumption woes and is 1,000x more energy-efficient
- Intel's 13th and 14th Gen CPU instability damage is irreversible, and it can happen to way more chips than we thought
- AMD delays its Ryzen 9000 desktop processors, but it's for a more trivial reason than Intel's ongoing 13th/14th Gen disaster
- ChatGPT gets a voice, but only a 'small group of users' will get to hear it at launch for a $20 monthly subscription
- Starfield's 'Shattered Space' expansion hasn't launched yet, but we may already know the name for the next DLC in 2025
- Missed Amazon's 36% OFF Xbox Series X|S Seagate storage card deal? Lucky you — it's back!
- July 28
- July 26
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- Mortal Kombat 1: Khaos Reigns brings story DLC and new characters — here's when you can play it
- Battle literally thousands of foes on-screen in this crazy Xbox and PC prequel for one of the most popular hack-and-slash franchises
- The VALORANT Xbox beta is now open to all players, with exclusive benefits for Xbox Game Pass subscribers
- Despite bankruptcy scares, OpenAI enters the search engine fold to rival Google and Microsoft with Sam Altman indicating that "there is room to make search much better than it is today."
- The First Descendant's next major content update is now coming even earlier, and we got our first look at the new Descendants
- Microsoft wants to make future CrowdStrike outages impossible, and it could mean big changes for security software
- Massive Windows 11 update ships to Insiders in its last stop before rolling out to everyone
- New Windows 11 feature lets you wirelessly browse your phone's filesystem directly within File Explorer
- Elon Musk calls Grok 'the most powerful AI by every metric' but 'secretly' trains the new model with your X data by default
- While you were out here trying to beat Elden Ring DLC with no summons, this player beat it on a dance mat — oh, and whilst playing two versions simultaneously
- Study: AI "inbreeding" may cause model collapse for tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot
- July 25
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- Elden Ring DLC players can win this speedrunner's $10,000 Shadow of the Erdtree bounty, but only if they're fast enough
- SAG-AFTRA video game actors go on strike, citing AI concerns
- OpenAI's $3.7 billion in revenue won't save the ChatGPT maker from an imminent $5 billion loss in 2024 — Microsoft and NVIDIA's anticipated round funding might (UPDATED)
- Bing blocked by Reddit, breaking search results for everyone but Google
- Remnant 2 announces third and final DLC 'The Dark Horizon' on its birthday, and its release date isn't far off
- Apple Maps now works on your Windows PC... sort of
- This literal game-changing Fallout mod takes players to a post-nuclear London after 4 years of development
- What if WW2 had badass dieselpunk mechs? This upcoming PC and console game answers the call.
- Windows 11 is finally making it easy to change your mouse wheel scroll direction
- Maingear's refreshed ML-17 gaming laptop aims to take on the mighty Razer Blade 18
- Microsoft's 'strategic mistake' killed the Windows 11 mobile dream, but a daring developer is running it on an iPhone 15 Pro
- CrowdStrike sends out $10 Uber Eats codes as an apology, and some of them show an error message
- Xbox console exclusive STALKER 2 gets another delay — here's when you can play it
- Meta's new open-source 'state of the art' AI model already outperforms OpenAI and Google on certain benchmarks
- July 24
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- This free Deadpool Controller Holder is the latest hilarious merchandise to release for the upcoming film
- Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft employees form another union under Microsoft
- Microsoft unveils Bing Generative Search — enhanced with AI, it's a complete overhaul of traditional search
- Elon Musk flaunts 'the most powerful training cluster in the world' that will transform Grok into the 'most powerful AI' by December to take on Microsoft and OpenAI
- This one update made the most tedious farming in The First Descendant so much better
- A new The First Descendant update gives players what they want — more space, less waiting times, better rewards
- Microsoft and Lumen partner up to meet the ever-growing demands of AI
- A former Microsoft Software Engineer explains CrowdStrike's digital pandemic that left over 8.5 million Windows devices with annoying BSoD errors
- It looks as if the best way of avoiding the CrowdStrike drama was to run Windows 3.1 all along
- Latest Windows 11 bug will have you scrambling to find your BitLocker recovery key
- World of Warcraft: The War Within gets its expansion pre-patch, alongside a ton of bugs
- Firefox and Meta develop a mechanism that promises to keep the user's data private in an unyielding ad world
- July 23
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- Microsoft won't fix Android apps on Qualcomm Snapdragon PCs, so this developer stepped up
- Helldivers 2's new 'Escalation of Freedom' update is adding tentacle monsters, Difficulty 10, and more, and its release date is fast approaching
- Windows 11 2024 Update: Top 5 new features coming in version 24H2 that you SHOULD be excited about
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III is coming to Xbox Game Pass on July 24, 2024, to both console and PC
- Intel puts the power of AI at your fingers with its Arc-powered AI Playground
- Google reverses its stance on deprecating third-party cookies in Chrome, but users get an option to disable the 'crumbs'
- Is this a handy new feature or another Windows 11 ad?
- Hi Alexa, Amazon's Echo device team isn't convinced a new subscription service and refreshed personal assistant will save the company from the billion in losses
- July 22
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- Elden Ring DLC mastermind stacks 18 buffs and mollywhops Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss so hard he couldn't even go into Phase 2 (Update: He hit him even harder)
- ASUS shows it hasn't forgotten its original gaming handheld by giving it a big UI update on the day of the ROG Ally X's launch
- (Update) The First Descendant decides nerfing the best weapons and patching fun exploits is for lame live service games, adapts a different approach
- NVIDIA GeForce Now memberships are half off, just in time to check out the "half" integration in the Xbox Store
- Xbox tease another controller with a BBL — butt no we can't buy this one either
- Don't destroy your Steam Deck like we did — use the new official repair and upgrade toolkit from iFixit
- Updated CrowdStrike recovery tool can save you from Blue Screen of Death, even without BitLocker recovery keys
- July 20
- July 19
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- Microsoft veteran software engineer explains the development of the Start menu as a Windows 95 feature before it turned into a Windows 11 'billboard'
- EA Sports College Football 25 soars to #3 on Xbox US daily active users, #4 on PS5, as the game fans waited 11 years for launches worldwide
- "Not now sweetie, Mummy's making CrowdStrike memes" — a compilation of the finest jokes the internet has created amongst crippling digital chaos
- Watch this Elden Ring masochist spend over 30 minutes beating the DLC final boss hitless without levels, upgrades, or status effects
- "Plenty of market hype around AI PCs and a less sexy commercial refresh cycle" grew the global PC market by 3% in Q2 of 2024, but China continues to dwindle these efforts
- "We're not blessed with big marketing budgets," Xbox's EMEA marketing lead laments Microsoft's lack of investment
- CrowdStrike's CEO finally apologizes after users react angrily to the firm's response to the Windows BSOD apocalypse
- As the world wakes up to a "digital pandemic", Microsoft suggests turning it off and on again 15 times
- NordVPN will soon work on Qualcomm Snapdragon X PCs, closing a big part of the Windows on Arm app gap
- As the world suffers a global IT apocalypse, what's more worrying is how easy it is for this to happen
- "Shout out to an early Friday finish": CrowdStrike BSOD and chaotic outages are a blessing in disguise for some workers
- Traveling today? Here's how airport delays and 911 outages triggered by 'CrowdStrike' bug and Microsoft downtime can affect you
- Microsoft tackles catastrophic global IT outage as 'CrowdStrike' security blames update bug for grounded flights and more
- July 18
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- Move like a Jaguar, sting like a... centipede? Here's EVERYTHING we learned about the Spiritborn — a new dexterity-based class coming to Diablo 4
- Overwatch 2's new hero Space Ranger is Juno and is crash-landing in Season 12, but she's playable this weekend
- Apple Beats and Minecraft have joined forces to create this explosive (and exclusive) wireless headset you can buy now
- Apple throws critical privacy jabs at Google Chrome to keep millions of iPhone users hooked on Safari
- Huawei's Android-free PC alternative for Windows will reportedly ship later this year with a macOS-inspired design
- This fan-made Quake level is bigger than the original FPS' chapters, with brutal difficulty that makes Dark Souls look like Peppa Pig
- Microsoft toys with new Windows 11 Start menu layout inspired by the iOS App Library
- The First Descendant's next big update with new weapons, Luna, and Ultimate Valby now has a release date
- All The First Descendant players should be using these interactive maps in the endgame
- July 17
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- Bethesda and Prime Video's Fallout TV series gets 16 Emmy nominations — here are the categories it might win
- Xbox just landed a new console exclusive in this hit co-op tower defense franchise
- A new cutting-edge AI tool predicts the progression of Alzheimer’s disease with over 80% accuracy, minus the scalpel
- Microsoft Designer is now generally available across a variety of Windows 11 apps, and is coming to Edge soon
- Diversity and inclusion left the Teams chat? Former Diversity Chief slams Microsoft for dismissing its DEI team due to "changing business needs"
- July 16
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- Researchers question Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT smarts as AI champs do well with "memorization rather than true reasoning abilities"
- Baldur's Gate 3 official mod tools and Patch 7 have a release window — here's what you need to know
- The newest VALORANT patch lets you bet on esports matches, fixes aim assist on console, and makes Abyss less annoying
- Microsoft issues a temporary workaround for a pesky Windows 11 bug that’s been playing hide-and-seek with your photos for over a month
- Generative AI might have infiltrated gaming, but developers won't clean up after its mess and erroneous outputs: "It's not why I got into making games."
- July 15
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- Forza Horizon 5 lets you be a coffee cup, go to car meets, and drive a Thing in the newest update featuring 9 new cars
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 beta dates have been confirmed — here's when you can play it
- Is Microsoft's controversial Windows Recall feature 29-year-old Bill Gates' brainchild? A mid-1980s radio interview suggests it might be
- HP is here to combat hallucinations and bias when making AI models
- Microsoft and Google's electricity consumption surpasses the power usage of over 100 countries
- HP's new OmniBook Ultra beats every single Copilot+ PC on the market in TOPS, and it runs on an AMD Ryzen AI 300 processor
- OpenAI reportedly sent RSVPs for GPT-4o's launch party even before testing began — pressuring the safety team to speed through the process in under one week
- July 13
- July 12
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- Destiny 2 and Warframe who? The First Descendant hit a massive player milestone in just 7 days
- Opera says the EU Commission's DMA regulation grip should extend to Microsoft Edge’s 'privileged' position on Windows devices to foster fair competition
- Microsoft's staff in China will only be allowed to use iPhones at work after September for security reasons
- Microsoft begins testing more simplified Windows 11 Taskbar with improved animations and keyboard shortcuts
- Microsoft OneNote's new AI feature is here to save my studying from horrible handwriting
- Windows 11 File Explorer is about to get a shortcut for duplicating tabs
- A former OpenAI employee left after claiming it felt like the 'Titanic of AI' with top execs prioritizing shiny products over safety
- Will Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League being FREE be enough to make you play it?
- Form Warbands and rematch classic raid bosses in World of Warcraft: The War Within's pre-expansion patch
- July 11
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- Report: Thanks to Xbox Game Pass, this 2023 fighting game just got a 34,744% player count boost
- Will this new Microsoft Teams feature make you grin, sigh, or cry? Custom emojis are now in testing.
- This colossal Elden Ring lore book looks marvelous, but it's pricier than the DLC's Collector's Edition — and the snazziest version is over $1,000
- Microsoft will put a stop to this cashback feature in Start
- The First Descendant gets a proper update, and Xbox players enjoy the same exclusive DLC bundle treatment as PlayStation
- 'Microsoft killed my online life,' Microsoft is reportedly banning Palestinians in the U.S. for life for calling relatives in Gaza
- July 10
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- Elden Ring's Let Me Solo Her ascends to Let Me Solo Them in the DLC after beating Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss in a flawless no-hit run
- Windows 11 will soon bring better widgets to your PC's lock screen
- Once Human's Terms of Service EULA sparks privacy "spyware" concerns after fans spot eyebrow-raising data collection policy, devs respond to assuage worry: "We will only use your data lawfully"
- The studio behind 'Guilty Gear' is working on a modern revival of a classic beat em' up for Xbox and PC
- Report — Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is coming to Xbox Game Pass soon
- Microsoft steps back from OpenAI board, will no longer hold observer seat
- July 9
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- Once Human PSA: You can't delete your character or server transfer, so choose where and who you play very, very carefully [UPDATED]
- Xbox Game Pass is getting MAJOR changes, with a new tier without day one games, and a range of price increases
- Overwatch 2 Transformers collaboration rolls out — here's what you need to know
- Once Human dev adds multiple character slots after launch day criticism, but other major features are still coming later [UPDATED]
- Windows 11's July Patch Tuesday update squashes bugs, brings improvements, and adds an ad to your PC
- Xbox's messaging system has a bot spamocalypse on its hands right now
- Razer decides your game movement is too slow, makes its pro player keyboards even more responsive
- July 8
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- This PlayStation game was the best-seller of May 2024 in the US thanks to its PC version, per Circana
- Xbox Cloud Gaming is now available with certain Amazon Fire TV Stick devices — here's what you need to know
- Notepad on Windows 11 just gained two new features, but you'll want to disable at least one of them
- Leaked Windows 11 "Government Edition” that has no telemetry tracking or bloatware is actually FAKE
- This new Windows 11 feature makes it easier to find your favorite apps and updates
- Microsoft explains why it's better to use a local account on Windows 11 — perhaps on purpose
- July 7
- July 5
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- Microsoft fixes color distortion and audio issues on Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7
- One of the world's most popular PC factory sims is finally exiting early access
- Even Microsoft's AI says the new Outlook is worse than Mail & Calendar on Windows 11
- See how good — and easy — it is to use a Snapdragon X Elite laptop for software development from an actual developer
- Cloudflare goes to war with Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI's bots, with blanket free tools to block all crawlers
- July 4
- July 3
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- Dead Space is back! Sort of...
- Halo Infinite's newest update adds some Elite-inspired cosmetics and one really cool new mode
- The First Descendant's first patch arrives with server fixes and more... But it also broke the servers again
- Latest PowerToys update improves a feature I bet you didn't know existed
- Report: Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy is coming to Xbox Game Pass in August
- Minecraft is getting a redesign! Well, at least the official artwork is
- Bethesda's Starfield gets a few new fixes on Xbox and PC — here's what's changed
- Asking an AI-powered version of my future self if Windows 12 is any good with an unusual chatbot developed by MIT research
- Microsoft invests in the UK's north, set to build a gigantic 'hyperscale data center'
- Apple will reportedly bring ChatGPT and Google Gemini under its Apple Intelligence and iOS 18 umbrella this fall — potentially prompting more iPhone sales
- Microsoft finally moves the WSL2 kernel onto a more modern LTS release, but you'll have to install it yourself right now
- July 2
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- NVIDIA CEO might be right about coding being dead because of AI — OpenAI's new CriticGPT model identifies ChatGPT's programming mistakes better than AI trainers
- Forget underwater data centers — this madlad froze a GPU in a solid chunk of ice
- Windows 11 is within striking distance of Windows 10 for PC gaming dominance
- The Case of the Golden Idol, Magical Delicacy, Neon White, and more are coming to Xbox Game Pass
- Windows 11 finally gets some love, but it feels more like a 'necessary evil' than a voluntary upgrade with Windows 10's death on the horizon
- One of the most anticipated Xbox games from Capcom finally has a playable demo and you can download it right now
- Microsoft finally lets Windows 10 users with multi-monitor configuration use Copilot after 7-month compatibility hold
- The sequel to one of the best and brutally difficult roguelike dungeon crawlers is coming to Xbox
- July 1
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- Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster is coming to Xbox Series X|S and Windows PC — here's when you can play it
- Not content with ads in the Start menu, File Explorer, and Settings app, Microsoft is working on (even more) ads in Windows 11's Weather app
- Is Elden Ring getting a movie or TV show? George R.R. Martin is playing coy: "I know nothing, you never heard a peep from me"
- NVIDIA’s CEO envisions a future where “multi-shot” agentic AIs — armed with reasoning superpowers outperform humans in the job market
- Microsoft Designer just added this feature it should have had on launch day
- Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's tech museum shut down with vintage computing collection slated for auction
- Microsoft puts final touches on its new ad within Windows 11, rolls it out to Canary Channel Insiders
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman anticipates GPT-5 as a “significant leap forward” over GPT-4, which occasionally “goes off the rails” with mistakes even a six-year-old wouldn’t make
- Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail is horrifically broken on Xbox
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