(Reuters) -Instacart head Fidji Simo will step down to join OpenAI as its chief of applications, CEO and co-founder Sam Altman said on Thursday, adding she will report to him and that he will remain head of the Microsoft-backed ChatGPT maker

Microsoft's new 12-inch Surface Pro 11 is smaller, cheaper and less powerful than last year's Surface Pro

Samsung will host a virtual Unpacked event on May 12 at 8PM ET

The Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court's ruling that Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard did not violate antitrust laws

Add Microsoft's Surface lineup to the list of gear that now costs more

New software art piece brings Clippy back to your desktop, serving up locally installed LLMs from the mouth of a paperclip

(Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a legal challenge by the Federal Trade Commission to Microsoft's $69 billion purchase of "Call of Duty" maker Activision Blizzard

Fed up with Windows 11s Start menu? Microsoft has confirmed that a redesign is coming, and it looks promising even at this early stage

Asus and Microsoft are introducing a variant of ROG Ally 2, which reportedly features AMD's top-end Z2 Extreme APU and 64GB of RAM

Plus it is solving the 'I can't find the settings' problem with AI

New photos leaked from the FCC appear to confirm that an Xbox-branded handheld gaming console is coming soon

Microsoft's new laptop is thinner, faster and supercharged with AI capabilities.

Windows 11's hardware requirements: Sales ploy or security play? Comment Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has weighed in on the increasingly heated discussion regarding the impending end of Windows 10

Microsoft announced its latest Surface devices with the 2-in-1 Surface Pro 12 and the Surface Laptop 13

Remember all those promises Microsoft made, many moons ago, about changing Windows 11 settings by using AI? It looks like this is finally happening

Surface sales have declined in recent years, part of a broad post-pandemic slump in purchases of consumer electronics

Stratolaunch successfully flew its uncrewed Talon-A2 prototype to hypersonic speeds twice -- once in December and again in March

Amazon's Zoox said it has issued a software recall for 270 of its robotaxis after a crash in Las Vegas last month

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google's accelerated Android release cycle will soon deliver a new version of the software, and it might look quite different from what you'd expect

Longtime Slashdot reader RoccamOccam shares a blog post from the Trifecta Tech Foundation, a nonprofit organization that creates secure, open source building blocks for infrastructure software

In about two weeks, Google's annual developer conference will kick off on May 20

Zoox, the Amazon-owned robotaxi company, announced a voluntary software recall for 270 of its vehicles

OpenAI has abandoned its controversial restructuring plan

Here's every new and improved AI skill just announced, along with who can expect to see them, and when.

Schemes like this are just a license to pollute for tech giants, or so critics say Microsoft has expanded its deal with Stockholm Exergi to buy 500,000 tonnes of permanent carbon removal annually over ten years

Microsoft is updating Windows 11 with even more AI features, one of the highlights is a new AI "agent" that will be able to assist users inside the settings app, providing troubleshooting assistance and changing Windows 11 settings at the user's request

Microsoft announced a series of upcoming new features for Copilot+ PCs and Windows 11

The Slack-Teams saga might be over, but Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff takes another stab at Microsoft

Microsoft has unveiled a substantial AI-focused update for Windows 11 and Copilot+ PCs, introducing features that leverage neural processing units across the operating system

BrianFagioli writes: Fedora Linux is now officially available as a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) distribution! That's right, folks, following prior testing, you can now run Fedora 42 natively inside Windows using WSL

High-end Danish audio brand Bang & Olufsen has announced the third generation of its Beosound A1 Bluetooth speaker

Microsoft is making the Start menu in Windows 11 a little more usable.

Microsoft's latest Surface Pro model is smaller, considerably lighter, thinner, and cheaper than the 13-inch variant released last year, starting at a relatively affordable $799.99 price.

Microsoft has instituted a stringent new performance management system that places ousted employees on a two-year rehiring block list and categorizes their departures as "good attrition," Business Insider reported Tuesday, citing internal documents

Microsoft has announced a 13-inch Surface Laptop and 12-inch Surface Pro

Azure Virtual Desktop App attach users might want to sit this one out for a bit longer Microsoft is celebrating the milestone of Windows 11 24H2 reaching broad availability with yet another "known issue." This time, it is related to Azure Virtual Desktop applications.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Microsoft on Tuesday said it will release a new laptop and tablet with chips from Qualcomm at lower prices than before, aiming to get new AI features to a broader set of customers

Microsoft experts claim default configurations often come with open ports and hardcoded credentials

Last year was a major one for Microsoft's Surface lineup, thanks to the launch of Copilot+ AI PC initiative , as well as surprisingly capable Arm-powered Surface Pro and Surface Laptop models

Microsoft has officially announced two new Surface devices, available for pre-order now

Microsoft is launching new models of the Surface Laptop 7 and Surface Pro 11 that are smaller and cheaper than their predecessors, but they also have slightly worse hardware on board

The Surface Laptop and Surface Pro are lighter and thinner, with pared-down specs, but the 2024 models are better and available for the same prices, if not less.

Microsoft's new 12-inch Surface Pro and 13-inch Surface Laptop are colorful Snapdragon X Plus machines with relatively affordable prices

'Trust us, we're from Trumpland' may not help Microsoft as much as it hopes Opinion It is a nation's first duty to protect its citizens from harm

"Another year, yet another Hugo Awards-adjacent controversy?" writes Gizmodo's Cheryl Eddy, reporting that three key organizers of the 2025 Seattle Worldcon resigned after backlash over the use of ChatGPT to vet program participants

Microsoft has announced a 13-inch Surface Laptop and 12-inch Surface Pro

Why settle for off-the-shelf AI? Microsoft explains the process and best practices involved in using fine-tuned models

A few million here, a few million there, pretty soon you're talking real money Microsoft partners can now tailor private offers that allow buyers to vary the amount and timing of payments for some SaaS products and services.

The Open Document Format reached its 20th anniversary on May 1, marking two decades since OASIS approved the XML-based standard originally developed by Sun Microsystems from StarOffice code

Yet another high-profile Xbox franchise is making the leap to PlayStation

Microsoft officially shuttered Skype on May 5, ending the pioneering video chat service's 22-year run

OpenAI has decided that its nonprofit division will retain control over its for-profit organization, after the company initially announced that it planned to convert to a for-profit organization

A beloved third-person shooter is coming to PlayStation and Xbox in a new remaster

BrianFagioli writes: Microsoft has officially begun rejecting high-volume emails that don't meet its new authentication rules

Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 billion in 2011, and now its journey is over.

May 5 marks the final day for Skype as Microsoft is shutting down one of the world's most popular video-calling platforms

Many Windows users will soon get Windows 11 24H2 automatically, indicates a Microsoft bulletin published just ahead of the weekend

The highest-rated video games of 2025 are all budget-priced titles, with Metacritic top performers Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Blue Prince, and Split Fiction costing just $50, $30, and $50 respectively

Two smaller versions of the Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 have allegedly leaked and could be officially revealed during the company's Surface announcement

Today, May 5th, marks the final day for Skype, ending its 22-year run as a staple of daily communication

By May 5, 2025, the age of digital communication had come to a close

At this stage in the game, why is Microsoft making changes to Windows 10 that could throw a wrench in the works? To promote Microsoft accounts, thats why

BARCELONA (Reuters) -Microsoft Chairman Brad Smith has told the European Commission his company will abide by European rules regardless of whether it agrees with them or not, the Commission's Vice President Teresa Ribera said on Monday

It's the end of the road for Skype as today marks the official retirement of the legendary communication platform

Microsoft's Xbox division on Thursday raised its recommended retail prices on consoles and controllers globally, while also confirming that some of its upcoming games will launch at a new high of US$79.99 (RM337), the company announced on its Xbox support page

PLUS: AirPlay exploits; Six-year old backdoor opens; Raytheon settles federal charges; and more! Infosec In Brief Microsoft has decided to push its consumer customers to dump password in favor of passkeys.

With its Start menu-style application launcher and its bottom-of-the-screen taskbar, KDE Plasma is a "nice" and "traditional" desktop environment that's "also highly customizable," notes It's FOSS News

"Our future won't be handed to us," says the young narrator in a new ad from the nonprofit Code.org

Slashdot reader Mirnotoriety shared this report from the Register: A proof-of-concept program has been released to demonstrate a so-called monitoring "blind spot" in how some Linux antivirus and other endpoint protection tools use the kernel's io_uring interface

Microsoft is rumored to announce new compact 13-inch Surface Laptop 7 and 12-inch Surface Pro 11 models at their Surface event on Tuesday

In 2016, an online "swarm intelligence" platform stunned horse-racing fans by making a correct prediction for the Kentucky Derby naming all four top finishers in order

As Microsoft shuts it down, weve spoken to people whose lives were impacted by the tools.

Microsoft has announced that effective immediately the prices for all of its Xbox products are going up

Plus: France blames Russia for a series of cyberattacks, the US is taking steps to crack down on a gray market allegedly used by scammers, and Microsoft pushes the password one step closer to death.

A look back at two decades of ODF, from open source hopes to patchy real-world adoption It's been 20 years since the Open Document Format (ODF) became a standard, marking a milestone in the push for open, vendor-neutral file formats and the beginning of a long but largely unsuccessful attempt to loosen Microsoft Office's grip on the desktop.

Microsoft just increased all Xbox prices: Grab one before the hikes go into effect Microsoft Gaming is about to get a lot more expensive at least for Xbox fans

We went hands-on with the best laptops for graphic design, including machines from Apple, Dell, and Microsoft.