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The broader tech industry has been campaigning for some time to use device-level age checks instead in response to the rising tide of under-16 social media and internet bans around the world. Last month, in a landmark social media trial in California, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg also supported this idea, saying that conducting age verification "at the level of the phone is just a lot clearer than having every single app out there have to do this separately." Pornhub-operator Aylo had advocated for device-level restrictions in the UK as well, and even sent out letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft in November asking for OS-level age verification..

"Emergency out-of-band fixes issued by enterprise IT giants Microsoft and Oracle have shone a spotlight on issues around both update cycles and patching," reports Computer Weekly: Microsoft's emergency update, KB5085516, addresses an issue that arose after installing the mandatory cumulative updates pushed live on Patch Tuesday earlier this month

Microsoft and Nvidia deploy AI and Digital Twins to reduce bottlenecks, streamline permitting, and improve operational efficiency for nuclear projects

The "This is an Xbox" marketing campaign was met with severe backlash from pretty much everyone outside Microsoft's top brass

Famous blue screens remind conference of security pros that this OS sometimes has bad days Bork!Bork!Bork! When is a bork not a bork? Perhaps when it's on a Microsoft stand at a US security conference.

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It's a touch rarer to see a lawsuit filed over the implementation of AV1. The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), whose members include Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Netflix, says it developed AV1 "under a royalty-free patent policy (Alliance for Open Media Patent License 1.0)" and that the standard is "supported by high-quality reference implementations under a simple, permissive license (BSD 3-Clause Clear License)." Yet, Dolby's lawsuit filed in the US District Court for the District of Delaware [PDF] alleges that AV1 leverages technologies that Dolby has patented and has not agreed to license for free and without receiving royalties

New campus to include on-site power generation Bitcoin farmer turned bit barn builder Crusoe revealed plans to add 900 megawatts of capacity to its Abilene Texas datacenter campus on Friday to support Microsoft's AI ambitions

Were seeing small examples of AI resistance already. Just look at the viscerally negative response to NVIDIA's DLSS 5 AI upscaling ; Microsoft's recent plans to pull back on Copilot AI features in Windows 11 ; or OpenAI shutting down its Sora AI video generation app

Cross-signed code gets the cold shoulder as Redmond tightens trust Microsoft is removing trust for kernel drivers that haven't been through the Windows Hardware Compatibility Program (WHCP) in a bid to further secure the Windows kernel

Valve has already pushed back the launch date for the Steam Machine, while the ongoing RAM crisis could also be to blame for Steam Deck stock shortages. Microsoft also raised Xbox prices twice last year, and earlier this week Nintendo announced that some of its physical first-party Switch 2 games will soon be more expensive than purchasing the game digitally

It turns out people don't actually love having Copilot shoved into their faces. This week, Devindra and PCWorld Senior Editor Mark Hachman discuss Microsoft's surprising plan to "fix" Windows 11 by refocusing on customization and core features, instead of bringing Copilot AI into tons of apps

The big drive to fix Windows 11 is underway with regular, frank communication from execs and it's clear that the taskbar is a top priority

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Bubble.io's good name is being tarnished by advanced and convincing phishing lures

Free, Pro and Pro+ GitHub users' data will all go into training Microsoft's AI models, but you can still opt out

A Windows 11 without endless promotion for Microsoft's services and games? It could happen, apparently

Microsoft's Clippy for 21st century deployed to evaluate returns? Industry Wales chair brands it just 'wrong' The Welsh government used Microsoft's Copilot to help write a review of an industry liaison body that it then scrapped, its chairman has told a Senedd committee

As of April 24 you'll be feeding the Octocat unless you opt out Microsoft's GitHub next month plans to begin using customer interaction data "specifically inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context" to train its AI models

Hiring and retaining top talent is becoming more critical as Microsoft seeks to develop top-class artificial intelligence models and products.

Bush established PCAST with a 2001 executive order, and some notable executives have been involved with the panel. Barack Obama's advisors included then-Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt and former Microsoft chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie, while ex-Disney CEO Bob Iger served on PCAST during Trump's first term

Effort includes permitting and planning Microsoft is working with Nvidia on nuclear power

I'll just clear up that up, shall I? Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen has shared another nugget of Windows lore what Windows 95 did when installers stomped on its system files.

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Omnissa telemetry suggests business buyers are loving Apple and Google End-user compute vendor Omnissa, the company formed by the spin-out of VMwares virtual desktops, applications, and device management biz, has dug into the telemetry it collects from customers and painted a picture of the worlds enterprise hardware fleet and the news is better for Google and Apple than it is for Microsoft.

'HP IQ' can chat, share files, and record and summarize meetings Youve heard the call of Apple Intelligence, jumped for joy over Google Gemini, and cuddled up with Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft and Nvidia are joining forces to accelerate the construction of nuclear power plants for power-hungry AI data centers

March 24 (Reuters) - Microsoft has agreed to rent a data center project in Texas that was originally being developed for Oracle and OpenAI, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the situation

Xbox portfolio and programs general manager Chris Charla has said Project Helix will be easier for developers to work with, but advises studios to prioritize developing their games for current gen and PC first

Sorry seems to be the hardest word at Microsoft Opinion Has Microsoft finally reckoned with Windows 11's many failings - or has its OS chief, Pavan Davuluri, simply offered more soothing platitudes to users fed up with bugs and unwanted AI?

HOUSTON, March 24 (Reuters) - Gaining the approval of local communities has become paramount to building data centers in the U.S., Microsoft President Brad Smith said on Tuesday, as towns across the country increasingly protest the developments

Microslop? Sorry, we meant Microsoft Microsoft is rolling out technology to transform OneDrive photos into AI-infused masterpieces

Lace Lithography raised $40 million in Series A funding on Monday to develop a chipmaking tool that uses a helium atom beam instead of light to pattern silicon wafers

Microsoft seems to be serious about fixing Windows 11 quickly, as exec promises big changes will come 'this month and every month this year'

Microsoft and Samsung investigated a widely reported issue with Galaxy Book 4 devices and said the Galaxy Connect app was the culprit

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In a document that resembles an IPO prospectus, OpenAI highlighted the risk of its dependence on Microsoft and of supply disruptions at TSMC

Things keep lining up against Microsoft.

Microsoft has blocked the registry trick that allowed Windows 11 users to enable a native NVMe driver on their PCs

It's currently unknown what those sites hosted. He's also been sued for everything from spamming users to impersonating large companies like Microsoft and Amazon to direct traffic to his pornography sites

Broader platform coverage lands, if developers can tolerate the rough edges AvaloniaUI has previewed MAUI support for Linux and WebAssembly browser applications platforms Microsoft's own cross-platform .NET framework lacks but low adoption and persistent bugs are likely to constrain uptake.

Frustrated by that bug that breaks Edge, OneDrive, and other apps in Windows 11? There's a fix and this is how you get it

Microsoft has locked in its second games showcase of the year

No, Azure Monitor did not just notify you, even though the mail came from its domain

The era of reliability begins... right after this out-of-band patch Microsoft has released an out-of-band update to resolve bugs introduced by a Windows patch just days after promising improved reliability

Every month of 'careful consideration' is another month Redmond laughs all the way to the bank Here's the uncomfortable truth: every week the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) hesitates on its decision on the outcome of its public cloud services market investigation, the meter keeps running and taxpayers continue to foot the bill.

Yes, Microsoft announced it's fixing common Windows 11 complaints

'Doze boss admits quality is down, promises smaller memory footprint and fixes for many well-known issues Microsoft has acknowledged that it needs to improve the quality of Windows 11 and outlined its plan to get the job done

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Microsoft's year of pushing out upgrades that users actually want appears to have another tweak in store

ReactOS aims to be compatible with programs and drivers developed for Windows Server 2003 and later versions of Microsoft Windows

Microsoft has promised that Windows 11 will get a lot better over the next year, and it appears to be off to a great start

Microsoft promises serious improvements to Windows 11 performance, reliability, and updates

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Microsoft menggariskan pelan besar untuk meningkatkan prestasi dan kualiti pengalaman pengguna Windows 11 sepanjang tahun ini

BrianFagioli writes: Microsoft says it is finally listening to user complaints about Windows 11, promising a series of changes focused on performance, reliability, and reducing everyday annoyances

"Reducing unnecessary Copilot entry points" is one of Microsoft's action items.

After one too many of you threatened to switch to Linux, Microsoft has published a long list of changes it plans to make to Windows 11

Former Microsoft Game Studios executive producer Laura Fryer believes Bungie's extraction shooter Marathon is a success among players, but the studio has a long road ahead to make the game worth its investment

The phone would make buying products on Amazon and using services like Prime Music and Prime Video "easier than ever," and may bypass traditional app stores. Reuters reports that the Transformer project is being led by the recently established ZeroOne, an Amazon devices unit headed up by ex-Microsoft executive and Xbox co-founder J Allard, who was also one of the creators of Zune

OneDrive, Office, Teams Free users greeted with phantom 'no internet' errors, restart may help if you're lucky Microsoft has broken account sign-ins in Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2 with a recent update, causing error messages in apps like OneDrive and Office.

Confusing Windows 11 bug creeps out of the woodwork to cause chaos with a bunch of apps that use a Microsoft account login

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CISA says hackers are actively seeking targets and urges companies to bolster their defenses

Last time: Beijing-backed snoops and ransomware crims. Who's next? Unknown baddies are abusing yet another critical Microsoft SharePoint bug to compromise victims' SharePoint servers, the US government warned.

Iran-linked attackers wiped employees' devices using Intune The US government has urged companies to better secure Microsoft Intune, an endpoint management tool that was abused in last week's cyberattack against med-tech firm Stryker.

Microsoft has somehow decided it was a good idea to use its Copilot AI to generate a half-baked, inaccurate depiction of Windows 11 as a demonstration of how to use its operating system's features

AI hallucinations can often be a problem, and they certainly are with the images Copilot has created on the Windows Learning Center

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Microsoft is considering legal action against its partner OpenAI and Amazon over a $50 billion deal that could violate its exclusive cloud agreement with the ChatGPT maker, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday

Perks fall short as third-party AI models rack up costs with minimal notification Complaints about Microsoft's startup credits and Azure AI Foundry keep mounting, with users reporting surprise credit card charges and invoices they never saw coming

Following in Nvidia's footsteps, Intel has now officially adopted Microsoft's Advanced Shader Delivery to make shader compilation much faster in games

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The issue stems from update KB5077181 and is impacting Samsung PCs running Windows 11 25H2 or 24H2. Microsoft and Samsung have confirmed the issue and published a workaround, but as PCWorld notes, it will take some time

Microsoft is rolling out a number of Xbox Series X S updates to those on its Xbox Insiders program, and one of them has been requested by the community for years