The next Xbox is codenamed Project Helix, and yes, it’ll play PC games
Adam Vjestica / theshortcut - Microsoft has given us our first look at the new Xbox console
Back to Top / Friday, March 6, 2026, 8:22 am / permalink 20263 / 8 stories in 20 hrs
MacBook Neo Performs Equal To The iPhone 16 Pro In New Benchmark, Binned A18 Pro Gets A Negligible Penalty In GPU Test
Omar Sohail / wccftech - The A18 Pro found in the newly announced MacBook Neo is slightly different from the silicon powering the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max, as Apple has resorted to chip-binning, giving a 5-core GPU to the portable Mac, while its older-generation flagsh…
- Apple courts Windows switchers, expanding down-market with Neo (6)
- Benchmarks: Neo's A18 Pro rivals iPhone chips and older Airs (6)
- Demand: pre-orders selling out, shipping delays, and launch discounts (4)
- Hands-on reviews: design trade-offs, missing features, and verdicts (10)
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Apple courts Windows switchers, expanding down-market with Neo
Benchmarks: Neo's A18 Pro rivals iPhone chips and older Airs
Demand: pre-orders selling out, shipping delays, and launch discounts
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Back to Top / Friday, March 6, 2026, 6:21 am / permalink 20258 / 27 stories in 22 hrs
Pentagon says it is labeling Anthropic a supply chain risk 'effective immediately'
abcnews - The Trump administration is following through with its threat to designate artificial intelligence company Anthropic as a supply chain risk in an unprecedented move that could force other government contractors to stop using the AI chatbot Claude
- Anthropic challenges designation, promises legal battle (9)
- Industry reaction: Microsoft keeps Claude; Nvidia speaks (4)
- Other: tools, user conversations, analysis, and opinion pieces (7)
- Pentagon formally designates Anthropic a supply‑chain risk (10)
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Anthropic challenges designation, promises legal battle
Industry reaction: Microsoft keeps Claude; Nvidia speaks
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Back to Top / Thursday, March 5, 2026, 8:21 pm / permalink 20242 / 34 stories in 32 hrs
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma Teases Project Helix, the Next-Gen Xbox, Promises it Will “Lead in Performance and Play Your Xbox and PC Games”
David Carcasole / wccftech - Asha Sharma, the recently installed chief executive officer of Microsoft Gaming and the new head of Xbox following Phil Spencer's retirement, has just teased the next-generation Xbox console in a post on her personal X (formerly Twitter) account, which we…
- Analysis: Project Helix may blur console and PC ecosystems (6)
- Community buzz: Reddit and social posts react to Project Helix (3)
- On-site: Microsoft teases Project Helix playing Xbox and PC games (9)
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Analysis: Project Helix may blur console and PC ecosystems
Community buzz: Reddit and social posts react to Project Helix
On-site: Microsoft teases Project Helix playing Xbox and PC games
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Back to Top / Thursday, March 5, 2026, 3:21 pm / permalink 20227 / 20 stories in 37 hrs
OpenAI Builds GitHub Rival, Risking Conflict With Microsoft
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - OpenAI has revealed plans for a GitHub rival built after repeated outages, a move that risks direct conflict with backer Microsoft.The post OpenAI Builds GitHub Rival, Risking Conflict With Microsoft appeared first on WinBuzzer.
Back to Top / Wednesday, March 4, 2026, 6:21 am / permalink 20109 / 7 stories in 2 days
Xbox Game Pass March lineup includes Cyberpunk 2077 and Hollow Knight: Silksong
Mufaddal Fakhruddin / tbreak - March brings Game Pass's biggest lineup yet with Night City's cyberpunk adventure finally hitting the service alongside Team Cherry's long-awaited Hollow Knight sequel. Nine games total span RPGs, racing, and family content across different tiers.
Back to Top / Tuesday, March 3, 2026, 12:20 pm / permalink 20071 / 5 stories in 3 days
Microsoft 365 rival LibreOffice Online is making a comeback
Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson / betanews - With the ever-increasing number (and cost) of software subscriptions, more and more people are seeking out free alternatives to popular titles. For those looking for a free rival to Microsoft Office, LibreOffice has long been a viable alternative. But the…
Back to Top / Monday, March 2, 2026, 4:20 am / permalink 19977 / 2 stories in 5 days
Microsoft’s Copilot Enters Its ‘Second Chapter’ With Autonomous Task Execution
Liz Ticong / eweek - Microsoft previews Copilot Tasks, an agent-like feature that runs multi-step workflows in the background, with consent checkpoints and user controlThe post Microsoft’s Copilot Enters Its ‘Second Chapter’ With Autonomous Task Execution appeared first on eW…
Back to Top / Friday, February 27, 2026, 11:22 am / permalink 19883 / 3 stories in 7 days
Microsoft’s New Gaming CEO Elaborates on the ‘Return to Xbox’
Laurent Giret / thurrott - In her first interview after becoming the new CEO of Microsoft Gaming CEO, Asha Arma explained what the spirit of 'Return to Xbox' means to her. The post Microsoft’s New Gaming CEO Elaborates on the ‘Return to Xbox’ appeared first on Thurrott.com.
Back to Top / Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 10:22 am / permalink 19728 / 7 stories in 9 days
Inside Microsoft’s Xbox Leadership Shake-Up
John Gruber / theverge - Tom Warren, reporting for The Verge (gift link): With Spencer’s retirement official, Microsoft is hitting the resetbutton on Bond’s Xbox strategy instead of embracing it further.Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma is now promising “the return ofXbox,” in a c…
Back to Top / Tuesday, February 24, 2026, 12:22 pm / permalink 19667 / 7 stories in 10 days
Microsoft just handed the Xbox keys to an AI exec. The internet is already freaking out
Chris Morris / fastcompany - Friday’s news of a major shakeup at Microsoft’s Xbox division caught the gaming world by surprise. Phil Spencer, who has run Xbox for almost 12 years, announced his retirement, effective immediately—just months after Microsoft insisted he was “not retirin…
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Xbox’s new boss Asha Sharma makes three big promises
Emre Çıtak / dataconomy - Microsoft announced a major gaming leadership change on Friday. Phil Spencer, the Microsoft Gaming CEO, is departing the company. Sarah Bond, the Xbox President, is also leaving. Spencer will be replaced by Asha Sharma, a former executive at Instacart and…
Back to Top / Monday, February 23, 2026, 4:20 am / permalink 19560 / 10 stories in 12 days
Major Shake-Up at Xbox: Phil Spencer Reitres, Sarah Bond Resigns, and Asha Sharma to Become the new CEO of Microsoft Gaming
David Carcasole / wccftech - A new report from IGN reveals that Microsoft's gaming division and Xbox are going through a major leadership shake-up. Phil Spencer will retire this coming Monday, February 23, 2026, after first joining Microsoft all the way back in 1988 as an intern. He'…
- Content shake-up, Matt Booty promoted; consoles prioritized (4)
- Longtime Xbox leaders step down; successor announced (13)
- New CEO Asha Sharma’s AI stance and vision for Xbox (9)
- OTHER: layoffs, memos, and community reaction (1)
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Content shake-up, Matt Booty promoted; consoles prioritized
Longtime Xbox leaders step down; successor announced
New CEO Asha Sharma’s AI stance and vision for Xbox
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Back to Top / Friday, February 20, 2026, 4:20 pm / permalink 19479 / 30 stories in 14 days
Microsoft's new Windows 11 speed test is just a link to Ookla's Speedtest via Bing — button housed in the taskbar in latest Insider Preview build
tomshardware - Amidst endless complaints over the instability and bloating nature of Windows 11, Microsoft's latest insider builds add new emojis and a taskbar feature for its beta testers. Now, you can check your internet speed by right-clicking the network icon or ope…
Back to Top / Thursday, February 19, 2026, 12:21 pm / permalink 19424 / 5 stories in 15 days
Microsoft Bug Let Copilot AI Read Confidential Emails for Weeks
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Microsoft has confirmed a bug allowed Copilot AI to access and summarize customers' confidential emails for weeks, bypassing data protection policies.The post Microsoft Bug Let Copilot AI Read Confidential Emails for Weeks appeared first on WinBuzzer.
Back to Top / Thursday, February 19, 2026, 6:20 am / permalink 19406 / 10 stories in 15 days
Microsoft's new 10,000-year data storage medium: glass
John Timmer / arstechnica - Femtosecond lasers etch data into a very stable medium.
Back to Top / Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 4:21 pm / permalink 19382 / 8 stories in 16 days
Microsoft releases KB5077241 Update preview with new features for Windows 11 users
Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson / betanews - Microsoft has released a new build of Windows 11 to Windows Insiders signed up to the Release Preview Channel. The release of the KB5077241 update brings Windows 11 up to builds 26100.7918 and 26200.7918 and includes a number of important changes and – im…
Back to Top / Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 12:22 pm / permalink 19365 / 6 stories in 16 days
Microsoft Says Bug Causes Copilot To Summarize Confidential Emails
msmash / slashdot - Microsoft says a Microsoft 365 Copilot bug has been causing the AI assistant to summarize confidential emails since late January, bypassing data loss prevention (DLP) policies that organizations rely on to protect sensitive information. From a report: Acc…
Back to Top / Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 12:21 pm / permalink 19361 / 5 stories in 16 days
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 and The Witcher 3 are coming to Game Pass
Kris Holt / engadget - Xbox has revealed the second batch of Game Pass additions for February. There are quite a few heavyweights in the mix this time, including Kingdom Come: Deliverance II and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Let’s start with what’s available today, though. Xbox pre…
Back to Top / Tuesday, February 17, 2026, 11:21 am / permalink 19296 / 6 stories in 17 days
Microsoft Refreshes Secure Boot Certificates via Windows Update
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Microsoft has announced it will deliver new Secure Boot certificates via Windows Update starting March 2026 before 2011 certificates expire in June.The post Microsoft Refreshes Secure Boot Certificates via Windows Update appeared first on WinBuzzer.
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