Amazon appoints longtime AWS exec Peter DeSantis to lead new AI org

Amanda Silberling / techcrunch - DeSantis has spent 27 years at Amazon, including eight years as an SVP for AWS, the cloud provider that powers about one-third of the internet.

Back to Top / Wednesday, December 17, 2025, 4:21 pm / permalink 17081 / 6 stories in 2 months

FIFA to return to gaming — via Netflix on TV

Bradly Shankar / mobilesyrup - Netflix has partnered with FIFA on a new soccer game to coincide with next year’s World Cup. The game, which wasn’t given an official title, will connect to most supported TVs and be playable using your phone as a controller. The game’s developer, Santa M…

Back to Top / Wednesday, December 17, 2025, 3:21 pm / permalink 17078 / 9 stories in 2 months

Microsoft Copilot quietly shows up on LG TVs, and you can’t remove it

digitaltrends - LG TV owners are discovering Microsoft Copilot on their home screens following a software update. The AI assistant installs automatically and cannot be removed, highlighting how AI features are increasingly becoming permanent parts of smart TV platforms.T…

Back to Top / Monday, December 15, 2025, 11:20 am / permalink 16966 / 9 stories in 2 months

OpenAI, Microsoft Face Historic Liability Test in AI-Linked Homicide Suit

Newton Kitonga / parameter - TLDRs; Lawsuit claims ChatGPT intensified paranoia leading to a tragic Connecticut murder–suicide. OpenAI and Microsoft face unprecedented liability over harmful AI-generated responses. Section 230 protections may not apply because ChatGPT created the dis…

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Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI

Julie Bort / techcrunch - Calibri, which could make documents easier to read for the vision impaired, was apparently installed in 2023 by the department’s then-DEI office. Rubio’s memo has designated Times New Roman as his tenure’s official font, stating it will “restore decorum a…

Back to Top / Wednesday, December 10, 2025, 5:21 pm / permalink 16808 / 8 stories in 2 months

Microsoft Pledges Over $30 Billion for Sovereign AI in Canada and India

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Microsoft has committed over $30 billion to Canada and India, launching "Sovereign AI" clouds to enforce strict data residency and local control.The post Microsoft Pledges Over $30 Billion for Sovereign AI in Canada and India appeared first on WinBuzzer.

Back to Top / Tuesday, December 9, 2025, 2:20 pm / permalink 16749 / 11 stories in 2 months

Microsoft (MSFT) Stock Falls as Azure Foundry AI Sales Miss Growth Targets

Trader Edge / parameter - TLDR Multiple Microsoft sales divisions missed growth targets for Azure Foundry AI product in fiscal year ending June 2025 Less than 20% of salespeople in one U.S. Azure unit met the 50% Foundry sales growth target Microsoft initially denied lowering quot…

Back to Top / Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 10:20 am / permalink 16519 / 11 stories in 3 months

Microsoft Warns: Windows 11 Agentic Features May Hallucinate

techpowerup - A few days ago, Microsoft announced that Windows 11 is undergoing an agentic overhaul. The company indirectly warned that security vulnerabilities may be exposed, and today they issued an updated notice. "As these capabilities are introduced, AI models st…

Back to Top / Monday, December 1, 2025, 1:20 am / permalink 16424 / 3 stories in 3 months

Bsure raises $2.1M to fix one of modern IT’s most overlooked problems

Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Norwegian startup Bsure has secured a $2.1million seed round to help companies gain visibility into blind spots withintheir Microsoft environments. The round was led by Scale Capital, withparticipatio...

Back to Top / Wednesday, November 26, 2025, 8:21 am / permalink 16319 / 3 stories in 3 months

Microsoft is speeding up and decluttering File Explorer in Windows 11

Tom Warren / theverge - Microsoft is making some changes to the File Explorer in Windows 11 that will make it less cluttered and launch faster. The latest Dev preview builds of Windows 11 include File Explorer preloading “to help improve File Explorer launch performance,” and ch…

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Microsoft kills its annual diversity report to focus on “dynamic stories”

Emre Çıtak / dataconomy - Microsoft will not publish a diversity and inclusion report for 2025, ending a practice of annual transparency disclosures that the company has maintained since 2019. The decision was confirmed after the tech giant missed its typical publication window, w…

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Windows 11 File Explorer: Microsoft Tests ‘Preloading’ to Fix Lagging Behavior

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Microsoft has introduced a controversial "preloading" feature in Windows 11 Build 26220 to reduce File Explorer launch latency by keeping the process permanently resident in RAM.The post Windows 11 File Explorer: Microsoft Tests ‘Preloading’ to Fix Laggin…

Back to Top / Saturday, November 22, 2025, 4:20 am / permalink 16205 / 5 stories in 3 months

You can now try the Xbox Full Screen Experience on any PC, laptop, or tablet

Jay Peters / theverge - Microsoft is bringing the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE), which adds a console-like UI while navigating through your game library on a PC with a controller, to laptops, desktops, and tablets. FSE launched with the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X, and it has …

Back to Top / Friday, November 21, 2025, 3:21 pm / permalink 16184 / 4 stories in 3 months

Xbox Full Screen Experience is Coming to All Windows Handhelds Tomorrow

Laurent Giret / thurrott - The Xbox Full Screen Experience that debuted on the Asus ROG Xbox Ally and Ally X will become available on all Windows handhelds starting tomorrow.The post Xbox Full Screen Experience is Coming to All Windows Handhelds Tomorrow appeared first on Thurrott.…

Back to Top / Thursday, November 20, 2025, 5:21 pm / permalink 16157 / 3 stories in 3 months

Microsoft Open Sources Zork Trilogy Code, Preserving Gaming History

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Microsoft and Activision have released the source code for Zork I, II, and III under the MIT License, officially preserving the text adventure classics.The post Microsoft Open Sources Zork Trilogy Code, Preserving Gaming History appeared first on WinBuzze…

Back to Top / Thursday, November 20, 2025, 3:22 pm / permalink 16151 / 8 stories in 3 months

Windows 11’s latest update transforms the taskbar into a home for AI agents

digitaltrends - Microsoft is introducing full-blown AI agents into the Windows 11 taskbar, letting them run tasks, monitor themselves, and interact with files — the taskbar is becoming more than a launcher.

Back to Top / Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 3:20 pm / permalink 16121 / 5 stories in 3 months

US Backs Three Mile Island Nuclear Restart With $1 Billion Loan To Constellation

BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: The Trump administration will provide Constellation Energy with a $1 billion loan to restart the Crane Clean Energy Center nuclear plant in Pennsylvania, Department of Energy officials said Tuesday. Previousl…

Back to Top / Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 10:20 pm / permalink 16095 / 6 stories in 3 months

Microsoft Deepens AI Ties with Anthropic, NVIDIA in Major Cloud Partnership

Jon Swartz / techstrong - SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft Corp. announced a major cloud infrastructure partnership Tuesday with Anthropic and NVIDIA Corp. in a strategic shift from its exclusive relationship with OpenAI as the tech giant diversifies its artificial intelligence (AI) por…

Back to Top / Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 2:20 pm / permalink 16083 / 6 stories in 3 months