Microsoft’s new Xbox chief starts making her mark
… Sources at Xbox tell me Sharma has been looking closely at Game Pass pricing recently, with a view to offering a wider range of pricing models. …
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Inside Microsoft’s wave of executive departures
… This pushed former security chief Charlie Bell out of the role, in a move that many employees inside the company view as a response to Microsoft’s struggles with security in recent years. As the dust settled on the security changes at Microsoft we saw an even bigger departure. …
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… Di Benedetto May 13 The future of border security isn’t at the border at all This year’s Border Security Expo was a victory lap for Trump’s immigration policies. …
Windows is back on the Microsoft menu
… Microsoft is feuding with a security researcher publicly posting vulnerabilities. …
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says there are three labs that matter — and he wants Microsoft to be the fourth.
… Microsoft already has a substantial client base and, compared with other AI companies, a reputation for safety and security. …
GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft
… While the outages are driving some developers away, GitHub is also struggling with security issues. …
Microsoft could be the next Big Tech antitrust target
… Government contracts and cybersecurity were not among the CID topics disclosed to The Verge, and Haurek says Microsoft responded to the government’s security requests at the time and that agencies were “free to engage with other vendors.” Microsoft’s growth in cloud computing has helped push its va… …
Nvidia announces RTX Spark as ‘the most efficient PC chip ever built’
… At Microsoft’s Build conference this week, it’ll be showing off “new Windows security and containment primitives” that, along with Nvidia’s OpenShell runtime, “allows personal agents to run safely and under full user control.” Nvidia claims this adds up to “a new personal computing paradigm where A… …
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… The home security company launched two new products today: the Ring Spotlight Cam 2nd Gen at $169.99 and the Ring Floodlight Cam 2nd Gen at $199.99. …
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… Windows Update will soon automatically roll back faulty drivers Tom Warren May 14 Richard Lawler May 13 AI cybersecurity updates for MDASH, Mythos, and GPT-5.5. …