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Surprise, surprise: The ROG Xbox Ally X just got a AU$200 price hike in Australia
News Why? I think you can guess.
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Microsoft's ties with ICE come under fire amidst allegations that the company's cloud and AI technology are being used to support mass surveillance of US citizens
news No Azure for Apartheid statement comes the day after reports claiming that ICE has tripled the amount of data stored on Microsoft's Azure servers over the past six months.
Microsoft uses plagiarized AI slop flowchart to explain how Github works, removes it after original creator calls it out: 'Careless, blatantly amateuristic, and lacking any ambition, to put it gently'
News The official Introduction to Github page included an AI-generated graphic with the phrase "continvoucly morged" on it, among other mistakes.
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Windows 11 is getting a handy internet speed test built right into the taskbar
News Plus a load of other quite welcome tweaks, fixes and enhancements.
Minecraft has revealed its final batch of baby mobs ahead of the spring update, and they might be the cutest ones yet
News My heart can't take any more.
Huge new Avowed update adds New Game Plus, playable dwarves and Orlans, and quarterstaffs
News It's also now on PlayStation 5.
Rufus developers have been blocked from downloading Windows ISOs, and believe there to be 'active intentional involvement from Microsoft'
News Microsoft has yet to comment on the issue.
'This is probably what Task Manager would look like (and sound like) if I were still around,' says ex-Microsoft dev Dave Plummer about his synthwave-pounding AI dashboard
News In fairness, Plummer admits "it's a good thing I knew to stay in my lane, design-wise."
