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Microsoft banned the word 'Microslop' in its Copilot Discord server, then began restricting access after users started posting 'Microsl0p' and other funnies

Nvidia's Jensen Huang: 'I think the opportunity to invest $100 billion in OpenAI is probably not in the cards'

Big Tech makes White House pledge to stump up for the increased energy costs of AI and prevent household bills from escalating

Microsoft CEO says 'I look at all agents as users', and that means AI ones too, as each agentic bot 'will have its own identity'

AI-generated images still can't be copyrighted as US Supreme Court declines to hear case

'We shouldn't have rushed to get this out on Friday': OpenAI hastily amends the terms of its controversial deal with the US Department of War as CEO Sam Altman claims it's been a 'good learning experience'

DeepSeek has reportedly denied Nvidia and AMD early access to its new V4 AI model, giving Huawei and other Chinese chipmakers a head start

OpenAI announces another $110 billion in investment funding including $30 billion from Nvidia, but says Microsoft is still its best friend forever

Anthropic is standing up to the US Department of War and refusing to remove AI autonomous weapon and mass surveillance safeguards: 'We cannot in good conscience accede to their request'

Firefox is finally ending support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1, and urges users to upgrade or switch to Linux

'This marks a significant step towards addressing anticompetitive behaviors': Following a complaint from Opera, antitrust regulator launches an investigation into Microsoft Edge

'We’ve heard from many who want nothing to do with AI' says Mozilla, as it introduces an AI blocking menu to upcoming Firefox builds

Mozilla says it's building a 'rebel alliance' to challenge Big Tech and what it's doing with AI, which is wild but I'm kind of here for it

Heroic former PC Gamer writer creates a script to banish all the AI features from Google Chrome

Firefox is rolling out new privacy features to stop sites from giving you a hidden digital ID by fingerprinting your system

Surf the web to save the ocean—Wave Browser turns clicks into cleanup

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Critics claim the latest judgement against Google is a 'feckless remedy to the most storied case of monopolisation of the past quarter century' while the US DOJ says 'we're not done'

Google will not be forced to sell Chrome, despite its near-monopoly, as its dominance is not 'sufficiently attributable to its illegal conduct'

This vibe-coded operating system looks like a nightmarish version of our AI OS future, although some of the function keys change the wallpaper so that's fun

'Without Intel, I don’t know if Windows would have happened… without Mac, I wonder whether Office would have happened' says Microsoft CEO

Rumor that Microsoft plans to launch a 'modular' Windows 12 this year retracted by its source, refuted by others [Updated]

Resistance to operating system age checks coming from *checks notes* open source calculator and an OS that may just exclude Californians altogether

A Florida woman has been sentenced to 22 months in prison for conspiracy to traffic thousands of stolen Windows 10 and MS Office keys via their Certificate of Authenticity stickers

This Linux tool was the last thing I needed to wave goodbye to Windows

A new California law says all operating systems, including Linux, need to have some form of age verification at account setup

'We have a new major number purely because I'm easily confused and not good with big numbers' says Linus Torvalds about Linux 7.0

Microsoft's AI PC beginner's guide demonstrates how convoluted its branding has become, but hey, at least 'AI is not here to replace you'

Roblox codes for March 2025: Get free items with the latest codes

Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 2, 2026)

Sony looks to be 'backing away from putting their exclusive console stuff on PC,' says Bloomberg's Jason Schreier

The New York Attorney General's Office has flipped at least one Counter-Strike knife skin on the Steam Marketplace for purposes of state

Discord delays its global age verification after upsetting almost everyone on Earth: 'We've made mistakes'

GOG declares 'The future of preservation is decided by players who give a sh*t' after New Blood CEO expresses concern for the storefront's lifespan

Five new Steam games you probably missed (February 23, 2026)

Steam sale dates: When is the next Steam sale?

YouTube was partially busted for a while, but it's fixed now

Malwarebytes says a fake Google Account security page is distributing 'what may be one of the most fully featured browser-based surveillance toolkits we have observed in the wild'

Google says it's disrupted a super-serious 'global espionage campaign' that uses *checks notes* Google Sheets to covertly intercept telecoms data

Security researchers claim Persona, the provider behind Discord's UK age verification 'experiment', performs '269 individual verification checks' on user data, including those for terrorism and espionage

Crypto scammer who reportedly stole at least $73 million through social media, calls, and dating services sentenced to a 'statutory maximum of 20 years in prison'

New ransomware spotted with a 'coding mistake' that means even the hackers can't decrypt the files

The Notepad++ website was hijacked by 'malicious actors' last year and security researchers are picking through the wreckage

'An unprecedented bombardment': Cloudflare claims a new world record for a 31.4 Tbps DDoS botnet attack it recorded late last year

Google says a WinRAR exploit for Windows is in 'widespread' use by government-backed threat actors 'linked to Russia and China'

Audio devices that use Google's Fast Pair Bluetooth tech are vulnerable to hacks that could track location or listen to the mic, according to researchers