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I played Microsoft Flight Simulator with this revolutionary joystick disguised as a controller — and I'm in love with it

Honeycomb's excellent Echo is a mashup of traditional flight sim hardware and casual joypads, built for convenient PC gaming.

Windows Central

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

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 opening network quick settings, where you'll be taken to a…

Tom’s Hardware

The RAM crisis is completely warping my usual PC-building advice, so here's a fresh priority list for anyone looking to build or upgrade a PC

I used to recommend RAM and SSDs as a wallet-friendly PC upgrade, but the RAM crisis has left that advice dead in the water — here's what to do instead.

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PC sales of High On Life were just behind PlayStation, the 'lead platform,' but Xbox trailed behind despite its 7-month console exclusivity deal

Silver medal for PC.

PC Gamer

Microsoft says its glass-based storage project now works with 'the same material found in kitchen cookware and oven doors' and can hold data for 10,000 years

Served on a platter.

PC Gamer

Microsoft caught plagiarizing graphics with AI slop — "Microsoft continvouclymorged my diagram there for sure"

Microsoft is under fire for using AI to plagiarize a well-known technical diagram, resulting in a typo-ridden version labeled as AI slop.

Windows Central

Microsoft just pulled off a breakthrough in glass‑based data storage — and the implications are way bigger than you think

Traditional storage methods are quite precarious. They're prone to degradation over time, and they're sensitive to heat, moisture, and magnetism. Using glass solves all of those problems, and Microsoft just had a big breakthrough.

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Microsoft splits Windows 11's most experimental preview channel in two as it begins testing next major OS platform release

Windows 11 Insiders can now begin testing early foundational builds that are expected to work towards the next platform release, which is likely to debut in 2027 with version 27H2.

Windows Central

Microsoft admits an Office bug exposed confidential user emails to Copilot

M365 Copilot Chat was summarizing your emails, whether you granted it access or not.

TechRadar

Microsoft's ROG Xbox Ally X just saw price hikes in Australia and Japan — I'm willing to bet that other regions are next

Microsoft's ROG Xbox Ally X handheld may be the latest victim hit by the ongoing RAM crisis, after price increases in Japan and Australia.

TechRadar

More CFOs are getting the top job—but can they keep it?

AI is now the wildcard for both reaching the CEO role and staying there.

Fortune

Microsoft Teams is about to bug you for a default mobile browser to handle external links — guess which one it suggests?

Microsoft Teams is about to introduce a mobile browser selector, but it might be just another way to push Edge as the default.

Windows Central

Microsoft 365's buggy Copilot 'Chat' has been summarizing confidential emails for a month — yet another AI privacy nightmare

Microsoft has identified a bug in 365 Copilot that allows the service to access and summarize confidential emails without user consent.

Windows Central

Xbox staff are now internally testing a new ROG Xbox Ally feature — which is also slated for Xbox next-gen

The new Xbox "Highlight Reels" feature uses the Xbox Ally X NPU and is almost certainly going to appear on the next-gen Xbox. Here's how it works.

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

Mozilla notes, "most browsers, including Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, have already ended support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1."

The Independent UK

Are my pensions or investments at risk from an AI bubble?

Lots of companies in the AI sphere are potentially in funds within your portfolios - should you be concerned around recent news?

Fortune

Bill Gates has pulled out of India’s AI summit amid questions over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein

The Microsoft founder’s abrupt withdrawal, amid renewed scrutiny over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, capped a chaotic few days for an event already dogged by cancellations, a robot scandal, and traffic gridlock.

The Independent UK

Modi pitches India as global artificial intelligence hub at AI summit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pitched India as a major hub for artificial intelligence, built at home and used worldwide

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Bill Gates cancels keynote speech in India amid questions over Epstein ties

Billionaire Microsoft co-founder pulls out of India’s AI Impact Summit to ‘ensure the focus’ remains on event’s ‘key priorities’

Fortune

Figma investors cheer 40% growth, ties to Anthropic and OpenAI—but concerns remain about letting the 'fox into the hen house'

The design collaboration platform has shed 80% of its stock value since its 2025 IPO, trading at $23 a share amid a brutal sector-wide rout in SaaS stocks

PC Gamer

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

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.

PC Gamer

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'

The official Introduction to Github page included an AI-generated graphic with the phrase "continvoucly morged" on it, among other mistakes.

Windows Central

Microsoft's Xbox PC app is getting a nifty new feature — it's in preview testing now for Xbox Insiders

The Xbox PC app is getting a new postgame recaps feature that highlights gameplay captures, completed achievements, and more after your gaming sessions.

Windows Central

14 simple Windows 11 tweaks that instantly boost your privacy

On Windows 11, you can use these 14 privacy tweaks to take control of your device by disabling telemetry, Copilot, Recall, OneDrive, Edge tracking, and cloud sync.

LiveScience

Microsoft can now store data for 10,000 years on everyday glass thanks to laser breakthrough

Improvements to data writing and reading techniques, alongside a new way to store data, mean the technology is more accessible than before.

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