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The green Xbox nexus logo glowing against a black background, from Microsoft's Xbox Wire announcement art.
Gaming·

€200 more for an Xbox Series X: Microsoft's memory bill lands on European buyers

Microsoft's August 1 increase put the 1TB Series X at €799.99 and £669.99. The cheapest Series S rose 43%, and Microsoft says storage and memory now cost more than 2.5x.

A physical computer keyboard photographed from above.
Security·

Microsoft fixed a record 570 flaws and still left a Windows zero-day unpatched

Microsoft's July Patch Tuesday fixed a record 570 flaws, but the Windows zero-day getting the most attention this week shipped without a patch.

Fallout power armor key art showing a figure in battered T-60 armor against a painted desert sky.
Gaming·

Bethesda put Fallout 5 in pre-production. The New Vegas remaster is what fans actually wanted

Bethesda confirmed Fallout 5 is in pre-production plus remasters of Fallout 3 and New Vegas, days after Xbox's reset. Here's what's real and what's years off.

Close-up of an AT motherboard showing the socketed BIOS chip and real-time clock, the low-level firmware where Secure Boot certificates live.
Security·

Secure Boot's 2011-era keys start expiring, cutting off boot updates on unpatched PCs

Microsoft's 2011 Secure Boot certificates started expiring in June 2026. Here's what breaks on Windows and Linux, and the one update that fixes it.

Windows 10 logo on a laptop screen, the operating system now getting a second year of post-retirement security updates
Policy·

Roughly a billion PCs still run Windows 10. Microsoft just bought them another year.

Microsoft quietly extended Windows 10 consumer security updates to October 2027. Here's who qualifies, what the free and $30 options cover, and why the deadline keeps moving.

An Xbox wireless controller, the face of Microsoft's gaming division
Gaming·

Xbox is planning major layoffs in July as new CEO Asha Sharma overhauls the unit

Bloomberg's Jason Schreier reports Xbox plans significant job cuts after June 30, as new CEO Asha Sharma tells staff a 3% margin can't continue. Microsoft hasn't confirmed.

GitHub and Windows security composite with a warning overlay
Security·

GitHub banned the researcher dropping Windows zero-days. The code was already mirrored everywhere.

GitHub wiped Nightmare-Eclipse's account on May 23 after weeks of unpatched Windows exploits. The ban reopened the oldest fight in security: who decides what research gets hosted?

A scan of the 86-DOS changelist from Tim Paterson's 1981 assembler printout, the kind of artifact Microsoft released under MIT on April 28.
Open Source·

Microsoft just open-sourced 86-DOS. Tim Paterson's 45-year-old listings are now on GitHub under MIT.

Yufeng Gao and Rich Cini scanned Tim Paterson's 1981 assembler printouts. Microsoft pushed them to DOS-History/Paterson-Listings on April 28, the 45th anniversary.

The Microsoft corporate logo, the brand the scam emails are spoofing through Microsoft's own legitimate notification infrastructure.
Security·

Scammers turned a Microsoft notification address into a spam relay. The emails pass SPF, DKIM, and DMARC.

Spammers found a Tenant Name injection in Entra ID that pushes fraud text into Microsoft's own OTP emails. The from-line reads [email protected].

C# 15 union types announcement graphic from the Microsoft .NET Blog
Open Source·

C# is getting union types in version 15. The preview shipped in .NET 11 Preview 2.

Mads Torgersen's union proposal landed in .NET 11 Preview 2 on April 2. C# 15 targets November 2026 and replaces the OneOf library hack the .NET community has been living with.

Microsoft building exterior sign on a clear day.
AI·

Microsoft is canceling Claude Code for its engineers. They have until June 30 to switch to Copilot CLI.

Internal Claude Code licenses end June 30, 2026, for Microsoft's Experiences + Devices group. Engineers move to GitHub Copilot CLI instead.

Microsoft's World Passkey Day 2026 promo art for passwordless authentication
Security·

Microsoft is killing SMS codes on consumer Microsoft accounts. Passkeys take over by December.

Microsoft is phasing out SMS sign-in and recovery on personal Microsoft accounts by December 2026. Replacements: passkeys, Authenticator, or verified email.

Elon Musk speaking at the World Economic Forum.
Policy·

A federal jury took two hours to throw out Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI.

On May 18 a nine-juror panel rejected every claim Musk filed against OpenAI in 2024. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers had told the courtroom she was ready to dismiss on the spot.

Windows logo composite with security-warning overlay
Security·

A USB stick now opens a BitLocker drive in 60 seconds. The researcher calls it a backdoor.

A pseudonymous researcher dropped two unpatched Windows zero-days on May 12. YellowKey bypasses BitLocker via WinRE; Microsoft has not acknowledged either bug.

The DELEGATE-52 project repository on GitHub, showing Microsoft's benchmark for testing LLM document editing fidelity
AI·

Microsoft tested 19 LLMs as document editors. Even the best ones corrupted 25% of the content.

The DELEGATE-52 benchmark tests AI editing across 52 professional domains. Frontier models corrupt a quarter of document content over long workflows.

Illustration of a Git commit message stamped with a Copilot co-author trailer.
Web·

VS Code shipped 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' on every commit by default. Microsoft is reverting it.

A two-line PR flipped the AI co-author flag from off to all in April. Hand-typed commits started getting Copilot attribution. The maintainer apologized and promised a fix in 1.119.

A padlock on a chain, illustrating credential security.
Security·

Microsoft Edge keeps every saved password in cleartext memory. Microsoft calls it 'by design'.

A researcher showed Edge decrypts the entire password vault at launch and leaves it in process memory. Chrome decrypts on demand. Microsoft says it's intentional.

Stylized GitHub Copilot mascot melting into glowing puddles in front of a wall of flames — a visual metaphor for the steep multiplier hike on annual plans.
AI·

GitHub Copilot's Claude Opus multiplier jumps to 27x on June 1. Monthly plans dodge the hike.

GitHub's new model multiplier table for Copilot Pro and Pro+ annual plans lands June 1. Opus 4.6 goes 3 to 27. Sonnet 4.6 goes 1 to 9.