Xusheng Li took apart Microsoft Paint's watermarking code and found the invisible mark is a per-request GUID issued by a Microsoft server before any pixels exist.
Take-Two asked a New York federal clerk on August 20 to issue DMCA subpoenas to Microsoft and Discord. Rockstar still hasn't traced the leak, per Bloomberg.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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?
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.
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].
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.
Internal Claude Code licenses end June 30, 2026, for Microsoft's Experiences + Devices group. Engineers move to GitHub Copilot CLI instead.
Microsoft is phasing out SMS sign-in and recovery on personal Microsoft accounts by December 2026. Replacements: passkeys, Authenticator, or verified email.
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.
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 benchmark tests AI editing across 52 professional domains. Frontier models corrupt a quarter of document content over long workflows.
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.