Microsoft’s Product Renaming History Now Has Its Own Tracker Website, Thanks to an MVP
Microsoft has renamed so many products that keeping track can feel like its own full-time job. Now, one Microsoft MVP has built a site for…
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NBA 2K27 Release Date Set for September 4 with Major MyTEAM Changes
The NBA 2K27 release date is officially set for September 4, 2026, and it’ll be out across PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC via Steam, and…
GTA 6 Leaker Threatens to Leak “Rest of the Gameplay” Unless Rockstar Meets Demands
The GTA 6 leak saga is getting messier by the hour. CyberLeek has now warned Rockstar that more gameplay footage could surface unless the company…
Microsoft Temporarily Disables ‘Ask Copilot’ on Windows 11 Taskbar
Microsoft has temporarily disabled Ask Copilot on the taskbar while Microsoft prepares a refreshed app experience. The company has confirmed that version 152.0.4191.25 is rolling…
Windows 11 Could Finally Let You Control Privacy Permissions for Specific Win32 Apps
Windows 11 might finally be closing on one biggest privacy gaps. A new option spotted in Experimental Build 26340.9212 lets users manage permissions for individual…
Take-Two Hits GTA 6 Leaked Gameplay With DMCA Takedown Notices
If you have been craving GTA 6 glimpses before Netflix’s special “Extended Look,” the latest leak has delivered exactly that. Now, Take-Two is reportedly issuing…
Chrome Gets a Global Privacy Control Setting to Opt Out of Data Sharing and Sales
Google is testing a user-facing Global Privacy Control (GPC) setting in Chrome Canary that lets users send an opt-out request to websites about the use…
Mozilla Firefox is now officially supported by NVIDIA GeForce NOW
NVIDIA has officially added Firefox to GeForce NOW’s supported browsers on Windows. The move follows years of requests and months of engineering between NVIDIA and…
GTA 6 Gameplay Footage & Leonida Map Leaks Online Ahead of ‘Extended Look’ Reveal
Rockstar’s next big GTA 6 showcase is just days away, but the internet has apparently jumped the gun. New gameplay clips and an alleged full…
Is Rainbow Six Siege Down? User Reports Hint at Server, Launch & Gameplay Issues
Rainbow Six Siege players are currently reporting multiple issues related to it, with outage reports jumping in the past half a hour. Outage tracking site,…
Spotify Search May Be Down as User Reports Spike
Spotify search may be having issues today, as some users are reporting problems getting results to load properly. We haven’t experienced any problems ourselves, but…
XBOX Game Pass August 2026 Wave 2 Includes 10 New Games
XBOX Game Pass August 2026 is getting a second wave of releases, with Microsoft adding 10 games between August 18 and September 1. The lineup…
XBOX Is Reportedly Hiding a “Pretty Big Surprise” for Gamescom
XBOX may have a surprise game announcement planned around Gamescom 2026, according to a new rumor from insider NateTheHate2. The insider says he has heard…
CISA Confirms Windows Task Host Flaw Used in Ransomware Attacks
CISA confirms Windows Task Host flaw CVE-2025-60710 is now being exploited in ransomware attacks, according to an updated warning from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure…
XBOX Game Pass Is About to Lose 5 Games on August 31
Five games are leaving XBOX Game Pass on August 31, giving subscribers less than two weeks to play them through the service or buy them…
Lenovo IdeaPad Vibe Specs Leak With Ryzen AI 400 and 32GB RAM
Lenovo IdeaPad Vibe could give Windows buyers a colorful new MacBook Neo alternative, with AMD Ryzen AI chips, up to 32GB RAM, OLED displays, and…
Microsoft 365 Search Outage Hits Outlook, OneDrive and SharePoint
The Microsoft 365 search outage is affecting Outlook, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive, with some users unable to find content across the services. Microsoft has confirmed…
Latest PowerToys Preview Fixes Command Palette and Performance Issues
PowerToys Preview v0.101.2282.0 is now available with another round of Command Palette fixes, performance improvements, and security hardening. We recently saw two PowerToys preview updates,…
Microsoft Is Bringing Saved Wi-Fi Profiles to Windows 11 WinRE
Windows 11 WinRE Wi-Fi support is getting an upgrade that allows the recovery environment to reuse eligible wireless network profiles already saved in Windows. Microsoft…
Microsoft Warns Whiteboard Users: Migrate by August 22 or Lose Data
Microsoft Whiteboard Azure migration deadline is approaching, and organizations have until August 22, 2026, to move legacy Azure-backed Whiteboards to OneDrive before Microsoft retires the…
Hacker Claims 3.64 Million Employee Records Stolen From Azure
TheHatman claims Azure-linked employee data breaches have exposed around 3.64 million records belonging to workers at several major companies, including McDonald’s, Vodafone, Gap, and Tata…
Microsoft Copilot Seems to Be Making Sign‑In Mandatory Across Edge, Bing, and Mobile Apps
Microsoft Copilot now appears to require sign-in to access its full experience across Edge, Bing, and mobile apps, according to Windows Report’s testing. We observed…
Windows 11 Experimental (Future Platforms) Build 29648 Improves Security, Removes WMIC & Drag Tray
Microsoft has released Windows 11 Experimental Build 29648.1000 for the Future Platforms channel. This release focuses on Windows Security, accessibility, and underlying interface fixes. Windows…
New Windows 11 Experimental 26H1 Build Prevents Launching PUBG Due to Compatability Issue, Microsoft Confirms
Microsoft has released Windows 11 Insider Experimental 26H1 Build 28120.2738 with multiple fixes, removal of WMIC and Dragy, but also confirmed a known issue that…
Windows 11 Beta 26H1 Build Removes WMIC and Drag Tray, Fixes Settings Notifications and Magnifier Launch Issues
Microsoft has released Windows 11 Insider Beta 26H1 Build 28020.2731 with a short list of changes. Windows 11 Beta 26H1 removes WMIC and drops Drag…
Windows 11 Experimental Build Adds Redesigned File Explorer Context Menu, Emoji 17 & Updates to Get Started App
Microsoft has released Windows 11 Insider Experimental Build 26340.9212 along with Beta Build 26220.9202. Speaking of the Experimental build, File Explorer gets the redesigned context…
Latest Windows 11 Beta Build Improves File Explorer, Windows Recovery, Taskbar & Search
In addition to detailing improvements made to File Explorer and its context menu, Microsoft has also released a bunch of builds. Windows 11 Insiders in…
Microsoft Improves Windows 11 File Explorer With Faster Performance & Customizable Context Menu
File Explorer is getting a serious upgrade on Windows 11. Microsoft, in the latest announcement blog, mentioned that it has targeted freezes, delays, sluggish right-clicking,…
YouTube to Overhaul View-Counting System Across Every Video Format Starting August 24
YouTube has officially announced that it is changing its view-counting system across the platform. Starting August 24, every video view will count once playback begins,…
PS6 Release Date & Price Haven’t Been Decided Yet, Says Sony CEO
The release window of PS6 just got murkier. Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki says the company still has not decided when its next console will release,…
Mortal Shell 2 ‘Devout Edition’ is Now Available Across Xbox Series X|S, PS5 & PC, Standard Edition Releases on August 20
Mortal Shell 2 is almost ready to unleash its brutal dark-fantasy action. The sequel launches worldwide for everyone on August 20, 2026, across PS5, Xbox…
Microsoft’s OpenVMM is growing into a much-bigger open-source virtualization project
Microsoft’s OpenVMM is growing fast into a much larger open-source effort. Nearly 100 contributors and more than 200 forks now surround the Rust-based virtualization platform.…
NVIDIA Backs Massive Ohio AI Campus for OpenAI With $1.5 Billion SB (SoftBank) Energy Investment
NVIDIA is backing OpenAI’s future computing goals with serious money. The company today announced that it’ll invest $1.5 billion in SB (SoftBank) Energy while securing…
Xbox Reportedly Explored Having “Activision Help Develop Halo Game”
Halo’s future may have taken a bizarre detour behind closed doors. Microsoft reportedly explored bringing Activision into the franchise, with Sledgehammer Games considered for multiplayer…
GitHub Is Down in Latest Outage: API, Actions, Copilot and More Affected
GitHub is having a seriously rough afternoon. What started with specific service problems has turned into a widespread outage affecting developers, repositories, APIs, Copilot, and…
Microsoft Is Modernizing Windows 11’s Print Management Tool
Windows 11 is getting a modern WinUI 3 Print Management app as Microsoft continues replacing older administrative interfaces. The redesigned tool has now appeared in…