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Laptop prices suck these days, so here are some Prime Day deals that help a little

The RAM, storage, and component crunch has come for new laptop prices. Plenty of models have gone up in price after being on the market for months, and so have those that’ve been on shelves for over a year. Plus, many new models are releasing at higher prices than the previous generation. So, it really […]

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Cloudflare teams up with Chrome, Firefox, and Edge on a privacy-first anti-bot protocol

Cloudflare has announced a joint initiative with Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Edge to develop a new internet protocol that verifies whether web traffic is legitimate without tracking users. The protocol, called Private Access Control Tokens, is designed to replace CAPTCHAs and forced logins with anonymous tokens that prove a visitor is human or […]

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Microsoft’s Nadella turns on the AI giants he helped build

In a blunt interview, Satya Nadella warned that the AI giants cannot keep promising mass job losses while demanding the power to build whatever they want. Microsoft’s answer: cheaper models, more control for customers, and a pitch for the public’s trust. Satya Nadella helped start the AI boom. Now he has a warning for the […]

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Microsoft turns to Chevron’s gas to power a Texas data centre

The Chevron Microsoft gas deal hands the oil major a 20-year contract to power a giant West Texas data centre. For a company that built its AI plans on renewables and nuclear, that is a sharp turn. Chevron will power one of the largest data centres in the United States by burning natural gas. The […]

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Microsoft’s June update fixed 208 security flaws and introduced a cascade of new bugs across all Windows versions

Microsoft’s June 2026 Patch Tuesday update is causing problems across every supported version of Windows. KB5094126, released on June 9, patched a record 208 security vulnerabilities, but the update has introduced a string of bugs that range from cosmetic annoyances to machines locked out of their own drives. The most visible issue affects the Recycle […]

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Microsoft finds USB worm that steals cryptocurrency through clipboard hijacking and Tor

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has identified a new strain of self-propagating malware that spreads through USB drives, monitors the Windows clipboard for cryptocurrency wallet addresses and seed phrases, and routes all stolen data through a portable Tor client to avoid detection. The campaign has been active since at least February 2026, according to Microsoft’s analysis published […]

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The EU is about to declare AWS and Azure gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act

The European Commission is set to unveil preliminary findings as early as next week stating that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure appear to meet the requirements to be designated as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act, Bloomberg reported. A final decision is expected by the end of 2026, though timelines could shift. If designated, […]

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ByteDance is Microsoft’s biggest AI customer, even as Washington treats Chinese AI as a threat

ByteDance has generally been Microsoft’s single biggest AI customer in recent years, and it is on track to spend more than $1bn a year on Microsoft’s AI and cloud services, Bloomberg reports. The striking part is what the TikTok owner is mostly buying: OpenAI models, sold through Microsoft’s Azure cloud, in a market that OpenAI […]

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Microsoft might put China’s DeepSeek inside Copilot to tame its AI bills

Microsoft is considering putting a Chinese AI model inside its enterprise Copilot, and the reason is money. The company told Axios it is exploring a self-hosted, fine-tuned version of DeepSeek V4, or another open-source model, as a cheaper option to power Copilot Cowork, the agentic assistant in its Microsoft 365 suite. It expects to offer […]

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