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Microsoft announces three new Xbox console options and hints at its Xbox handheld plans
By Mark Tyson published
Xbox Series X gets a new 1TB Digital Edition and a 2TB Special Edition.
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Door slammed on last remaining easy Windows 11 local account setup workaround
By Jowi Morales published
Microsoft blocks the last easy way to bypass an online account requirement when setting up a new Windows 11 PC.
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Windows 11 24H2 may block connections to unsecured third-party NAS devices — Microsoft enables SMB signing for enhanced security
By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published
Better late than never, Microsoft disabled two protocols by default which will secure over a billion PCs and NAS
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Open-standard AI accelerator interconnect is being developed by AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Google, Microsoft, others
By Anton Shilov published
Several major companies develop Ultra Accelerator Link for AI accelerators, but fail to bring Nvidia on their side.
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Microsoft developer demos .NET on the NES — delivers .NES
By Christopher Harper published
Gratuitous .NET backporting goes from the arguably-practical Windows 95 platform to the Mario-practical Nintendo Entertainment System.
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Windows 11 LTSC 2024 arrives making TPM and Secure Boot optional
By Jeff Butts published
Microsoft is rolling out Windows 11 LTSC 2024, so hardware designers making devices dependent on the OS can use these system requirements to guide their component choices.
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Snapdragon X Elite shows 2X higher multi-threaded performance than Apple M2 in new benchmarks
By Jowi Morales published
The Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 had more than double the performance of an Apple M2 device in a CPU-Z multi-threaded benchmark test.
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Microsoft suffering from outage — Bing, Copilot, and DuckDuckGo inaccessible for several hours
By Jowi Morales published
Bing, DuckDuckGo, Copilot, and Designer are down worldwide.
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