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Microsoft Probes Unit 8200 Azure Surveillance as Executives Doubt Israel Staff Transparency
Microsoft is conducting an internal investigation into how Israel’s elite military intelligence unit used Azure cloud services for large-scale surveillance of Palestinians, amid rising concerns...
GitHub CEO Defends AI Performance Reviews as ‘Fair Game,’ Steps Down Days Later
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has publicly endorsed a controversial Microsoft memo that ties employee AI usage to performance evaluations, calling it “totally fair game” — and just four days later...
California Resident Sues Microsoft Over Windows 10 End-of-Life, Seeks Free Security Updates
A San Diego resident has filed a lawsuit demanding that Microsoft continue providing free security updates for Windows 10 beyond its planned October 14, 2025 cutoff, alleging the end-of-life date is...
Lawsuit Challenges Windows 10 End of Life as Microsoft Ties $30 ESU to Account Requirement
A California resident has asked a state court to halt Microsoft’s plan to end free security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, arguing the cutoff is an act of forced obsolescence designed...
Google Blocks Fingerprinting Scripts in Chrome Incognito With a Masked Domain List
Google has begun testing a new Incognito-mode protection that blocks third-party scripts from using browser fingerprinting techniques to re-identify users across sites. The feature, called Script...
Microsoft Edge Canary Flags Reveal Pin-to-Taskbar Campaign Aimed at Chrome Addicts
Microsoft Edge Canary, the nightly build of Microsoft’s browser, has exposed a set of internal feature flags that reveal a campaign to target heavy Google Chrome users with a taskbar-pinning...
GPT-5 Powers New Free 'Smart Mode' in Windows 11 Copilot, No Subscription Needed
Windows 11 users can now tap into GPT-5’s most advanced reasoning capabilities for free, thanks to a quiet server-side update that adds a ‘Smart mode’ to Microsoft Copilot. The feature, which...
Microsoft’s 200,000 Copilot Chat Analysis: Translators, Writers Top AI Threat List at 49%
Interpreters and translators face a 49% AI applicability score, according to Microsoft’s unprecedented analysis of 200,000 anonymized Copilot conversations—a finding that catapults knowledge...
GitHub CEO Defends Microsoft's AI Performance Review Memo as 'Totally Fair Game' Days Before Announcing Resignation
Thomas Dohmke, the chief executive of GitHub, has forcefully defended a controversial internal Microsoft memo that urged managers to factor AI tool usage into employee performance evaluations,...
Goodbye Microsoft Lens: Copilot Takes Over Scanning as Retirement Deadlines Loom
Microsoft Lens, the free mobile scanning app that has helped millions of users digitize documents, whiteboards, and receipts for over a decade, is officially being retired. The company confirmed a...
Microsoft Copilot 3D: A Free, Fast Image-to-3D Tool That's Great for Prototyping (With Major Caveats)
Microsoft just made 3D modeling as easy as snapping a photo. On August 11, 2025, the company quietly launched Copilot 3D, a free, browser-based experiment that converts a single JPG or PNG image into...
California Lawsuit Demands Free Windows 10 Updates Until 10% Market Share, Alleges AI Monopoly Play
A Southern California resident has filed a lawsuit in San Diego Superior Court aiming to block Microsoft’s planned October 14, 2025 end-of-support for Windows 10, demanding that the company...