GoKawiil - Tech News

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Big Tech's Anthropic and OpenAI stakes are distorting the corporate earnings picture (cnbc.com)

2026-08-03 | by Kate Rooney | tags: anthropic, openai, microsoft

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Microsoft Is Bringing Xbox 360 Games to PC (slashdot.org)

2026-08-03 | tags: xbox 360, microsoft, game pass

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Hotel Wi-Fi attacks use custom malware to breach Microsoft 365 accounts (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: microsoft 365, midnight blizzard, cornflake

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Microsoft CEO Touts His Own DIY AI Project To Wall Street and His 20 Million Followers (slashdot.org)

2026-08-03 | tags: microsoft, satya nadella, copilot

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New Micron lawsuit reignites fight over New York fab — complaint alleges 'forever chemicals' will flow into Oneida River (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-03 | by Jake Roach | tags: micron, new york, pfas

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Xbox 360 games are reportedly coming to PC as well (engadget.com)

2026-08-03 | by Kris Holt | tags: xbox 360, microsoft, project helix

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AI is both a cyber weapon and a massive target, CrowdStrike warns (zdnet.com)

2026-08-03 | by Charlie Osborne | tags: crowdstrike, large language models, cybersecurity

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Windows is testing a new way to preview Android phone notifications (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: windows, android, microsoft

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Amazon tops $3 trillion market cap as stock continues post-earnings surge (cnbc.com)

2026-08-03 | by Cj Haddad | tags: amazon, amazon web services, microsoft azure

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Can Microsoft Really Make Windows 11 Suck Less on Weak PCs? (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: microsoft, windows 11, ram

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Ancient Life Discovered in Antarctica’s ‘Blood Falls’ May Finally Reveal Its Origins (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: antartica, blood falls, microorganisms

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Microsoft raises European Xbox prices by up to £200 — RAMpocalypse and component shortages force major console markups (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-03 | by Mark Tyson | tags: xbox series x, microsoft, component shortages

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Today in Can It Run Doom?: Microsoft Paint! (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: microsoft paint, doom, can it run

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Windows Task Manager's original creator is bringing a new version to Mac first (techspot.com)

2026-08-03 | by Alfonso Maruccia | tags: task manager, microsoft, macos

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Microsoft is bringing Xbox 360 games to PC (theverge.com)

2026-08-03 | by Jay Peters | tags: xbox 360, microsoft, project helix

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'AI's Decimation of Call Center Jobs Has Begun' (slashdot.org)

2026-08-03 | by Posted | tags: microsoft, uber, call center automation

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Cops Mistype Username, Send Innocent Man to Prison for 18 Months (futurism.com)

2026-08-03 | by Frank Landymore | tags: kik, fus_ro_dah, elder scrolls

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Xbox Series X price hiked by £170 due to rising memory chip costs (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-08-03 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | tags: xbox series x, microsoft, memory chip

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ChatGPT dominates early AI spending in Congress as lawmakers weigh regulation (cnbc.com)

2026-08-03 | by Luke Fountain Emily Wilkins | tags: chatgpt, openai, congress

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Doom now "runs" in Microsoft Paint thanks to a wildly inventive clipboard trick (techspot.com)

2026-08-03 | by Rob Thubron | tags: doom, microsoft paint, vizdoom

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Show HN: MicroCodex Coding Agent – OpenAI/codex reimplemented in C++ <1MB binary (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: openai, microcodex, github

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Xbox consoles are now much more expensive in the EU and UK (engadget.com)

2026-08-02 | by Jackson Chen | tags: xbox series x, microsoft, price hike

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Stop graphing everything: When GraphRAG actually beats vector RAG (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: graphrag, retrieval-augmented generation, microsoft

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Which USB adapters should you actually keep in 2026? (engadget.com)

2026-08-02 | by Ben Stegner | tags: usb adapters, usb serial bus, cross-device compatibility

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Microsoft Paint used as a 'monitor' to run Doom at up to 35 fps, project released by firm's Azure CTO — runs actual Doom engine and loads real shareware DOOM1.WAD (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-02 | by Mark Tyson | tags: microsoft, doom, azure

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F*: A general-purpose proof-oriented programming language (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: f* (f star), ocaml, microsoft research

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Xbox prices are increasing by up to €200 or £170 (theverge.com)

2026-08-02 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: xbox series x, microsoft, price increase

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Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | by Blagovest Petrov | tags: bor, firewalld, thunderbird

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Cyberscript (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: cyberscript, fibers, jit

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Is Big Tech's AI Gamble Starting to Look Riskier? (slashdot.org)

2026-08-02 | by Posted | tags: big tech, ai models, google