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You can search for files in Windows using Copilot now - here's how

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-11-09 16:55:50

Microsoft ZDNET's key takeaways You can now search for files through the Copilot app. The new search requires a Copilot+ PC and Windows 11 insider access. The feature works by scanning the files in your Recents folder. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Microsoft continues to expand the power and reach of its Copilot AI to provide greater assistance, especially to Windows users. A new skill now rolling out will let you use the Windows Copilot

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A Digital Underground Is Using the Flipper Zero to Break Into Cars

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-09 18:50:40

Its creators call it a “multi-tool” device. For many users, it’s a hacking accessory. Since it first debuted in 2020, the Flipper Zero has been considered a fun, low-key pen-tester, but a new report bolsters claims made by the tool’s critics, many of whom have argued that it makes nefarious hacking just a little too easy. 404 Media reports that claims the Flipper has become a favorite in a digital underground where low-level hackers create and sell their own software to modify the tool’s abilit

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Microsoft’s Xbox handheld is a good first step toward a Windows gaming OS

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-11-09 17:00:00

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. The first thing I did when I got my hands on the Xbox Ally was reboot it. I wanted to see exactly how Microsoft manages to hide Windows beneath the Xbox interface that’s debuting on these handheld devices. After a short startup, I was met with the standard Windows login prompt. But I could use the controller to input the PIN code, an immediate improvement over what’s available

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Adding my home electricity uptime to status.href.cat

news.ycombinator.com .Wp-Block-Post-Author-Name Box-Sizing Border-Box 2025-11-10 03:54:15

status.href.cat now reports and notifies me if my home power/internet goes down! The other day, PG&E and my landlord emailed me about a power outage. The elevator system needed a technician to reset it. All the e-key readers in the lobby no longer work. This got me wondering, how long was the power out for? With this, I decided to add uptime stats for my home electricity. PG&E emailed about the power outage. 10 minutes later, my power was restored. My landlord emailed, reporting all the things

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Microsoft asks customers for feedback on reported SSD failures

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-10 08:48:35

Microsoft is seeking further information from customers who reported failure and data corruption issues affecting their solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs) after installing the August 2025 security update. Microsoft told BleepingComputer on Wednesday that it is aware of reports that installing the KB5063878 security update is causing SSD and HDD data corruption and failure issues. In a service alert seen by BleepingComputer, the company added that it couldn't reproduce the i

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Launch HN: Skope (YC S25) – Outcome-based pricing for software products

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 09:09:38

Hi HN, we’re Ben and Connor, the co-founders of Skope ( https://www.useskope.com/ ), a billing system that supports outcome-based pricing for software—that is, which charges your customers only when your software actually works. We’re an alternative to Stripe Billing, Orb, and Metronome that natively supports this pricing model, because we believe it’s especially needed for the AI products which are flooding the market and that will continue to be built in the future. Here’s a demo video: https

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Microsoft asks customers for feedback on SSD failure issues

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-10 14:48:35

Microsoft is seeking further information from customers who reported failure and data corruption issues affecting their solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs) after installing the August 2025 security update. Microsoft told BleepingComputer on Wednesday that it is aware of reports that installing the KB5063878 security update is causing SSD and HDD data corruption and failure issues. In a service alert seen by BleepingComputer, the company added that it couldn't reproduce the i

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Oh No, ‘World of Warcraft’ Is Getting Me Elf-Pilled Again

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-10 14:56:42

As someone who has played World of Warcraft on and off for what now qualifies as a significant portion of my life over the last 21 years, I’ve come to learn that there are two things that I deeply appreciate about Blizzard’s long-running fantasy MMO. The first is the way Warcraft has sat with, and handled, the evolution of its world and characters over those two decades as an ongoing entity. Well, that’s not really the first. Because the actual first is that I just really love Warcraft‘s elves.

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Microsoft employee arrested at headquarters while protesting Israel contracts

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-11-10 18:33:08

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A Microsoft employee has been arrested as part of protests at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington this week. On Tuesday, a group of current and former Microsoft employees, as well as community members, took over a plaza at Microsoft’s headquarters to protest against the compan

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Microsoft's gutting of discounts for some clients likely baked into guidance, analyst says

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-11-11 10:18:04

Microsoft said last week that it plans to stop providing discounts on enterprise purchases of its Microsoft 365 productivity software subscriptions and other cloud applications. Since the announcement, analysts have published estimates on how much more customers will end up paying. But for investors trying to figure out what it all means to Microsoft's financials, analysts at UBS said the change is already factored into guidance. "In our view, it is safe to assume that the impact of the pricin

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Video Games Weekly: Silksong and Gamescom

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-11 18:16:35

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday (or Wednesday, whatever), broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a reporter who's covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains the video game stories from the past week that you need to know about, including some headlines from outside of Engadget. Please enjoy — and I'll see you next week.

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Google declares the green vs blue bubbles debate ‘silly and tired’

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-11-11 23:30:01

Today’s Made By Google event was full of interesting announcements, ranging from the new Pixel 10 lineup and the Pixel Watch 4 to impressive AI demos. During the event (which was bizarrely hosted by Jimmy Fallon), Google’s VP of marketing Adrienne Lofton also declared the green vs blue bubbles debate “over.” The comments came during a segment with Lofton and Fallon showing off the new Pixel 10 lineup. Lofton asked Fallon whether he knew what RCS was, to which he responded he had no idea. Here

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Palantir stock falls for sixth-straight day in longest losing streak since April 2024

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-11-12 04:04:35

Palantir shares sank further into correction territory Wednesday after six straight days of heavy selling. The slide marks the longest such streak for the artificial intelligence software company since April 2024, and brings shares down 18% from the recent intraday record. Shares closed in correction territory on Tuesday after accumulating a 15% loss from the highs. Wednesday's moves also dropped Palantir out of the 20 most valuable U.S. companies ranking. The software analytics company achiev

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FTC Sues Gym Chains for Making It Hard to Cancel Memberships

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-11-12 04:10:47

The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against the operators of several gym chains, including LA Fitness, on Wednesday over allegations that they make it too difficult to cancel memberships. And that’s probably welcome news for anyone who’s had the displeasure of trying to cancel with their gym. The companies being sued by the FTC are Fitness International and Fitness & Sports Clubs, which own gym chains like Esporta Fitness, City Sports Club, and Club Studio. The largest chain, LA Fitnes

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Palantir stock plummets 18% from highs in longest losing streak since April 2024

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-11-12 09:56:31

Palantir shares sank further into correction territory Wednesday after six straight days of heavy selling. The slide marks the longest such streak for the artificial intelligence software company since April 2024, and brings shares down 18% from the recent intraday record. Shares closed in correction territory on Tuesday after accumulating a 15% loss from the highs. Palantir's slide followed a broader market sell-off and came on the heels of a short seller report from Andrew Left's Citron Rese

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Windows 11 test brings AI file search to the Copilot app

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-12 14:54:52

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft is testing out a Windows 11 update that lets you use AI to search through your files and images directly from the Copilot app. This test is currently rolling out to Windows Insiders on Copilot Plus PCs and allows you to use more descriptive language wh

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Get up to a $300 Amazon gift card when you pre-order a Google Pixel 10 phone

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-12 18:45:04

Google just revealed a spate of new devices, including a line of Pixel 10 smartphones. Amazon has joined the hype train early, as it now offers gift cards when pre-ordering one of these handsets. The gift cards range in value from $100 to $300, depending on what device is purchased. Perhaps the most notable is a $200 gift card when pre-ordering the Pixel 10 Pro with 128GB of storage. This model costs $1,000, so that basically drops the price down to $800. The Pixel 10 Pro offers wireless chargi

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Xbox unveils its Handheld Compatibility Program

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-12 23:26:35

Microsoft announced Wednesday during Gamescom 2025 that not only will its Xbox Ally handhelds be released on October 16, but the company is spinning up a new initiative to support optimized gaming on these devices called the Handheld Compatibility Program. The initiative seems to be similar to Valve's Steam Deck Verified , where Xbox will test games to ensure their compatibility with the new Xbox Ally handhelds. "We have worked with game studios to test, optimize, and verify thousands of games

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‘ReAnimator’ Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary With a Re-Release and Glowing Green Merch

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-11-12 23:00:08

Somehow it’s been 40 years since Stuart Gordon‘s H.G. Lovecraft-inspired Re-Animator hit theaters, boasting an instant-classic performance by Jeffrey Combs as Dr. Herbert West, Miskatonic University’s most unhinged medical student turned mad scientist. There’s splatter, there’s gore, there’s body horror, and there’s the most distressing severed head scene in the history of cinema. To mark the monumental anniversary of one of the most beloved cult classics ever, Re-Animator is returning to theate

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Sony Raises Prices of PlayStation 5 Consoles

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-12 22:38:00

Back Services & Software All the news and tips you need to get the most out of services, apps and software you use every day.

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Palantir stock plummets 20% from highs in longest losing streak since April 2024

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-11-13 04:48:39

Palantir shares sank into bear market territory Wednesday after six-straight days of heavy selling. The slide marks the longest such streak for the artificial intelligence software company since April 2024, and brings shares down 20% from the recent record. Shares closed in correction territory on Tuesday after accumulating a 15% loss from the highs. Palantir's slide followed a broader market selloff and came on the heels of a short-seller report from Andrew Left's Citron Research. He called t

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Hackers steal Microsoft logins using legitimate ADFS redirects

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-13 04:33:54

Hackers are using a novel technique that combines legitimate office.com links with Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) to redirect users to a phishing page that steals Microsoft 365 logins. The method lets attackers bypass traditional URL-based detection and the multi-factor authentication process by leveraging a trusted domain on Microsoft's infrastructure for the initial redirect. Legitimacy of a trusted redirect Researchers at Push Security, a company that provides protection solut

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Microsoft investigates outage impacting Copilot, Office.com

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-13 09:17:25

Microsoft is investigating an ongoing issue preventing users across North America from accessing Office.com and the company's Copilot AI-powered assistant. According to user reports on DownDetector, this incident began impacting Microsoft's services almost two hours ago and is currently triggering server connection problems and causing issues when trying to log into accounts. "Impact is specific to some users attempting to access Office.com and m365.cloud.microsoft. The majority of reports are

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Excel's new Copilot function turns your prompts into formulas - how to try it

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-11-13 14:50:15

Microsoft / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways A new COPILOT function in Excel lets you use AI in a formula. The new skill is now available to Microsoft 365 insiders. Reduces some of the complexity involved in creating formulas. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Using functions in Excel can sometimes be challenging, especially if you're trying to devise complex formulas to work with your data. Now Mic

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We Now Know Everything About the First Xbox Handheld (Except the Most Important Thing)

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-11-13 14:40:03

The Asus ROG Xbox Ally is a mouthful of a name for a device, and yet I can’t stop saying the name—like I’m casting a spell—as we slide further toward the end of the year. At Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, Microsoft and Asus are giving players a chance to wrap their mitts around the strange Xbox controller-like grips of the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X. While the companies will tell you when you’ll eventually be able to pick one off a store shelf, they’re not quite ready to tell you how much it’ll co

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Microsoft and Asus’ answers to SteamOS and the Steam Deck launch on October 16

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-13 14:40:27

Asus and Microsoft will be launching their ROG Xbox Ally series of handheld gaming PCs starting October 16, according to an Asus announcement that went out today. An Xbox-branded extension of Asus' existing ROG Ally handheld line, the basic ROG Xbox Ally and more powerful ROG Xbox Ally X, both run a version of Windows 11 Home that's been redesigned with a controller-first Xbox-style user interface. The idea is to preserve the wide game compatibility of Windows—and the wide compatibility with mu

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Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers

news.ycombinator.com Zack Korman 2025-11-14 04:18:00

Like most tech companies, Microsoft is going all-in on AI. Their flagship AI product, Copilot (in all its various forms), allows people to utilize AI in their daily work to interact with Microsoft services and generally perform tasks. Unfortunately, this also creates a wide range of new security problems. On July 4th, I came across a problem in M365 Copilot: Sometimes it would access a file and return the information, but the audit log would not reflect that. Upon testing further, I discovered

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Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contracts

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-11-14 23:22:39

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. On Tuesday, a group of current and former Microsoft employees, as well as community members, took over a plaza at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, as part of a No Azure for Apartheid protest. They declared the area a “Liberated Zone” encampment and said they had changed its name from East Campus Plaza to “The Mar

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 arrives on November 14

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-15 03:08:34

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 will launch on November 14. Microsoft revealed the release date for the upcoming shooter sequel alongside a new trailer during Opening Night Live at Gamescom 2025. Notably, while Black Ops 7 will be on PC, PlayStation and Xbox at launch, it'll skip the Switch 2, despite a binding legal agreement between Microsoft and Nintendo that requires that the company's consoles receive the same access to Call of Duty as Xbox. Similar to past games in the series, Call of Duty: Bla

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Microsoft shares workaround for Teams "couldn't connect" error

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-15 09:07:14

Microsoft is resolving a known issue that causes "couldn't connect" errors when launching the Microsoft Teams desktop and web applications. The company states that the error is caused by a recent change to Teams' sidebar, but has yet to disclose which regions are affected by this ongoing issue. While Microsoft has yet to share more information on the extent of this issue, it has tagged it as an advisory, which typically indicates that the problem might be limited in scope or intermittent. "Af

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Latest Tech News

You can search for files in Windows using Copilot now - here's how

A Digital Underground Is Using the Flipper Zero to Break Into Cars

Microsoft’s Xbox handheld is a good first step toward a Windows gaming OS

Adding my home electricity uptime to status.href.cat

Microsoft asks customers for feedback on reported SSD failures

Launch HN: Skope (YC S25) – Outcome-based pricing for software products

Microsoft asks customers for feedback on SSD failure issues

Oh No, ‘World of Warcraft’ Is Getting Me Elf-Pilled Again

Microsoft employee arrested at headquarters while protesting Israel contracts

Microsoft's gutting of discounts for some clients likely baked into guidance, analyst says

Video Games Weekly: Silksong and Gamescom

Google declares the green vs blue bubbles debate ‘silly and tired’

Palantir stock falls for sixth-straight day in longest losing streak since April 2024

FTC Sues Gym Chains for Making It Hard to Cancel Memberships

Palantir stock plummets 18% from highs in longest losing streak since April 2024

Windows 11 test brings AI file search to the Copilot app

Get up to a $300 Amazon gift card when you pre-order a Google Pixel 10 phone

Xbox unveils its Handheld Compatibility Program

‘ReAnimator’ Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary With a Re-Release and Glowing Green Merch

Sony Raises Prices of PlayStation 5 Consoles

Palantir stock plummets 20% from highs in longest losing streak since April 2024

Hackers steal Microsoft logins using legitimate ADFS redirects

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Excel's new Copilot function turns your prompts into formulas - how to try it

We Now Know Everything About the First Xbox Handheld (Except the Most Important Thing)

Microsoft and Asus’ answers to SteamOS and the Steam Deck launch on October 16

Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers

Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contracts

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 arrives on November 14

Microsoft shares workaround for Teams "couldn't connect" error

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