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Microsoft Officially Retires 'Blue Screen of Death' After 40 Years of Frowny-Faces

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-13 00:25:00

Another 1980s icon is gone, like Pudding Pops and Benetton sweaters. After 40 years of delivering the tragic news of a PC crash to Windows users, Microsoft's infamous "blue screen of death" will be going away. But not to worry -- a black screen of death will be replacing it, albeit without the sad emoticon face. The infamous "blue screen of death" has been around since the very first version of Windows in 1985. Named for its bright blue color, it's a critical error screen that pops up on comput

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Microsoft Officially Retires 'Blue Screen of Death' After 40 Frowny-Face Years

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-13 05:25:00

Another 1980s icon is gone, like Pudding Pops and Benetton sweaters. After 40 years of delivering the tragic news of a PC crash to Windows users, Microsoft's infamous "blue screen of death" will be going away. But not to worry -- a black screen of death will be replacing it, albeit without the sad emoticon face. The infamous "blue screen of death" has been around since the very first version of Windows in 1985. Named for its bright blue color, it's a critical error screen that pops up on comput

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FTC approves $126 million in Fortnite refunds over ‘dark patterns’

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-13 14:27:08

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved $126,000,000 in refunds to be sent to 969,173 Fortnite players as part of a settlement over allegations that Epic Games tricked users into making unwanted purchases. At the same time, the agency has reopened the claims portal for eligible Fortnite players to submit refund claims, which will be examined for the third round of refunds. This latest development marks the second phase of the settlement the FTC reached with Epic Games in December 2022,

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Microsoft says goodbye to the Windows blue screen of death

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-09-13 18:29:11

Digital boards are seen due to the global communications outage caused by CrowdStrike, which provides cyber security services to US technology company Microsoft, it was observed that some digital billboards in Times Square in New York City, United States, displayed a blue screen and some screens went completely black on July on 19, 2024. It's a bittersweet day for Windows users. Microsoft is scrapping its iconic "blue screen of death," known for appearing during unexpected restarts on Windows

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"Nonsensical Benchmark Hacking": Microsoft No Longer Believes OpenAI Is Capable of Achieving AGI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-13 21:26:32

The love's gone bad between Microsoft and OpenAI, whose lucrative partnership ushered in our age of AI hype. OpenAI is trying to convert into a for-profit company, but it's so far failed to secure its benefactor's approval and negotiate a new contract. The frustration is running so high that the ChatGPT maker is reportedly considering bring an antitrust suit against Microsoft if it doesn't get its way. As the Wall Street Journal reports, one thing driving a wedge between them is the industry's

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SigNoz (YC W21, Open Source Datadog) Is Hiring DevRel Engineers (Remote)(US)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-13 22:43:37

SigNoz is a global open source project with users in 30+ countries. We are building an open-source application monitoring which helps developers monitor their applications and troubleshoot problems, quickly. We have crossed 21000+ Github stars, 6000+ members in the slack community and 150+ contributors. Company Vision Software and digital systems are becoming larger parts of our daily lives. Most companies are becoming software companies with increasing part of value they create coming from s

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The Xbox 360 dashboard just got updated… to advertise newer Xboxes

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-09-13 22:40:34

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Earlier this week some devoted Xbox 360 users booted up their aging consoles to find that Microsoft had updated the home screen to finally resolve an issue with box art. But in addition to that fix, several users on Reddit, as well as Kotaku, have confirmed the update also adds some sizable ads for the Xbox Series X / S consoles to the 360’s dash

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Microsoft Is Having an Incredibly Embarrassing Problem With Its AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-14 01:29:33

Despite investing tens of billions of dollars into OpenAI, tech giant Microsoft has a problem: it's in direct competition with its business partner, and OpenAI is winning. As Bloomberg reports, Microsoft salespeople are having trouble wooing both potential and existing customers with the company's Copilot, its AI assistant built on OpenAI's tech. Basically, it feels like a worse version of ChatGPT — which has a free version online. Some companies, like the New York Life Insurance Co, told the

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Windows is finally kicking the Blue Screen of Death to the curb

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-14 02:20:11

The notorious Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) is finally heading to a junkyard upstate. This error message has been a key part of the Windows experience for almost 40 years. Microsoft has been teasing this change for years , but now we know the crash screen will be removed in an update to Windows 11 that's coming later this summer . Windows computers are still going to crash , so there needs to be some sort of error screen. Microsoft is transitioning to a Black Screen of Death instead. This new cra

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Microsoft Is Getting Rid of Passwords in One Month. Here's What You Need to Do ASAP

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-14 01:00:00

If you rely on Microsoft Authenticator to store your passwords, time is winding down. Starting in August, Microsoft will require you to use passkeys instead of keeping all of your Microsoft passwords on its mobile app and your old passwords will vanish. But that's not bad news. Passkeys can cut out risky password habits that 49% of US adults have, according to a recent CNET survey. Making it a practice to use the same password for multiple accounts or include personal hints, like your birthday

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45-hour voyage in replica canoe tests Paleolithic migration theory

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-14 02:02:30

Earlier this week, we reported on a Swedish archaeologist who spent the last three years sailing the fjords in a replica boat similar to those the Vikings may have used. Not to be outdone, Japanese researchers have followed suit, building their own seaworthy dugout canoe with Paleolithic-era tools to cross between Taiwan and Yonaguni Island, where one of the world’s strongest ocean currents, the Kuroshio, remains active. They presented their findings in two new papers published in the journal S

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13-inch Microsoft Surface Laptop review: A slightly worse version of a year-old PC

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-14 02:27:34

Microsoft's new 13-inch Surface Laptop is an odd one. It's inarguably a step down in every respect from last year's 13.8-inch Surface Laptop. But it's also too good (and too expensive) to be considered a replacement for the Surface Laptop Go, the company's perennially overpriced and underspecced entry-level laptop. It's cheaper than last year's Surfaces, but mostly because Microsoft gave those devices a de facto price hike by killing the entry-level configurations of those PCs. We're left with

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Windows is getting rid of the Blue Screen of Death after 40 years

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-09-14 05:46:42

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) has held strong in Windows for nearly 40 years, but that’s about to change. Microsoft revealed earlier this year that it was overhauling its BSOD error message in Windows 11, and the company has now confirmed that it will soon be known as the Black Screen of Death. The new design drops the traditional blue color, frowning face, and QR code in fav

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What is an Xbox?

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-09-14 06:00:00

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft’s “This is an Xbox” marketing campaign in November always felt a little too early. If you ask a friend or family member what an Xbox is, the response is likely going to be “it’s a game console.” Xbox is ingrained in popular culture as a box under your TV that you play games on, but Microsoft’s ads over the past six months have been attempting to redefine the Xbox as a

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Microsoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-09-14 06:00:00

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. It’s been nearly a year since a faulty CrowdStrike update took down 8.5 million Windows-based machines around the world, and Microsoft wants to ensure such a problem never happens again. After holding a summit with security vendors last year, Microsoft is poised to release a private preview of Windows changes that will move antivirus (AV) and endpoint detection and response (ED

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Alert: There's a Lost Spaceship in the Ocean

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-14 17:59:05

It's lost forever? Dive Mind In science fiction, we often have the trope of a spacecraft becoming lost in space — but what about being lost at sea? That's what happened this week with an eight-foot-wide experimental spacecraft flown by a European aerospace outfit called The Exploration Company, according to a company statement on LinkedIn. When the vehicle came back to Earth, mission control lost contact with the craft when it entered the ocean. "The capsule was launched successfully, powere

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Microsoft confirms Family Safety blocks Google Chrome from launching

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-15 05:50:18

Microsoft has confirmed that its Family Safety parental control service is blocking users from launching Google Chrome and other web browsers on Windows systems. Microsoft Family Safety helps parents monitor their children's activity across desktop and mobile devices, providing screen time management, content filtering, app controls, location tracking, communication monitoring, and activity reports. Redmond acknowledged the bug after widespread user reports since early June that they were unab

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Microsoft fixes Outlook bug causing crashes when opening emails

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-15 06:26:17

Microsoft has fixed a known issue that will cause the classic Outlook email client to crash when opening emails or starting a new message. The bug impacts users across all Microsoft 365 Office channels who updated Outlook for Microsoft 365 earlier this month. "When you open or start a new email, classic Outlook crashes. This issue occurs because Outlook cannot open the Forms Library. The emerging cases for this issue are on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)," the Outlook team said when it a

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Dell 16 Plus 2-in-1 Review: The Mini-LED Display Shines but There's Little Else to Get Excited About

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-15 07:00:07

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. 7.3 / 10 SCORE Dell 16 Plus 2-in-1 $1,450 at Dell Pros Bright, striking mini-LED display Strong productivity performance Sturdy chassis Cons Poor battery life Subpar speakers Mushy keyboard At the beginning of 2025, Dell introduced a sweeping rebrand to its laptop product stack in an attempt to simplify its offerings. One of the results of the rebrand

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A European Startup’s Spacecraft Made It to Orbit. Now It’s Lost at Sea

wired.com Eric Berger 2025-09-15 17:25:49

A European company that seeks to develop orbital spacecraft for cargo, and eventually humans, took a step forward this week with a test flight that saw its Mission Possible vehicle power up and fly successfully in orbit before making a controlled reentry into Earth's atmosphere. However, after encountering an “issue,” the Exploration Company lost contact with its spacecraft a few minutes before touchdown in the ocean. In an update Tuesday morning on LinkedIn, the company characterized the test

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Microsoft Dependency Has Risks

news.ycombinator.com Miloslav Homer 2025-09-15 22:08:26

There was a recent incident where Microsoft somehow allegedly blocked a mailbox of a sanctioned individual. Any organization highly depending on MS products that might come into the crosshair should ask - can this happen to me? What would be the cost? How much I invest into prevention of this scenario? In this article I try to get the facts straight and use a return on security investment calculation to try and judge this situation in a rational way. Let’s grab our tinfoil hats and find out if i

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A European Startup's Spacecraft Made It to Orbit. Now It's Lost at Sea

wired.com Eric Berger 2025-09-15 22:25:49

A European company that seeks to develop orbital spacecraft for cargo, and eventually humans, took a step forward this week with a test flight that saw its Mission Possible vehicle power up and fly successfully in orbit before making a controlled reentry into Earth's atmosphere. However, after encountering an “issue,” the Exploration Company lost contact with its spacecraft a few minutes before touchdown in the ocean. In an update Tuesday morning on LinkedIn, the company characterized the test

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How PC makers exploited BIOS copyright strings to unlock trial software during the Windows 95 era

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-09-16 02:06:00

What just happened? Jokingly referred to as "Plug and Pray" due to its notorious unreliability, the Plug and Play standard was nonetheless a pivotal advancement in simplifying hardware and peripheral configuration during the early Windows 9x era. Beyond easing setup for end users, the technology also played an unexpected role in exposing a cartel of PC manufacturers that had been exploiting a hardware feature to provide full versions of trial software packages to their customers. Microsoft vete

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OpenAI might be stealth-building the ultimate Google Workspace and Office 365 replacement

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-09-16 06:10:12

Eugene Mymrin/Getty Images OpenAI is building new features within ChatGPT that would make it a direct competitor with workplace productivity suites like Google Workplace and Microsoft Office 365, The Information reported Tuesday. ZDNET has reached out to OpenAI for comment. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis, ZDNET's parent company, filed an April 2025 lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.) Also: How to get Windows 10 extended secur

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Trump’s FTC announces merger condition that prohibits advertising boycotts

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-16 10:41:39

The Federal Trade Commission is approving a merger of big advertising agencies after extracting an agreement that the combined firm won't lead or participate in any advertising boycotts based on political or ideological viewpoints. The merger condition is a new strategy in the Republican-controlled FTC's fight against alleged advertising boycotts, which could help Elon Musk's X social network and President Trump's own Truth Social platform. The FTC proposal surfaced in a news report earlier thi

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AI Agents Are Getting Better at Writing Code—and Hacking It as Well

wired.com Will Knight 2025-09-16 09:58:50

The latest artificial intelligence models are not only remarkably good at software engineering—new research shows they are getting ever-better at finding bugs in software, too. AI researchers at UC Berkeley tested how well the latest AI models and agents could find vulnerabilities in 188 large open source codebases. Using a new benchmark called CyberGym, the AI models identified 17 new bugs including 15 previously unknown, or “zero-day,” ones. “Many of these vulnerabilities are critical,” says

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Was laid off from Microsoft after 23 years, and I'm still going into the office

news.ycombinator.com As Told To 2025-09-13 09:36:55

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Freddy Kristiansen, a 59-year-old former principal product manager at Microsoft's Denmark office who was laid off in May. Business Insider has verified Kristiansen's employment. The following has been edited for length and clarity. A couple of weeks ago, after 23 years at Microsoft, I was laid off. Yet here I am, back in the office.

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Is this $600 Acer the best laptop deal right now? I tested it, and here's my verdict

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-09-16 22:30:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The Acer Swift Go 14 (2024) is on sale now at B&H for $599. It's a lightweight, responsive laptop with a touchscreen, and a slick media playback menu. However, for a laptop so optimized for media, its speakers aren't the best. $599 at B&H Photo-Video The 14-inch Acer Swift Go was among the first round of laptops to come loaded with Intel's Meteor Lake AI processors last year, and it does so for $899 (on sale now for $599), a mid-range price point right in the sweet spot

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Microsoft extends free Windows 10 security updates into 2026 – with a catch

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-09-17 06:46:00

In brief: Microsoft plans to end support for Windows 10 this October despite its enduring popularity and the fact that hundreds of millions of usable PCs don't support Windows 11. The company recently introduced a new option for personal devices to receive another year of security updates, but it requires using OneDrive. After Windows 10 reaches end-of-life status on October 14, users who enroll in Windows Backup will continue receiving security updates through October 13, 2026, at no extra cos

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This Acer laptop has a game-changing feature for multimedia consumption (and it's $300 off)

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-09-17 12:50:13

ZDNET's key takeaways The Acer Swift Go 14 (2024) is on sale now at B&H for $599. It's a lightweight, responsive laptop with a touchscreen, and a slick media playback menu. However, for a laptop so optimized for media, its speakers aren't the best. $599 at B&H Photo-Video The 14-inch Acer Swift Go was among the first round of laptops to come loaded with Intel's Meteor Lake AI processors last year, and it does so for $899 (on sale now for $599), a mid-range price point right in the sweet spot

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Microsoft Officially Retires 'Blue Screen of Death' After 40 Years of Frowny-Faces

Microsoft Officially Retires 'Blue Screen of Death' After 40 Frowny-Face Years

FTC approves $126 million in Fortnite refunds over ‘dark patterns’

Microsoft says goodbye to the Windows blue screen of death

"Nonsensical Benchmark Hacking": Microsoft No Longer Believes OpenAI Is Capable of Achieving AGI

SigNoz (YC W21, Open Source Datadog) Is Hiring DevRel Engineers (Remote)(US)

The Xbox 360 dashboard just got updated… to advertise newer Xboxes

Microsoft Is Having an Incredibly Embarrassing Problem With Its AI

Windows is finally kicking the Blue Screen of Death to the curb

Microsoft Is Getting Rid of Passwords in One Month. Here's What You Need to Do ASAP

45-hour voyage in replica canoe tests Paleolithic migration theory

13-inch Microsoft Surface Laptop review: A slightly worse version of a year-old PC

Windows is getting rid of the Blue Screen of Death after 40 years

What is an Xbox?

Microsoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel

Alert: There's a Lost Spaceship in the Ocean

Microsoft confirms Family Safety blocks Google Chrome from launching

Microsoft fixes Outlook bug causing crashes when opening emails

Dell 16 Plus 2-in-1 Review: The Mini-LED Display Shines but There's Little Else to Get Excited About

A European Startup’s Spacecraft Made It to Orbit. Now It’s Lost at Sea

Microsoft Dependency Has Risks

A European Startup's Spacecraft Made It to Orbit. Now It's Lost at Sea

How PC makers exploited BIOS copyright strings to unlock trial software during the Windows 95 era

OpenAI might be stealth-building the ultimate Google Workspace and Office 365 replacement

Trump’s FTC announces merger condition that prohibits advertising boycotts

AI Agents Are Getting Better at Writing Code—and Hacking It as Well

Was laid off from Microsoft after 23 years, and I'm still going into the office

Is this $600 Acer the best laptop deal right now? I tested it, and here's my verdict

Microsoft extends free Windows 10 security updates into 2026 – with a catch

This Acer laptop has a game-changing feature for multimedia consumption (and it's $300 off)

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