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Microsoft’s new Copilot Vision can ‘see’ your apps on Windows

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-10-06 07:00:00

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is launching Copilot Vision for Windows today, an extension of its AI assistant that lets you share your screen or apps so that Copilot can do things like coach you through using Adobe Photoshop features or analyze the photos and webpages you’re looking at. “When you choose to enable it, Copilot Vision can see what you see and talk to you about it in real time,” says

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Two exploits are threatening Secure Boot, but Microsoft is only patching one of them

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-10-06 11:23:00

Facepalm: Microsoft and the PC industry developed the Secure Boot protocol to prevent modern UEFI-based computers from being hacked or compromised during the boot process. However, just a few years later, the technology is plagued by a steady stream of serious security vulnerabilities. Cybercriminals are currently having a field day with Secure Boot. Security experts have uncovered two separate vulnerabilities that are already being exploited in the wild to bypass SB's protections. Even more co

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Microsoft Edge now offers secure password deployment for businesses

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-06 19:20:31

Microsoft announced that a new Edge feature allowing employees to share passwords more securely in enterprise environments has reached general availability. Known as secure password deployment, this feature will be available to Microsoft Edge for Business users starting this week, minimizing the risk of unauthorized access by ensuring that employees don't accidentally share passwords with unintended recipients. The feature is available for Microsoft 365 Business Premium, E3, and E5 subscriptio

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Apple's Game App on iPhone vs. Microsoft's ROG Xbox Ally: The Real Winners Are Gamers

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-06 18:00:14

At WWDC 2025, Apple showed off plenty of changes in its preview for software upgrades due out later this year, but alongside visual shifts like Liquid Glass, the company also debuted a new Games app designed to be a hub for downloaded games. It's a continued push for iPhone, iPad and Mac owners to play and connect with others that comes as other gaming companies shift their strategies -- most notably, Apple announced its Games app days after Microsoft revealed its own ROG Xbox Ally, a powerful

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24 Gifts for Dads Who Don’t Need Anything (2025)

wired.com Martin Cizmar 2025-10-06 23:31:00

your Dad doesn't need a gift for Father's Day. Ask any dad in your life, and he'll tell you the same. However, you should gift him something anyway. I am not only a dad and a gear reviewer, but also someone with a specific philosophy about what makes a good gift for middle-aged men like me. The best gifts for a dad are things that not only are relevant to his interests but also can be fairly described as “overkill.” Dads tend to like things that are useful but overbuilt. You can rarely go wrong

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Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft — and people are paying anyway

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-06 23:00:00

A central premise of robotaxis is that high usage and lower labor costs will ultimately make it a cheap transportation option. That is still far from true, but now there’s some data that gives us an idea of by how much. Obi, an app that aggregates real-time pricing and pick-up times across multiple ride-hailing services, has just published what it’s calling the “first in-depth examination of Waymo’s pricing strategy.” The company found Waymo’s self-driving car rides to be consistently more expe

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Shaquille O'Neal settles long-running FTX investor lawsuit for $1.8 million

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-10-07 08:15:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust What just happened? Shaquille O'Neal's long-running legal issues over his promotion of the now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX appear to have ended. The former NBA star has agreed to pay $1.8 million to settle claims that he misled investors. In November 2022, a class action lawsuit was launched by investor Edwin Garrison against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, claiming he misled customers and cost inv

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Windows 11 24H2 emergency update fixes Easy Anti-Cheat BSOD issue

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-07 07:43:04

Microsoft has released an emergency Windows 11 24H2 update to address an incompatibility issue triggering restarts with blue screen of death (BSOD) errors on systems with Easy Anti-Cheat. The out-of-band update (KB5063060) is a revised version of the Windows 11 KB5060842 cumulative update released during this month's Patch Tuesday after many customers reported experiencing system reboots and IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL BSODs tied to ntoskrnl.exe or EasyAntiCheat_EOS.exe crashing on computers running

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Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice

news.ycombinator.com Martin Holland 2025-10-07 05:37:22

The Danish Ministry of Digitization is to completely abandon Microsoft in the coming months and use Linux instead of Windows and switch from Office 365 to LibreOffice. Minister Caroline Stage (Moderaterne) announced this in an interview with the daily newspaper Politiken. It comes just a few days after the country's two largest municipalities initiated similar steps. This summer, half of the ministry's employees will be equipped with Linux and LibreOffice. If everything goes as expected, the ent

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Vibe Coding Is Coming for Engineering Jobs

wired.com Will Knight 2025-10-07 07:30:00

On a 5K screen in Kirkland, Washington, four terminals blur with activity as artificial intelligence generates thousands of lines of code. Steve Yegge, a veteran software engineer who previously worked at Google and AWS, sits back to watch. “This one is running some tests, that one is coming up with a plan. I am now coding on four different projects at once, although really I’m just burning tokens,” Yegge says, referring to the cost of generating chunks of text with a large language model (LLM)

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OpenAI will reportedly start using Google's cloud servers

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-05 18:23:12

This is another move by the company to diversify its compute portfolio beyond Microsoft Azure. OpenAI has inked a deal with Google to begin using the latter's cloud service to meet its growing needs for increased computing capacity, according to a report by Reuters . This is something of a surprise, given that Google and OpenAI are rivals in the AI space. The terms of the deal remain unknown, but reporting indicates it has been in the negotiation phase for the past several months. This marks O

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DeskHog, an open-source developer toy

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 01:37:31

But what is DeskHog really? It's a teeny, tiny, beast. DeskHog packs a ESP32-S3 Reverse TFT Feather in a custom-made 3D printed case. It comes complete with a 240x135 color TFT display, a 10-hour battery life, WiFi, and a cute little LED. It's a hand-made micro games console. It's a desktop terminal for PostHog data. It's a friend. Can it play Pong? Yes. Can it play Flappy Bird? Yes. Can it play Doom? ...We're working on it. Want more hardware? We included an I²C expansion port, just for pe

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Xbox handheld console finally revealed after a decade of speculation

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-04 22:07:34

Xbox handheld console finally revealed after a decade of speculation 3 days ago Share Save Tom Gerken Technology reporter Share Save Xbox Microsoft has finally revealed its highly-anticipated handheld console, years after it was first rumoured. The ROG Xbox Ally will let gamers access their Game Pass subscription library on-the-go, in effect meaning members will start off with hundreds of games. It is being made in partnership with Asus, which has been making handheld gaming devices since 202

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Shaquille O’Neal to pay $1.8 million to settle FTX investor lawsuit

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-10-07 09:45:38

Shaquille O'Neal sits on the bench before the game between the Indiana Pacers and the New York Knicks during Game 2 of the 2025 Eastern Conference Finals at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York, on May 23, 2025. Shaquille O'Neal has agreed to pay $1.8 million to settle claims that he misled investors by promoting the now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX. The retired NBA superstar, who once urged fans to trust the platform, will resolve the allegations without admitting wrongdoing. But

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Wandercraft raises $75M for acceleration of AI-powered humanoid robotics and exoskeletons

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-10-07 01:00:00

Wandercraft, a maker of self-balancing robotic mobility systems, has secured $75 million in funding to accelerate AI-powered robotics. This influx of capital arrives during a time of rapid growth, increased global visibility, and product innovation in clinical, consumer, and industrial robotics. The Series D round came with major contributions from Renault Group, Bpifrance, the European Investment Bank, Teampact Ventures and Quadrant Management. The new funding will help propel Wandercraft in

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iOS 26 developer beta 1 for iPhone now available

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-10-05 07:05:00

iOS 26 beta 1 for iPhone is now available for developers. Apple announced the next major software update for iPhone today as part of its WWDC 2025 keynote event. iOS 26 follows iOS 18 as each Apple operating system replaces the incremental version number with a reference to the year ahead. The update is available as an over-the-air software update in the Settings app on devices with the developer beta software option enabled. iOS 26 is defined by a major redesign, replacing the look introduced

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Apple releases iPadOS 26 beta with new windowing, Liquid Glass design, more

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-05 07:05:33

iPadOS 26 is the next major update to iPad software, and it introduces a lot of powerful changes. Following its introduction today during the WWDC keynote, Apple has now released iPadOS 26 beta 1 for developers. iPadOS 26 beta 1 now available with big upgrades iPad users who have been waiting for big productivity and multitasking upgrades: the wait is over. Earlier today Apple introduced its vision for a more powerful, versatile iPad software experience. iPadOS 26 doesn’t full-on bring macOS

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tvOS 26 beta 1 now available for Apple TV 4K

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-05 07:07:16

Screenshot Apple has just released tvOS 26 developer beta 1, providing first access to the new Apple TV features introduced at WWDC earlier today. Earlier today, Apple unveiled its major new software updates coming to all its platforms. Among them was tvOS 26, the latest update for Apple TV hardware. Now, users can try out at least some of the new features via the just-released developer beta 1. As with all of Apple’s big software announcements today, it’s likely that some features won’t be

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Beyond ChatGPT: Xcode 26 will support multiple AI models, like Claude

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-06 10:17:12

Last Monday, towards the end of the WWDC25 keynote, Craig Federighi said that Apple had “expanded” its vision for Swift Assist, and it would now allow developers to bring their Large Language Model of choice directly to Xcode. Now, we know more about how this is going to work. What is Swift Assist? This was a feature that Apple announced during last year’s WWDC, but hadn’t released until now, on Xcode 26 beta. Initially, as explained by Apple, it was going to serve as: “a companion for all o

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Microsoft creates separate Windows 11 24H2 update for incompatible PCs

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-07 03:35:10

Microsoft confirmed on Tuesday that it's pushing a revised security update targeting some Windows 11 24H2 systems incompatible with the initial update released during this month's Patch Tuesday. "This update is being gradually rolled out to devices running Windows 11, version 24H2. We've identified a compatibility issue affecting a limited set of these devices," the company said in a Twitter thread. "If your device is affected, you'll receive a revised update with all the June 2025 security im

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Zero-click AI data leak flaw uncovered in Microsoft 365 Copilot

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-07 05:48:50

A new attack dubbed 'EchoLeak' is the first known zero-click AI vulnerability that enables attackers to exfiltrate sensitive data from Microsoft 365 Copilot from a user's context without interaction. The attack was devised by Aim Labs researchers in January 2025, who reported their findings to Microsoft. The tech giant assigned the CVE-2025-32711 identifier to the information disclosure flaw, rating it critical, and fixed it server-side in May, so no user action is required. Also, Microsoft no

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Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-10-07 06:31:48

Alexander Farnsworth/Getty Images Denmark's Minister of Digitalization, Caroline Stage, has announced that the Danish government will start moving away from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice. Why? It's not because open-source is better, although I would argue that it is, but because Denmark wants to claim "digital sovereignty." In the States, you probably haven't heard that phrase, but in the European Union, digital sovereignty is a big deal and getting bigger. A combination of security, economi

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Patch your Windows PC now before bootkit malware takes it over - here's how

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-10-07 07:01:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Windows users who don't always install the updates rolled out by Microsoft each month for Patch Tuesday will want to install the ones for June. That's because the latest round of patches fixes a flaw that could allow an attacker to control your PC through bootkit malware. Designated as CVE-2025-3052, the Secure Boot bypass flaw is a serious one, according to Binarly security researcher Alex Matrosov, who discovered the vulnerability. In a Binarly blog post publishe

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Everything Apple Announced at WWDC 2025

wired.com Boone Ashworth 2025-10-05 09:03:00

Apple held its annual developer conference today, and as usual used the keynote address to announce all of the new software features coming to Apple’s many products this fall. This year’s WWDC is occurring at a moment of unprecedented economic uncertainty. Apple’s sales are expected to take a hit as President Trump continues to threaten the company with increased trade tariffs. The event also comes in the aftermath of the very AI-heavy conference of Apple’s archrival Google, putting pressure on

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Wow! Samsung Galaxy S25 devices still come with a free gift card!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-06-22 06:43:57

Lanh Nguyen / Android Authority These offers are available from Amazon. Best Buy also offers free gift cards when you purchase a Samsung Galaxy S25 series smartphone. The only difference is that getting the base Galaxy S25 will get you a less valuable $50 gift card, which is half what you would get from Amazon. Best Buy still gives you a $100 gift card for the Galaxy S25 Plus and a $200 one for the Galaxy S25 Ultra, though. Which Galaxy S25 version should you get? Are you having trouble decidi

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Windows Notepad and Paint are still free - but the AI will cost you. Here's how much

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-06-22 02:51:34

ZDNET For years, we've been able to freely use all the features in Windows apps like Notepad and Paint. But those days seem to be gone. Yes, the core features are still freely accessible, but the latest AI skills? Not so much. Also: How to remove Copilot from your Microsoft 365 plan A Windows forum post published Thursday described the ways that Microsoft has added AI to Notepad and Paint in Windows 11. In Notepad, you can request a rewrite of the text and even specify whether you want it sho

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20 years working on the same software product

news.ycombinator.com Andy Brice 2025-06-22 03:22:55

I released version 1 of my table seating planning software, PerfectTablePlan, in February 2005. 20 years ago this month. It was a different world. A world of Windows, shareware and CDs. A lot has changed since then, but PerfectTablePlan is now at version 7 and still going strong. PerfectTablePlan v1 PerfectTablePlan v7 I have released several other products since then, and done some training and consulting, but PerfectTablePlan remains my most successful product. It’s success is due to a lot

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Microsoft's Magma AI Can Manipulate and Control Robots

cnet.com Samantha Kelly 2025-06-22 01:12:00

Microsoft just introduced Magma, a new artificial intelligence model designed to help robots see, understand and act more intelligently. Unlike traditional AI models, Magma processes different types of data all at once -- an effort Microsoft is calling a big leap toward "agentic AI," or systems that can plan and execute tasks on a user's behalf. The model, which uses a combination of vision and language processing, is trained on videos, images, robotics data and interface interactions so as to

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Crypto exchange Bybit says it was hacked and lost around $1.4B

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-06-22 01:00:33

Crypto exchange Bybit announced on Friday that “a sophisticated attack” led to the theft of Ethereum (ETH) from one of the company’s offline wallets. Bybit’s chief executive and co-founder Ben Zhou said in a livestream that the hackers stole around 401,346 ETH, which at the time of the theft amounts to about $1.4 billion. Both crypto security firm Elliptic, as well as crypto security researcher ZachXBT, the total amount of ETH stolen is worth around $1.4 billion, making this the largest known

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Report: OpenAI plans to shift compute needs from Microsoft to SoftBank

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-06-22 03:22:40

In Brief OpenAI is forecasting a major shift in the next five years around who it gets most of its computing power from, The Information reported on Friday. By 2030, OpenAI expects to get three-quarters of its data center capacity from Stargate, a project that’s expected to be heavily financed by SoftBank, one of OpenAI’s newest financial backers. That represents a major shift away from Microsoft, OpenAI’s biggest shareholder, who fulfills most of the startup’s power needs today. The change w

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Microsoft’s new Copilot Vision can ‘see’ your apps on Windows

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Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft — and people are paying anyway

Shaquille O'Neal settles long-running FTX investor lawsuit for $1.8 million

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Xbox handheld console finally revealed after a decade of speculation

Shaquille O’Neal to pay $1.8 million to settle FTX investor lawsuit

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iOS 26 developer beta 1 for iPhone now available

Apple releases iPadOS 26 beta with new windowing, Liquid Glass design, more

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