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Windows 11 is adding another Copilot button nobody asked for

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-09-20 03:12:02

Have enough Copilot buttons in your life? No you don’t — have another one! This one pops up in the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview when mousing over an open app in your taskbar; it lets you share the contents with Copilot Vision. Want to know who is celebrating in that dogpile on the mound, or dig a little deeper on that sculpture you took a photo of? Just click that “Share with Copilot” button that pops up in the window preview. Copilot Vision scans what’s on your screen, analyzes it, and le

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Time Spent on Hardening

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 11:05:48

Time Spent on Hardening I recently received mail from someone working on a software-based approach to fault tolerance. Their tool makes applications more reliable, but they think it also makes developers more productive by reducing the amount of error detection and handling code they need write. They have never been able to find research that quantifies how much time developers spend on code for detecting and handling problems relative to the effort for the “happy path”. they know it’s substan

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Microsoft raises Xbox prices in U.S. due to economic environment

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-09-20 15:37:08

Microsoft said on Friday that it will increase the recommended retail price of several Xbox consoles in the U.S. starting in October because of "changes in the macroeconomic environment." The company said it would not increase prices for accessories such as controllers and headsets, and that prices in other countries would stay the same. While Microsoft didn't explicitly attribute the increase to the Trump administration's tariffs, many consumer companies have been warning for months that high

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Microsoft is making Xbox consoles even more expensive in the US

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-20 15:34:21

Starting on October 3, Microsoft says Xbox consoles will be getting yet another price bump, this time ranging anywhere from a $20 increase on the company's entry-level model to $70 for a special edition model with 2TB of storage. If all of this sounds familiar, there's a good reason, the last time xbox prices were raised was only a few months ago in May. The price increases breakdown as follows: Xbox Series S (512GB): $400, up $20 from $380 Xbox Series S (1TB): $450 up $20 from $430 Xbox Ser

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Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles in the US again

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-09-20 15:12:47

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. Microsoft is raising the prices of its Xbox Series S / X consoles in the US next month. The Xbox Series X will be priced at $649.99 in the US starting October 3rd, up from its existing $599.99 price. The Xbox Series S will move to $399.99, up from $379.99. Microsoft blames the price hikes

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Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-20 19:46:22

Microsoft has begun rolling out the beta version of its AI-powered Gaming Copilot to Windows 11 systems for users aged 18 or older, excluding those in mainland China. Tagged as a "personal gaming sidekick," Gaming Copilot will also be pushed to Xbox mobile app users on Apple and Android devices starting next month. To start using Gaming Copilot in the Game Bar, Windows users must install the Xbox PC app on their PC and use the Windows logo key + G keyboard shortcut to open the Game Bar. Next,

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Microsoft Copilot is taking over Teams. Here's how AI will shape your daily workflow

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-09-20 17:59:36

Thomas Trutschel/Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Microsoft announces more Copilot features within Teams. AI agents will assist in Teams meetings and messaging channels. These features solidify companies adopting agentic AI tools to increase employee productivity. Productivity-centered AI tools for enterprises are becoming commonplace -- a recent study hailed Microsoft as one of the most dominant sources of AI-powered productivity too

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You don’t have to wait for Microsoft’s handheld to start using the new Xbox mode

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-20 23:44:52

Nick Fernandez / Android Authority TL;DR Windows handheld PC owners have found a way to get Microsoft’s new Xbox mode running early on their devices. Xbox mode frees up about 2GB of memory that can be used for gaming. You’ll launch straight into the Xbox app with your full library of PC games from Steam, Battle.net, Epic, and other storefronts. About a month from now, Microsoft will be launching its ROG Xbox Ally devices. These Xbox-branded gaming handhelds are technically supposed to be the

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Get free Windows 10 security updates through October 2026: 2 ways

zdnet.com Ed Bott 2025-09-21 03:27:00

simpson33/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Windows 10 PCs have two free options for extended security updates. To qualify for free personal updates, enroll with a Microsoft account. The one-year extension for consumers ends in October 2026. The Windows 10 end-of-support date is nearly here. Over the summer, Microsoft seems to have belatedly realized that owners of tens of millions of consumer PCs running Windows 10 aren't

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A shift in developer culture is impacting innovation and creativity

news.ycombinator.com Dayvi Schuster 2025-09-21 03:02:22

Dayvi Schuster 12 min read Thursday, September 18, 2025 Dev Culture Is Dying The Curious Developer Is Gone From tinkerers to metric seekers: How the shift in developer culture is impacting innovation and creativity. When Curiosity Lead the Way If you have been in software development for a while, you might remember a time when developers were launching unique and innovative products and projects just for the sake of curiosity, learning or even just because they had a particular interest in a s

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5 ways to spot software supply chain attacks and stop worms - before it's too late

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-09-21 11:01:27

Nataniil/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Shai-Hulud is the worst-ever npm JavaScript attack. This software supply chain worm attack is still ongoing. Here are some ways you can prevent such attacks. For those of you who aren't Dune fans, Shai-Hulud are the giant sandworms of the desert planet Arrakis. You do not want to get in their way. Now, it's also the name of a self-replicating worm that compromised at leas

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Playing “Minecraft” without Minecraft (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-22 00:13:05

Post by minki » 2024-12-15 Ever wanted to play the worlds second most popular videogame without actually playing it?First of all, what do I mean by 'Playing "Minecraft" without Minecraft'?To put it simple, Minecraft is a Videogame developed by Mojang. The game consists of two parts, a Client and a Server.Over the years, the community has written many custom cleanroom implementations of both sides, which will allow us to play "Minecraft" without executing any Mojang code.We will be using the Cub

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Playing “Minecraft” Without Minecraft (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-22 05:13:05

Post by minki » 2024-12-15 Ever wanted to play the worlds second most popular videogame without actually playing it?First of all, what do I mean by 'Playing "Minecraft" without Minecraft'?To put it simple, Minecraft is a Videogame developed by Mojang. The game consists of two parts, a Client and a Server.Over the years, the community has written many custom cleanroom implementations of both sides, which will allow us to play "Minecraft" without executing any Mojang code.We will be using the Cub

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Notepad's AI writing features will soon run locally on Copilot+ PCs

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-23 11:35:18

CoPilot+ PC owners have a new perk in the pipeline. Your AI PC will soon perform Notepad's AI writing features on-device — no subscription required. The app's summarize, write and rewrite options were introduced earlier this year. Up to this point, you've needed a CoPilot Pro or Microsoft 365 subscription to use Notepad's AI writing tools. So, if you've splurged on an AI PC, this could save you a few bucks each month. And if you have both a subscription and a CoPilot+ PC, it lets you choose bet

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Configuration files are user interfaces

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-23 11:43:43

18 Sep, 2025 We have all been there. Your software keeps growing and you feel the need to make it customizable. It is too soon for a full-blown UI with all the bells and whistles, so your pragmatic instinct suggests a text-based configuration file. Yes, that’s exactly it! You rejoice knowing the software’s configuration will be trivial to version control. Your pragmatic instinct is satisfied as well; the door remains open to creating a proper UI later, since it would be merely a graphical view

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Satya Nadella is haunted at the prospect of Microsoft not surviving the AI era

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-09-23 11:00:00

“Some of the biggest businesses we’ve built might not be as relevant going forward,” admitted Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during an employee-only town hall last week. Nadella was responding to a question about the perceived change in culture inside Microsoft, but his answer revealed a lot more about his own fears over Microsoft’s future in this AI era. “Our industry is full of case studies of companies that were great once, that just disappeared. I’m haunted by one particular one called DEC,” s

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Microsoft’s Xbox Copilot arrives on Windows 11 PCs worldwide

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-09-23 11:00:00

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. Microsoft only started testing its new Gaming Copilot in the Windows Game Bar last month, and it’s now starting to roll out to all Windows 11 users today. While the initial preview was limited to certain markets, Microsoft says today’s release has “regional support everywhere except mainlan

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A better future for JavaScript that won't happen

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-23 15:18:28

In the wake of the largest supply-chain attack in history, the JavaScript community could have a moment of reckoning and decide: never again. As the panic and shame subsides, after compromised developers finish re-provisioning their workstations and rotating their keys, the ecosystem might re-orient itself towards solving the fundamental flaws that allowed this to happen. After all, people have been sounding the alarm for years that this approach to dependency management is reckless and dangero

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This Microsoft Entra ID Vulnerability Could Have Been Catastrophic

wired.com Matt Burgess 2025-09-23 15:09:17

As businesses around the world have shifted their digital infrastructure over the last decade from self-hosted servers to the cloud, they’ve benefitted from the standardized, built-in security features of major cloud providers like Microsoft. But with so much riding on these systems, there can be potentially disastrous consequences at a massive scale if something goes wrong. Case in point: Security researcher Dirk-jan Mollema recently stumbled upon a pair of vulnerabilities in Microsoft Azure’s

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Microsoft is turning Foxconn’s empty buildings into the ‘world’s most powerful’ AI data center

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-09-23 15:27:11

is the Verge’s weekend editor. He has over 18 years of experience, including 10 years as managing editor at Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Today Microsoft announced its plans to bring a Fairwater AI data center, which it claims is the “world’s most powerful,” online in early 2026. The $3.3 billion construction in Wisconsin is housed at the site of Foxconn’ s failed LCD factory which was announced in 2017, but by the end of 2018

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Microsoft to spend $4 billion on second Wisconsin data center

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-09-23 19:50:53

Microsoft plans to match the amount of energy it consumes from fossil fuel sources with carbon-free energy it will contribute to the grid, said Smith, who spent part of his childhood in Mount Pleasant. Cloud infrastructure providers are racing to build capacity to meet the needs of companies that want to run AI models. More than 700 million people use OpenAI's ChatGPT, which draws on Microsoft's Azure cloud, and software providers from Adobe to Salesforce have been adding AI feature enhancement

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Target-rich environment: Why Microsoft 365 has become the biggest risk

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-23 19:02:12

Microsoft 365 has become the central nervous system of modern business — and cybercriminals know it. Just as Windows became the primary target for attackers because of its market dominance in the 1990s and 2000s, Microsoft 365 now finds itself in the crosshairs for having "won" the email and collaboration war. With over 400 million paid Office 365 seats worldwide and countless organizations relying on its integrated suite of applications, Microsoft 365 represents the ultimate target-rich envir

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How weak passwords and other failings led to catastrophic breach of Ascension

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-23 19:31:22

Last week, a prominent US senator called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft for cybersecurity negligence over the role it played last year in health giant Ascension's ransomware breach, which caused life-threatening disruptions at 140 hospitals and put the medical records of 5.6 million patients into the hands of the attackers. Lost in the focus on Microsoft was something as, or more, urgent: never-before-revealed details that now invite scrutiny of Ascension’s own security

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Notepad gets free AI features on Copilot+ PCs with Windows 11

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-23 23:50:04

Microsoft is adding free AI-powered text writing capabilities to Notepad for customers with Copilot+ PCs running Windows 11. Currently, this change is being rolled out to Windows 11 Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels, who have upgraded to Notepad version 11.2508.28.0. The AI-powered text summarization, text rewriting, and text generation features introduced for Windows 11 users over the last year are normally available with Microsoft 365 Personal, Family, and Copilot Pro subscriptions. T

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Microsoft Offers Free Windows 10 Extended Security Updates: Here's What to Do

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-24 14:20:00

Microsoft is sunsetting Windows 10 support on Oct. 14, and stopping all updates to the OS. If you aren't able to update to Windows 11, you still have options. For $30 you can grab a year of extended-security updates. There is also a free option available, provided you're willing to enable cloud backup and connect it to your OneDrive account. The ability to get free updates on Windows 10 is a pretty big deal because it is still the most widely used Windows OS, accounting for just over 53% of ins

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Microsoft’s new Xbox mode on Windows has leaked for any handheld

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-09-24 19:06:08

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. Microsoft is getting ready to launch its Xbox full-screen experience on the new Xbox Ally devices next month, but it looks like you won’t need new hardware to get it. Windows enthusiasts have discovered a way to enable this new Xbox mode early in Windows 11, thanks to the latest 25H2 update

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Microsoft Paint is getting its own Photoshop-like project files

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-09-25 03:01:16

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. Microsoft has been steadily improving its Paint app for Windows 11 in recent years with a dark mode, transparency and layers, and even AI-powered image creation. Now, Microsoft is adding two new Photoshop-like features to Paint. You’ll soon be able to save your Paint creations as a project

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Consumer Reports calls Microsoft 'hypocritical' for stranding millions of Windows 10 PCs

zdnet.com Ed Bott 2025-09-25 11:06:00

picture alliance/Contributor/picture alliance via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways CR says that Windows 10's end of support will strand millions of PC owners. It calls Microsoft's actions "hypocritical" and cites national security concerns. CR also calls for continued free security updates. Consumer Reports (CR), the venerable consumer rights organization known for its in-depth product testing, sent a letter to Microsoft CEO Satya N

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Ask HN: What's a good 3D Printer for sub $1000?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-23 14:24:38

At least a 256x256x256mm print volume. Needs to be enclosed or enclosable. Need to be able to print with more durable, temperature/chemical resistant materials such as PC/Nylon/ABS or infused materials. I do not need to print multi material models. I would prefer something that doesn't phone home and can work offline. Opensource firmware/software and repairability are important. I am ok assembling the machine and learning how to dial it in. I can do CAD work and make models by hand; I was a mac

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Microsoft: Office 2016 and Office 2019 reach end of support next month

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-25 22:57:04

Microsoft reminded customers again this week that Office 2016 and Office 2019 will reach the end of extended support in less than 30 days, on October 14, 2025. Redmond also advised organizations using Visio 2016/2019, Project 2016/2019, and related apps to upgrade as soon as possible to avoid security, compliance, and performance issues since they will also reach the end of support next month. According to the company's product lifecycle website, Office 2016 reached the end of mainstream

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Windows 11 is adding another Copilot button nobody asked for

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Microsoft raises Xbox prices in U.S. due to economic environment

Microsoft is making Xbox consoles even more expensive in the US

Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles in the US again

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Microsoft Copilot is taking over Teams. Here's how AI will shape your daily workflow

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Satya Nadella is haunted at the prospect of Microsoft not surviving the AI era

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