Bloomberg's Jason Schreier reports Xbox plans significant job cuts after June 30, as new CEO Asha Sharma tells staff a 3% margin can't continue. Microsoft hasn't confirmed.
GitHub wiped Nightmare-Eclipse's account on May 23 after weeks of unpatched Windows exploits. The ban reopened the oldest fight in security: who decides what research gets hosted?
Yufeng Gao and Rich Cini scanned Tim Paterson's 1981 assembler printouts. Microsoft pushed them to DOS-History/Paterson-Listings on April 28, the 45th anniversary.
Spammers found a Tenant Name injection in Entra ID that pushes fraud text into Microsoft's own OTP emails. The from-line reads msonlineservicesteam@microsoftonline.com.
Mads Torgersen's union proposal landed in .NET 11 Preview 2 on April 2. C# 15 targets November 2026 and replaces the OneOf library hack the .NET community has been living with.
Internal Claude Code licenses end June 30, 2026, for Microsoft's Experiences + Devices group. Engineers move to GitHub Copilot CLI instead.
Microsoft is phasing out SMS sign-in and recovery on personal Microsoft accounts by December 2026. Replacements: passkeys, Authenticator, or verified email.
On May 18 a nine-juror panel rejected every claim Musk filed against OpenAI in 2024. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers had told the courtroom she was ready to dismiss on the spot.
A pseudonymous researcher dropped two unpatched Windows zero-days on May 12. YellowKey bypasses BitLocker via WinRE; Microsoft has not acknowledged either bug.
The DELEGATE-52 benchmark tests AI editing across 52 professional domains. Frontier models corrupt a quarter of document content over long workflows.
A two-line PR flipped the AI co-author flag from off to all in April. Hand-typed commits started getting Copilot attribution. The maintainer apologized and promised a fix in 1.119.
A researcher showed Edge decrypts the entire password vault at launch and leaves it in process memory. Chrome decrypts on demand. Microsoft says it's intentional.
GitHub's new model multiplier table for Copilot Pro and Pro+ annual plans lands June 1. Opus 4.6 goes 3 to 27. Sonnet 4.6 goes 1 to 9.
MIT-licensed at GitHub on April 28, the 86-DOS 1.00 kernel and PC-DOS development snapshots were OCR'd from 45-year-old assembler listings.
Big-tech AI capex is projected at $700B in 2026, up from $410B in 2025. Microsoft alone guided $190B. Wall Street is split: Meta got punished for the spend, Alphabet rallied.
On June 1 every Copilot plan switches to GitHub AI Credits priced per token. Code completions stay free. Fallback models and credit rollover do not.
Microsoft loses exclusive rights to OpenAI's models. The revenue share now caps at 2030 and stops depending on AGI. Here's what actually changed and who it benefits.
Microsoft's April 8 Patch Tuesday closes 167 CVEs. CVE-2026-32201 in SharePoint is being exploited and CISA added it the same day. Here's what to patch first.