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Fair Use? In a similar argument as was seen in last week's suit by the New York Times against Microsoft and OpenAI, a class action suit looking to protect creators' intellectual property.
MSFT #1? Apple's $2.834 trillion market cap vs Microsoft's $2.752 value is an $82 billion difference, which is about the value of the recent ABK deal.
Baldur's Bans Michael Douse, director of publishing at Larian, took to X to alleviate Xbox players' fears about potential bans for recording BG3 lewd content.
Fair Use? While regulators are already investigating the question of fair use regarding AI bots like ChatGPT, it seems the New York Times wants to press the issue in the courts instead.
Excel FTW From forcing public companies to report cyber incidents within 4 days, to mandating compliance standards for 16 sectors, the SEC is finally holding companies responsible for negligence.
TIPS Get to know your Xbox in a few easy steps.
Excel FTW While Excel prowess is valuable for getting a job, you might also earn fame if you can manage to beat Andrew Ngai in the next Microsoft Excel World Championship.
Cross Play Phil Spencer needs to double down on solving the pain point for Xbox gamers playing on Windows Handheld where most 3rd party games don't feature cross-save or cross-play.
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Crime != pay Microsoft estimates Storm-1152 has sold 750 million fake Microsoft accounts. Now Microsoft has seized its domains and U.S. based infrastructure.
Deals From different game options to extra controllers pick up an Xbox Series X bundled with the perfect extras this holiday.
Chips delayed Hundreds of companies have applied for government aid to help America compete in Chip manufacturing, but this delay in funding could lead to a delay in fab buildouts.
Z1 FTW The ASUS ROG Ally Z1 has been $399 for a few weeks now, and at that price, it competes head-to-head with the base model Steam Deck but is a much better purchase.
Deals The Surface Laptop 5 is $655 off right now and is a great pickup for a anybody needing a laptop for work or school
Kojima If you can't get enough of Kojima from his bi-annual appearances at Summer Game Fest and the Game Awards, you can now learn all about him through this Disney+ documentary.
Come On, Geoff Team Windows Central speaks on The Game Awards 2023 and its numerous issues.
Mage healers?! I love World of Warcraft, but with all of my real-life responsibilities, it is hard to keep pace with my friends. Season of Discovery solves this issue and it makes all the difference.
Sweepstakes Make sure to sign up for a chance to win a Steam Deck OLED or Lenovo Legion Go during the game awards.
Loop Again Even though December isn't usually full of full game releases, it is the month of Game Awards and live-service games releasing huge updates, which hurts games like Avatar.
LogoFAIL LogoFAIL impacts potentially millions of endpoints across hundreds of device models by affecting the UEFI reference code.
Count? Microsoft figured out how to add a character count to Notepad with the latest Windows 11 Canary and Dev Channel builds.
Gemini Gemini scored over 90% on the Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understanding, being the first AI model to outperform humans.
