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Missed the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Collector's Edition? The 'Monolith Set' is your second chance
By Jennifer Young published
GAMING The Monolith Set is for fans who missed out on the original edition, that is being sold for insane prices on third-party websites

Microsoft bans workplace emails mentioning “Gaza,” “Palestine,” or “genocide”
By Sean Endicott published
Microsoft Microsoft has blocked internal emails containing the words “Palestine,” “Gaza,” and “genocide.” The change follows several employee-led protests.

OpenAI did "a lot of unnatural things" to maintain the Ghibli hype
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI The Ghibli hype behind OpenAI's new image generator might have helped ChatGPT gain over one million new users in under one hour, but it forced OpenAI to do a lot of "unnatural" things.

OpenAI buys Apple design guru's AI device startup for $6.5B
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI OpenAI just bought former Apple designer Jony Ive's AI device startup, io, to help facilitate the development of AI-powered devices.

Xbox dominates April 2025 sales charts in the US
By Samuel Tolbert published
Gaming The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered was the best-selling game of April 2025 in the U.S, per the latest Circana report.

Microsoft’s latest livestream leak shows why Teams needs this privacy feature
By Sean Endicott published
Apps Microsoft's head of AI security accidentally revealed Walmart's AI plans by sharing her Teams messages while presenting. This feature could have prevented it.

Xbox may have finally seen some solid YoY hardware growth, leapfrogging Nintendo
By Jez Corden published
Xbox Finally, some good news for Xbox's hardware ecosystem. With the Nintendo Switch waning, Xbox Series X|S saw some green shoots ahead of full price rises.

Microsoft built a new command line text editor for Windows 11
By Richard Devine published
Software Microsoft needed a CLI text editor for 64-bit versions of Windows, so it went out and built one. It's not built-in yet, but you can try it out right now.
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