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Is Microsoft readying the biggest update to this central part of the Windows 11 interface to be seen in a decade? That's what the rumor mill reckons.

Three Samsung employees unintentionally leaked top-secret information to OpenAI's ChatGPT, sparking an internal investigation and an immediate reaction.

Google's CEO Sundar Pichai has announced the next biggest change to come to Google Search is right around the corner, and it will affect everyone.

GEEKOM is running an Easter sale on its Mini IT11 mini PC with Intel Core i7 processor for just $549, which includes a huge $230 discount.

Candy Crush has been downloaded 3 billion times and mobile-maker King has 233 million monthly active users--it's no wonder Microsoft wants to buy ATVI.

Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan claims that PlayStation would 'never recover' if Microsoft released a downgraded Call of Duty on PlayStation.

SCDKey has an awesome April software sale on Microsoft software, including Windows 10 Pro for $15 and other great deals on Office.

Microsoft cracks down on emulation and now blocks RetroArch from running in retail mode on Xbox Series X/S, can now only run in Dev Mode with restrictions.

Sony still believes Microsoft has an incentive to make Call of Duty exclusive, cites exclusivity conduct with Starfield, Elder Scrolls VI, and Redfall.

Sony's legal counsel has identified four errors with the CMA's specific data modelling, including issues with potentially misleading data from Microsoft.

Microsoft now says that it will not withhold or degrade access to any Activision game on PlayStation platforms, ATVI content will not be exclusive.

Offering quick access to system features and settings, the hidden Start Menu in Windows 11 is feature everyone should know about. And use.

Microsoft didn't rush to the rescue with this fix, but rather, the cure was applied by Rockstar via an update to its launcher software.

Sony is reportedly working on a new PlayStation handheld that's always-online, only supports Remote Play on PS5 and not dedicated handheld gaming.

Just in time for Earth Day, this new limited edition Xbox Wireless Controller has been created using recycled plastics from several strange sources.

Windows 11 (or 10) users can now simply drag a file from their desktop to Android smartphone, or vice versa, using Nearby Share which has arrived in beta.

Content Adaptive Brightness Control will remain something that's useful to laptop owners for extending battery life, but it won't help desktop PCs.

A 22-year-old student has instructed OpenAI's ChatGPT to create the 'perfect letter' to get her parking letter issued by the police overturned.

Up until now the only option for expanding your Xbox Series X|S storage has been Seagate, which makes these new Western Digital cards very welcome.

Microsoft does not believe Xbox Game Pass does not disrupt its core business, but evidence indicates that the powerful mechanism indeed does just that.

New figures from an analytics firm show a sizeable jump in adoption for Windows 10 in March 2023, but the overall pace of migration to the OS is sluggish.

OpenAI's highly popular AI-powered chatbot called ChatGPT has been banned by a data protection authority because it is not safe for children.

A former CEO of Google has given a stark warning during an interview about the coming age of artificial intelligence and its developments.

Crucial's first PCIe Gen5 SSD is almost here and it will offer record breaking 12.4 GB/s read speeds so 'start planning your fastest build ever.'

'Average Gaming Power' for the GeForce RTX 4070 is listed as 186W, pointing to a remarkably efficient new GPU for the GeForce RTX 40 Series.

Windows 11 has a hidden option to turn off Start menu 'notifications' that look like a potentially ripe avenue for Microsoft to push its services.

GeForce NOW is riding high thanks to the recent partnership between NVIDIA and Microsoft, and there's plenty of game support coming in April 2023.

The long-awaited return of E3 has been canceled with E3 2023 not taking place this year as the focus shifts to Summer Game Fest and digital showcases.

Google clearly doesn't want to fall behind in the AI arms race, and seems to be seriously upping efforts with Bard in the face of Microsoft's Bing chatbot.

The latest optional update for Windows 11 21H2 has well and truly broken RDR 2, and you may not appreciate Microsoft's suggested workaround.

Forza Horizon 5 brings the total number of games with DLSS 3 up to 29, with NVIDIA showcasing the performance you can expect with RTX 40 Series GPUs.

Japan's Fair Trade Commission has cleared and approved the Microsoft-Activision merger without conditions, asserts it will not impact competition.

After Microsoft put a stop to security updates and fixes for Windows 7 and Windows 8 earlier this year, it was only a matter of time.

Twitter has said that parts of its internal source code have been uploaded to GitHub ahead of Elon Musk's plan to make it open-source.

The CEO of OpenAI, the developers of the immensely popular AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, has responded to the hurtful comments made by Elon Musk.

Elon Musk took a dig at Bill Gates after the Microsoft founder wrote that he's been meeting with OpenAI since 2016, way before the release of ChatGPT.

Microsoft has unveiled a new feature for its artificial intelligence-powered Bing Chat, which enables users to create images with their words.

FTC administrative law judge orders Microsoft and Activision-Blizzard to comply with document production requests made by the FTC's complaint counsel.

Good news - 'acropalypse now' has become 'acropalypse then' as fixes have been deployed for this glaring bug in both Windows 11 and Windows 10.

Reports claim that Elon Musk departed from OpenAI in 2018 over the company rejecting his plan to take the reins, but Musk cited a conflict of interest.

Stanford researchers decided to shut down their demo of ChatGPT that they built for $600 over safety concerns and the practical running cost.

Microsoft researchers have said in a newly published paper that OpenAI's GPT-4 language model could be viewed as an early iteration of AGI.

The CMA is no longer sounding the alarm regarding the Call of Duty franchise, but still has concerns over competition in the cloud gaming market.

Hidden nuggets in a test build of Windows 11 give us a better idea of how Cloud PC might be implemented - but we're still in the dark to a large extent.

ChatGPT-powered AI has been given a task - make Bing search more popular - and it appears to be successfully accomplishing that aim so far.

And Windows 10 preview updates, for that matter, as Microsoft is changing the way in which these optional patches are deployed for the better.

Bing AI has returned to the taskbar's search box in test versions of Windows 11, but users must have successfully signed up to test the chatbot to see it.

Bing Image Creator is the latest addition to the AI's bag of tricks, allowing the user to describe an image in order to create a masterpiece (hopefully).

Google's Bard AI got off to a faltering start - to put it mildly - but this is a hint that we might see a public release of the chatbot before too long.

A group of Stanford scientists has pretty much cloned OpenAI's ChatGPT language model with a budget of just $600, but it's far less safe.