Latest Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates stamp out a record 622 security vulnerabilities, as the company's AI-enhanced bug hunt looks to bear fruit Squish, squish, squish. PC Gamer · Jul 15
Oracle Leads AWS, Microsoft, Google in Race to Build Japan's Secret Cloud Project to Counter Chinese Hacking Threats: Report Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) is reportedly leading the race to provide high-security cloud services to Japan. This move is crucial for secure intelligence sharing between Tokyo and its allies. Benzinga · Jul 15
IBM Stock Crash Wipes Out $65 Billion in a Day, Worst Since 1987 as AI Rewires Tech Spending IBM shares crashed 25% on Tuesday, erasing over $65 billion in the stock's worst day on record, as customers shifted spending from software to AI servers and memory chips. International Business Times UK · Jul 15
Microsoft ends Office support as apps like Word stop working – the devices affected As of Monday (July 13), Microsoft 365, Office 2021, and Office 2019 no longer function on Apple devices, leaving users unable to use apps like Word. The National (Scotland) · Jul 15
Generative AI's power sparks fears of dumbing humans down One American-British study of 1,222 people, still under peer review, found that using AI tools to solve arithmetic or reading comprehension exercises improved participants' performance in the short term, but in the long run diminished their results and their willingness to keep trying when the tools were unavailable. The Economic Times · Jul 15
Warren Buffett and Bill Gates no longer friends? Why legendary investor skipped donations to Gates foundation Warren Buffett is donating nearly six billion dollars of Berkshire Hathaway stock this year. His annual mid-year donation went to four family foundations, not Gates Foundation. Speculation arose after revelations about Bill Gates' interactions with Jeffrey Epstein. Buffett previously committed to donating shares throughout his life by 2034. He stepped… The Economic Times · Jul 15
‘AI sovereignty doesn’t mean doing it alone,’ says Microsoft's AI responsibility chief Microsoft's chief AI responsibility officer, Natasha Crampton, tells Euronews about data centres, bridging the digital divide and her definition of AI sovereignty. Euronews · Jul 15
'The future is now' — PS5 user locked out of Ghost of Yotei due to license verification, and this is why Sony's all-digital future plans must end The future of gaming on PlayStation is poised to arguably be at its worst state ever once 2028 arrives, and this license verification case shows why. TechRadar · Jul 15
Hollywood still has time to avoid the gaming industry's disastrous consolidation endgame It's already bad times in movies & TV, but blocking the Paramount and Warner Bros. merger would stop another disaster in the making. PC Gamer · Jul 14
HSBC Cuts IBM Rating to Reduce Amid 22% Stock Plunge, Warning Investors of Further Downside Ahead HSBC downgrades IBM following a 22% stock plunge due to missed Q2 earnings. The selloff impacts the tech sector, highlighting IBM's structural vulnerabilities and market ripple effects. International Business Times UK · Jul 14
Windows 11's latest update will let you pause updates indefinitely Microsoft's July 2026 Patch Tuesday update for Windows 11 introduces Point-in-time Restore, a new tool to pause updates, Widget improvements, and much more. Windows Central · Jul 14
Warren Buffett stops yearly donation to Gates Foundation over Epstein link: 'Of course, morality is unpredicted but my remaining shares will be...' Warren Buffett, in a major decision, stopped giving donations to the Gates Foundation over Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates' links to dead sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Buffett was a founding trustee of the Gates Foundation and he started “The Giving Pledge” with Bill Gates and his then-wife Melinda French Gates to… The Times of India · Jul 14
Xbox is officially so low that it's got ex PlayStation head Shawn Layden rooting for Microsoft to avoid "a world with one dominant player" "Innovation" and "differentiation" between platforms benefit games as a whole GamesRadar · Jul 14
Experts get Google, Microsoft to pull trusted ModHeader with 1.6 million installs after finding it could harvest all kinds of data Visited domains were being exfiltrated to a third-party server, seemingly under a Chinese actor's control. TechRadar · Jul 14
Windows Central · Jul 14 Microsoft keeps proving you own NOTHING with them — it blocks another user's entire Xbox game library, including his OneDrive [UPDATE] Never say 'lightning doesn't strike twice' because Microsoft has been caught banning and deleting another Xbox player's entire games library, account, and OneDrive folder after it was hacked.
The Guardian - US · Jul 14 IBM loses quarter of its value as tech giant’s shares plunge and profits falter IBM issued profit warning after weak second quarter, triggering selloff in software sector including Microsoft
GamesRadar · Jul 14 PlayStation 6 could outsell Xbox Project Helix by roughly 10 million units before 2030, analysts predict But "the actual outcome could look very different"
TechRadar · Jul 14 'A single entry point can rapidly expand to greater enterprise impacts': Microsoft introduces changes to tackle ShinyHunters Greater visibility, better detection, and stronger governance over OAuth-connected applications should mitigate ShinyHunters attacks.
Fortune · Jul 14 JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says he’s eyeing up book deals and teaching gigs when he steps away from his decades-long career at the banking giant JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon has revealed he could become a teacher after he steps down, following in the footsteps of Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer.
Windows Central · Jul 14 Windows Movie Maker still beats Clipchamp in an important way Microsoft’s Clipchamp now requires OneDrive syncing to edit video projects. Windows Movie Maker never would have betrayed me like this.
The Independent UK · Jul 14 Warren Buffett omits annual donation to Bill Gates’ foundation after his Epstein ties were disclosed Billionaire Warren Buffett omitted Bill Gates′ foundation from his annual donations this year after disclosures of the Microsoft co-founder’s ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
Windows Central · Jul 14 Xbox's cuts and layoffs don't solve its biggest problem — What will Asha do to solve Microsoft's biggest gaming crisis? In order to find the next genuine article of growth, Xbox will need to innovate in ways it hasn't seen in decades. Will Xbox CEO Asha Sharma be given the runway to do it?
Tom’s Hardware · Jul 14 New York enacts one-year data center ban on projects larger than 50 megawatts — first US state to implement moratorium; will also pursue repealing tax exemptions New York is the first to pass a statewide data center moratorium, which pauses all projects greater than 50 MW for one year. The governor's office said that it will create a GEIS to hold developments to "consistent standards," and also study the environmental impact of the construction and operation…
PC Gamer · Jul 14 New changes to Windows 11 Start menu and search look genuinely exciting and thank the heavens that we'll be able to disable web results Keep going in this direction, please, Microsoft.
TechRadar · Jul 14 'We love this... except gradual rollouts': Windows 11 search is being improved in a big way, with users impatient to get these changes — and I don't blame them The search box is being improved across the board, and Microsoft is pleasing the computing crowd once again.