Why I won’t be returning to Windows anytime soon
Apple Earlier this year, I made a pretty drastic, all-in move to Apple. That included laptop, tablet, phone, and watch. And so far, I haven’t been tempted to go back.…
The fascinating way Microsoft and Apple are being forced to team up
Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Apple announced its deal with OpenAI as part of Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2024, and now more details have been released about the partnership. According…
Xbox Live is down, so you can’t sign into your Xbox account
Microsoft Xbox Live experienced a major sign-in outage Tuesday afternoon that made it impossible to log into your Xbox profile to play games online. I noticed it after attempting to…
New Open Source Bugs Leave Thousands of iOS Apps Vulnerable to Hijacking
A series of newly discovered vulnerabilities in a widely used open source software utility could spell big trouble for large parts of the iOS and MacOS ecosystems. The bugs in…
Leaked Google Pixel 9 Is So Disgustingly Pink You Can Taste It
Did anyone else get force-fed amoxicillin as a young kid? I can still taste the chilled pink chalkiness to this day, lingering in my mouth hours after having taken a…
Microsoft Surface Pro Review: A Laptop With an Identity Crisis
Microsoft Surface Pro 2024 The 11th-gen Surface Pro has some pretty solid performance, but it’s not beating other laptops with its high price tag. The Surface Pro for 2024 costs…
A dangerous new jailbreak for AI chatbots was just discovered
Wikimedia Commons Microsoft has released more details about a troubling new generative AI jailbreak technique it has discovered, called “Skeleton Key.” Using this prompt injection method, malicious users can effectively…
I gave the Windows Media Player another shot. Here’s what surprised me
Digital Trends Microsoft has had a strange relationship with local video playback for the past several years. It’s one of those features that was caught in the purgatory that was…
The Microsoft AI CEO just dropped a huge hint about GPT-5
The timeline on GPT-5 continues to be a moving target, but a recent interview with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman sheds some light on what GPT-5 and even what its…
Here’s what the Windows Phone would look like in 2024 if Microsoft had never killed it
Proloy Karmakar You probably haven’t thought about Windows phones in a while. After all, why would you? The last Windows Phone handset to be released was the Microsoft Lumia 650…