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Steve Jobs on His Final Quarterly Analyst Call: ‘We Think the Open Versus Closed Argument Is Just a Smokescreen’

Daring Fireball · Music & Entertainment · 2026-11-03

After linking to it earlier today, I re-read Steve Jobs’s remarks from his last appearance on a quarterly analyst call.

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Estée Lauder Companies expands Microsoft partnership

Luxury Daily · Brand & Business · 2026-11-03

Beauty conglomerate The Estée Lauder Companies is partnering with Microsoft to strengthen its cloud, data and AI capabil

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Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft will make it easier for publishers to opt out of being scraped

Nieman Lab · Music & Entertainment · 2026-11-02

Right now, if you don’t want your site to be scraped by AI companies, you have to block each company’s crawlers individu

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Microsoft improves Windows 11 performance on 8 GB PCs as RAM prices keep climbing

The Register · Music & Entertainment · 2026-11-03

We've got a hunch the memory crunch is taking a bite out of Windows revenue

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Xbox Game Pass November 2026 Lineup Announced

Polygon · Brand & Business · 2026-11-03

Escape Academy 2 and Warhammer Survivors headline Microsoft's latest Xbox Game Pass additions arriving in November.

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Ubisoft are reportedly tapped as one potential company that could acquire Arkane, though the Dishonored studio's own management may be in the running too

Rock Paper Shotgun · Music & Entertainment · 2026-11-03

Things are potentially looking up for Arkane, depending on how you feel about Ubisoft (and depending on who actually end

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"There’s always a night when Rome burns": South Of Midnight director says that Xbox funding it was "unsustainable", at least in hindsight

Rock Paper Shotgun · Art & Photography · 2026-11-03

Compulsion Games parted ways with former owners Xbox , having landed on the long list of things Microsoft were determine

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UEFI bootkit infected fully patched Windows machines. Is Microsoft to blame?

Ars Technica · Tech & Digital · 2026-11-03

UEFI bootkit BlackX exploits Microsoft's lack of clarity around Secure Boot protections.

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Microsoft's Canada timezone troubles leave admins fixing calendars, pretending they're in Bogota

The Register · Tech & Digital · 2026-11-02

Canadian regions stop turning back the clocks, Microsoft wishes it could

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Microsoft Patents an AI That Can Literally Put Words in People’s Mouths in Real Time

Futurism · Culture & Ideas · 2026-11-01

Talk about a new kind of filter. The post Microsoft Patents an AI That Can Literally Put Words in People’s Mouths in Rea

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Microsoft's moolah mountain is more massive than ever. It just doesn't want the people who built it

The Register · Tech & Digital · 2026-11-02

Flash the cash, flush the cache

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Celeste and TowerFall have been removed from the Xbox store in a move to "support the BDS boycott" against Microsoft

Rock Paper Shotgun · Fashion & Style · 2026-10-29

It's a good day to love Celeste! Earlier today it was discovered that Celeste had been removed from the Xbox Store while

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Microsoft Says Its New AI Is Better at Diagnosing Patients Than Real Doctors

Futurism · Tech & Digital · 2026-10-25

"This is just going to change the way care is delivered in a big way." The post Microsoft Says Its New AI Is B