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The article discusses how ongoing component shortages and RAM price increases are leading to higher prices for new computers, tablets, and other hardware from companies like Valve, Microsoft, and Apple, making it a bad time for consumers to buy new tech.
Microsoft is increasing Xbox console prices by $100-$150 starting August 1st, citing a component crisis and memory/storage price increases of over 2.5x.
Microsoft quietly extends Windows 10 support by one year, providing continued updates and security patches for users.
Researchers from MIT and Microsoft developed an intelligent system that automatically optimizes agentic workflows, reducing computational resources and energy usage while maintaining performance.
Microsoft has introduced more affordable 12-inch Surface Pro and 13-inch Surface Laptop models with 8GB of RAM instead of 16GB, starting at $849 and $949 respectively, but without support for Copilot Plus AI features.
A new peer-reviewed paper in Nature argues that Microsoft's claims of achieving a topological qubit with its Majorana 1 chip were not convincingly demonstrated, suggesting the observed signatures could be from quantum dots instead.
Microsoft AI Frontiers releases a family of browser agents that can fill forms and make reservations using pixel-to-action with observe-think-act loops. Available in 4B, 9B, and 27B parameter sizes for deployment on modest hardware.
A tweet sharing five free resources for learning agentic code, including the Microsoft AI Agents for Beginners course and the Hugging Face Agents Course.
A scientist published a peer-reviewed critique in Nature arguing that Microsoft's quantum computing breakthrough claims are invalid due to basic Python errors and omitted data, suggesting the company's topological quantum computer is far from realization.
Microsoft's NextLat paper proposes a self-supervised training method where transformers predict their next hidden state instead of just the next token, leading to more compact world models, better planning and reasoning, and up to 3.3x faster generation.
Microsoft has open-sourced Fast Context, a tool designed to accelerate context retrieval in AI applications.
A rumor suggests that major gaming publishers like Sony and Microsoft are planning mass layoffs and studio closures, with Bethesda, BioWare, and others named as potentially affected.
Microsoft open-sourced bitnet.cpp, a 1-bit LLM inference framework that enables running 100B parameter models on local CPUs without GPUs, achieving 6.17x faster inference and 82.2% less energy consumption.
Chevron announces a 20-year power purchase agreement with Microsoft to develop a co-located natural gas power facility in West Texas, delivering approximately 2.67 GW to a Microsoft data center to support AI growth.
The article covers the upcoming expiration of a Microsoft Secure Boot certificate that Linux distributions rely on for booting via shim, and the complexities involved in updating system firmware to accommodate the replacement key.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns against concentration of AI power in the hands of a few companies, advocating for broader access and social benefit.
A Microsoft study using 43 weeks of data from 16,223 engineers found that GitHub Copilot increases pull request completion by 40.5% when holding development effort constant.
A Microsoft AI researcher built a simple neural network using goats in Age of Empires II to argue that if such a system can be considered conscious, then claims of AI consciousness in chatbots are equally absurd.
A 20-year-old woman taught herself computer science for two years and became an AI engineer at Microsoft, sharing her learning notes and resource repository X-Plore.
Windows 11's new Media Player consumes 3.5 times more RAM and now charges for popular video codecs, marking a controversial update to the built-in app.