The Guardian Europe
AI datacentres have eaten all the memory chips, so Apple is charging you £100 more for an iPhone and calling it a folding-phone launch. The era of cheap gadgets is over.
The Verge
Microsoft's biggest patch ever breaks stuff, so it issues an emergency patch. Again.
ZDNet
Microsoft's September security update silences old USB audio gear, but a simple stereo workaround might save your ears - and your outdated headset.
TechCrunch
The Seattle Times and Newsday join the legal pile-on against OpenAI and Microsoft, calling AI a 'snake eating its own tail' - which is rich, coming from an industry that's been cannibalizing itself for years.
The Verge
Microsoft is simplifying its financial reports to two segments and will finally spill the beans on Azure's quarterly revenue, because AI made everything too complicated.
TechCrunch
Lambda borrows $1 billion to buy Nvidia chips to rent to Microsoft, continuing the AI industry's proud tradition of spending billions in borrowed money to build the future.
The Verge
Microsoft's Xbox prices are getting a hefty workout, with EU and UK buyers facing up to €200 or £170 more, because AI's chip cravings have to be paid for somehow.
TechCrunch
Microsoft’s Q4 earnings reveal Anthropic delivered a $3.2B gain while OpenAI took a $600M write-down - proving even AI investments have their favorites.
TechCrunch
Microsoft arms sales team with talking points to bash former BFFs OpenAI and Anthropic, because nothing says 'confidence in your own product' like a carefully crafted negative comparison.
The Verge
Microsoft finally remembers that users just want to find their files, not play a quiz or buy something.
The Guardian
Microsoft, Amazon, and Google's emissions hit 119m mTCO₂e - one-third of France's - as AI datacentre construction boom undoes years of climate progress.
Ars Technica
Microsoft's patch for a Windows Defender zero-day might accidentally let attackers fill your hard drive, because fixing one bug apparently requires creating another.
ZDNet
Windows 11 has a bug where a single system file can grow to 500GB, but Microsoft is finally fixing it after a year - optional update available now, mandatory one coming July 14.
ZDNet
A tech journalist's sardonic guide to RAM in 2026: 16GB is the new baseline for Windows, 8GB still works on Macs if you squint, and 32GB is for gamers with no budget.
The Verge
Microsoft is reportedly considering spinning off Xbox into its own company, because nothing says 'sustainable' like a radical existential crisis.
ZDNet
Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra was the only RTX Spark laptop actually powered on at Computex - a beastly, premium AI powerhouse with a mini-LED display that's brighter than my future, and a smoke machine demo that didn't work.
TechCrunch
Microsoft's GitHub Copilot price hike sparks the Tokenpocalypse, as AI labs face the grim reality of having to charge real money for things that were never free.
The Verge
Sony swears off live-service regrets, Microsoft plays hard to get with Gears, and everyone runs from GTA VI's release date like it's a speeding train.
TechCrunch
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman leaves Microsoft's board to focus on his drug discovery AI startup Manus, because curing cancer beats quarterly earnings calls.
ZDNet
A journalist pays $10 for Microsoft's premium Copilot agents, only to receive unusable sandbox links, confusion about its own product, and a 20-minute wild goose chase that ended with unchecking a single checkbox.
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