Xbox Game Pass Gets One More Stacked Lineup Before Major Downgrade
The second September 2026 Xbox Game Pass wave adds Ninja Gaiden 4, Dune: Awakening, Black Ops 6, Minecraft Dungeons II, and more.
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Diablo 4 Is Completely Free to Play on Steam for a Limited Time
Diablo 4 is free to play on Steam until September 21. The base version is also 75% off on Steam and the Blizzard Store, at $12.49.
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Unredacted Filings: Microsoft Exec Called AI Scraping 'Theft' as OpenAI Faces Copyright Suit
Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies allegedly scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut publishers.
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Microsoft's new AI 'code of conduct' tells models not to hack systems or trick humans
The code of conduct lays out general principles that Microsoft AI models should uphold — supporting humans rather than replacing them, for instance, and accelerating human flourishing — as well as specific safety constraints meant to implement those principles.
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Microsoft’s quantum chip upgrade draws praise and skepticism
Microsoft says a materials swap improved a key topological qubit metric from milliseconds to about 20 seconds. Some physicists see progress; critics say the preprint does not prove a topological qubit or Majoranas.
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