Month: August 2026
Microsoft’s Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the face of Copilot
Microsoft Copilot will no longer show its emotive yellow blob, Mico, when you use the chatbot’s voice mode. In a support page, Microsoft says it’s going to move Mico to its Learn Live platform, where the avatar will have “more to react to,” as reported earlier by GeekWire. Mico joins…
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Netflix shuts down Oxenfree studio Night School weeks after praising its ‘really solid numbers’
Execs praised Night School's latest game, Unhinged, before pulling the rug. Source
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X is testing a tool that will let users see if their posts have been ‘shadowbanned’
The feature is rolling out as the company open-sources more of its ranking algorithm. Source
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Wait, is this actually a good gaming laptop deal? This Gigabyte A16 features an RTX 5070 and 32GB of RAM for $1,249
It’s no secret that it’s hard to find a decent deal on a gaming laptop these days. The spiralling price of components has really hit all machines — not just laptops. I think I’ve just spotted a rare listing at Walmart, however, that almost reminds me of a pre-RAM crisis…
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World-first autonomous ‘end-to-end’ AI attack against Taiwan tied to Chinese hackers — and the scariest part is that it was fully open source
China launched a fully autonomous vulnerability hunting attack against Taiwan The attack leveraged eight open-source AI models to hunt for new attack vectors The attack hit Taiwan government accounts, personnel records, the nuclear safety agency, and more A first-of-its-kind cyberattack using autonomous AI has been spotted attacking Taiwan, and it…
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Netflix is closing two game studios
Netflix plans to shut down two of its gaming studios, as reported by Game File and Variety, as it makes a bigger shift toward party games and titles streamed to TVs. One of the studios being shut down is Night School Studio, creators of the Oxenfree series. Netflix bought Night…
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