Author: Zach_Wilson
Microsoft jacks the price of Game Pass Ultimate up to $30 a month
Microsoft has announced some major changes for Game Pass. It’s rebranding some of the tiers, which should make it a little easier to keep tabs on what games and features are available on Game Pass across Xbox consoles, PC and cloud gaming. However, there is a painful price increase here.…
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Microsoft 365 Premium bundles Office and AI for the same price as ChatGPT Plus
When Microsoft first launched its Copilot Pro plan last year and wanted an extra $20 a month on top of a Microsoft 365 Family or Personal subscription to get AI-powered Office features, it seemed like a tall ask. After bundling Office AI features into Microsoft 365 subscriptions earlier this year,…
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Microsoft 365 Premium brings pro-level AI features to your subscription – but only if you upgrade
The new Microsoft 365 Premium plan comes online with upgraded Copilot AI powers Copilot Pro subscribers can simply switch to the new plan New icons introduced for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and the rest of the Office apps Microsoft 365 Premium launches today with upgraded AI features for $19.99 / £19…
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Meta will soon use AI chats for ad targeting because of course it will
Meta will start scraping conversations with AI chatbots to gather data for the purpose of ad targeting. The company says this data will be used to "personalize the content and ads" that people see across apps like Facebook and Instagram. The "feature" goes into effect on December 16 and Meta…
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Satya Nadella appoints a new CEO to run Microsoft’s biggest businesses
We are in the midst of a tectonic AI platform shift, one that requires us to both manage and grow our at-scale commercial business today, while building the new frontier and executing flawlessly across both. History shows that general purpose technologies like AI drive step changes in productivity and GDP…
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Around 50,000 Cisco firewalls are vulnerable to attack, so patch now
50,000 Cisco firewalls vulnerable to actively exploited RCE flaws CVE-2025-20333 and 20362 Cisco and CISA urge immediate patching; no workarounds available for affected ASA/FTD devices Shadowserver found 48.8K unpatched IPs; top affected countries include USA, UK, and Germany Around 50,000 internet-connected Cisco firewalls are vulnerable to two actively exploited flaws,…
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