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Utility giant Duke Energy plans to spend industry record $103 billion on growth as data centers and affordability take center stage

Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta are all expanding in the Duke service footprint.

Fortune

Xbox Game Pass and Discord tier leaks

A new "Game Pass Starter Edition" for Discord Nitro subscribers has leaked and here's what it offers.

Tom’s Guide

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Human Resources HR software review: Flexible, powerful, but definitely not perfect

It’s one of the biggest names in computing, but should you trust your HR processes to Microsoft?

TechRadar

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Devs behind canceled Xbox game are hiring for an unannounced AAA open-world title — are they reviving one of my favorite action game franchises?

New job listings at Avalanche Studios suggest that it might be returning to the Just Cause franchise with an open-world "unannounced AAA project."

Windows Central

5 essential features for small business printers — Check your chosen printer has these if you're printing from the office or home office

If your small business needs to keep printing, make sure your printer has all of these features.

TechRadar

Windows 11 is finally giving you real control over updates with new options to skip releases, pause longer, and stop forced restarts

Windows 11 is adding new update controls, including skipping updates during setup, longer pause options, clearer restart choices, and fewer monthly reboots.

Windows Central

Windows Insider reboot begins: Here's what's new in the first-ever Experimental Preview build

Microsoft has started moving Windows Insiders into the new Experimental Channel and the updated Beta Channel as part of a broader reboot of the program. The first Experimental Preview build is now available.

Windows Central

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"I want to make the right decision": Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says Microsoft will "make some calls" on exclusive games, but won't rush to make "the fastest decision"

New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says she's reconsidering Microsoft's position on exclusive games, though won't rush because "I want to make the right decision."

Windows Central

CISA puts US government agencies on two-week deadline to patch Microsoft Defender BlueHammer zero-day exploit

BlueHammer was disclosed in early April, together with two additional bugs, by a disgruntled researcher.

TechRadar

Michael Burry Takes a Break from Warning on Hyperscalers to Buy Microsoft Stock, Signaling Shares Are Too Cheap to Ignore

Burry’s Microsoft purchase sits alongside newly initiated positions in PayPal and planned positions in Salesforce and MSCI, all of which share a common thread: established companies with deep competitive moats trading at significant discounts to recent highs.

Barchart

Palantir and the NHS – 10 things you need to know

Palantir, a US data analytics company backed in its early years by In-Q-Tel, now plays a central role in the NHS’s £330 million Federated Data Platform. Supporters say it could improve planning and efficiency, while critics have raised questions about governance, transparency and trust. Here’s what you need to know.

The Conversation

I got an inside look at the plan to bring the soul back to Windows 11 — Microsoft’s bet on quality, community, and making the OS feel human again

From Ninja Cat to named owners — I learned how Microsoft is rebooting the Insider program to restore trust, but will it work?

Windows Central

Xbox outlines broad plan to revitalize brand with a back-to-basics approach that focuses on console — New Xbox strategy reprioritizes console, while bolstering cloud and services

Microsoft Gaming has been rebranded to just Xbox and the new leadership at the company is looking to shift focus to what worked in the first place. The new open letter titled "We are Xbox" goes over four main points that the brand is putting at the center of this…

Tom’s Hardware

Ranking the biggest Xbox "problems" on Asha Sharma's to-do list: Exclusives, Xbox Helix, Game Pass, and more

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma just crossed sixty days in the job, and has tackled some big issues facing the platform already. But there's potentially much harder stuff on the horizon.

Windows Central

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You probably wouldn’t notice if an AI chatbot slipped ads into its responses

Hundreds of millions of people consult artificial intelligence chatbots on a daily basis for everything from product recommendations to romance, making them a tempting audience to target with potentially below-the-radar advertising. Indeed, our research suggests AI chatbots could easily be used for covert advertising to manipulate their human users.

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Microsoft and Meta cut thousands of staff as they bet big on AI

Meta to lay off 10% of its staff and Microsoft to offer retirement to 7% of US workforce. Plus, Iron Maiden at 50

Windows Central

Xbox Free Play Days has acquired MLB The Show 26, Age of Mythology: Retold, and more for all Xbox players to enjoy — this upcoming weekend only

Microsoft has announced a collection of games that can be played for free temporarily from April 23 to April 26, 2026. These games are MLB The Show 26, Age of Mythology: Retold, Anno 117: Pax Romana, and The Survivalists.

Euronews

France moves public health data from Microsoft to French cloud provider

After several years of controversy, France’s health data platform is set to leave Microsoft’s cloud for its homegrown company Scaleway.

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Copilot Keyboard launches in Japan, but it’s the return of the dolphin “Kyle” stealing the spotlight

Copilot Keyboard launches in Japan with AI‑powered text suggestions, Copilot Search, and the surprise return of Kyle the dolphin from Microsoft Office 97.

Microsoft Gaming is gone as Xbox Project Helix gets more interesting by the day

The Phil Spencer era of Xbox is most certainly over, as Sharma takes the brand in a new direction

Evening Standard

Thousands of jobs to be cut at tech giants Meta and Microsoft

Facebook and Instagram owner Meta said it plans to cut around 8,000 jobs, or 10% of its workforce, to help boost efficiency.

The Independent UK

Tech giants Meta and Microsoft to cut thousands of jobs

Facebook and Instagram owner Meta said it plans to cut around or 10% of its workforce

The Conversation

Meta and Microsoft have joined the tech layoff tsunami. Is AI really to blame?

Meta and Microsoft are the latest software companies to announce big cuts to their global workforce. Both companies are also making big investments in artificial intelligence (AI).

Euronews

Meta axes 8,000 jobs to fund AI spending spree, Microsoft to follow suit

Two of the world's biggest tech companies are shrinking their headcounts — Meta through layoffs, Microsoft through buyouts — as the AI spending race heats up.

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Sysprep Alternative: A Non-Destructive Way to Resolve Windows SID Conflicts

Learn how to change Windows SID without Sysprep to resolve duplicate SID conflicts in Windows 11/10/Server via Wittytool Disk Clone. Discover a quick method to preserve system settings and user data during disk cloning and migration

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