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New XBox and Windows game controller for people with disabilities
Microsoft's new accessible game controller has a retro vibe, enormous buttons, and a range of attachments tailored to specific disabilities. The new Xbox Adaptive Controller, which will be available...
View ArticleHere are 15 privacy settings you should change from defaults, from Linkedin...
The Washington Post rounds up 15 privacy defaults that no one in their right mind would want to leave as-is, and provides direct links to change 'em (hilariously and predictably, Verizon/Oath/Yahoo's...
View ArticleMicrosoft employees pissed over company's connection to ICE
Back in January, Microsoft announced that they were "proud" to support ICE. Honestly, what company wouldn't be? A U.S. federal contract, no matter how large your coffers and corporate reach might be,...
View ArticleMicrosoft CEO: don't worry, we're mostly helping the parts of ICE that don't...
As Microsoft employees grow increasingly furious that their employer is a key technology provider to ICE, providing, among other things, facial recognition software, the company is responding,...
View ArticleMicrosoft's Surface Go is... go
When I'm away from home, I hate carrying my laptop. There's not enough room to use it in coach seating on an airplane and it weighs more than I care to haul around during a press junket. Typically, I...
View ArticleMicrosoft gives classic Skype a stay of execution after user complaints
For years, I maintained a Skype number that’d forward to whatever phone number I happened to be using at the time. It was the only way to make myself reachable on the phone, despite my switching to a...
View ArticleMicrosoft to make Skype usable again
Earlier this year, Microsoft brought sweeping changes to Skype's UI, giving it something of a SnapChat makeover. The communication app's user base, I among them, was less than impressed, to say the...
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Insider build of Windows 10 warns users not install Firefox and Chrome
Edge isn't doing so well: Chrome still rules the web roost, and Firefox is resurgent. But Microsoft can do something about that. Companies like Google or Microsoft have used their market position in...
View ArticleReview: This case for my Surface Go is wicked heavy but wicked good
One of the biggest problems surrounding my use of expensive electronics is that my lifestyle isn't kind to fragile things. While we're in transit between campsites, our RV rocks, bumps and heaves....
View ArticleThe man who created Ctrl+Alt+Del
Meet David Bradley, chief engineer of the IBM PC, who created Ctrl+Alt+Del. "I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous," Bradley once said.
View ArticleMicrosoft's best Windows 10 customers bear the brunt of the latest license...
If you paid extra for Windows 10 "Pro," Microsoft had an unpleasant surprise for you: a misconfiguration in the company's license server resulted in the oldest Win 10 Pro installs (that is, those...
View ArticleMicrosoft confirms 'Bing is currently inaccessible in China'
Bada bing, bada banned. China has blocked Bing, Microsoft's search engine, tonight. Bing.com is not accessible inside China, per reports throughout the country. Microsoft says ‘we’ve confirmed that...
View ArticleGoogle, Facebook and Microsoft were the top sponsors of a conference that...
Libertycon is the annual conference of Students for Liberty, a libertarian youth group, held in DC; at this year's conference, Google was the $25,000 platinum sponsor, while Facebook and Microsoft...
View ArticleMicrosoft announces it will shut down ebook program and confiscate its...
Microsoft has a DRM-locked ebook store that isn't making enough money, so they're shutting it down and taking away every book that every one of its customers acquired effective July 1. Customers will...
View ArticleWhat the rest of the world doesn't know about Chinese AI
ChinAI Jeff Ding's weekly newsletter reporting on the Chinese AI scene; on the occasion of the newsletter's first anniversary, Ding has posted a roundup of things about the Chinese AI scene that the...
View ArticleIllinois almost passed a bill that banned devices that record you without...
This week, Keep Internet Devices Safe Act was gutted by the Illinois senate: it would have allowed people sue manufacturers if they determined that a device had engaged in remote recording without...
View ArticleNot just Apple: Microsoft has been quietly lobbying to kill Right to Repair...
Apple pioneered the use of dirty tricks and lobbying to kill Right to Repair legislation, but they're not the only tech player who's putting lobbying muscle into ensuring that you can't decide who...
View ArticleEvil Clippy: a tool for making undetectable malicious Microsoft Office docs
Evil Clippy comes from Dutch security researchers Outflank: "a tool which assists red teamers and security testers in creating malicious MS Office documents. Amongst others, Evil Clippy can hide VBA...
View ArticleA look back at the sales training for Radio Shack's Model 100, a...
When Radio Shack released the Model 100 in 1983, it was a breakthrough for portable computing: an AA-battery-powered laptop that you could fit in a briefcase, with a built-in modem and an instant-on...
View ArticleBill Gates and Steve Ballmer in "A Night at the Roxbury"
In this delightful crowd-pleaser shown at a 1998 Microsoft conference, right around the kickoff of the federal antitrust case against the company, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer take on the characters...
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