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Microsoft makes it easier for Windows Insider testers to get new features

Windows Insider builds remain confusing, but they should be more predictable.

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Apr 10 • 2:00 PM EDT • Technology • arstechnica.com
Microsoft finally lets Windows 11 testers unlock experimental features without ViVeTool

The changes are part of the fix Windows 11 effort

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Apr 10 • 2:00 PM EDT • Technology • theverge.com
Amazon Luna ends support for third-party subscriptions and game purchases

You'll no longer be able to stream games you bought from EA, GOG and Ubisoft through the platform.

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Apr 10 • 1:13 PM EDT • Technology • engadget.com
Samsung says it has a One UI 8.5 device plan for ‘later’

Samsung has announced that the company will release a One UI 8.5 device plan once the software is ready for rollout. However, there are a couple of things you should know about this new statement. This statement comes after a wide user-based criticism of Samsung’s new feature limitation to the Galaxy S26 series. Users alleged that the company […]

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Apr 10 • 11:54 AM EDT • Technology • sammyfans.com
Unique X, Imagica Entertainment Media Services Partner to Transform Japanese Cinema Advertising Business

Digital cinema software provider Unique X and Imagica Entertainment Media Services (Imagica EMS), the market leader in Japan for post-production and media services, today announced the signing of a full long-term agreement, building upon their original Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). This strategic partnership establishes a robust framework for an exclusive collaboration aimed at transforming and […]

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Apr 10 • 9:39 AM EDT • Entertainment • boxofficepro.com
GlassWorm Campaign Uses Zig Dropper to Infect Multiple Developer IDEs

GlassWorm uses a fake WakaTime VS Code extension to infect IDEs, deploy RATs, and steal data, prompting urgent credential rotation.

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Apr 10 • 9:23 AM EDT • Technology • thehackernews.com
Microsoft Starts Removing Copilot from Notepad, Snipping Tool, and More in Windows 11

Microsoft's Copilot AI has generated significant negative sentiment among Windows 11 users, to the extent that even Microsoft has recognized the need to scale back some of the Copilot functionality it has long promoted. According to Windows Latest, Microsoft has updated core Windows applications suc...

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Apr 10 • 8:40 AM EDT • Technology • techpowerup.com
Microsoft starts removing unnecessary Copilot buttons in Windows 11

Microsoft has rolled out a Notepad update for Windows Insiders that removes the Copilot branding and icon from within the app, Windows Central has reported.

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Apr 10 • 8:03 AM EDT • Technology • engadget.com
Morning Sports: Softball, baseball, and basketball

Rob Krone has highlights from a busy sports night locally on Thursday.

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Apr 10 • 6:38 AM EDT • Sports • wwnytv.com
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Microsoft starts removing Copilot buttons from Windows 11 apps

The underlying AI features are here to stay, though

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Apr 10 • 5:22 AM EDT • Technology • theverge.com
Green Bay area high school sports results for Thursday, April 9

High school baseball, softball, soccer, and track and field teams were in action.

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Apr 10 • 12:11 AM EDT • Sports • greenbaypressgazette.com
A junior hit 2 home runs and went the distance in the Hahnville-Mount Carmel softball game

The Hahnville-Mount Carmel softball winner was led by a junior's two-way impact

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Apr 9 • 9:50 PM EDT • Sports • nola.com
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Apple Releases macOS Tahoe 26.4.1 With Bug Fixes

Apple today released macOS Tahoe 26.4.1, a minor update to the macOS Tahoe operating system that came out last September. macOS Tahoe 26.4.1 comes two weeks after Apple launched macOS Tahoe 26.4. Mac users can download the new software by opening up the System Settings app and navigating to the Software Update section. Mac users can download the new software by opening up the System Settings app and navigating to the Software Update section.

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Apr 9 • 1:18 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Windows and Xbox are now prioritizing user feedback in a huge pivot ... but why now? I can't help but be suspicious — it smells a bit like panic.

Is Microsoft's big AI push falling off the rails? Possibly, but not for the reasons you might think.

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Apr 9 • 1:13 PM EDT • Technology • windowscentral.com
US software stocks fall as Anthropic's new AI model revives disruption fears

U.S. software shares tumbled on Thursday after Anthropic held back the wide release of a powerful AI model over concerns ​it could expose hidden cybersecurity vulnerabilities, deepening investor fears about ‌the threat to traditional software firms.

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Apr 9 • 11:27 AM EDT • Business • reuters.com
Physics Professor Receives Prestigious Science Fellowship

A Georgetown University physics professor was named to a prestigious scientific association to honor her work on rheology, the movement and deformation of material caused by external forces, the university announced March 30. Emanuela Del Gado’s research focuses on soft matter — material that exists between solids and liquids, such as gel, glass and plastic —...

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Apr 9 • 11:10 AM EDT • Science • thehoya.com
Samsung is expanding AirDrop to these Galaxy devices, but only if you install this update

Samsung is officially expanding AirDrop over Quick Share support to more Galaxy devices, but it requires a specific software update...

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Apr 9 • 8:50 AM EDT • Technology • 9to5google.com
Samsung expands One UI 8.5 beta to even more Galaxy phones

Samsung is expanding the One UI 8.5 Beta Program to even more Galaxy phones so that more users can test the new software version.

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Apr 9 • 8:00 AM EDT • Technology • sammobile.com
Galaxy S25 and S24 users get AirDrop and 3 new camera filters

With new One UI 8.5 Beta updates, Samsung has fresh perks for the users of Galaxy S25 and S24 series: AirDrop sharing and three new camera filters. Samsung just dropped One UI 8.5 Beta 9 and Beta 2 updates for the S25 and S24 series, respectively. Changelog of both updates carry exact the same content, […]

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Apr 9 • 6:44 AM EDT • Technology • sammyfans.com
Arm chief Haas in line to lead much of SoftBank’s international business

New job driving Japanese group’s AI strategy would be in addition to running the UK chip company

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Apr 9 • 12:31 AM EDT • Business • ft.com
Sports/Rec calendar: April 10–19, 2026

Upcoming recreation opportunities and college and prep sports

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Apr 9 • 12:00 AM EDT • Sports • cascadiadaily.com
WireGuard VPN developer can't ship software updates after Microsoft locks account

The popular open source VPN maker is the second high-profile developer to say Microsoft locked his account without notifying him and are blocking their ability to send software updates to users.

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Apr 8 • 5:50 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
The soft TACO theory of Trump

Understanding when Trump chickens out — and when he doesn’t.

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Apr 8 • 2:40 PM EDT • Politics • vox.com
18 new features coming to Windows 11 in 2026, confirmed by Microsoft

Windows 11 is getting major upgrades with faster performance, improved File Explorer, better updates, native apps, etc. Here is the full list.

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Apr 8 • 2:38 PM EDT • Technology • windowslatest.com
Microsoft Mocked for Terms of Service That Admit Copilot Is for “Entertainment Purposes Only”

Microsoft admitting in its own Copilot terms of service that the tool should only be used for "entertainment purposes only."

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Apr 8 • 1:03 PM EDT • Entertainment • futurism.com
Microsoft’s executive shake-up continues as developer division chief resigns

Another veteran Microsoft executive departs

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Apr 8 • 12:56 PM EDT • Technology • theverge.com
Form Bio: The Operating System for Science

Ben Lamm (left) and George Church (right) pose in front of a woolly mammoth. By Futurist Thomas Frey When Colossal Biosciences launched in 2021, one of the first things Ben Lamm did was sit down with his team and map out all the software they would need to actually do the work. The list came […]

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Apr 8 • 12:39 PM EDT • Science • futuristspeaker.com
Developer of VeraCrypt encryption software says Windows users may face boot-up issues after Microsoft locked his account

The maker of the popular open-source file encryption software VeraCrypt said Microsoft locked his online account, which may prevent device owners from booting up their computers.

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Apr 8 • 11:21 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Microsoft Abruptly Terminates VeraCrypt Account, Halting Windows Updates

Updates to VeraCrypt, a popular and long-running piece of encryption, are now thrown into doubt because of a seemingly unexplained Microsoft decision.

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Apr 8 • 9:59 AM EDT • Technology • 404media.co
Green Bay area high school sports results for Tuesday, April 7

High school softball, baseball and girls soccer teams were in action.

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Apr 8 • 9:12 AM EDT • Sports • greenbaypressgazette.com
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Robbinsville's Ella Nelms' perfect game tops Week 7 girls spring sports top performers

Ella Nelms threw a perfect game for Robbinsville softball, leading the list of Week 7 WNC high school spring sports girls top performers.

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Apr 8 • 6:07 AM EDT • Sports • citizen-times.com
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Why Microsoft’s war on Windows’ Control Panel is taking so long

It’s all to do with pesky printer and network drivers.

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Apr 8 • 5:23 AM EDT • Technology • theverge.com
Spring sports scores and highlights: April 7, 2026

Highlights feature the softball game between Broadway at Turner Ashby

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Apr 8 • 12:28 AM EDT • Sports • whsv.com
High school baseball and softball: Tuesday's scores

CIF City Section and Southern Section high school baseball and softball scores for Tuesday's games.

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Apr 8 • 12:22 AM EDT • Sports • latimes.com
Harvard Softball Sweeps Cornell On the Road | Sports

Harvard Softball Sweeps Cornell On the Road | Sports | The Harvard Crimson

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Apr 7 • 7:12 PM EDT • Sports • thecrimson.com
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500 Million Windows PCs Are About to Become Unsafe—Now There's a Free Upgrade to Keep Them Running

Microsoft left Windows 10 users with older hardware behind. Google has a free and convenient fix.

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Apr 7 • 4:28 PM EDT • Technology • inc.com
As Job Stability Shifts, AI Platforms Aim to Remove the Barriers to Business Ownership

Skills that have made someone successful in a corporate career can certainly translate to work as an entrepreneur, but owning a business is a separate challenge entirely. Costly start-up fees, overhead, marketing, managing multiple software systems and expensive staff are some of the many reasons st

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Apr 7 • 3:53 PM EDT • Business • usatoday.com
See the top high school sports performances from March 29 to April 4

See the top baseball, softball, boys volleyball and track and field performances from March 29 to April 4.

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Apr 7 • 1:11 PM EDT • Sports • redding.com
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Microsoft says Copilot AI is intended for 'entertainment purposes'

Microsoft's terms of service call Copilot entertainment-only, but the company has been pushing it as much more than that.

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Apr 7 • 11:20 AM EDT • Entertainment • pcworld.com
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Microsoft explains why it still can’t fully kill Control Panel in Windows 11

Microsoft is phasing out the Control Panel in Windows 11 in favor of the Settings app, but the transition is careful due to old drivers.

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Apr 7 • 11:15 AM EDT • Technology • windowslatest.com
Computer Science Students Compete in Software Hackathon - University of the Ozarks

A group of University of the Ozarks computer science students took part this past weekend in HogHacks, a 24-hour collegiate hackathon held at the University of Arkansas. Hosted by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) at the U of A, the event is an overnight software engineering competition among area college students that takes place […]

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Apr 7 • 9:46 AM EDT • Science • ozarks.edu
High school softball top 20 rankings for the Southland

A look at the top 20 high school softball teams in the Southland as ranked by CalHiSports.com for The Times.

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Apr 7 • 9:46 AM EDT • Sports • latimes.com
The 10 New Orleans area prep softball stars who have put together the best seasons in 2026

These 10 New Orleans area prep softball stars have had special seasons in 2026.

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Apr 7 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • nola.com
Microsoft plans tweaks to Copilot terms claiming chatbot is for ‘entertainment purposes only’

Sharp-eyed users spotted Microsoft describing its Copilot AI as "for entertainment purposes only"

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Apr 7 • 5:35 AM EDT • Entertainment • itpro.com
Salesforce, Microsoft new products, pricing in new era for software

Salesforce and Microsoft envision an AI future in which businesses still need their platforms — they just use them differently.

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Apr 7 • 5:05 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Harrison athletes unite for Autism Speaks and Champions Together

Acts of kindness by Harrison softball and baseball players kickoff 4-part series on Lafayette area athletes giving back to the community.

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Apr 7 • 4:01 AM EDT • Sports • jconline.com
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Samsung updates One UI software rollout roadmap

On March 6, Samsung shared its April 2026 software rollout roadmap. It’s important information for every Galaxy device user. The company has made some notable changes in this month’s roadmap, compared to March 2026. Current Models for Monthly Security Updates Samsung offers new security updates to premium Galaxy phones and foldables on a monthly basis. […]

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Apr 6 • 11:41 PM EDT • Technology • sammyfans.com
007's softball team, based in Ascension Parish, wins spring title

A youth softball team based in Ascension Parish won a title at the Spring Showdown.

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Apr 6 • 9:09 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Arizona cardiology practice paying $3.85M to resolve lawsuit after data breach

The 2023 incident potentially gave an attacker access to the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of thousands of heart patients.

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Apr 6 • 2:45 PM EDT • Business • cardiovascularbusiness.com
Microsoft: Copilot AI is for 'entertainment purposes only,' not 'important advice'

The company has baked its AI assistant into everything from Word to Windows, but it's apparently only for fun.

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Apr 6 • 1:44 PM EDT • Entertainment • mashable.com
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Microsoft says Copilot isn't just 'for entertainment purposes'

Microsoft said it will update the terms of use for Copilot after they went viral.

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Apr 6 • 1:30 PM EDT • Technology • businessinsider.com
Microsoft says Copilot isn't just 'for entertainment purposes'

Microsoft said it will update the terms of use for Copilot after they went viral.

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Apr 6 • 1:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • businessinsider.com
Morning Download: Nevada softball wins crucial series at GCU; Skylar Durley to hit portal

On weekday mornings, Nevada Sports Net will recap three big headlines of the day in its Morning Download. Read below for today's topics.

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Apr 6 • 11:24 AM EDT • Sports • nevadasportsnet.com
CAA Softball Weekly Awards

RICHMOND, Va. – UNCW’s Allison Corbin and Hofstra’s Ryleigh Smith captured CAA Player and Rookie of the Week honors, respectively, while a pair of complete-game shutouts from both the Pride’s Emma Falen and Campbell’s Katelyn Hubley split Pitcher of the Week recognition, respectively, on Monday.

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Apr 6 • 9:00 AM EDT • Sports • caasports.com
Software from tech startup Leto helps caseworkers connect clients with community resources

Leto Tech PBC has launched software developed by Purdue researchers that helps social service agencies and other organizations more efficiently connect their clients with community resources.

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Apr 6 • 7:43 AM EDT • Health • purdue.edu
Monolith Soft Talks Up Ganondorf's "Alluring Charm" In New Interview

"You witness a king's revival"

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Apr 6 • 6:00 AM EDT • Technology • nintendolife.com
Meta salaries revealed: How much engineers, researchers made in 2025

See how much Meta paid in 2025, with software engineers earning as much as $450,000. Salary data shows pay ranges across over 5,000 roles.

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Apr 6 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Galaxy S26 gets new software update with possible camera improvements

Samsung has released a new software update to the Galaxy S26 series. It includes the April 2026 security patch and camera improvements.

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Apr 6 • 4:26 AM EDT • Technology • sammobile.com
Microsoft Labels Copilot “Entertainment Only” While Selling It as a Business Tool

Microsoft is currently facing criticism on social media over the wording in Copilot's terms of service. The company heavily markets its AI services to

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Apr 6 • 3:55 AM EDT • Entertainment • trendingtopics.eu
Pellegrini: “We must get back on track ASAP.”

At San Siro, Roma swept Inter 5-2, complicating their race for fourth place. Mancini and Pellegrini scored the goals that softened the Giallorossi’s defeat. After the match, the midfielder spoke to ...

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Apr 6 • 2:05 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Pocket-Sized E-Ink Gets A Firmware Upgrade

Not so long ago, e-ink devices were rare and fairly pricey. As they have become more common and cheaper, some cool form-factor devices have emerged that suffer from subpar software. [Concretedog] p…

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Apr 6 • 1:00 AM EDT • Technology • hackaday.com
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on April 6, 2026: West Mifflin, Elizabeth Forward to meet in softball

All is quiet on the day after Easter in district baseball as the section series for this week will run Tuesday and Wednesday.

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Apr 6 • 12:16 AM EDT • Sports • tribhssn.triblive.com
Shore Sports Insider 2026 Week 2 Softball Top 10

St. Rose makes their first appearance in the 2026 Shore Sports Insider Softball Top 10 rankings.

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Apr 6 • 12:13 AM EDT • Sports • shoresportsinsider.com
Cenla Diamond Sports Contenders with Spencer Verret

The Louisiana High School Softball and Baseball State Championships and many Cenla teams are in the mix for a Title.

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Apr 5 • 11:49 PM EDT • Sports • kalb.com
GMB Management Software for Multi Location Business

GBPPromote GBPPromote Indore, Madhya Pradesh, April 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GBPPromote, a fast-growing Google Business Profile (GBP) management software, is gaining strong traction among agencies, franchises, enterprises, and individual businesses looking for a simpler and more scalable way to manage their local presence on Google. Adopted widely by franchises, agencies, and enterprise teams for multi-location GMB management, the platform is built to handle the kind of operational work that

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Apr 5 • 3:30 PM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Copilot is ‘for entertainment purposes only,’ according to Microsoft’s terms of service

AI skeptics aren’t the only ones warning users not to unthinkingly trust models’ outputs — that’s what the AI companies say themselves in their terms of service.

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Apr 5 • 2:51 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
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Copilot is ‘for entertainment purposes only,’ according to Microsoft’s terms of service

AI skeptics aren’t the only ones warning users not to unthinkingly trust models’ outputs — that’s what the AI companies say themselves in their terms of service.

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Apr 5 • 2:51 PM EDT • Entertainment • techcrunch.com
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Nebraska softball sweeps Rutgers in Saturday doubleheader

Nebraska played host to Rutgers on Saturday in a conference doubleheader. The Huskers swept the day, defeating the Scarlet Knights 8-0 and 5-3.

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Apr 5 • 7:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Microsoft calls Copilot ‘entertainment only’ while charging $30 a month for it

Microsoft's Copilot Terms of Use label it "for entertainment purposes only", yet the company charges up to $30/user/month and has spent $80bn on AI. Only 3.3% of users are paying.

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Apr 5 • 6:58 AM EDT • Entertainment • thenextweb.com
I'm unable to switch from Microsoft to Google ecosystem because of this single app

Google's ecosystem has one giant problem

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Apr 5 • 6:00 AM EDT • Technology • androidpolice.com
This $199 Microsoft upgrade is just $13 for a limited time

Don't replace your PC — refresh it.

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Apr 5 • 5:00 AM EDT • Technology • mashable.com
Microsoft’s New Windows Update—1 Billion Users Must Now Decide

'Bad news' for Windows users, as controversial browser update turns up on PCs.

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Apr 5 • 4:43 AM EDT • Technology • forbes.com
Nebraska softball notches two different wins in Rutgers doubleheader

No. 8 Nebraska softball kept up its winning ways on Saturday, beating Rutgers in a doubleheader in two very different ways.

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Apr 4 • 7:22 PM EDT • Sports • dailynebraskan.com
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Claire Calahan (8) runs to first base

Claire Calahan (8) runs to first base at Mizzou softball’s game against LSU on Saturday, April 4, 2026, at Mizzou Softball Stadium in Columbia. Mizzou scored 1-0, winning one out

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Apr 4 • 7:10 PM EDT • Sports • columbiamissourian.com
Microsoft spent years pushing Copilot, but now it says don’t rely on it

Microsoft says Copilot is for “entertainment purposes only,” despite deep integration into Office and Windows, sparking criticism over mixed messaging.

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Apr 4 • 6:22 PM EDT • Technology • digitaltrends.com
Microsoft takes on Google and OpenAI with its own AI models

From transcribing boardroom chatter to cloning voices in seconds, Microsoft's MAI model trio is here, and it is priced to make rivals sweat.

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Apr 4 • 4:11 PM EDT • Technology • digitaltrends.com
“Threatened retaliation on first contact”: As I dig into a former Halo art director’s claims, I’m left questioning what else Microsoft didn’t want anyone to see.

New allegations from a former Halo Studios developer outline claims of misconduct and organisational issues, prompting questions around accountability and internal investigations at Microsoft.

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Apr 4 • 10:00 AM EDT • Technology • windowscentral.com
AI Is Killing Microsoft

Microsoft's AI assistant, Copilot, is struggling to show traction, causing the tech giant to continue falling behind. Investors are not happy.

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Apr 4 • 8:15 AM EDT • Technology • futurism.com
Microsoft Warns Copilot AI Is For 'Entertainment Purposes' Only: 'Use At Your Own Risk'

Microsoft updates Copilot terms and conditions, warning that the AI tool is for entertainment only and users assume all risks.

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Apr 4 • 6:20 AM EDT • Entertainment • ndtv.com
Mastery of sex offender registry attracts major investment in Mandeville small business

Mandeville-based Watch Systems makes OffenderWatch and other software solutions to track the sex offender registry and help law enforcement agencies ensure compliance with evolving state laws.

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Apr 4 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • nola.com
Microsoft’s Windows Upgrade Deadline—Now Just 8 Weeks Away

Check your PC now — you must not miss this critical deadline.

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Apr 4 • 2:11 AM EDT • Technology • forbes.com
LinkedIn Hidden Code Secretly Searches Your Browser for Installed Extensions

Every time you open LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser, hidden JavaScript silently scans your computer for installed software without your knowledge, without your consent, and without a single word in LinkedIn's privacy policy.

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Apr 4 • 12:15 AM EDT • Technology • cybersecuritynews.com
LinkedIn secretly scans for 6,000+ Chrome extensions, collects data

A new report dubbed "BrowserGate" warns that Microsoft's LinkedIn is using hidden JavaScript scripts on its website to scan visitors' browsers for installed extensions and collect device data.

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Apr 3 • 4:40 PM EDT • Technology • bleepingcomputer.com
Artemis II astronauts are also having Microsoft Outlook issues

IT problems aren't just a terrestrial matter.

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Apr 3 • 2:57 PM EDT • Technology • mashable.com
Microsoft quietly buried 'for entertainment purposes only' in Copilot's Terms of Use

It's not what the ads want you to think.

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Apr 3 • 2:29 PM EDT • Entertainment • xda-developers.com
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Moon-bound Artemis II astronauts get help for Microsoft Outlook glitch

A day into their historic 10-day journey around the moon, astronauts told Houston they had a problem: They couldn’t open their email.

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Apr 3 • 1:59 PM EDT • Technology • seattletimes.com
Gemma 4 and what makes an open model succeed

Having written a lot of model release blog posts, there’s something much harder about reviewing open models when they drop relative to closed models, especially in 2026. In recent years, there were so few open models, so when Llama 3 was released most people were still doing research on Llama 2 and super happy to get an update. When Qwen 3 was released, the Llama 4 fiasco had just gone down, and a whole research community was emerging to study RL on Qwen 2.5 — it was a no brainer to upgrade. Today, when an open model releases, it’s competing with Qwen 3.5, Kimi K2.5, GLM 5, MiniMax M2.5, GPT-OSS, Arcee Large, Nemotron 3, Olmo 3, and others. The space is populated, but still feels full of hidden opportunity. The potential of open models feels like a dark matter, a potential we know is huge, but few clear recipes and examples for how to unlock it are out there. Agentic AI, OpenClaw, and everything brewing in that space is going to spur mass experimentation in open models to complement the likes of Claude and Codex, not replace them. Especially with open models, the benchmarks at release are an extremely incomplete story. In some ways this is exciting, as new open models have a much higher variance and ability to surprise, but it also points at some structural reasons that make building businesses and great AI experiences around open models harder than the closed alternatives. When a new Claude Opus or GPT drops, spending a few hours with them in my agentic workflows is genuinely a good vibe test. For open models, putting them through this test is a category error. Something else to be said about open models in the era of agents is that they get out of the debate of integration, harnesses, and tools and let us see close to the ground on what exactly is the ability of just a model. Of course, we can’t test some things like search abilities without some tool, but being able to measure exactly the pace of progress of the model alone is a welcome simplification to a systematically opaque AI space. Share The list of factors I’d use to assess a new open-weight model I’m considering investing in includes: Model performance (and size) — how this model performs on benchmarks I care about and how it compares to other models of a similar size. Country of origin — some businesses care deeply about provenance, and if a model was built in China or not. Model license — if a model needs legal approval for use, uptake will be slower at mid-sized and large companies. Tooling at release — many models release with half-broken, or at least substantially slower, implementations in popular software like vLLM, Transformers, SGLANG, etc due to pushing the envelope of architectures or tools. Model fine-tunability — how easy or hard it is to modify the given model to your use-case when you actually try and use it. The core problem is that some of these are immediately available at release, e.g. general performance, license, origin, etc. but others such as tooling take day(s) to week(s) to stabilize, and others are open research questions — with no group systematically monitoring fine-tunability. In the early era of open models, the days of Llama 2 or 3 and Qwen pre v3.5, the architectures were fairly simple and the models tended to work out of the box. Some of this was due to the extremely hard work of the Llama, Qwen, Mistral, etc. developer teams. Some is due to the new models being genuinely harder to work with. When it comes to something like Qwen 3.5 or Nemotron 3, with hybrid models (either gated delta net or mamba layers), the tooling is very rough at release. Things you would expect to “just work” often don’t. I’ve been following this area closely since we released Olmo Hybrid with a similar architecture, and Qwen 3.5 is just starting to work well in the various open-source tools that need to all play nice together for RL research. That’s 1.5 months after the release date! This is just to start really investing more into understanding the behavior of the models. Of course, others started working on these models sooner by investing more engineering resources or relying on partially closed software. The fully open and distributed ecosystem takes a long time to get going on some new models. All of this is lead-in for the most important question for open models — how easy is it to adapt to specific use-cases? This is a different problem for different model sizes. Large MoE open-weight models may be used by entities like Cursor who need complex capabilities in their domain, e.g. Composer 2 trained on Kimi K2.5. Other applications can be built on much smaller models, such as Chroma’s Context-1 model for agentic search, built on GPT-OSS 20B. The question of “which models are fine-tunable” is largely background knowledge known by engineers across the industry. There should be a thriving research area here to support the open ecosystem model. The first step is to understand characteristics of different base and post-trained models to understand what they look like. The second step is to tune pretraining recipes for open models so they’re more flexible. Interconnects AI is a reader-supported publication. Consider becoming a subscriber. Subscribe For The ATOM Project and other Interconnects endeavors, we’ve put in substantial effort to measuring adoption trends in the open ecosystem. Everything takes a long time to unfold after a model is first publicly available — and adaptability is why. What we know for sure now, when Qwen has been going from strength to strength with its releases, is that technical staff across the industry has gotten comfortable working with Qwen models. Countless research methods and datasets were made to work with Qwen. It’ll take patience for any other model family to get to this point — a patience I’m not sure many open model builders have. This takes us to Gemma 4, Google’s latest open models. Gemma 3 was released more than a year ago, in March of 2025, and is a bit underrated. Gemma 4 comes in 4 sizes for now, with a bigger, MoE model of over 100B total parameters rumored but not released yet. The models we have today come in sizes of ~5B dense, 8B dense, 26B total 4B active MoE, and 31B dense. I’m most excited that they’re finally adopting a standard Apache 2.0 open source license. This’ll massively boost adoption. The standard of better licenses for strong open-weight LLMs was set by mostly Chinese open model labs in the last 1-2 years, and now U.S. companies are following suit. I will personally be so happy if the horrible Llama licenses and Gemma terms of service were an ~18-month transient dynamic of the industry being nervous about releasing strong open models. The Gemma 4 scores look very solid, the small models have incredible benchmark scores (especially in general domains like LMArena) and the 31B model rivals the recent Qwen 3.5 27B, which is the leading member of that class. The ~30B size range is an important one, as it’s accessible both to researchers and to enterprises looking to deploy the model in real use-cases. Where the 7B model scale is the default for tinkering and research, a 30B model is the default for seeing if an open model can unlock substantial value in your specific workflow — a good mix of intelligence, low price, tractability for downstream training, etc. This takes us back to the above adoption criteria I mentioned for open models and the bigger question — do I think Gemma 4 will be an overwhelming success? Previous Gemma models have been plagued by tooling issues and poorer performance when being finetuned. Gemma 4’s success is going to be entirely determined by ease of use, to a point where a 5-10% swing on benchmarks wouldn’t matter at all. It’s strong enough, small enough, with the right license, and from the U.S., so many companies are going to slot it in. I’m cautiously optimistic that Gemma 4 is going to work better here. Winds are shifting for open models built in America. We saw GPT-OSS go through a bumpy launch to become an overwhelming success. There’s a collective energy around the likes of Reflection, Arcee, Nemotron, Gemma, Olmo, and peers that show substantial demand for building new stacks around open models. There’s capital to be spent on AI stacks across the economy by those who want more ownership of everything, including the model. After launching The ATOM Project 240 days ago, the conversation is shifting into the next stage. Summer of 2025 was a crisis moment where the U.S. AI scene realized it can’t wait and figure out open models after building AGI. The two markets will capture different areas and proceed in parallel. Now that more companies in the U.S. are releasing strong models, we need to improve the ecosystem so that these models are easy to use, understand, and build value around. It’s the hard work to build another inflection point in these adoption plots I’ve been updating consistently, but that’s the work to be done. Join me in it. More data coming soon! Here’s a sneak peek:

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Artemis II astronauts had problems opening Microsoft Outlook

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Artemis II astronauts had problems opening Microsoft Outlook

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Public Preview: Your business apps, now part of every conversation - Microsoft Power Platform Blog

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