Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts

Microsoft has been publishing data about the gender, race, and ethnic breakdown of its employees for more than a decade.

Microsoft Silently Fixes 8-Year Windows Security Flaw

The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-9491, allowed cybercriminals to hide malicious commands from users inspecting files through ...
Ars Technica

Valve’s Steam Machine looks like a console, but don’t expect it to be priced like one

After Valve announced its upcoming Steam Machine living room box earlier this month, some analysts suggested to Ars that Valve could and should aggressively subsidize that hardware with “loss leader” ...
Microsoft

Microsoft named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Access Management for the ninth consecutive year

Every day, Microsoft processes more than 100 trillion signals from our services. Together with insights from researchers, law enforcement, and cybersecurity teams, these signals reveal how quickly the ...
GamesRadar+

To get GTA on Xbox, Microsoft had to convince Rockstar that its console wasn't "going to be a flop," former exec says

Red Dead Red Dead Redemption 2 is "slightly more novelistic" than GTA 5 because Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser "binged on Victorian novels" for inspiration The Elder Scrolls An immortal-looking Todd ...
GamesRadar+

Steam Machine is "Microsoft's worst nightmare" according to analysts, and one day Xbox games might be more beneficial to Valve than their own publisher: "Xbox console sales ...

Games Valve artist says that's "like saying food products shouldn't have their ingredients list" as Epic's Tim Sweeney and more call on Steam to drop the 'Made with AI' label Horror Games After 2 ...
The Verge

Valve made Microsoft’s dream console

On The Vergecast: Steam hardware, robot butlers, tablet villains, and more. On The Vergecast: Steam hardware, robot butlers, tablet villains, and more. is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered ...