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Microsoft has revealed plans to spend more than $10 billion in the Middle East between now and 2030, spread across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait.

Microsoft is rolling out refreshes to its smaller Surface Laptop and Surface Pro machines powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Plus starting at a price of $1,149.

Windows users who rely on File History to back up and recover important files may bump into problems after installing the September security update.

TL;DR: Get a lifetime license to Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 for $29.97 (reg. $499.99) and skip the ongoing subscription fees that come with most modern development tools.

Microsoft is struggling with various problems with its Windows and other software updates and is now making further corrections. The developers now describe most of the side effects since August as resolved, and for others, they mention countermeasures that provide relief. The status display of Microsoft Defender is now also back on track.

Uncle Microsoft’s efforts to keep inventing the Torment Nexus proceed apace with a patent application for an in-game advertising system that might use machine learning to read your activities, and work out when you’ll be least apoplectic about being suddenly served a giant MacDonalds pop-up.

Although a recent Microsoft Excel security update brought with it a highly annoying bug impacting copying and pasting functionalities across the spreadsheet software, it’s already issued a partial fix.

Snap is taking its augmented reality glasses into the enterprise market through partnerships with Nvidia, Salesforce and Amazon Web Services.

When you think of a computer infected by malware, you might envision flashing pop-ups all over the screen or other obvious signs. And while these can happen today (like with ransomware), most modern computer attacks are more sinister and subtle. They want to avoid detection so they can capture your sensitive information and otherwise play…

Newly released court documents show that multiple Microsoft execs thought AI training was an ‘existential threat’ to journalism.