Microsoft says physical discs should not have stopped working during the Xbox outage — clarifies issue with entitlement checks that failed to read licenses corr

“Disc-based entitlement checks should not prevent players from accessing their games and this is by design,” said Microsoft tech chief Scott Van Vliet. He went on to confirm that discs go through license checks in the fo…

Big tech spends more than $1 trillion on AI infrastructure — additional $745 billion expected to be added to the figure in 2026 alone

“There is basically no end in sight for the growth in capex,” RBC Capital analyst Rishi Jaluria told the publication. “Investors need these companies to toe the tight line between investing in AI and not compromising the…

Why you need a macro pad, even if you have a mouse with 19 buttons — from $10 mechanical numpads to multi-screen window management

The nice thing about a streaming deck setup is that I can group things together — I can put the apps I commonly use at the same time on one “page,” so everything is right there when I want to use it. I can also program a…