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Alex Heath
Justine Calma
Justine Calma
Trump is already using Bill Gates’ climate memo to claim victory.

In the memo, Gates tries to make the case that there’s too much focus on cutting greenhouse gas emissions and not enough on public health and poverty. It’s a narrative that lets polluters off the hook and plays into Trump’s efforts to rollback environmental protections and spread disinformation about climate change.

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Terrence O'Brien
Say it with me: Windows is the problem with Windows handhelds

The Xbox Ally is better with Bazzite.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Microsoft is silent as Trump co-opts Halo — but these Halo developers aren’t.

Marcus Lehto, designer of Master Chief: “It really makes me sick seeing Halo co-opted like this.”

Halo 2 and Halo 3 design lead Jaime Griesemer:

“Using Halo imagery in a call to ‘destroy’ people because of their immigration status goes way too far, and ought to offend every Halo fan, regardless of political orientation. I personally find it despicable. The Flood are evil space zombie parasites and are not an allegory to any group of people.”

Stephen Totilo spoke to both; you can read more at his Game File.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Microsoft claims its new Xbox AI isn’t training itself when it collects screenshots of your games.

When you’re actively using Gaming Copilot in Game Bar, it can use screenshots of your gameplay to get a better understanding of what’s happening in your game and provide you with more helpful responses. These screenshots are not used to train AI models, and Gaming Copilot is an optional feature that only has access to gameplay when you’re playing a game and actively using it.

The words “will never” do not appear in Microsoft’s statement.