Microsoft still can’t decide whether to use Xbox PC or Xbox on PC. Last month I highlighted how the company has been using both brands in recent weeks, before seemingly settling on Xbox on PC. Now, Xbox game studio Ninja Theory has just used both brands in a single post on X 🙃
There are a variety of AI-powered tools to convert 2D images to 3D ones, but Microsoft has just introduced its own Copilot 3D feature that’s free of charge. It converts images to the GLB format, which is compatible with 3D viewers, design tools, and game engines. Just be warned, it doesn’t work well with animals or humans.
A Microsoft workers group says reporting by The Guardian, Local Call, and +972 Magazine “revealed incriminating details about Microsoft’s indispensable role as the technological backbone of Israel’s mass surveillance of Palestinians all over Palestine” with the IDF’s Unit 8200, despite the company’s denials.
...Microsoft and Unit 8200 worked closely to build a Microsoft-powered mass surveillance weapon that “collects and stores recordings of millions of mobile phone calls made each day by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.”
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Small form factor PCs are nothing new, but this is a refreshing take.
The head of GitHub says coding with AI is ‘here to stay.’
