Jay Peters
A new Indy game for Switch 2.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is coming to Nintendo’s new console in 2026. Bethesda also shared a new look at the upcoming DLC for the game called The Order of Giants.
Microsoft
It might not get the same kind of attention as Google and Apple, but Microsoft is still one of the biggest and most powerful tech companies operating today. It runs Azure, one of the biggest cloud computing services, and maintains Windows 11 and the whole Office suite of software. It also makes plenty of Surface hardware and has a whole slew of gaming products, including the Xbox Series X. But the company is ever expanding — building new hardware, acquiring new game studios, and making sure that even if Microsoft doesn’t run your phone, it can touch plenty of the apps on it.
Tom Warren
Xbox PC and Xbox on PC again.
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 🙃
Tom Warren
Anyone can try Copilot 3D right now.
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.
Richard Lawler
Microsoft employees respond to reports of IDF using Azure to store 11,500TB of mass surveillance data.
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.
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
The head of GitHub says coding with AI is ‘here to stay.’
Alex Heath
Tom Warren
Microsoft has an AI agent that can detect malware.
Microsoft is announcing Project Ire today, an autonomous AI agent that can analyze and classify malware without assistance. Developed by Microsoft Research, Microsoft Defender Research, and Microsoft Discovery & Quantum, Project Ire is the first agent at Microsoft to independently author a conviction case “strong enough to justify automatic blocking” of an APT malware sample.
Project Ire - Microsoft Research
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Tom Warren
Tom Warren
Microsoft’s Black Hat-like hacking event returns with bigger rewards.
Microsoft’s hacking event, Zero Day Quest, is back and accepting nominations today until October 4th. This year there is up to $5 million in bounty awards, up $1 million on last year’s figure. Microsoft is even offering multiplied bounty awards for the most critical issues in products like Azure, Copilot, and Microsoft 365. Security researchers will also get a chance to qualify for a live hacking event at Microsoft’s headquarters in spring 2026.
Tom Warren
Satya Nadella was good for his $80 billion.
Earlier this year there were a lot of questions over the $100 billion investment into The Stargate Project, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was quick to defend the software giant’s investment in cloud and AI data center projects. Microsoft posted its Q4 2025 fiscal earnings yesterday, revealing that Azure surpassed $75 billion in revenue over the year. Microsoft is also spending $30 billion on its AI infrastructure investments next quarter, which totals $120 billion over a year if it keeps that spending up.