INTERVIEW: Copilot+ PC branding is gone — and Microsoft isn’t saying much about why
In a new interview, Microsoft Surface CVP confirms that its new Surface PCs are no longer called Copilot+ PCs, but will still support all Copilot+ features.
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uBlock Origin broke on Edge, so I finally quit the browser
An ad-filled Microsoft Edge broke my daily article proofing routine, turning a long-overdue browser switch into an immediate need.
These Microsoft 365 companion apps are getting retired after just one year
Microsoft’s Calendar, People, and Files companion apps for Windows 11 are being retired roughly a year after they first shipped.
The Division 2: Echoes of Central Park is going to be dark, terrifying, and brilliant
The curtain has been pulled back on The Division 2 Echoes of Central Park and this latest expansion has a darker, more mysterious tone to previous content, and it’s looking incredible.
Silent Hill Townfall Review: 92% Praise, 1 Big Flaw [2026]
Silent Hill: Townfall is out. Konami and Annapurna Interactive released the game globally on September 24, 2026, for PlayStation 5 and PC, and the review roundup that landed this week tells a familiar story for the franchise: critics like it, some love it, and almost none of them are calling it a classic. Developer No…
Silent Hill Townfall Splits Fans: 68% Steam Score [2026]
Silent Hill: Townfall launched today, September 24, 2026, on PlayStation 5, Steam, and the Epic Games Store, and the review cycle that closed out this week tells a strikingly consistent story: critics like the mood, the puzzles, and the willingness to make players feel weak again, but almost nobody is calling the combat good. Steam’s…
Unpatched OnePlus Root Flaws: 0 CVE, 0 Fix Yet [2026]
A malicious app that asks for zero special permissions can still take full root control of a stock OnePlus 15 running the latest OxygenOS build. That is the finding published by The Hacker News on September 24, 2026, and it lands as one of the more alarming Android OEM disclosures of the year because there…
Cassandra vs DynamoDB vs Cosmos DB: $0 vs $0.625 Gap [2026]
Three NoSQL databases now anchor most large-scale cloud applications, and picking the wrong one is an expensive mistake to unwind later. Apache Cassandra, Amazon DynamoDB, and Azure Cosmos DB all promise horizontal scale and high availability, but they get there through very different architectures, pricing models, and operational trade-offs. Cassandra shipped its 5.0 general-availability release…
MotherDuck vs Snowflake vs BigQuery: $0.60 vs $2/Credit [2026]
A three-person engineering team building a usage-analytics dashboard for a B2B SaaS product does not need the same database as a bank running nightly batch jobs across forty petabytes. Yet for most of the last decade, “cloud data warehouse” meant picking between two or three enterprise-scale platforms and paying enterprise-scale prices no matter how small…
Control Resonant Patch Outran Reviews by 6 Days [2026]
Remedy Entertainment shipped Control Resonant to every platform on September 24, 2026, and within hours of the wide launch it pushed hotfix 1.3.3, a patch that rewrote enemy health pools, stun thresholds, and protagonist Dylan Faden’s early combat output. The timing did more than smooth out a rough patch of gameplay. It exposed a structural…