From PC World: On Tuesday July 30, users worldwide experienced disruptions with Microsoft services connected to the company’s Azure cloud platform.

According to initial reports, the outage mainly involved Microsoft 365 products, but eventually problems also surfaced with the Admin Center, Intune...

From The Verge: After striking deals with Google and OpenAI, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is calling on Microsoft and others to pay if they want to continue scraping the site’s data.

“Without these agreements, we don’t have any say or knowledge of how our data is displayed and what it’s used for, which...

From Tom's Hardware: Online retailer Newegg has announced the start of its new CPU Trade-In Program this morning, along with a limited-time PC Trade-In Program with Intel. The full PC Trade-In program will run until August 11th, and CPU trade-ins are expected to join GPU trade-ins as an evergreen...

From TechCrunch: Google has released a trio of new, “open” generative AI models that it’s calling “safer,” “smaller” and “more transparent” than most — a bold claim, to be sure.

They’re additions to Google’s Gemma 2 family of generative models, which debuted back in May. The new models, Gemma 2 2B...

From PC Mag: Spotify is lifting restrictions on lyrics for free accounts less than a year after the music-streaming service capped users at three songs per month.

As Engadget reports, the change may take some time to show up as Spotify plans a slow rollout.

“At Spotify, we’re always testing and...

From PC World: Skype is already used by many people for communication, but it’s set to become even more attractive in the near future as Microsoft moves to make extensive changes to the service.

Instead of integrating more ads—as the company has been doing with Windows—Skype will now be completely...

From The Verge: Another round of layoffs has hit Bungie. Bungie CEO Pete Parsons made the announcement on the studio’s website, citing the increasing costs of development and economic conditions as the reason for the reduction of staff — a refrain that’s become common in the last two years of...

From Corsair Press Release: CORSAIR is excited to unveil a new addition to its lineup of high-performance gaming mouse pads: the MM500 v2 Series. Featuring a precision-enabling hybrid cloth material, MM500 v2 mouse pads offer advanced tracking consistency across a full 360° range of direction. For...

From The Verge: Password manager Dashlane has released a new passkey report that gives us some idea of how many people are adopting the cryptographic passwordless logins. According to the report, Dashlane has seen a 400 percent increase in passkey authentications since the beginning of the year...

From PC Mag: Tesla has issued a recall for over 1.8 million vehicles due to a software issue where the cars may not detect whether their front hoods are open. Those hoods could be vulnerable to raising upward while driving if the driver doesn't shut it fully, obstructing their view of the road...