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The Verge Tech

Microsoft slashes Xbox Cloud Gaming to just 15 hours a month for Ultimate subscribers

Microsoft is announcing some major changes to Xbox Cloud Gaming today, less than a year after opening up cloud gaming to its Xbox Game Pass Premium and Essential tiers. While all Game Pass plans have included unlimited cloud gaming over the past year, from November this will be limited to just 15 hours on Ultimate, 10 hours for Premium subscribers, and a measly 5 hours for Game Pass Essential. "We recognize that introducing limits is a meaningful change, particularly for players who regularly sp

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The Verge Tech

Microsoft opens up Xbox Cloud Gaming with new pay-as-you-go option

Microsoft says it will let anyone access Xbox Cloud Gaming in November, without the need to subscribe to Xbox Game Pass. The change to a pay-as-you-go model is part of some sweeping changes to Xbox Cloud Gaming today, and is designed for people who don't use cloud access enough to warrant a monthly subscription. "Players will be able to purchase cloud playtime hours through the Xbox Store and stream eligible games they own on supported devices," says the Xbox team. "This will provide another opt

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Wired Business

OpenAI Cut Off a Billion-Dollar Customer to Avoid Elon Musk

OpenAI recently estimated its Cursor partnership would make more than $1 billion in revenue a year, WIRED has learned. It still walked away after Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquired the AI coding startup.

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AWS Database Blog

Troubleshoot AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper configuration for Aurora Global Database write forwarding

Configuring the AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper for Amazon Aurora Global Database with write forwarding requires Region-specific settings, and misconfiguration causes latency spikes and connection failures. This post walks through the correct dialect, plugins, host patterns, and write forwarding settings for the primary and secondary Regions.

Advanced (300)Amazon AuroraTechnical How-to
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ExternalAI
AWS Machine Learning Blog

AI-driven development lifecycle using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Engineering teams adopting the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) often struggle to turn concepts into working code. This post walks through two reference implementations on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Kiro, and Claude Code: an SQL-to-ER-diagram generator and a multi-agent code security analyzer that put the AI-DLC construction phase into practice.

Advanced (300)Amazon Bedrock AgentCoreTechnical How-to
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ExternalAI
AWS Machine Learning Blog

Migrate agentic workloads to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

An agent that works in a notebook is not an agent in production. This post walks through migrating a LangGraph customer support agent to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore in two stages: onto Runtime, Gateway, and Memory, then to model-driven planning on Strands Agents, retiring operational burdens along the way.

Advanced (300)Amazon Bedrock AgentCoreTechnical How-to
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