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The Verge Tech

If Microsoft sold off Xbox, who would even buy it?

This week, Microsoft took a huge ax to its Xbox business. The company announced that it would be laying off 1,600 workers now, 1,600 more over the next fiscal year, and that it would be shedding four studios. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma hasn't been shy about why she's making such dramatic cuts, saying in a memo that the business is "not healthy." Speaking to Fortune, she said that "we simply spread ourselves too thin." Given the scale of the changes and Xbox's currently vague strategy of focusing only

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The Verge Tech

Twelve South’s AirFly Pro is a great travel companion, and it’s on sale for $40

Twelve South’s AirFly Pro is just $5 more than the SE model. | Image: Twelve South If you’ve got a summer trip coming up, the last-gen Twelve South AirFly Pro is one of those gadgets that can make a long flight feel a little shorter. It lets you use your wireless headphones with in-flight entertainment systems, and right now it’s on sale for $39.99 ($15 off) at Amazon. That’s the best price we’ve seen all year and just $7 shy of the all-time low we last saw in January 2025. Twelve South AirFly

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GitHub Changelog

setup-java v5.5.0: signature verification, Kona JDK, and Maven fixes

The actions/setup-java v5.5.0 release adds cryptographic signature verification for downloaded JDKs, support for a new distribution, and several quality-of-life improvements for Maven users. Here’s what changed since v5.4.0. Verify JDK… The post setup-java v5.5.0: signature verification, Kona JDK, and Maven fixes appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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The Hacker News

AI Coding Agents Found Triggering Endpoint Security Rules Built to Catch Attackers

Sophos looked at a week of its own endpoint data and found that AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, and OpenAI Codex are setting off detection rules written to catch human intruders. The agents are not malicious. They just do a lot of things that, to a behavioral engine, look exactly like an attack. Decrypting browser credentials, listing what sits in Windows' credential store,

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DZone

Getting Started With RabbitMQ in Spring Boot

RabbitMQ is an enterprise-grade open-source messaging and streaming broker. In this blog, you will learn some basic concepts of RabbitMQ and how to use it in a Spring Boot application. Enjoy! Introduction Before diving into the programmatic details, first some concepts need to be explained. Do realize that in this blog, only the surface is scratched from what is possible with RabbitMQ. A detailed overview can be found in the official RabbitMQ documentation.

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Microsoft Security Blog

Protecting Microsoft at AI speed: How SFI proactively hardens our cloud

At Microsoft we encompass these security requirements, along with threat knowledge, and operational frameworks in our Secure Future Initiative (SFI), to guide what a well-defended cloud service looks like. But defining the requirements is only the start. Meeting the requirements means continuously evaluating our live services against them, at AI speed. The post Protecting Microsoft at AI speed: How SFI proactively hardens our cloud   appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.

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The Verge Tech

ChatGPT’s upgraded voice mode is better at shutting up

OpenAI is overhauling ChatGPT's voice mode with a new model that it says is more like "talking to another person." The new GPT-Live-1 is designed to interrupt you less and will also wait for you to continue speaking if you pause mid-conversation. During a press briefing, OpenAI research lead Kundan Kumar called GPT-Live-1 the company's "smartest voice model" yet. It will automatically pass your queries to its best text models, like GPT-5.5, when it needs to reason or search the web, allowing it

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