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Consumer advocates have formally asked Microsoft to keep the lights on for Windows 10 security updates for ordinary consumers, arguing that the company’s announced October 14, 2025 cutoff and the narrowly scoped, account‑linked or paid Extended Security Updates (ESU) option will leave millions...

Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 deadline for ending free security updates for Windows 10 has prompted a rare public rebuke from consumer advocates, who say the cutoff risks leaving millions exposed to cyberattacks and could produce a massive wave of electronic waste — unless Microsoft rethinks the...

Consumer Reports has formally urged Microsoft to extend free support for Windows 10, warning that tens — possibly hundreds — of millions of still-working PCs will be left exposed when mainstream updates and security patches stop on October 14, 2025. The advocacy group’s letter to Microsoft’s CEO...

Consumer Reports has asked Microsoft to reverse—or at least soften—its decision to end free security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, arguing that the company’s transition plan will strand millions of ordinary users on unpatched systems unless Microsoft offers a longer, more inclusive...

Microsoft’s October deadline for Windows 10 support has arrived like a ringing bell for an industry that—by several measures—wasn’t ready: large numbers of consumer and corporate endpoints still run Windows 10, many organisations face compatibility and budget constraints, and the safety net...

The White House’s latest tech summit ended not with a policy white paper but with a photograph: senior executives from Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, Apple and other Silicon Valley heavyweights gathered at a dinner hosted by First Lady Melania Trump to endorse a national AI education push, pledge...

Silicon Valley’s top executives converged at the White House on September 4, 2025, to publicly endorse the First Lady’s AI education initiative — a high-profile meeting that fused corporate pledges, government policy ambitions, and the politics of technology into a single, consequential moment...

Tech industry leaders meeting at the Munich Security Conference have signed a voluntary accord to curb the spread of AI-generated political deepfakes, promising common detection, labelling and watermarking practices while warning that technical fixes alone will not eliminate the threat to...

Microsoft’s decision to terminate four employees after on‑campus protests over the company’s ties to Israel crystallizes a larger, unresolved crisis at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, corporate governance, and worker activism. Background / Overview In late August, demonstrators from a...

Perplexity’s latest play changes the calculus of how AI services can — and might — compensate the news ecosystem: the company’s Comet Plus subscription promises to funnel a substantial share of revenue back to publishers whose work is surfaced by its AI assistant and browser, while also arriving...

Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, told reporters from his office at the Redmond campus that the company will “investigate and get to the truth” after a Guardian-led investigation alleged that Israel’s Unit 8200 had used Microsoft Azure to store and process vast troves of intercepted Palestinian...

A California plaintiff’s emergency bid to stop Microsoft from switching off free Windows 10 security updates has turned a routine product lifecycle into a high‑stakes legal and policy contest — but the odds that a U.S. court will order Microsoft to permanently continue free support are long, and...

Microsoft’s AI chief Mustafa Suleyman has issued a stark public warning: engineers and executives are on the brink of building systems that look, talk and behave like persons — and society is not prepared for the consequences. In a wide-ranging essay published in August 2025, Suleyman framed a...

Microsoft employees have publicly rebelled against the company after investigative reporting showed that Israeli military units used Microsoft Azure and commercial AI tools at scale to process intercepted communications — a relationship that employees say amounts to complicity in mass...

Microsoft employees have erected a protest encampment on the company’s Redmond campus, turning a high-profile workplace dispute over Israel ties into a public test of Microsoft’s ethics, governance, and operational transparency. protest is the latest escalation in a year-long campaign by...

Microsoft’s announcement that Windows 10 will reach its official end of support on October 14, 2025, has moved from a scheduled milestone to a legal and public-policy flashpoint, after a California resident filed a lawsuit on August 7, 2025, accusing the company of using the cutoff to force...

A Southern California man’s last‑minute lawsuit asking a judge to stop Microsoft from turning off routine, free security updates for Windows 10 has turned a long‑scheduled product lifecycle event into a high‑stakes public debate about security, consumer rights, competition and electronic waste —...

A Southern California resident has filed a lawsuit seeking to force Microsoft to continue issuing free security updates for Windows 10 beyond the company’s published end‑of‑support date of October 14, 2025, arguing the vendor’s lifecycle decision amounts to forced obsolescence and an...

The U.S. government has brokered an unprecedented deal that lets Nvidia and AMD resume sales of specific AI accelerators to China — but only after the companies agree to hand over a 15% share of revenues from those Chinese sales to the U.S. government as a condition of newly issued export...

A Southern California resident has filed suit in San Diego Superior Court asking a judge to block Microsoft’s planned October 14, 2025 end-of-support for Windows 10 and to force the company to continue providing free security updates until Windows 10’s install base falls below a...