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A high-profile streamer was temporarily removed from both Twitch and Kick after a short live moment exposed explicit file names inside a Notepad window — an incident the streamer blamed on a quirk of Windows 11. The episode has quickly become a cautionary case study at the intersection of OS...

Netflix’s surprise animated musical and a string of tentpole films reshaped the economics of entertainment in 2025, while superstar albums and arena-sized tours turned the year into a rare moment when streaming virality, box-office resilience, and live-event commerce all peaked at once. The...

DirectStorage is less marketing buzzword and more a realignment of how modern PCs move game data from fast storage into the GPU — but its impact depends on the whole stack lining up correctly. Background / Overview DirectStorage began as an Xbox Velocity architecture feature and later migrated...

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 walked away as the dominant story of the night at The Game Awards 2025, taking home the ceremony’s highest honor, Game of the Year, and picking up a sweeping collection of major prizes that underlined the unexpected power of an independently developed narrative RPG...

YouTube is breaking up its one‑size‑fits‑all live TV package: early next year YouTube TV will offer more than a dozen genre‑specific “YouTube TV Plans” — including a dedicated Sports Plan — so subscribers can pay only for the channels they actually watch instead of shouldering the full $82.99...

Audiomack’s mobile-first catalog and artist-forward approach make it a compelling streaming option for independent-music fans, and getting that same experience on a Windows or macOS desktop is straightforward — but not necessarily plug‑and‑play: this feature explains exactly how to run Audiomack...

Microsoft’s Phone Link is quietly getting a usability upgrade that finally makes streamed Android apps behave more like native Windows windows — but the feature is early, uneven, and still hamstrung by phone-first app design and device gating. Background Phone Link (formerly Your Phone) has been...

Hytale’s published PC requirements give a clear picture of what to expect at launch: modest minimum targets for 1080p/30, comfortable 1080p/60 recommended hardware, and a separate “creator/streamer” tier that pushes players toward modern CPUs, 32 GB RAM, and NVMe storage for stable 1440p...

Shroud’s blunt line — “If Microsoft did Mixer today they would be hot sh-- — it just came too early” — landed like a challenge, not a eulogy, and it’s the perfect framing for a very modern gaming-business thought experiment: could Microsoft’s failed Mixer product have succeeded if launched and...

CData’s Connect AI is now available inside Microsoft Copilot Studio and Microsoft Agent 365, bringing a managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) platform that promises real‑time, semantic‑rich access to hundreds of enterprise systems so AI agents can read, reason over, and act on live business data...

Google’s move to run full Windows and Linux applications inside Chrome — now packaged as Cameyo by Google — marks a deliberate attempt to close the enterprise “app gap” by streaming legacy client apps into the browser with lower overhead than traditional VDI and the promise of AI-enhanced...

Microsoft security researchers have revealed a striking privacy weakness in how modern AI chatbots stream answers: a side‑channel attack, dubbed Whisper Leak, can infer conversation topics from encrypted traffic by analyzing packet sizes and timings — and that vulnerability is real enough that...

Netflix and Yash Raj Films have struck a timed, global streaming partnership that will bring a curated roster of YRF’s most iconic Bollywood titles — including Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ), Veer‑Zaara, Dil To Pagal Hai and Chak De! India — to Netflix subscribers in phased rollouts timed...

Oktagon returns to Brno tonight with a stacked domestic card and multiple ways to watch — from the promotion’s own PPV service to regional sports channels and bookmaker streams — but fans should plan ahead: regional restrictions, device compatibility, and varying prices mean the viewing...

PlayStation Plus on Windows is now a real option for PC players who want to stream PlayStation catalog titles without owning a console — you can run hundreds of PS4/PS3/PS2/PS1/PSP games from the cloud using Sony’s PlayStation Plus PC app, provided you have the right subscription tier, a...

Tubi is one of the clearest examples of how streaming has matured: a 100% free, ad‑supported platform with a gargantuan library, native apps for almost every living‑room and mobile device, and an increasing slate of live sports and high‑profile events — including a 4K Super Bowl stream on select...

Phone Link has quietly matured from a convenience feature into a core productivity layer for Windows users, and in 2025 it is shaping how millions of people collapse the friction between smartphones and PCs into a single, continuous workflow. Phone Link (aka.ms/PhoneLink as a Microsoft...

Algoriddim’s djay has finally re‑established first‑class access to the streaming giant most DJs and casual music fans already live in: Spotify’s full catalog is now available inside djay on Mac and Windows — for Spotify Premium subscribers in supported markets — bringing drag‑and‑drop streaming...

Microsoft has quietly delivered on a long-teased promise: an AI assistant that can sit beside you while you play, answer questions out loud, analyze what’s on your screen, and help you track achievements — and it’s now rolling out to Windows 11 via the PC Game Bar as Gaming Copilot. The rollout...

Microsoft’s decision to let organizations stream single Windows applications from the cloud — instead of entire Cloud PC sessions — marks a pragmatic pivot in how enterprises will adopt Windows 365 for day-to-day workforces and frontline roles. The new Windows 365 Cloud Apps feature, now in...