Microsoft announced a major gaming shakeup on Friday, with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer departing the company, along with Xbox President Sarah Bond. Spencer will be replaced by former Instacart and Meta executive Asha Sharma. With Sharma’s most recent role as the president of Microsoft’s CoreAI product, these moves suggest …

Wikipedia editors have decided to remove all links to Archive. today, a web archiving service that they said has been linked to more than 695,000 times across the online encyclopedia. today — which also operates under several other domain names, including archive. ph — is perhaps most widely used to …

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed concerns about AI’s environmental impact this week while speaking at an event hosted by The Indian Express. For one thing, Altman — who was in India for a major AI summit — said concerns about AI’s water usage are “totally fake,” though he acknowledged it …

'I cleaned toilets while studying at Cambridge' 5 hours ago Charlie Jones Jade Franks was working in a call centre when she was accepted to the University of Cambridge. She felt like her life was back on track. Growing up, she was ambitious and academic. She had been offered a …

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has said her party would cut the rate of interest charged on some student loans issued in the decade up to 2023. Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Badenoch said the Plan 2 loans from that period "increasingly feel like a scam". 8 million people took out …

Government 'inflamed tension' over Maccabi fan ban, say MPs 4 hours ago Vanessa PearceWest Midlands "Late and clumsy" intervention by the government in trying to overturn the banning of Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from a match against Aston Villa only served to "inflame tensions", a committee of MPs has …

'We want the truth' - families of Nottingham attacks victims speak ahead of public inquiry 5 hours ago Asha Pateland Emily Williamson ,East Midlands "It's taken a long fight to get here. " Dr Sanjoy Kumar told the BBC he had a "tear in his eye" when Prime Minister Sir …

We thought Gen Z had started going to church in droves. But the truth is more complicated 6 hours ago Catherine WyattBBC religious affairs When Jay Painter's grandfather died in May 2024, the 27-year-old from Wiltshire felt he saw his soul leave his body. It sparked a "search for the …

Are ties and blazers over? Why some schools are pushing for 'active' uniforms 6 hours ago Grace Dean "If I had a pound for every time I said 'tuck your shirt in', I wouldn't need to teach, I'd be a millionaire," laments one Derbyshire secondary school teacher. The teacher, who …

Scotland's mad for Oasis, Newcastle loves Sam Fender: Music tastes where you live revealed 6 hours ago Ian YoungsCulture reporter Oasis are big in Manchester, but even bigger in Scotland. Newcastle is wild for homegrown guitar hero Sam Fender, and Liverpool can't get enough of female pop stars. These are …