Mozilla says ‘Microsoft goes too far’ with Copilot, right before reassuring that you can turn off Firefox’s ‘AI enhancements’

Misclicking the Copilot button before hurrying to shut down Windows’ built-in AI has become a familiar ritual for many recent Microsoft customers. At one point, it seemed like the company wanted to crowbar AI into all of its offerings, though it recently announced it would pull back on this approach. Even so, Mozilla has shared…

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‘It stayed exactly the same’: Jeff Kaplan takes us back to 2016 by confirming that Blizzard did not change the size of Tracer’s butt

Jeff Kaplan is tackling the real, gritty questions while showing off his new multiplayer action-survival FPS game The Legend of California. And what is the realest, grittest question an ex-Blizzard dev could answer? No, not that one. It’s actually about Tracer’s butt. To the few of you who are fortunate enough to not have a…

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Microsoft is removing Copilot branding from Photos, Notepad, and more after promising to reduce ‘unnecessary Copilot entry points’

If you’ve ever gone to open up some built-in Windows app and wondered why Microsoft has bothered to add a Copilot button in it, you aren’t alone. After hearing community feedback, MS is reducing Copilot branding, starting with the likes of Snipping Tool, Photos, Widgets, and Notepad. As reported by VideoCardz, the latest preview of…

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Former Bethesda artist says ‘every single developer’ has already brought up 95% of the complaints that made it to launch, but as Todd Howard told him, ‘we can’t do everything’

Bethesda games certainly aren’t lacking in launch issues—the presence of charming bugs and funny physics glitches are sort of the studio’s maker’s mark at this point, although with the lukewarm reception of Starfield, that reputation’s also begun to tip over into subpar features, too. That’s not to say the devs aren’t aware of the state…

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