Microsoft's Q3 2025 (fiscal) earnings: • 💻 Windows OEM + devices revenue up 3% • 👾 Gaming rev up 5% • 🕹️ Xbox content + services rev up 8% • 🎮 Xbox hardware rev down 6% full details to come here 👇 theverge.com/news/658793/mi…

the real story of Microsoft's Q3 earnings is the solid cloud growth once again. Revenue in intelligent cloud, which includes Azure, is up to $26.8 billion. That's exactly double what all of Windows OEM, Surface, and Xbox generated this Q theverge.com/news/658793/mi…

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Xbox for Q3, 2025: • "Ended the Q as the top publisher by preorders and preinstalls on both Xbox and PlayStation Store." • PC Game Pass revenue up 45% YoY • Cloud gaming new record: surpassing 150 million hrs played for the 1st time this Q

We will return Fortnite to the US iOS App Store next week. Epic puts forth a peace proposal: If Apple extends the court's friction-free, Apple-tax-free framework worldwide, we'll return Fortnite to the App Store worldwide and drop current and future litigation on the topic.

the judge in Epic v. Apple has just put Apple on blast over its anticompetitive behavior. Apple is no longer allowed to collect fees on purchases made outside apps, and Apple might face possible criminal contempt proceedings theverge.com/news/659246/ap…

The nonsense of charging developers 30% commission on links to their own websites and reserving the right to audit their books is key to this contempt of court ruling. It truly was an outrageous, monopolistic overreach. Amazing to see the judge call it as such.

BREAKING: Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide. The Xbox Series X is going up by $100 to $599.99, the Xbox Series S is now $379.99, and some new Xbox games will be $79.99 later this year. Full details 👇theverge.com/news/659430/mi…

if the Xbox Series X is now $599.99, just imagine how much the next-gen Xbox is gonna be 😵

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scoop: Microsoft is getting ready to host Elon Musk’s Grok AI model. Microsoft has been in discussions with xAI to make Grok AI available on Azure's AI Foundry service. All the details in my Notepad 📒 newsletter this week, live now for subscribers 👇 theverge.com/notepad-micros…

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Apple Q2 2025 earnings are out: 📱 iPhone revenue up 2% 💻 Mac revenue up 6.6% 📑 iPad revenue up 15% ⌚ wearable revenue down 5% ☁️ services revenue up 11.6% $95.4 billion in revenue overall, up 5% theverge.com/news/659650/ap…

Spotify is about to test Apple. It already has an iOS app update ready for the new rules Apple has to adhere to following the major ruling in Epic v. Apple. Get your popcorn ready 🍿 theverge.com/news/659891/sp…

Microsoft is going passwordless by default on new accounts. If you sign up for a new Microsoft Account, you'll be offered to use authentication methods like passkeys, push notifications, and security keys instead of a password theverge.com/news/659929/mi…

a streamer caught cheating? *shocked face*

BREAKING: GTA 6 is delayed until May 2026. Rockstar Games says it needs more time to deliver the "quality you expect and deserve." Details 👇 theverge.com/news/660057/gr…

ok everyone can announce their games for the rest of the year now 😮‍💨

Spotify’s iPhone app now lets you pay how you want. Apple has approved the update that allows Spotify to advertise cheaper prices to US users outside the app, thanks to a recent court ruling theverge.com/news/660084/sp…

this week has been full of bad gaming news. Anyone got a Friday news dump of good news?

super cheap Agile electricity rates today, just in time for an EV road trip 🙏