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IREN Stock Rebounds Tuesday: What's Driving The Action?

IREN Limited (NASDAQ:IREN) shares are trading higher Tuesday afternoon, staging a recovery following a volatile week for the broader technology sector. The stock is rebounding from a recent five-day, 16% slump, supported by strong fundamental catalysts involving major AI infrastructure partnerships.

Benzinga

Minecraft was nearly sold to Activision Blizzard for $1.5 billion before Microsoft secured Mojang, says former CEO Bobby Kotick: "I almost bought it"

Microsoft offered Notch $2.5 billion, however

GamesRadar

Stock Indexes Slump as the Slide in Tech Stocks Deepens

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is down by -1.17%, the Dow Jones Industrials Index ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is down by -1.24%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is down by -1.57%. December E-mini S&P futures (ESZ25 ) are down -1.09%, and December...

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Former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick wanted to buy Minecraft until he found out Notch was leaving and Microsoft was offering a billion dollars more: 'I'll go airplane shopping with you, but you've gotta take that offer'

And now Microsoft owns both of them.

PC Gamer

Steam Machine is "a console that refuses to admit it's a console," analyst says, but "Valve isn't trying to beat Sony or Microsoft at their own game so much as rewrite the rules"

Analysts don't necessarily see the Steam Machine as a PS5, Xbox Series X, or Switch 2 rival

GamesRadar

Microsoft says Azure was hit with a massive DDoS attack launched from over 500,000 IP addresses

Aisuru mounts another record-breaking DDoS attack, with Microsoft Azure the target this time.

TechRadar

Your favorite Microsoft 365 apps are getting a load more Copilot AI Agents - Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint all get a boost

Copilot is bringing a host of new AI agents to Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

TechRadar

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Windows 11's Taskbar and search box is about to get an agentic upgrade with AI agent integration

Microsoft has announced a new capability coming soon to the Taskbar that will let AI agents appear as app icons offering glanceable information about automated tasks.

Windows Central

Microsoft reveals Agent 365 - the new and (hopefully) easy way to get a handle on all these new AI agents at work

Microsoft Agent 365 will help organizations govern agents responsibly and at scale.

TechRadar

Windows 11 is getting a new point-in-time restore feature and other advanced recovery tools

Microsoft has unveiled new recovery methods for Windows 11 PCs in the event where a PC is no longer able to boot, or data has become corrupted.

Windows Central

Microsoft is making a major change to BitLocker encryption with new PCs in 2026 — here's what you need to know

Windows 11 is gaining anew, hardware accelerated BitLocker encryption capability on new devices starting next year.

Windows Central

AI video goes corporate — Microsoft 365 Copilot adds OpenAI’s viral Sora 2

Microsoft just integrated Sora 2 into Microsoft 365 Copilot, giving users access to advanced AI video generation with improved realism and control.

Windows Central

Windows 11 is gaining a powerful set of new AI productivity features in 2026 — here's what to expect

Microsoft is adding the ability to generate text in ant text box, dictate and transcribe speech using natural language, and summarize emails using AI to Windows 11.

Windows Central

Microsoft is "raising the bar" and making major changes to how drivers are built and verified on Windows 11 — here are the important details

Windows 11 is raising the security and resiliency bar when it comes to driver signing, and is trying to move peripheral drivers out of the kernel.

Windows Central

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NVIDIA joins Microsoft’s push on Claude — piling billions into Anthropic’s future

Anthropic is partnering with Microsoft and NVIDIA in a deal that brings Claude to Azure, expands engineering collaboration, and includes billions in new investments.

The Independent UK

Microsoft partners with Anthropic and Nvidia in cloud infrastructure deal

Microsoft has announced a partnership with AI company Anthropic and chipmaker Nvidia

Radio France Internationale

EU to probe market power of US cloud providers Amazon, Microsoft

Amazon and Microsoft cloud services could face stricter EU competition rules after Brussels launched probes to assess their market power.

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Stocks Fall on Tech Stock Weakness and Disappointing Home Depot Earnings

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is down by -0.51%, the Dow Jones Industrials Index ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is down by -0.86%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is down by -0.90%. December E-mini S&P futures (ESZ25 ) are down -0.54%, and December...

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Microsoft Azure Blocks Largest DDoS Attack in History — attack equivalent to streaming 3.5 million Netflix movies at once, 15.72 Terabits per Second from 500,000 IP addresses tied to IoT botnet

Microsoft's Azure cloud has mitigated the largest DDoS attack in history at close to 16 Tbps from the Aisuru botnet. At its peak, the attack used over 500,000 connected devices to hit the Azure servers with over 3.6 million packets per second to target a single cloud endpoint in Australia.

Tom’s Hardware

Microsoft's vision of "AI-native" Windows is becoming real, update introduces agents that pilfer through your files — Latest Windows 11 Insider build includes experimental AI agents toggle that can perform tasks for you in the background

As part of the latest Windows Insider Build, a new experimental feature called "agentic features" has been added, allowing AI agents to create Agent Workspaces that perform tasks and read files. Microsoft says it's secure because these spaces have their own runtime, desktop and permissions.

TechRadar

The next Xbox Partner Preview has been announced, and it's set to offer a brand new look at some of our most anticipated games, including 007 First Light and Tides of Annihilation

Microsoft has announced that its next Xbox Partner Preview will air this week and feature a brand new look at some of its upcoming games.

Windows Central

ChatGPT was completely down — major Cloudflare outage affected OpenAI's chatbot

A massive Cloudflare outage is affecting major web services right now, one of the biggest being OpenAI and its chatbot, ChatGPT.

TechRadar

Microsoft explains how Windows 11's AI agents will work as testing is about to start – and I'll admit, I'm nervous

Wondering how Windows 11's AI agents will work? Microsoft explains how 'agent workspaces' are lightweight and secure.

Fortune

Elon Musk revives billionaire beef with Bill Gates, says he better exit his 'crazy short' against Tesla soon or else add to his $1.5 billion in losses

“I cannot take your philanthropy on climate change seriously when you have a massive short position against Tesla,” Musk said at the time Gates made his bet.

PC Gamer

Apparently Windows 11 becoming 'agentic AI' means letting the bots rummage through some of your files

Thanks, I guess.

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