In April, Microsoft will be rolling out a full-screen "Xbox mode" to all Windows 11 PCs, including laptops, desktops, and tablets. The move follows last week's confirmation of its next-generation Xbox console, known internally as Project Helix, which will be capable of running both Xbox titles and PC games. The Verge reports: Technically, you've been able to try the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) in preview since November 2025, if you were part of both the Windows Insider and Xbox Insider Programs. But it needed work, as well as a better name. When Microsoft originally shipped it on the Asus-designed Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X handhelds, we were clear: it didn't meaningfully turn a PC experience into an easy-to-use Xbox one. But if Microsoft is putting its full weight behind PC as the future of Xbox gaming, perhaps that will change change.

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Grammarly has disabled its Expert Review feature after backlash from writers whose names were used to present AI-generated feedback without their permission. Superhuman (formerly Grammarly) CEO Shishir Mehrotra wrote in a LinkedIn post that the company will disable Expert Review while they "reimagine" the feature: Back in August, we launched a Grammarly agent called Expert Review. The agent draws on publicly available information from third-party LLMs to surface writing suggestions inspired by the published work of influential voices.

Over the past week, we received valid critical feedback from experts who are concerned that the agent misrepresented their voices. This kind of scrutiny improves our products, and we take it seriously. As context, the agent was designed to help users discover influential perspectives and scholarship relevant to their work, while also providing meaningful ways for experts to build deeper relationships with their fans. We hear the feedback and recognize we fell short on this. I want to apologize and acknowledge that we'll rethink our approach going forward.

After careful consideration, we have decided to disable Expert Review while we reimagine the feature to make it more useful for users, while giving experts real control over how they want to be represented -- or not represented at all.

We deeply believe in our mission to solve the "last mile of AI" by bringing AI directly to where people work, and we see this as a significant opportunity for experts. For millions of users, Grammarly is a trusted writing sidekick -- ever-present in every application, ready to help. We're opening up this platform so anyone can build agents that work like Grammarly -- expanding from one sidekick to a whole team. Imagine your professor sharpening your essay, your sales leader reshaping a customer pitch, a thoughtful critic challenging your arguments, or a leading expert elevating your proposal. For experts, this is a chance to build that same ubiquitous bond with users, much like Grammarly has. But in this world, experts choose to participate, shape how their knowledge is represented, and control their business model. That future excites me, and I hope to build it with experts who want to develop it alongside us.

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A Swiss e-voting pilot was suspended after officials couldn't decrypt 2,048 ballots because the USB keys needed to unlock them failed. "Three USB sticks were used, all with the correct code, but none of them worked," spokesperson Marco Greiner told the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation's Swissinfo service. The canton government says it "deeply regrets" the incident and has launched an investigation with authorities. The Register reports: Basel-Stadt announced the problem with its e-voting pilot, open to about 10,300 locals living abroad and 30 people with disabilities, last Friday afternoon. It encouraged participants to deliver a paper vote to the town hall or use a polling station but admitted this would not be possible for many. By the close of polling on Sunday, its e-voting system had collected 2,048 votes, but Basel-Stadt officials were not able to decrypt them with the hardware provided, despite the involvement of IT experts. [...]

The votes made up less than 4 percent of those cast in Basel-Stadt and would not have changed any results, but the canton is delaying confirmation of voting figures until March 21 and suspending its e-voting pilot until the end of December, while its public prosecutor's office has started criminal proceedings. The country's Federal Chancellery said e-voting in three other cantons -- Thurgau, Graubunden, and St Gallen -- along with the nationally used Swiss Post e-voting system, had not been affected.

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State news published a list of nearly 30 sites that could be targeted

Iran has reportedly designated Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Nvidia, Oracle, and Palantir facilities as legitimate targets of retaliatory strikes, according to an Al Jazeera report citing Iran’s state-affiliated Tasnim news agency.…

Spanish driver Natalia Granada is joining the 2026 F1 ACADEMY grid for her rookie season and will compete in the ‘SEPHORA operated by PREMA’ car.

In 2026, the success of AI agents isn't defined by prompts, but by inference economics. The standard Python ML stack creates a "performance tax" that makes real-time Edge AI fundamentally unprofitable. In this article, I break down the anatomy of this tax and how I engineered a C++ nervous system to slash latency by 64x—paving the way for the sovereign brain: PraetorAI.

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Juist nu het nieuwe kabinet een taskforce voor stikstof heeft ingesteld, waarschuwen het PBL, RIVM en Wageningen University Research in een gezamenlijk rapport voor een nog te grote stikstofuitstoot. „Op de meeste locaties slaat er nog steeds meer stikstof neer dan de natuur kan verdragen.”

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CINCINNATI (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump heeft aangegeven dat hij olie wil vrijgeven uit de strategische reserve die de Verenigde Staten aanhouden. Hij zei te verwachten dat dit de brandstofprijzen omlaag brengt.

"We gaan dat doen, en daarna vullen we het weer", zei Trump tegen de lokale televisiezender WKRC over het vrijgeven van olie uit de voorraad. "Ik heb het eerder gevuld, en ik vul het opnieuw."

Olie is hard in prijs gestegen sinds het begin van de aanvallen van de Verenigde Staten en Israël op Iran. Dat laatste land houdt scheepsverkeer bij de Straat van Hormuz feitelijk tegen, waardoor de toevoer van olie en lng uit de Golfstaten stokt.