Amazon Luna to Follow Google Stadia on June 10
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 04/12/26 at 02:59 PM CT
Remember Google’s disastrous attempt at transforming gaming into a Cloud-based experience? Remember how it flopped after a single year and how Google kept it going as a backend service for a while after that before shutting it down altogether?
Well, apparently, Amazon thought they could do better when they launched their Luna game streaming service. Presumably the online retail titan thought they already had the gaming rep needed to launch such an endeavor due to having a de-facto monopoly on the other kind of game streaming through their Twitch platform. Amazon even tried partnering with the (sometimes inexplicably) well-liked DRM-free PC game shop, GOG.com, in order to help new Luna users flesh out their streamable libraries with a bunch of dubiously-Good, definitely-Old, Games.
Too bad for Amazon, but great news for us: Luna has been a complete failure and will be going away on June 10, 2026. Amazon has officially stopped selling new games through the Luna interface, and …
Microsoft: Co-Pilot is Mandatory, but “For Entertainment Only.”
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 04/05/26 at 09:48 PM CT
It seems that ever since Windows 11 launched, Microsoft has been obsessed with cramming their AI assistant, Co-Pilot, into every facet of the OS, including bizarre and nonsensical appearances in such barebones programs as MS Paint and Notepad. These OS-level AI features have also had a grating tendency to re-install themselves during updates, even if the user has gone through the effort of trying to remove them.
And if Windows 11 is beyond saving, then Windows 12 is positively sunk, because Microsoft is currently planning to make it an entirely “agentic” OS, in which AI agents within the operating system interpret the user’s intents and desires, then manipulate the system based on these interpretations instead of allowing the user to manipulate the system directly. Indeed it looks like the future of Windows MS has been building towards is one entirely driven by AI...
... Which is why it’s so strange that, in their Autumn 2025 EULA update for Windows 11, they snuck in …
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