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A Brazilian gamer has won a small-claims court ruling against Microsoft after the company told him to simply repurchase his entire digital game library following an account hack. The court ordered Microsoft to restore the account with all games intact and pay roughly four hundred dollars in damages, giving the tech giant fifteen days to comply or face escalating fines. It's a rare moment where a single user pushed back against a corporate support wall and actually won.
Shifting to infrastructure, ClickHouse has published details on how they pushed PgBouncer, the popular PostgreSQL connection pooler, to four times its previous throughput for their managed Postgres service. The engineering work involved rethinking how connections are queued and dispatched at scale, and the results matter for anyone running high-traffic database workloads where connection overhead quietly bleeds performance.
And for anyone shopping for a laptop in two thousand twenty six, TechRadar is out with a guide arguing that spec sheets have become genuinely harder to read. The culprit is AI, with manufacturers now layering dedicated neural processing unit ratings and AI-specific benchmarks alongside traditional processor and memory figures, making it tougher to compare machines on what actually affects everyday use.
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