Tweet Microsoft was in talks to buy social media platform Pinterest in recent months, though the deal never went through. Microsoft recently added Pinterest integration to its Edge browser. Read more… Neowin

Tweet A new article recalling the origin story of Microsoft’s Xbox brand of consoles revealed that the company approached Nintendo for a potential acquisition, but the offer wasn’t taken seriously. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Twitter has detailed its ongoing efforts to curb the spread of fake news related to the U.S. presidential elections. The company will also be reverting some product changes that had a negative impact. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Between August and September, the Iranian hacker group Phosphorus made more than 2,700 attempts to hack accounts linked to U.S. government officials and the 2020 presidential campaign. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, has revealed in a new book that Taylor Swift’s lawyers were threatening legal action over the naming of Microsoft’s short lived AI-powered chatbot, Tay. Read more… Neowin