Microsoft’s team of hardware wizards have spent the last couple of years practicing their Reparo spell and it’s really starting to show. And we’ve noticed, it’s hard not to. It wasn’t that long ago that the Surface team surprised us … Read more
Tech Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just ‘IT for OpenAI’ Ashley Stewart 2024-03-11T23:23:32Z Share icon An curved arrow pointing right. Share Facebook Icon The letter F. Facebook Email icon An envelope. It indicates the ability to send an … Read more
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Microsoft hired Andrew Harris for his extraordinary skill in keeping hackers out of the nation’s most sensitive computer … Read more
An elite handful of analysts, actuaries, and accountants have mastered Excel, arguably the most important software in the business world. So what do they do in Vegas? They open a spreadsheet. By: David Pierce Jun 12, 2024, 2:00PM UTC It’s … Read more
When Microsoft named its new Windows feature Recall, the company intended the word to refer to a kind of perfect, AI-enabled memory for your device. Today, the other, unintended definition of “recall”—a company’s admission that a product is too dangerous … Read more
03 Jun 2024 3 min read Gerard Soury/Getty Images Microsoft recently caught state-backed hackers using its generative AI tools to help with their attacks. In the security community, the immediate questions weren’t about how hackers were using the tools (that … Read more
The breaking tech news this year has been the pervasive spread of “AI” (or rather, statistical modeling based on hidden layer neural networks) into everything. It’s the latest hype bubble now that Cryptocurrencies are no longer the freshest sucker-bait in … Read more
Given Microsoft’s recent BUILD conference, Microsoft has announced a number of sizable updates to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Some existing experimental features have been promoted to stable/default while other new WSL2 capabilities are in the process of being rolled … Read more
Artificial Intelligence Microsoft, Khan Academy Partner to Make Khanmigo Teaching Tool Free By Gladys Rama 05/21/24 At its Build conference this week, Microsoft announced it has inked an AI partnership with education nonprofit Khan Academy. Specifically, Microsoft is enabling Khan … Read more
A massive Microsoft outage affects Bing.com, Copilot for web and mobile, Copilot in Windows, ChatGPT internet search and DuckDuckGo. Microsoft outage started at approximately 3 AM EDT and seems to have primarily affected users in Asia and Europe. According to user reports … Read more