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Microsoft: Laptops with Snapdragon X Elite Will Be Faster Than M3 MacBook Air

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New Windows driver blocks software from changing default web browser

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New York City defends AI chatbot that advised entrepreneurs to break laws

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams is defending the city’s new artificial intelligence chatbot that has...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is defending the city’s new artificial intelligence chatbot that has been caught in recent days giving business owners wrong answers or advice that, if followed, would entail breaking the law.When launched as a pilot in October, the MyCity chatbot was touted as the first city-wide use ...

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Microsoft Building $100B 'Stargate' to Transport OpenAI into the Future

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Microsoft is drawing up plans to build a $100 billion supercomputer, allegedly named “Stargate,” to power...
Microsoft is drawing up plans to build a $100 billion supercomputer, allegedly named “Stargate,” to power OpenAI’s next generation of artificial intelligence systems, according to a report from The Information Friday. Stargate is reportedly the fifth and final phase of Microsoft and OpenAI’s plan to build several su...

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Microsoft to shut down 50 cloud services for Russian businesses

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Microsoft plans to limit access to over fifty cloud products for Russian organizations by the end...
Microsoft plans to limit access to over fifty cloud products for Russian organizations by the end of March as part of the sanctions requirements against the country issued by EU regulators last December. The suspension was initially scheduled for March 20, 2024, but it was moved to the end of the month to give impac...

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Newly detailed 'Tycoon 2FA' phishing kit bypasses multi-factor authentication

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Microsoft Paper Intros Autonomous AI Framework, Turning Devs into Supervisors

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Linux on the desktop is gaining ground

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Linux on the desktop is enjoying something of a resurgence in popularity as the age-old battle...
Linux on the desktop is enjoying something of a resurgence in popularity as the age-old battle between the underdog open-source operating system and market leader Microsoft Windows hots up again. So, is this the year that Linux, in its many variants, becomes the mainstream desktop operating system? That’s unlikely. ...

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Microsoft customers targeted as secrets, source code stolen

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In brief: Midnight Blizzard/Russia's SVR breached Microsoft's source code repositories using credentials stolen from emails and...
In brief: Midnight Blizzard/Russia's SVR breached Microsoft's source code repositories using credentials stolen from emails and customer emails it accessed in a January 19 attack and is ramping up attacks on customers.Microsoft says hackers successfully accessed its “source code repositories and internal systems” af...

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Microsoft says Russian hackers breached its systems, accessed source code

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Converting IEEE-754 floating point to Color BASIC floating point

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Elon Musk Calls on Microsoft CEO for Laptop Issues

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Apple's upcoming AI features that will rival Microsoft's Copilot

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Apple is almost done building a generative AI tool for iOS app developers — and the...
Apple is almost done building a generative AI tool for iOS app developers — and the company plans on releasing it to third-party software makers as early as this year, sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.The tech giant is working on a tool that will use artificial intelligence to write code as part of it...

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Did You Know: Burger King Had a Windows 7 Whopper with 7 Stacked Beef Patties

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Feds Say Activision Layoffs Violate Promises Microsoft Made in Merger Deal

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The Federal Trade Commission isn’t happy with the outcome of Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision...
The Federal Trade Commission isn’t happy with the outcome of Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, telling a court on Wednesday that Microsoft’s recent layoffs contradict promises it made to get the merger approved. In a letter to the clerk of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the FTC criti...

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Zuckerberg explained how Meta will crush Google and Microsoft at AI

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Mark Zuckerberg laid out Meta's gameplan for "playing to win" against Alphabet and Microsoft in the...
Mark Zuckerberg laid out Meta's gameplan for "playing to win" against Alphabet and Microsoft in the high-stakes AI arms race. Meta's secret weapon: its walled garden of data."There are hundreds of billions of publicly shared images and tens of billions of public videos, which we estimate is greater than the common c...

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Microsoft Cloud Strength Drives Second Quarter Results

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Microsoft Cloud Strength Drives Second Quarter ResultsREDMOND, Wash. — January 30, 2024 — Microsoft Corp. today...
Microsoft Cloud Strength Drives Second Quarter ResultsREDMOND, Wash. — January 30, 2024 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended December 31, 2023, as compared to the corresponding period of last fiscal year:· Revenue was $62.0 billion and increased 18% (up 16% in constant curren...

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Microsoft CEO calls for tech industry to 'act' after AI photos of Taylor Swift

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Satya Nadella spoke to Lester Holt about artificial intelligence and its ability to create deepfake images...
Satya Nadella spoke to Lester Holt about artificial intelligence and its ability to create deepfake images of others. After pictures of Taylor Swift circulated, he called for actionsSatya thinks that the tech industry has ways to go to protect people from AI issuesMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella has called on the tech i...

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Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays

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Microsoft is investigating an ongoing and widespread outage impacting the users of its Teams communication platform...
Microsoft is investigating an ongoing and widespread outage impacting the users of its Teams communication platform and causing connectivity issues, login problems, and message delays. While Redmond is still working on addressing these ongoing problems, it revealed that a networking issue might be the root cause of ...

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Microsoft to lay off 1,900 Activision Blizzard, Xbox staff

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By Aditya Soni(Reuters) -Microsoft will let go of 1,900 employees at Activision Blizzard and Xbox this...
By Aditya Soni(Reuters) -Microsoft will let go of 1,900 employees at Activision Blizzard and Xbox this week, it said on Thursday, the latest cuts in the technology sector that has extended massive layoffs over the past years into 2024.The cuts represent about 8% of the overall Microsoft Gaming division and will most...

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Russian hackers stole Microsoft corporate emails in month-long breach

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Microsoft warned Friday night that some of its corporate email accounts were breached and data stolen...
Microsoft warned Friday night that some of its corporate email accounts were breached and data stolen by a Russian state-sponsored hacking group known as Midnight Blizzard. The company detected the attack on January 12th, with Microsoft's investigation ultimately determining that the attack was conducted by Russian ...

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Bing Gained Less Than 1% Market Share Since Adding Bing Chat

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Microsoft Overtakes Apple as Most Valuable Company

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Long-lost, earliest MS-DOS precursor was discovered in a floppy disk collection

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