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PYMNTS.com ·
Add Microsoft to the list of AI companies lobbying for a slowdown in the tech’s development. The tech giant on Monday (Sept. 14) published a new artificial intelligence (AI) code of conduct, based around the concept of “Humanist AI.”...
TNW ·
Microsoft published an AI code of conduct for its own models on Monday. One passage rejects the idea that a model could deserve welfare or hold rights. Anthropic runs a research programme on that exact question.
GeekWire ·
(LinkedIn Photo) — Silvia Candiani has been named corporate vice president of Worldwide Telco & Media within the Microsoft Frontier Company, a $2.5 billion initiative launched by the tech giant in July to embed engineers inside...
GeekWire ·
Satya Nadella says Microsoft welcomes the “deliberate pacing needed to get alignment right.” (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) “People matter more than AI.” That’s the premise of a draft code of conduct Microsoft published Monday...
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The code of conduct represents a constitution of sorts for future models made by the company
TNW ·
Microsoft has published a code of conduct for the models it builds itself, and the commitment at the centre of it is blunt. MAI models “will never resist human interruption, correction, or shutdown”. The document went up on Monday...
Tech-Economic Times ·
The document, in the works for five to six months, would require Microsoft's AI to never resist correction or shutdown, to communicate in ways that humans can understand, and to consider any conduct violation to be a failure - an...
The Verge ·
Microsoft is publishing a 37-page "humanist AI code of conduct" today, amid growing safety concerns over AI model progress. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a coordinated slow down of AI development over the weekend, after...
The Register ·
Microsoft has confirmed that its latest security updates can disrupt Remote Desktop Services, silence some USB audio devices, and break pasting in Excel. September's Windows patches hardly support Microsoft's insistence that it is...
Slashdot ·
Nearly 1900 Blizzard Entertainment workers "voted to ratify their first union contract with parent company Microsoft after over two years of bargaining," reports Kotaku, "consolidating Blizzard's many smaller unions into three larger...
Schneier on Security · · Low severity
Once a month, Microsoft pushes a security update to all Windows users. Tomorrow’s is a new record : Microsoft’s patch for September is a doozy, with a record number of roughly 972 vulnerabilities fixed and 112 of them meeting the high...
CIO Dive · · Medium severity
A Syskit survey shows 90% of IT leaders report security incidents linked to overlooked permissions.
BleepingComputer · · Low severity
Microsoft has confirmed reports that the September 2026 security updates cause Remote Desktop Services (RDS) failures on Windows Server systems.
Intelligent CIO ME ·
Nutanix, a hybrid cloud leader and AI innovator, has announced support for the general availability of Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Hybrid with Nutanix AHV, giving organisations greater choice over where their virtual desktops...
BleepingComputer · · Low severity
Microsoft has confirmed that USB audio devices may fail on some Windows systems after installing the KB5124008and KB5124012 September 2026 security updates.
Ghacks Technology News ·
Users of Microsoft Excel have reported that the Office security update known as KB5002914 for this week is causing problems with copy-and-paste functions and formula dragging, as stated in posts on Reddit and in the Microsoft Q&A...
Tech-Economic Times ·
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella urged strict human control and deliberate pacing in AI development. His comments follow Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's proposal to slow AI progress and use independent safety evaluators, an initiative endorsed...
AppleInsider · · Unconfirmed
Deals on Microsoft Windows and Office for Mac licenses are heavily discounted this weekend, with prices dipping to as low as $9.97. Save up to 94 percent on Windows 11 and Office Home 2024 - Image credit: Microsoft StackSocial is...
TechRadar ·
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TechRadar ·
“In terms of price-to-performance, it’s hard to beat”: This Xbox gamepad might be better value than Microsoft’s version — but there’s one feature I desperately wish it had
The Register ·
When Microsoft's developers and engineers sit down to code, they can now choose to work in Rust, which Redmond has added to its list of canonical languages. “Rust now is a Tier One language at Microsoft, and that just means that it sits...
The Hacker News · · Medium severity
Microsoft has disclosed details of two campaigns in which threat actors are abusing third-party email delivery infrastructure to blast financial fraud scam messages and using passkey-themed social engineering to breach cloud...
GeekWire ·
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: A study commissioned by the City of Seattle says the city is not in decline but is in danger — finding that 10 companies, nine of them in tech, pay three-quarters of the payroll tax on large employers,...
TechRepublic ·
Microsoft is testing automatic Light and Dark Mode switching in Windows 11, with scheduling based on sunrise, sunset, fixed times, or PC activity. The post Microsoft May Soon Fix Windows 11’s Obvious Dark Mode Automation Gap appeared...
TechSpot ·
Microsoft is asking organizations that rely on the Slmgr.vbs tool to switch to PowerShell, as the old script will soon stop working along with the rest of the VBScript language. Companies that use the script to manage Windows activation...
GeekWire ·
A Microsoft Surface tablet running Copilot at Lumen Field in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) The Microsoft Surface tablets on NFL sidelines — a game-day fixture since 2014 — got a close-up on national television...
The Record by Recorded Future · · Medium severity
Researchers analyzed a flood of fraudulent business emails and found that the threat actors had doubled-up on tactics to make them appear legitimate, including help from AI.
BleepingComputer · · Medium severity
Microsoft says threat actors linked to ShinyHunters, Helix, and other extortion gangs are using passkey and single sign-on-themed social engineering attacks to compromise corporate Microsoft accounts and steal data from Microsoft 365...
GeekWire ·
Shaw addresses the media at Microsoft on May 18, 2025, in advance of the Build conference. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) It’s the end of an era at Microsoft: Frank X. Shaw , the executive who oversaw the tech giant’s communications for...
The Verge ·
| Image: Microsoft Frank Shaw is leaving Microsoft after 17 years as chief communications officer. In an internal note to his team, Shaw says he's "decided it is time for me to move on and try new things," after supporting Microsoft's...
Cybersecurity Dive - Latest News · · Medium severity
Stung by years of embarrassing hacks, the tech giant overhauled how it approached cybersecurity. Company leaders now say they’re seeing results.
TechSpot · · Unconfirmed
Windows 11 Insider Beta Preview Build 26220.9343 introduces a new reinitialization option that downloads a factory version of the OS from the cloud. The new feature lets users and IT administrators reset a device without needing a USB...
9to5Mac ·
Apple CarPlay now works with six major third-party AI chatbot apps. Microsoft Copilot is the latest iPhone app to add CarPlay support. This leaves Google Gemini as the last major holdout for now.
TechRadar ·
Bluetooth is absolutely awful on Windows 11 — Microsoft is finally pushing out updates to fix it, but I won't hold my breath
CSO Online Security ·
Attackers are using passkey-themed social engineering to trick employees into giving them access to their Microsoft accounts. Microsoft Security Research said it has been tracking active cloud intrusions since May in which attackers...
BleepingComputer · · Medium severity
Microsoft has fixed a bug that prevented Teams and Outlook from launching on ARM-based Windows devices after installing updates released since the August 2026 Patch Tuesday.
CloudTech · · Unconfirmed
Microsoft plans to more than triple its data centre capacity to about 38 gigawatts (GW) by 2032, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the plans. The company currently has about 12GW of capacity, according to Bloomberg’s...
The Register ·
When Microsoft's developers and engineers sit down to code, they can now choose to work in Rust, which Redmond has added to its list of canonical languages. “Rust now is a Tier One language at Microsoft, and that just means that it sits...
AlienVault OTX · · Medium severity
A sophisticated credential theft campaign manipulates DNS and HTTP traffic on captive portal networks at hotels, conference centers, and hospitality venues to redirect victims to attacker-controlled infrastructure. The operation...
GeekWire ·
Amazon Quick’s new activity feed on mobile: the morning priority view, left, and the full feed. (Amazon Images) Amazon is adding the Activity Feed and other features from its Quick desktop app to the AI assistant’s mobile apps for iOS...
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