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Ghacks Technology News ·
Microsoft has formed Xbox Labs, a small team of game makers, engineers, and scientists that will turn emerging technology into products for Xbox players and developers, according to a memo from Xbox CEO Asha Sharma published on Xbox...
CSO Online Security ·
Microsoft released a record-shattering 1,407 CVEs to be plugged today on October Patch Tuesday, breaking the 2020 record of 1,261. The list was so long that its release was several hours later than the usual 1 p.m. Eastern drop time,...
Krebs on Security · · Medium severity
Microsoft today issued updates to fix more than 1,400 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software. Today’s epic patch batch dwarfs September’s record of nearly 1,000 fixes, which was already about ten...
darkreading ·
The scary surprises for the largest security update ever include security bypasses and unauthenticated RCEs.
Tenable Research ·
69 Critical 1337 Important 0 Moderate 1 Low Microsoft addresses 1407 CVEs in the tenth Patch Tuesday of 2026, marking the second consecutive month to reset the bar as the largest Patch Tuesday release. This month’s updates include...
Computerworld ·
Microsoft on Monday unveiled the Maia 300, its third-generation AI chip. According to Microsoft, the new chip will be optimized to handle the latest reasoning AI models and agents, which should result in lower operating costs. “We...
News – MeriTalk ·
13 that its Azure Enclave service is now generally available in both commercial Azure and Azure for U.S. Government, giving federal agencies and defense contractors a new option for deploying and managing isolated cloud environments for...
BleepingComputer ·
Today is Microsoft's October 2026 Patch Tuesday, with security updates addressing a record-breaking 1,411 flaws, including one actively exploited and two publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities.
BleepingComputer ·
Microsoft released the Windows 10 KB5126657 extended security update, which includes this month's record-breaking October 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes and a few bug fixes and changes.
CISA KEV · · Critical severity
Microsoft Windows Command Injection Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows Shell contains a command injection vulnerability that allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature over a network. Required action: Apply mitigations...
SANS Internet Storm Center ·
Microsoft today released patches for 1,417 vulnerabilities. 76 of these vulnerabilities are rated critical, with 7 critical vulnerabiilties requiring no customer actions. One vulnerability was disclosed before today's patch Tuesday, and...
GeekWire ·
Scott Van Vliet, Xbox’s chief technology officer, will lead the new Xbox Labs team. (LinkedIn Photo) Xbox is creating a new team to experiment with technologies that are changing how games are made, ported and played — including some...
BleepingComputer · · Medium severity
Microsoft announced today that devices running Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro editions have reached the end of support and will no longer receive monthly security and non-security preview updates.
GeekWire ·
Peter Lee, president of Microsoft Science, is trading research labs for racetracks. (GeekWire File Photo / Clare McGrane) When Peter Lee announced two weeks ago that he was leaving Microsoft, he said only that his next job would fulfill...
TechRadar · · Medium severity
Microsoft closes a worrying Windows 11 account bypass hack — all it took was one click
The Register ·
It's the end of support for Office 2021 LTSC and it seems like Microsoft is celebrating with a Microsoft 365 outage for some European customers. The affected service is Global Secure Access (GSA), which customers use to access services...
TNW ·
Microsoft is on pace for its first record close since October 2025, having gained more than 50% from a June low and added roughly $1.5T in market value. The AI-disruption panic that caused the fall also hit SAP, which has not recovered....
Ubuntu security notices · · Medium severity
It was discovered that some AMD processors did not properly perform Reverse Map Table (RMP) checks when the IOMMU accessed certain host buffers. A local attacker with hypervisor access could possibly use this to trigger an out-of-bounds...
datacenterknowledge ·
Microsoft unveiled Maia 300, its third-generation AI chip, as Maia 200 goes live, powering Copilot.
Slashdot ·
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Yahoo Finance: Microsoft has debuted its latest AI chip, the Azure Maia 300, as it looks to reduce its reliance on third-party processors from the likes of Nvidia and AMD. Unveiled at the OCP...
TechRadar · · Medium severity
Hackers turn business backup servers into crypto mines after sneaking malware disguised as Microsoft Edge
The Register ·
Microsoft has lifted the lid on the next generation of its Azure Maia custom AI chips, saying it will usher in a new phase of its compute infrastructure where everything is closely integrated to meet the demands of agentic inference....
TechAfrica News ·
Microsoft employees at its Africa Development Centre (ADC) in Nairobi were informed on Monday, 12 October, of plans to close the engineering centre, according to a source who spoke to CIO Africa. Microsoft described the move as part of...
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Microsoft announced its third-generation Maia 300 AI chip on 12 October, with plans to deploy potentially more than one million units in 2027. Microsoft claims approximately 40% more useful computing per megawatt than leading GPU-based...
Computerworld ·
Microsoft has launched Decision-1, an AI model that returns probabilities for predefined answers, allowing software applications to use its outputs directly instead of processing a free-form response from a large language model (LLM)....
AI coding token costs are on track to rival human payroll | InfoWorld ·
Microsoft has launched Decision-1, an AI model that returns probabilities for predefined answers, allowing software applications to use its outputs directly instead of processing a free-form response from a large language model (LLM)....
TechRadar ·
Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra RTX Spark pre-orders are now live
TNW ·
Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, has called for global safety rules for AI. They include a legal duty to tell victims when a rogue AI agent breaks into their systems. He set out his case on the BBC’s Big Boss Interview podcast with...
iAfrica.com ·
Microsoft is pitching AI integration to Africa’s oil, gas, utilities and mining operators, targeting the gap between industrial hardware systems and enterprise data — the specific failure point that recent research identifies as the...
IT Pro ·
Jane is managing editor at ITPro and ChannelPro. She started out with the brands as a staff writer specializing in cloud computing before going on to become senior writer and reports editor, managing the content and creation of ITPro’s...
AI saves workers a day a week, but they don’t know what to do with it | CIO ·
The AI industry says enterprises can’t absorb AI. Its answer is to absorb it for them. The engineer across the table knew the model cold.
TNW · · Unconfirmed
Microsoft is reshaping the leadership of Azure, its cloud computing business, and merging some of its units, The Information reported on Monday. Scott Guthrie, who runs Microsoft’s cloud and AI group, told staff about the changes that...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business · · Unconfirmed
Microsoft’s engineering operations in Kenya are facing a major shake-up as reports emerge that the company plans to close its Africa Development Centre (ADC) in Nairobi. Employees were reportedly informed of the decision on Monday,...
TechCabal ·
Microsoft is winding down its Africa Development Centre (ADC) in Nairobi, putting nearly 400 jobs at risk and reversing a seven-year effort to make Kenya a hub for building technology for global markets. Two employees, who spoke on the...
Electronics For You BUSINESS ·
Tech giant plans multi-gigawatt deployments as in-house silicon becomes its primary inference system. Microsoft has announced plans to scale its Azure Maia family of custom artificial intelligence chips to multi-gigawatt deployments...
Electronics Weekly ·
Next year, Microsoft will start putting its latest AI datacentre processor, Maia 300, into its own datacentres at “gigawatt scale” – potentially up to a million units. Maia 300, made […] The post Microsoft to ramp up deployment of its...
Ghacks Technology News · · Medium severity
Norway's Data Protection Authority, Datatilsynet, has fined Xandr, an advertising company owned by Microsoft , NOK 92 million ($9.6 million) for unlawfully processing and sharing sensitive data belonging to Grindr users in Norway. The...
Ghacks Technology News ·
Microsoft has reminded organizations that Windows 11 version 23H2 Enterprise, Education, and IoT Enterprise editions will stop receiving security updates after the November 2026 security update, which ships on November 10, according to...
TechRadar ·
Rahim Amir is a UAE-based tech writer who enjoys building PCs as much as he enjoys writing about them. He has been professionally writing about PC hardware since 2023, focusing on buyer’s guides, hardware reviews, and sponsored content...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
Microsoft has unveiled its third-generation custom artificial intelligence chip, Maia 300, as the company prepares to expand its in-house computing infrastructure in 2027 in a bid to lower AI operating costs and reduce its dependence on...
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