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BleepingComputer · · Medium severity
Norway's Data Protection Authority (Datatilsynet) has fined Microsoft-owned advertising company Xandr NOK 92 million ($9.6M) for unlawfully processing and sharing sensitive data belonging to Grindr users in the country.
SiliconANGLE ·
today pulled back the curtains on Maia 300, its newest internally developed artificial intelligence accelerator. The chip is optimized for inference. Microsoft estimates that it can process 40% more tokens per megawatt than “leading...
The Register ·
Microsoft took down the Exchange Admin Center (EAC) today after a code change left administrators facing an "Internal Server Error" when trying to access the service. Microsoft first admitted that something was amiss at 0937 UTC on...
Engadget ·
Norway fined a Microsoft subsidiary $9.6 million for allegedly misusing Grindr user data
DQ : Latest Posts ·
Microsoft plans to scale its in-house Maia artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator family to multi-gigawatt deployments from 2027, aiming to make the chips its primary inference system for its products and services as demand for AI...
AppleInsider ·
The Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra uses Nvidia graphics in a bid to take over from the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5 Pro as a productivity favorite. Here's how the two powerful notebooks compare. 14-inch MacBook Pro [left] vs Surface...
Hacker News ·
TechRadar · · Medium severity
Hackers hide behind Microsoft's own websites to get past email filters and launch phishing campaigns
Hacker News ·
Gizmodo ·
The tech exec is calling for stronger global safety rules as AI systems become increasingly powerful.
TechCrunch ·
Microsoft President Brad Smith calls for urgent AI regulation, saying milk and washing machines have more oversight than AI companies.
Tech-Economic Times ·
The Maia 300, as the chip is called, is the third generation of the company's custom chips designed to handle AI data crunching such as coding and carrying out complex business tasks on a user's behalf. Its predecessor is already...
The Register ·
Microsoft has closed a loophole that let users sidestep the need for an account during setup for consumer versions of Windows 11. If users clicked "Learn More" when the setup process prompted for a Microsoft account, the Out-of-Box...
TNW ·
Microsoft will make its own Maia chips the primary system for running AI in its products starting in 2027. The company set out the plan on Monday as it unveiled the Maia 300, the third generation of its custom AI chip. Microsoft plans...
CIO Africa ·
Microsoft is closing its Africa Development Centre (ADC) in Nairobi, CIO Africa has learnt, bringing an end to the company’s...
Latest InfoTech News, IT, Information Technology News | The HinduBusinessLine ·
Microsoft is expanding its in-house AI infrastructure with a new processor designed to improve computing efficiency as demand for AI capacity grows.
TechRadar ·
The new Microsoft Copilot app is getting the full Office experience — here's what you can look forward to from Word, Excel and more
GeekWire ·
A prototype of Microsoft’s Azure Maia 300 chip, which the company plans to begin deploying at scale in 2027. (Microsoft Photo) Microsoft plans to run most of its AI services on chips it designs itself, a shift that could save the...
TechRadar ·
Mike Moore is Deputy Editor at TechRadar Pro. He has worked as a B2B and B2C technology journalist for over a decade, including at one of the UK's leading national newspapers and fellow Future title ITProPortal, covering everything from...
PYMNTS.com ·
Microsoft’s president says artificial intelligence now faces less regulatory oversight than appliances and dairy products. This lack of oversight underscores the urgent need for global artificial intelligence (AI) regulation, Brad Smith...
The Verge ·
| Image: Microsoft Microsoft is announcing its third-generation Maia in-house AI chip today, designed to be the "primary AI inference system" for Microsoft's products and services. Maia 300 not only improves the cost and efficiency of...
The Register ·
Not satisfied with shoehorning Copilot into every crevice of Office, Microsoft is adding Office to the Copilot app, while also evicting the AI assistant from certain parts of Outlook. The plan is simple: give the Copilot app a prompt,...
Tech-Economic Times ·
Xandr relayed data revealing the sexual orientation of users of Grindr, a dating app for LGBTQIA+ people, to companies in automated ad auctions from July 2018 to April 2020.
Engadget ·
Magnetic Connect and MagSafe for MacBooks have a lot in common, but the Magnetic Connect charger brings more versatility.
ExtremeTech ·
Microsoft plans to bring experimental access to the GitHub Copilot app, CLI, and Visual Studio Code by the end of October.
TechRadar ·
Dave is a freelance tech journalist who has been writing about gadgets, apps and the web for more than two decades. Based out of Stockport, England, on TechRadar you'll find him covering news, features and reviews, particularly for...
BleepingComputer ·
Microsoft has reminded customers that systems running Windows 11 23H2 Enterprise, Education, and IoT Enterprise editions will stop receiving security updates next month.
TechCentral ·
Sars's annual report shows R1.6-billion for Microsoft and R1.2-billion for IBM as it leans more heavily on technology.
Help Net Security ·
Microsoft-Decision-1 is a small decision-scoring model. Given a situation, a question and a fixed set of answer options, it returns a calibrated probability for each option. “This model is designed for routing, classification,...
IT Pro ·
Microsoft's Brad Smith wants more AI kill switches
TechCentral ·
Microsoft's president says milk cartons and washing machines face stricter safety rules than artificial intelligence does.
TelecomLead ·
Microsoft-owned advertising technology company Xandr has been fined NOK 92 million, approximately €8.6 million, by the Norwegian Data Protection Authority for unlawfully processing personal data belonging to Grindr users in Norway....
Engadget · · Medium severity
Milk can't hack companies and governments like AI definitely can, but it's still subject to more regulation.
TNW ·
Microsoft has released Microsoft-Decision-1, a small model that picks between fixed answer options instead of writing text. Microsoft built it on Alibaba’s open-weight Qwen3.5-9B and then post-trained it, according to the Foundry model...
Ghacks Technology News ·
Microsoft is retiring Themes by Copilot in Outlook worldwide, with the removal starting in mid-October 2026 and expected to finish by late October 2026, according to the Microsoft 365 Message Center post MC1492954, published on October...
Hacker News ·
PYMNTS.com · · Medium severity
Microsoft’s CEO says companies should assume powerful artificial intelligence models could be compromised and create an “emergency brake” to rein them in. In comments posted to X on Saturday (Oct. 10) Satya Nadella argued that it is not...
TechRadar ·
Efosa has been writing about technology for over 7 years, initially driven by curiosity but now fueled by a strong passion for the field. He holds both a Master's and a PhD in sciences, which provided him with a solid foundation in...
Hacker News ·
Phoronix ·
Microsoft is contributing a new kernel driver for the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle. Queued up into the IOMMU subsystem's "-next" branch is a new para-virtualized IOMMU driver for benefiting Linux guest VMs running on Microsoft's Hyper-V...
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