Opinion CISPE Why the Microsoft and CISPE deal is bad news for European cloud providers "Both parties are happy with the deal, proclaiming that it will bring more competition to the cloud computing market. It’s hard to see how." Nicky Stewart July 22, 2024
competition and markets artificial intelligence News UK regulator launches 'new merger inquiry' into Microsoft’s hiring of AI luminaries Watchdog probes decision to bring 'certain former employees' of Inflection AI into the Microsoft fold Joe Fay July 17, 2024
LLMs News 'Enormous business potential': Microsoft on why GraphRAG outperforms naive RAG Redmond opens up to discuss its new tool, which can extract data from unstructured text using large language models. Jasper Hamill July 16, 2024
zero day CVEs News Windows 'relics' zombified in Void Banshee zero-day attacks Threat actors use CVE-2024-38112 to bring the remains of Internet Explorer back to life as a 'zombie' hellbent on stealing valuable data. Azania Imtiaz Patel July 16, 2024
LLMs News Microsoft unveils a large language model that excels at encoding spreadsheets New LLM has the "potential to transform data management and analysis, paving the way for more intelligent and efficient user interactions." Jasper Hamill July 15, 2024
competition Europe AWS CIVO antitrust News Microsoft promises HCI on EU clouds as it settles complaint – but AWS, Google, other critics lash out "CISPE has given Microsoft the benefit of the doubt" Jasper Hamill July 11, 2024
Patch Tuesday Hyper-V News Patch Tuesday brings a Hyper-V vulnerability exploited in the wild, trio of CVSS 9.8 bugs in RDS Admins face prioritising 143 patches including two known-exploited. Jasper Hamill July 09, 2024
AI, CMA, competition AWS News Google and AWS turn on Microsoft as UK competition watchdog probes cloud industry Nothing to see here say rivals – except Microsoft’s licensing practices Joe Fay July 03, 2024
