Microsoft
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."
Microsoft
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
LLMs
'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.
zero day
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.
LLMs
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."
Microsoft
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"
Patch Tuesday
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.
AI, CMA, competition
Google and AWS turn on Microsoft as UK competition watchdog probes cloud industry
Nothing to see here say rivals – except Microsoft’s licensing practices
News
EU says Microsoft 'possibly' tied Teams to Office suites unfairly, leaving software giant with knotty ongoing investigation
It's "a win" says Slack...prematurely
Microsoft
British MPs are preparing to test Microsoft's Copilot AI - despite security fears and US Congress ban
Controversial artificial intelligence assistant will be trialled at the end of 2024, prompting warnings that it could cause "increased risk"
vulnerabilities
Microsoft updates mitigation for critical “wormable” bug
256,000 devices believed publicly exposed. But are MSMQ bugs really attacked in the wild?
Microsoft
Don't worry software engineers: Bill Gates says your job is safe
Microsoft's engineers won't need to retrain just yet, although Gates does believe that AI will generate "so much extra productivity" that it will "surprise people and require us to rethink.”