Microsoft

Controversial artificial intelligence assistant will be trialled at the end of 2024, prompting warnings that it could cause "increased risk"

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.”

Says State Department cyber team deserve a medal for spotting intrusion based on Microsoft security issue before Microsoft's own team did.

"It’s not clear how many affected systems are exposed. Now would be a good time to audit your networks to ensure TCP port 1801 is not reachable.”

"I genuinely can not understand how that product was ever shipped. It’s terrifying from every conceivable angle..."

"Customers are left with no economically reasonable alternative but to choose Azure, even if they prefer the prices, quality, security, innovations and features of rivals."

Tenable research "revealed an attack surface most users of Azure service were probably not accounting for..."