Microsoft
Microsoft gets das boot in Germany as local gov opts for Libre Office.
"Digital sovereignty is at least as important as energy sovereignty."
Microsoft
Microsoft’s “top notch” China hack post-mortem was "troubling" speculation
"The loss of a signing key is a serious problem, but the loss of a signing key through unknown means is far more significant... Microsoft’s customers did not have essential facts needed to make their own risk assessments."
Microsoft
Microsoft roasted over “cascade of security failures” – authentication system utterly broken
"A corporate culture that deprioritized both enterprise security investments and rigorous risk management."
Microsoft
Microsoft open-sources unique “Garnet” cache-store; a Redis rival?
Garnet’s server can talk to any existing Redis client owing to its use of the RESP protocol. Its storage layer is a customised fork of Microsoft’s own open source FASTER project
Microsoft
EDPS: European Commission breached data infringement rules over Microsoft 365 use
EU watchdog says the institution failed to take appropriate data-transfer safeguards while using Microsoft 365
Microsoft
Microsoft customers are being targeted after Redmond's source code, secrets were stolen
A raid by Russian hackers penetrated deeper than first thought: "Some of these secrets were shared between customers and Microsoft..."
News
Does Microsoft's Mistral deal take wind out of EU's sails on AI regulation?
Sometimes one AI player just isn't enough
AI
Microsoft plans to rain billions on AI in Spain
AI-berian investent follows a $3.44 billion boost to Germany, and a $3.2 billion training investment in the UK.
Patch Tuesday
February’s Patch Tuesday brings exploited zero days, Exchange Server headaches
As a major Exchange Service update lands, Redmond admits "it is possible that some functionality may break after installing CU14..."
AI
AI sends cloud earnings soaring, brings customers rushing for Google, Microsoft
Nadella: "We now have 53,000 Azure AI customers – over one-third are new to Azure over the past 12 months"
Microsoft
How Russian spooks hacked Microsoft, the gap in its “morally indefensible” response, and what CISOs can learn from the attack
Expect to start hearing more about MS Graph...
News
US regulators investigate who should investigate Microsoft/OpenAI
If only there was a chatbot they could ask...