Microsoft
Microsoft earnings: Five big takeaways
Copilots are everywhere as part of Microsoft's "platform transition" in the new world of AI.
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Alphabet, Microsoft earnings show AI rewriting cloud businesses
AI, says Microsoft, is "redefining our role in business applications” with partners adding Copilots as a “process transformation layer" on top of existing systems.
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Microsoft hit with $28.9 billion tax bill after IRS audit into Puerto Rican factory "tax play"
Microsoft had "shifted at least $39 billion in U.S. profits to Puerto Rico, where... KPMG, had persuaded the territory’s government to give Microsoft a tax rate of nearly 0%."
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Patch Tuesday is 20: Curl fix lands, Skype’s under attack and there’s a wormable pre-auth RCE in the mix
A CVSS 9.8, pre-auth RCE that lets an attacker execute arbitrary code without user interaction is wormable on systems where Message Queuing is enabled.
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Microsoft exposed 38TB of private AI data, including passwords and secret keys
Microsoft itself warns that it is "not possible to audit the generation of SAS tokens"
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A powerful key was stolen from one of the world’s largest companies. It still has questions to answer.
An attacker could have been forging access tokens to Microsoft services for up to two years, unnoticed
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Microsoft's dramatic Activision Blizzard concessions show regulators in the ascendant
"Not a green light" says CMA's chief executive of reworked proposal, with Microsoft's acquiescence coming after President's "bad for Britain" statements
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Microsoft warns of CODESYS flaws within industrial hardware
Microsoft says that flaws in the CODESYS SDK are leaving thousands of PLC units at risk of remote attack with potentially catastrophic consequences
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August Patch Tuesday brings 86 fixes from Microsoft
Microsoft patched 86 security flaws including multiple Critical vulnerabilities in Windows and Teams as part of this month's Patch Tuesday update
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Microsoft Bug Bash mishap lets Insider users enable hidden Windows 11 features
Microsoft unintentionally gifted Insiders a way to turn on all of Windows 11's hidden features thanks to a bit of carelessness during a recent testing campaign
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Microsoft rolls out Spatial Audio option for Teams calls
Microsoft's new stereo sound option for Teams will look to cut down on meeting fatigue and provide a more natural conversation style for group video calls
Federal Government
US Congress kicks off probe over allegations of Chinese hackers targeting government agencies
A trio of US Reps have begun a probe into the alleged hacking of government agencies by Chinese hackers, seeking briefings from a pair of key officials