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• Microsoft adds Copilot data controls to all storage locations February 24, 2026 12:30 PM 0 Microsoft is expanding data loss prevention (DLP) controls to block the Microsoft 365 C

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• As digital sovereignty becomes a strategic requirement, organizations are rethinking how they deploy critical infrastructure and AI capabilities under tighter regulatory expectat

• Science Microsoft Researchers Figure Out How to Store Data Inside Glass Using Lasers The researchers say the data could be retrieved from the glass in 10,000 years. • A piece of

• Microsoft says bug in classic Outlook hides the mouse pointer February 23, 2026 02:40 PM 1 Microsoft is investigating a known issue that causes the mouse pointer to disappear in

• Last week’ssurprise departure of Phil Spencer from Microsoftled to the promotion of Asha Sharma, who comes to head Microsoft’s gaming division after two years as president of the

• Tech Gaming Microsoft Inside Microsoft’s big Xbox leadership shake-up Microsoft has a new gaming CEO who wants to bring Xbox back from the brink. • Microsoft has a new gaming CEO

• Elastic Cloud Serverless on Microsoft Azure doubles region availability Elastic Cloud Serverless provides the fastest way to start and scale security, observability, and search s

• Microsoft Hyper-V Lands Some Useful Improvements In Linux 7.0 For those dealing with Microsoft Hyper-V for virtualization, the Linux 7.0 mainline kernel has seen a number of impr

• Microsoft Executive Vice President for Gaming Phil Spencer announced he will retire after 38 years at Microsoft and 12 years leading the company’s video game efforts. • Asha Shar

• Gaming News Tech Microsoft says today’s Xbox shake-up doesn’t mean game studio layoffs ’there are no organizational changes underway for our studios.’ ’there are no organizationa

• Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, and members of his executive team shared the following communications with employees today. • SATYA NADELLA MESSAGE Gaming has been part of Micro

• Gaming Tech Microsoft Read Microsoft gaming CEO Asha Sharma’s first memo on the future of Xbox She’s promising ’the return of Xbox.’ She’s promising ’the return of Xbox.’ Link Sh

• Phil Spencer retires after 38 years, ending nearly four decades of Xbox leadership. • Sarah Bond departs, creating a significant leadership vacuum in Xbox’s executive ranks. • As

• Microsoft’s Project Silica write-once storage could store terabytes of data for over 10,000 years - company explores two physical glass storage methods, so the glass-clad future

• Following backlash in aHacker News thread, Microsoft deleted a blog post that critics said encouraged developers to pirate Harry Potter books to train AI models that could then b

• Microsoft removed blog post that promoted using pirated Harry Potter books to train LLMs. • Post was written by senior product manager Pooja Kamath, advocating dataset for genera

• It’s becoming somewhat of a theme that machine-generated content - whether it’s code, text or graphics - keeps pushing people to their limits, mostly by how such ‘AI slop’ is gen

• Microsoft Patches CVE-2026-26119 Privilege Escalation in Windows Admin Center Microsoft has disclosed a now-patched security flaw in Windows Admin Center that could allow an atta

• Windows 11 Insider Preview now offers a taskbar speed test via Bing linking to Ookla’s Speedtest. • Access it by right‑clicking the network icon or opening quick settings; displa

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• AI-enabled deception now permeates our online lives. • There are the high-profile cases you may easily spot, like when White House officials recentlyshareda manipulated image of

• Microsoft’s ‘glass plates’ can store data for 10,000 years The technology, known as Project Silica, tackles the growing problem of ‘bit rot,’ which is the slow decay of magnetic

• Hackers target Microsoft Entra accounts via device code vishing, exploiting OAuth 2.0 flow. • Attack uses legitimate OAuth client IDs, bypassing phishing sites and standard login

• The company devised the new Maia 200 inference accelerator to improve cost and performance for AI inference processing in Azure Cloud Services.

• Archival storage poses lots of challenges. • We want media that is extremely dense and stable for centuries or more, and, ideally, doesn’t consume any energy when not being acces

• Archival storage poses lots of challenges. • We want media that is extremely dense and stable for centuries or more, and, ideally, doesn’t consume any energy when not being acces

• Tech News Microsoft Microsoft is bringing a built-in network speed test to Windows 11 A new speed test tool is coming to your taskbar. • A new speed test tool is coming to your t

• Microsoft: Anti-phishing rules mistakenly blocked emails, Teams messages February 18, 2026 11:26 AM 0 Microsoft says an Exchange Online issue that mistakenly quarantined legitima

• Early Windows NT kernel design insights captured in 1980s‑90s Microsoft docs. • Core documents cover memory, I/O, process, and virtual‑memory management. • Key authors include Cu

• Microsoft says a Microsoft 365 Copilot bug has been causing the AI assistant to summarize confidential emails since late January, bypassing data loss prevention (DLP) policies th

• Tech Computing Computer Accessories Microsoft Phone Link: Everything You Need to Know (and Why You Might Skip It) If you ever wished you could access your iPhone or Android devic

• Blog Post Claude Sonnet 4.6 in Microsoft Foundry-Frontier Performance for Scale Claude Sonnet 4.6 is available today in Microsoft Foundry, and it is designed for teams who want f

• Gentoo Takes the First Step to Ditch Microsoft Copilot-Infested GitHub Contributors to Gentoo Linux can now submit pull requests throughCodeberginstead ofGitHub. • The repository

• Microsoft Finds ‘Summarize with AI’ Prompts Manipulating Chatbot Recommendations New research from Microsoft has revealed that legitimate businesses are gaming artificial intelli

• Rufus devs blame Microsoft for blocking latest Windows 11 ISOs, resulting in IP bans - Windows Insiders can’t download latest Insider ISOs and are met with IP bans This is either

• Microsoft has warned users that threat actors are leveraging a new variant of the ClickFix technique to deliver malware.TheClickFixattack method has been increasingly used in the

• Microsoft has disclosed details of a new version of the ClickFix social engineering tactic in which the attackers trick unsuspecting users into running commands that carry out a

• FTC digs deeper into Microsoft’s bundling and licensing practices The federal agency has begun issuing CIDs to Microsoft competitors in the business software and cloud computing

• Microsoft Under Pressure to Bolster Defenses for BYOVD Attacks Threat actors are exploiting security gaps to weaponize Windows drivers and terminate security processes in targete

• Organizations are rapidly adopting Copilot Studio agents, but threat actors are equally fast at exploiting misconfigured AI workflows. • Mis-sharing, unsafe orchestration, and we

• VS Code v1.109 turns the editor into a multi‑agent hub, supporting Claude, Codex, and Copilot. • Developers can orchestrate multiple AI assistants from a single interface with ne

• The era of AI is reshaping both opportunity and risk faster than any shift security leaders have seen. • Every organization is feeling the momentum; and for security teams, the q

• The era of AI is reshaping both opportunity and risk faster than any shift security leaders have seen. • Every organization is feeling the momentum; and for security teams, the q

• Leaders atMount Sinai Health Systemin New York thinkMicrosoftis the winner of the ambient scribing world - for now. • The health system began rolling out Microsoft’s ambient list

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• NB560: Microsoft Doubles Down on Custom AI Chip; CrowdStrike Brandishes Big Bucks for Browser Security Podcast:Download(30.8MB) |Embed DrewConry-Murray Johna TillJohnson Take a N

• Microsoft releases update to address zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Office Microsoft has published three out-of-band (OOB) updates so far in January 2026. • One of these upd

• Microsoft Ignite unveiled Frontier Transformation, reimagining business with AI aligned to human ambition. • Focus shifts from efficiency to democratizing intelligence, unlocking

• Maia 200: 3nm TSMC accelerator with native FP8/FP4 tensor cores, 216GB HBM3e, 272MB SRAM. • Outperforms Amazon Trainium (3× FP4) and Google TPU v7 (FP8), delivering top‑tier infe

• Windows 11 25H2 introduces Administrator Protection, replacing UAC with a stricter privilege model. • Feature grants admin rights only when necessary, isolating limited and admin

• DiffTransformer V2 doubles query heads, keeps KV heads constant for efficient attention. • Uses differential attention: subtracts paired heads within same GQA group. • Applies si

• Content type Thought leadership Tag AI Copilot Microsoft Marketplace Audience Business decision makers Developers IT decision makers Product Microsoft Foundry A new category of o

• As organizations rapidly embrace generative and agentic AI, ensuring robust, unified governance has never been more critical. • That’s why Microsoft is honored to be named a Lead

• Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot, the company’s workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executives de

• Tags Azure Healthcare and life sciences organizations are navigating an era of unprecedented complexity. • Administrative burden continues to rise, clinical workflows remain frag

• Content type Announcements News Tag AI Datacenter High-performance computing Audience Business decision makers IT decision makers IT implementors Product Azure AI Azure Compute T

• Today, Microsoft is announcing the acquisition of Osmos, an agentic AI data engineering platform designed to help simplify complex and time-consuming data workflows. • Microsoft

• A recognition for AI innovation Microsoft is recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Application Development Platforms and is positioned furthest for C