Tencent's expansion will likely put it into more direct competition with U.S. giants including Amazon, Microsoft and Google.

Microsoft melancarkan cip terkini mereka Maia 200 sebagai kemas kini kepada Maia 100 yang dilancarkan pada tahun 2023

Microsoft intends to expand in a place where it's been welcomed, months after backing down on a rezoning attempt in an adjacent village when residents objected.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from GeekWire: Microsoft on Monday announced Maia 200, the second generation of its custom AI chip, claiming it's the most powerful first-party silicon from any major cloud provider

Inference-optimized chip 30% cheaper than any other AI silicon on the market today, Azure's Scott Guthrie claims Microsoft on Monday unveiled a new in-house AI accelerator to rival Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs.

Company's autodiscover caused users' test credentials to be sent outside Microsoft networks.

30% more performance per dollar than Maia 100, and faster than Amazon or Google

Storing recovery keys with Microsoft allows the company to unlock your disk.

Two VSCode extensions are harvesting sensitive data and sending it to China

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Microsoft on Monday unveiled the second generation of its in-house artificialintelligence chip, along with software tools that take aim at one of Nvidia's biggest competitive advantages with developers

With its newest AI chip, Microsoft plans "wider customer availability" after its initial product was only used for internal projects

With over 100 billion transistors, Maia 200 offers "powerhouse" AI inferencing possibilites, Microsoft says

Moved called "simply irresponsible" - but there is a way to protect your private data

Some machines are failing to start after security updates, prompting yet another Microsoft investigation Microsoft is investigating reports that its January 2026 security updates are leaving some Windows 11 machines stuck in a boot loop, adding another entry to this month's bumper postPatch Tuesday borkage list

Windows 11 runs into another disastrous bug with its latest update Microsoft admits an 'issue in which devices are failing to boot', worryingly

2026 is shaping up to be a bumper year for patch management Microsoft dropped a weekend treat for administrators with yet another out-of-band update to deal with Outlook freezes and broken cloud storage.

Minggu lalu satu kemas kini tidak dirancang telah diedarkan oleh Microsoft kerana pengguna melaporkan PC tidak boleh dimatikan atau memasuki mod hibernasi selepas tampalan sekuriti 13 Januari 2026 (KB5074109) dimuat turun

It characterizes these new offerings as "trending topics," even though each "trending topic" presents itself as one of our stories, links to our stories, and uses our images, all without competent fact-checking to ensure the AI is getting them right... The AI is also no longer restricted to roughly four words per headline, so I no longer see nonsense headlines like "Microsoft developers using AI" or "AI tag debate heats." (Instead, I occasionally see tripe like "Fares: Need AAA & AA Games" or "Dispatch sold millions; few avoided romance.") But Google's AI has no clue what parts of these stories are new, relevant, significant, or true, and it can easily confuse one story for another

Microsoft introduces Rho-alpha, a robotics model combining language, touch, simulation, and human feedback to extend robots beyond predictable factory environments

Microsoft issued another out-of-band update to fix a bug that caused Outlook to crash for Windows 11 users

The Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 is the best Windows laptop we've tested

Get more done with this Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows lifetime license, now $34.97 (reg

Microsoft Office 2024 now comes as a lifetime license on sale for $100

Early Friday "there were nearly 113 incidents of people reporting issues with Microsoft 365 as of 1:05 a.m

Microsoft is said to have cooperated with the FBI and released the backup BitLocker encryption key of one user stored in its servers to the agency after receiving a valid search warrant

Naturally, you'll discover some new abilities along the way, including a grappling hook and air gliding. MIO: Memories in Orbit is available on PS5 , Xbox Series X/S , Nintendo Switch , Switch 2 , Steam , the Epic Games Store and the Microsoft Store for $20 (with a 10 percent launch discount on some platforms)

Plus: The FAA blocks drones over DHS operations, Microsoft admits it hands over Bitlocker encryption keys to the cops, and more.

Nadella said he was confident that widespread adoption, or diffusion, of AI will occur and large companies will use the technology to change the way they work

Cramer on Friday also named which stocks investors should consider buying after earnings

Bring the best of Microsoft to your Mac with this Microsoft Office Home and Business for Mac 2021 lifetime license, on sale now for just $49.97 (reg

Jeffrey Snover, the driving force behind PowerShell, has retired after a career that reshaped Windows administration. The Register reports: Snover's retirement comes after a brief sojourn at Google as a Distinguished Engineer, following a lengthy stint at Microsoft, during which he pulled the company back from imposing a graphical user interface (GUI) on administrators who really just wanted a command line from which to run their scripts

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Microsoft provided the FBI with the recovery keys to unlock encrypted data on the hard drives of three laptops as part of a federal investigation, Forbes reported on Friday

If you're serious about encryption, keep control of your encryption keys If you think using Microsoft's BitLocker encryption will keep your data 100 percent safe, think again

Hackers are abusing SharePoint to break into people's emails and propagate further throughout the networks

Depreciation of popular management tool requires a new look at Azure-based system Microsoft recently announced it will deprecate System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Management Packs (MPs) for SQL Server Reporting Services, Power BI Report Server,and SQL Server Analysis Services

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently went on record saying that AI still needs to prove its worth if society is to adopt it long-term, but he presumably thinks his company has cracked it with its latest innovation: AI coloring books

The kits are so good that vishing is growing more popular, but there is a solution

Microsoft Teams will now scan first-time external callers for any signs of brand impersonation

Business customers were left without access to Microsoft 365 core services for several hours, but functionality is now restored

Down to 364.5 already: Redmond's crappy 2026 continues Microsoft 365 suffered a widespread outage last night affecting multiple services including Outlook adding to the megacorp's troubled start to 2026

Jan 23 (Reuters) - Microsoft said on Friday it has restored access to its suite of productivity software, while data from outage tracking website Downdetector.com showed that reports of outages had declined

Microsoft shed some light on what caused its major 365 outage on Jan

Longtime Slashdot reader theodp writes: GeekWire takes a look at AI's defining alliance in The Microsoft-OpenAI Files, an epic story drawn from 200+ documents, many made public Friday in Elon Musk's ongoing suit accusing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman of abandoning the nonprofit mission (Microsoft is also a defendant)

Microsoft is sharing updates on the Microsoft 365 outage that took down Outlook and other services on Thursday, Jan

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Microsoft 365 appeared to have an outage on Thursday, Jan

People reported issues with Outlook on social media, months after the app went down for over 21 hours.

After half a decade of waiting, Microsoft finally offered an extended preview of its long-awaited reboot of the beloved Fable RPG franchise on Thursday

Logging in, not breaking in Unknown attackers are abusing Microsoft SharePoint file-sharing services to target multiple energy-sector organizations, harvest user credentials, take over corporate inboxes, and then send hundreds of phishing emails from compromised accounts to contacts inside and outside those organizations.

Recovery from an excess of sprouts, or something else? Bork!Bork!Bork! Microsoft's flagship OS can power everything from a mini PC to a giant workstation or even a server

After Microsoft, Google, and a long fight for automation, Jeffrey Snover hangs up his keyboard A really important window is closing

Is this going to irritate a fair few Windows 11 users? You can pretty much bank on that

Gamers, here's your dream console, which you could have if Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo joined hands, but we all know that's never happening

Microsoft is making the Xbox app compatible with Arm-based processors, giving gamers more options when it comes to gaming laptops and practically opening the road for Arm-powered handheld gaming PC consoles

Veteran text editor gets more AI enhancements while Paint will be able to generate coloring books Microsoft is meddling with Notepad again, this time adding a "What's New" screen so users know the latest indignities heaped on the once-humble text editor.

Aplikasi Xbox app kini secara rasmi disokong pada semua PC Windows 11 berasaskan Arm membolehkan pengguna memuat turun dan bermain game terus dari katalog Xbox PC. Tambahan lagi menurut Microsoft, lebih 85% permainan Game Pass kini serasi dengan Arm dengan lebih banyak lagi akan ditambah

Satya Nadella used his Davos platform to warn that AIs future hinges on proving real-world utility

It's standard for workplace printers to log certain information, such as the names of files they print and the users who printed them. In an apparent attempt to avoid detection, Perez-Lugones, according to the affidavit, took screenshots of classified materials, cropped the screenshots, and pasted them into a Microsoft Word document

At Davos 2026, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and Blackrock CEO Larry Fink wave away AI bubble concerns.

Jan 21 (Reuters) - Eightfold AI, a venture capital-backed artificial intelligence hiring platform used by Microsoft, PayPal and many other Fortune 500 companies, is being sued in California for allegedly compiling reports used to screen job applicants without their knowledge

Xbox app debuts on Arm PCs as Microsoft boasts that over 85% of Game Pass titles now work with Arm CPUs

Get Microsoft Office Pro 2021 and Windows 11 Pro together for a one-time $39.97 payment.

Microsoft has announced that the Xbox app is now available on all Arm-based Windows 11 PCs

Eightfold AI, a venture capital-backed AI hiring platform used by Microsoft, PayPal and many other Fortune 500 companies, is being sued in California for allegedly compiling reports used to screen job applicants without their knowledge

If we need giant data centers to generate Garfield memes or whatever, I'd rather them in space. Microsoft's latest AI data center in Wisconsin takes up 325 acres

Contagious Interview keeps evolving, as Lazarus hacker now abuse Microsoft Visual Studio Code, too

Microsoft has announced some solid additions to Game Pass this month, ranging from AAA titles to indies, including some of our favorites from 2024 and 2025

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discusses AI's wider impact and what it needs to do to not be a bubble

January update is the gift that keeps on giving Microsoft's January Windows update has delivered another blow for unsuspecting users apps including Outlook might freeze when saving files to cloud storage services such as OneDrive or Dropbox.

Microsoft might have fixed that bug with shutdowns, but its latest Windows 11 update means sleep mode now locks up some PCs

Ownership of models, embedded corporate knowledge matters more than server location, Nadella says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says datacenter location is "the least important thing" for AI sovereignty.

We tested dozens of laptops to find the best for every budget. That includes the M4 Apple MacBook Air and Microsoft Surface Laptop 7.

Energy costs will be key to deciding which country wins the AI race, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said

There have been rumors about Microsoft working on a free, ad-supported tier for its Xbox Cloud Gaming service, and now we have solid proof coming straight from Microsoft

Jan 20 (Reuters) - Bristol Myers Squibb said on Tuesday it had signed an agreement with Microsoft to use the tech company's AI-enabled radiology platform to help speed up early detection of lung cancer

Part of a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of abandoning its non-profit status claims Musk is owed anywhere from $79 billion to $134 billion in damages for the wrongful gains of OpenAI and Microsoft

Hold down Shift to make the magic happen (or not, as the case might be) Microsoft's Raymond Chen has explained why holding down Shift during a Windows 95 restart would get the system up and running again far faster than a full reboot