Microsoft reported better-than-expected results driven by 48% growth in Azure revenue.

Shares of CoreWeave, Nebius and IREN fell as Microsoft's lower-than-expected capex figure points to infrastructure partners taking longer to deliver capacity.

Greenhouse gas output has risen dramatically since the company promised to become carbon-negative by 2030

Earnings from Alphabet and Microsoft will give another pulse check on AI

Fake IT support pushes victims into granting hands-on access via remote management tools.

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26, from OKXICE, the two firms' joint venture. They join earlier objectors including Microsoft, Alphabet, Goldman Sachs, Cisco and Wells Fargo

Last year, a representative of the UEFI Forum called (PDF) EDK2 the "preeminent solution / implementation of the UEFI specifications." Virtually all UEFI suppliers (sometimes still called IBVs or independent BIOS vendors), including AMI, Insyde, and Phoenix, use the reference code extensively. Project Mu, Microsoft's hardened EDK2 fork, used the code containing the vulnerable component as well

An RCE flaw was found in Brotli, a Google-built open source data compression algorithm.

Microsoft is giving around 60,000 employees the choice to voluntarily leave the company.

Revenue up, operating profit up, 30 million paid Copilot seats locked in, 88 DCs added, $43.8 billion returned to shareholders

Authenticator was granting session tokens left and right, but the bug has now been fixed.

Did you hear the one about eMudhra and the power of 4? Time to get connected to certificate trust list updates

'This is the kind of stuff that pushed me to Linux': Microsoft has abandoned a trick to promote Bing that many Windows 11 users hated.

Microsoft has begun testing the option to enable Intel's Advanced Performance Extensions, or APX, which will bring a performance boost to some apps although no chips with APX support are available as yet.

Having spent billions on AI infrastructure, Microsoft now wants to trim its headcount.

Denmark's Ministry of Digitization reportedly abandoned a pilot to replace Microsoft Office with the open-source Collabora suite less than six months after it began

Microsoft is offering buyouts to around 60,000 members of its workforce as it looks to balance the books amid a ramp-up in AI data center spending.

Microsoft said on Monday that it is offering voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees, or more than a quarter of its global workforce, as the technology giant looks to contain costs and help fund its massive AI investments.

Microsoft menawarkan skim berhenti secara sukarela kepada sekitar 60,000 kakitangan semalam dengan ia dilihat sebagai langkah mengawal kos operasi untuk membiayai pelaburan besar syarikat dalam infrastruktur dan teknologi AI

Microsoft is trying to balance a rapid AI infrastructure build-out with capital efficiency.

Voluntary exit offer extended to about one-quarter of existing Softies

Buyout now or layoff later?

Redmond joins growing list of software maintainers scrambling to patch compression flaw

That's over a quarter of the company's global workforce.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Seattle Times: Microsoft is offering buyouts to about 60,000 employees, or roughly a quarter of its workforce, as the company tries to control its head count while avoiding layoffs

[...] The company plans to spend at least $110 billion with Amazon for cloud services through April 2036 and another $120 billion with SpaceX through 2029. Anthropic also said it planned to spend $115 billion with Google and $45 billion with Microsoft, both through 2033, for computing infrastructure

Microsoft Teams is adding AI-powered phishing detection to help keep you safe from threats.

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The Danish digitization ministry experimented with Collabora as an alternative to Microsoft Office, but employees who used them were frequently frustrated with style and paragraph formatting challenges, among other complaints.

you need to understand whether agents can discover and use what you ship, and what your team can change." Results can vary, and configurations keep changing, with behaviors influenced by everything from custom instructions and MCP servers to skills and plugins. So after a year of development Microsoft has created Scope, "an open-source platform built on Kubernetes for turning those interactions into evidence product teams can act on." Details are available on..

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Crypto companies using permissionless tech still need permission when interacting with the real world.

Microsoft is reportedly planning to let subscribers build their own Game Pass bundle rather than pay for set tiers.

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Microsoft has revealed pay-as-you-go pricing for Xbox Cloud Gaming, with introductory packages costing $3.99 for 10 hours, $7.99 for 25 hours, or $11.99 for 50 hours

We compared the iPhone Duo with the Galaxy Z Fold 8, Z Fold 8 Ultra, Pixel 11 Pro Fold, iPad mini, and even old devices like the original Pixel Fold and Microsoft Surface Duo.

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Microsoft says China-aligned Storm-0940 used the ARTEX AI agent framework in the ConnectWise Cloud Backup supply chain attack.

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joshuark shares a report from BleepingComputer: Microsoft says it mistakenly flagged a bug causing Always On VPN connection issues as fixed in the October 2026 Windows 11 cumulative updates

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Microsoft plans to start testing the tool in a Boston hospital soon.

Microsofts joint op with the Japanese National Police Agency uncovered an illegal app store that provided fake websites, cybercrime tools, and even accounts to cybercriminals.

IT admins are stuck with temporary workarounds as the tech giant admits the bug was "mistakenly updated to Resolved status."

Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra with RTX Spark might not be a gaming laptop first and foremost, but it certainly wants to game

AI agents did the dirty work, with hackers gaining privileged access in some environments in under three hours

With pricing in flux and new models available, heres which Surface Laptop and Surface Pro to buy.

Perkhidmatan penstriman Xbox Cloud Gaming bukanlah sesuatu yang baru, tetapi sehingga kini, ia hanya ditawarkan melalui pelan langganan Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. Microsoft akan menawarkan perkhidmatan penstriman permainan video tersebut secara kendiri melalui langganan mengikut masa

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: We haven't heard many details about Microsoft's upcoming "Project Helix" gaming hardware since the company announced it in March as a device that will "play your Xbox and PC games." In a new wide-ranging profile of Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, though, Fortune alludes to a dual release strategy for upcoming Microsoft gaming hardware, with "a next-generation handheld device" planned by the end of next year and a 2028 holiday season console release that could cost between $1,200 and $1,800

OpenAI is bringing its models to Google Cloud's model garden and Antigravity coding tool, putting its technology on all three major U.S. cloud platforms after Microsoft's exclusive license ended earlier this year

An admission that 'AI has helped our design team' hasn't gone down well with some Windows 11 users.

OpenAI will now have its models on all three of the top clouds, giving corporate developers more choice.

Microsoft wants to help lead the way when it comes to getting your business up to speed on AI.

Microsoft is targeting a 2028 release for its next-gen Xbox, which could be incredibly expensive, according to details reported in a profile with Xbox's CEO.

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Microsoft keeps 'Ask Copilot' as dedicated actions disappear between mid-November and early December

A second Monarch building would deliver 460 megawatts of computing power using Nvidia's advanced Vera Rubin AI chips, according to the source. [...] According to the Nscale prospectus, Microsoft and Anthropic are expected to be the company's major customers in the future

Microsoft said that some Outlook users are experiencing connectivity issues due to a Windows Server security update.

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Microsoft has reportedly abandoned plans to serve as the anchor customer for Britain's largest proposed AI supercomputer after learning that the project's Essex data center might not receive sufficient grid power until the early to mid-2030s

Microsoft has launched a new enterprise cyber security suite under Microsoft 365 E7, introducing Project Perception and Agent 365 to tackle the growing issue of agentic insiders

Microsoft exits UK data center deal amid power delays

Concerns over power supply and revelations that development of Nscale Essex site has not started prompted Microsoft's withdrawal.

OWA borked and lengthy email queues reported on busy servers after Microsoft tweaks a Server default

Tech giant walks away from flagship Essex project as power connection delays threaten to leave nation's AI ambitions waiting until the 2030s

Windows 11 is getting another speed boost for apps it's for Edge first, but in the future Microsoft says any app can adopt it to speed up launches.

"That's not happening at this point...." NextEra Energy and Google are collaborating to restart Duane Arnold by early 2029... Microsoft has a contract with the Crane Clean Energy Center on Three Mile Island just outside Harrisburg

The CMA is considering giving Microsoft a Strategic Market Status designation in the UK here's what it could mean.

Microsoft is letting players digitize their game discs for free, but don't sell your physical collection just yet.

"Mozilla reps tell me they've met with Microsoft about their concerns," reports PC Magazine, "but that the company wasn't responsive." "They'll do the minimum the law requires to respect user choice," explains Kush Amlani, Mozilla's counsel overseeing global competition and regulatory work..

July: Nvidia-backed Nscale is building a 2bn data centre at Loughton in Essex, with Microsoft signed up as its anchor tenant

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"Even LinkedIn is getting tired of your AI-written posts," writes CNN, reporting that the Microsoft-owned, job-oriented social media site "is upping its fight against slop." A report published in July by Pangram, a research firm that tracks AI content online, found that more than 40% of long-form posts on the platform were AI-generated, compared to around 30% on X and Medium and a smaller percentage on Reddit and Substack...

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