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Redmond Wa, in a major win against global cybercrime, Microsoft announced that it has dismantled the Lumma Stealer malware infrastructure, with support from international law enforcement and key tech industry partners. The malware infected over 394,000 Windows computers across the globe between March 16 and May 16, according to Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU).
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Ridgewood NJ, Thousands of Microsoft 365 users experienced service disruptions on Saturday, with many reporting issues accessing Outlook and other Microsoft applications.
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Ridgewood NJ, Microsoft has officially announced that it will retire Skype in May, marking the end of an era for the once-dominant video-calling platform. The company is shifting its focus to Microsoft Teams, which has become the preferred communication tool for businesses and organizations.
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Ridgewood NJ, Microsoft has introduced Majorana 1, its first-ever quantum computing chip, powered by topological qubits—a revolutionary state of matter that some scientists previously believed impossible to harness for computing applications.
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Ridgewood NJ, The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has set its sights on Microsoft in a new antitrust investigation, signaling growing scrutiny of the tech giant’s practices in cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), and cybersecurity.
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Ridgewood NJ, in a bold move to meet the skyrocketing energy demands of its data centers and AI projects, Amazon has announced a $500 million investment in nuclear power. This comes hot on the heels of Google’s own plans to buy nuclear energy and Microsoft’s decision to reopen the infamous Three Mile Island plant to fuel its artificial intelligence efforts.
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Ridgewood NJ, the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania, infamous for the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history, is set to restart by early 2028. The undamaged reactor from the plant will soon be back online, fueling the ever-expanding energy needs of artificial intelligence. This revival is made possible by a 20-year power-purchasing agreement between Microsoft and Constellation Energy, aimed at supporting the tech giant’s growing AI operations.
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Ridgewood NJ, first it was AT&T, then Meta ,now LinkedIn goes down. LinkedIn, the professional networking platform, encountered technical difficulties this week, joining a list of internet sites facing similar issues.
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Ridgewood NJ, much like the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” a science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick, released in 1968. The film follows a voyage to Jupiter with the sentient computer HAL after the discovery of a mysterious monolith on the Moon. It explores themes of evolution, artificial intelligence, and the potential consequences of human advancement.
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The New York Times filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, seeking damages estimated to be in the billions, marking the first major legal action of its kind against these entities. The lawsuit alleges that Microsoft and OpenAI utilized the newspaper’s articles to train artificial intelligence chatbots without obtaining proper permission.
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Ridgewood NJ, given the numerous regulatory enforcement cases being brought against or contemplated for technology giants, it appears that the Biden administration has declared war on Silicon Valley. Now the long anticipated trial of the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against Google, which began last Tuesday.
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Ridgewood NJ, file this under what could possibly go wrong with this , several companies, including Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI, have committed to certain safeguards for their technology until Congress passes legislation to regulate AI. Officials want to make sure that the technology is developed responsibly and in a way that benefits society without negatively impacting the safety, rights, and democratic values of the public. The tech firms have agreed to eight measures, including letting independent experts test models for bad behavior, investing in cybersecurity, flagging societal risks, and watermarking AI-generated audio and visual content.
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Ridgewood NJ, Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced an experimental conversational AI service called Bard. The ChatGPT competitor can answer users’ queries and take part in conversations. It is now available to a group of trusted testers and will be released more widely in the coming weeks. Bard will draw on information from the web to provide high-quality responses.
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Ridgewood NJ, ChatGPT is quickly going mainstream now that Microsoft, which recently invested billions of dollars in the company behind the chatbot, OpenAI ,is working to incorporate it into its popular office software and selling access to the tool to other businesses. The surge of attention around ChatGPT is prompting pressure inside tech giants including Meta and Google to move faster, potentially sweeping safety concerns aside, Big Tech was moving cautiously on AI. Then came ChatGPT .
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Ridgewood NJ, Microsoft announced yesterday it is expanding its partnership with OpenAI, the start-up behind the viral ChatGPT chatbot (see overview), with a multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment. Specific financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but reports say Microsoft is expected to invest $10B, in addition to the $3B it has already invested since 2019.
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