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Britain's market watchdog criticized for not creating the conditions for competition to thrive
agrupados por: tech · think
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Microsoft released the KB5120998 preview cumulative update for Windows 11 versions 25H2 and 24H2, which comes with 35 changes, including improvements to the Start menu, taskbar, and Windows search. [...]
agrupados por: fixes · released
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Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It's the latest in a string of loans, underscoring the high cost of the AI boom.
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Teams question detection bot postpones debut, will get 2-month extension to practice interrupting you
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Same servicing branch as 24H2 and 25H2... and the same buggy updates
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Microsoft veteran recalls how a CPU errata, a mythical ICE, and a single sneaky NOP saved Clippy's big debut
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Fraudsters are exploiting enterprise chat apps like Teams and Webex to trick Chinese victims into transferring large sums of money, fueling a wave of complaints.
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On this week’s show special guest co-host Andy Boyd joins Patrick Gray and James Wilson to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. Andy is the CEO of REDLattice, which makes the Paragon “intelligence collection and reconnaissance” solution.
They cover:
Adversaries are tracking US troop locations…
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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of 18 Google Chrome and one Microsoft Edge extensions that were published over the last six months and harbored wallet secret stealing and cryptocurrency draining capabilities.
The extensions, per Socket security researcher Karlo Zanki, share sim…
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Even if the AI investment boom turns out to have been a bubble, the Big Tech companies that have cornered the cloud infrastructure market will emerge as strong as ever, or even stronger. That is why Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are in a league of their own, even compared to other giants like Meta a…
agrupados por: gold · rush · wins
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TASS
Russia’s Pomoshnikov wins gold at 2026 World Aquatics Junior Diving Championships
Tue, 25 Aug 2026
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MIT Tech Review
The Download: polycrisis support networks and a hydrogen gold rush
Thu, 20 Aug 2026
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Why investing for the long run, especially if you buy certain popular stocks, could reap huge rewards.
agrupados por: today · here
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and more than 100 other companies warned Thursday that the organizations now only have months to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks. Why it matters: Hospitals, water treatment plants and other critical infrastructure will face a swarm of hacking thr…
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Version
26.8 of the LibreOffice suite has been released.
LibreOffice 26.8 concentrates on three areas: the typographic quality of what
the suite produces, the range of writing systems it handles correctly, and the
fidelity with which documents survive exchange with other office suites.
The largest …
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and others say there’s a narrow “defenders’ window” to strengthen security before AI-powered attacks become more sophisticated.
The post 100-plus companies call for ‘global surge’ in AI-powered cyber defense appeared first on CyberScoop.
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Users have a little more time to migrate from Azure storage to OneDrive
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AI at Work roadmap is the new name for upcoming Microsoft 365 capabilities
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Bill Gates is likely to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping later this year as the Microsoft co-founder seeks to rally support for global cooperation on artificial intelligence (AI) risks.
A meeting may take place in November, Reuters reported on Wednesday citing a Gates spokesman. Xi last met his “ol…
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Free courses coordinated by the Hong Kong government will leverage the expertise of tech giants such as Google and Microsoft to help boost the adoption of AI by businesses for content creation, data analysis and workflow efficiency.
The Hong Kong Productivity Council on Thursday announced the launch…
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Nothing is driving more new U.S. economic investment or political volatility than data centers.Why it matters: They're the Great Subplot of 2026, THE topic animating the AI race and elections. Everyone needs to understand the size, scope and sentiment surrounding them.The big picture: It's almost im…
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Alibaba pushes into South America’s AI market with launch of Brazil data centres
Thu, 27 Aug 2026
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The Fourth Appeals Court in Nizhny Novgorod has overturned a Samara Regional Court ruling that removed Mikhail Matveyev, a Communist Party (KPRF) candidate and sitting State Duma deputy, from the ballot in Russia’s parliamentary elections.
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The U.S. government on Wednesday warned of an "active threat" targeting critical infrastructure organizations in the country using artificial intelligence (AI)-generated exploit scripts.
The activity is targeting Siemens S7 SeriesProgrammable Logic Controllers (PLCs) to conduct reconnaissance and c…
agrupados por: plcs · siemens · target
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Risky Business #850 -- Widespread AI-enabled attacks target Siemens PLCs
Wed, 26 Aug 2026
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The adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing service lowers the barrier to entry for actors to create attacks and steal more than just user credentials.
agrupados por: microsoft · novacookies · sessions
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The Hacker News
NovaCookies Campaigns Abuse Genuine Docusign Notifications to Steal Microsoft 365 Sessions
Wed, 26 Aug 2026
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Attackers are now targeting a chain of two Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities that can allow them to execute arbitrary code on unpatched servers, according to threat intelligence company Defused. [...]
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Microsoft has started rolling out a permanent fix for a known issue that causes system crashes and gaming issues on Windows 11 devices. [...]
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Article URL: https://slate.com/technology/2026/08/microsoft-software-nonprofit-data-delete.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49411395
Points: 296
# Comments: 154
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TRACE was developed by AMD, Intel, Microsoft, OPAQUE, and TII and contributed to the Linux Foundation.
The post Linux Foundation to Govern TRACE, an Open Standard for AI Runtime Attestation appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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Privacy? Not if you use hosted AI services
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Microsoft has confirmed that .NET Framework updates released as part of the August 2026 Patch Tuesday are breaking printing and PDF export in WPF applications. [...]
agrupados por: microsoft · printing
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Current Exchange connector is retiring - and new ones won't work if you don't upgrade
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StreamSkill has combined seven of their best Office 2021/365 courses to create this awesome Ultimate Microsoft Office 2021/365 Bundle. Whether you’re a student, an office professional, a business owner, a freelancer, or just someone who wants to get started with the most widely used Microsoft progra…
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Thousands of companies have been affected by the Mirage2FA campaign from 2024 to 2026. The commercial phishing-as-a-service toolkit targets Microsoft 365 accounts by abusing legitimate login flows and bypassing two-factor authentication.
According to ANY.RUN research, 48% of targeted email addresse…
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Microsoft updated its Windows PowerToys toolset with a new utility dubbed "Window Hopper" that lets users switch between an app's windows more quickly. [...]
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Vendors are moving way beyond Nvidia’s GPUs in the datacenter
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Microsoft has shared a temporary fix for ongoing gaming issues caused by Windows 11 updates released during the August 2026 Patch Tuesday. [...]
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Microsoft is rolling out a new Teams meeting protection policy that allows administrators to automatically block all identified external bots from joining Teams meetings. [...]
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Red Tetris stickers and shirtless Windows 95 tots - accidental collectibles gathering dust
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In response to a high-profile GTA 6 leak, Take-Two has requested broad DMCA subpoenas, targeting thousands of Discord users, as well as Microsoft data. The crackdown doesn't stop there. With two additional DMCA subpoenas, the gaming company expanded its information search to X and YouTube. Some of t…
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There is a changing of the guard with Linux 7.3 as the maintainer of the Common Internet File System (CIFS) / SMB3 code within the Linux kernel. Longtime maintainer, principal Linux CIFS author, and current Microsoft employee Steve French has stepped down due to health reasons...
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Update: The story was updated after publication to note that the vulnerability has not been exploited.
Although the security bulletin originally marked the "Exploited" field under the Exploitability Assessment table as "Yes," on August 21, 2026, Microsoft corrected the "Exploited" status to "No" af…
agrupados por: microsoft · entra · patches · code · execution · flaw
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Microsoft patches max severity code execution, privilege escalation flaws
Fri, 21 Aug 2026
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Microsoft sounds alarm as perfect-10 Entra ID flaw comes under attack
Fri, 21 Aug 2026
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Functionality not all there yet, but at least Redmond's latest and greatest appears a bit more like its predecessor
agrupados por: classic · microsoft · outlook
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Microsoft rolls out Classic Outlook theme for New Outlook users
Fri, 21 Aug 2026
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Former Microsoft manager Holly Alpine explains why AI's climate danger isn't just data centres but also its unchecked use across the fossil fuel industry
The post “Dangerous consequences” – how AI’s climate framing lets Big Tech off the hook appeared first on Climate Home News.
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Check Point Research has disclosed a technique that uses Microsoft Defender's own legitimately signed boot-time remediation driver to perform arbitrary kernel-level file and registry operations on Windows systems ranging from Windows 7 through Windows 11 25H2, with no software flaw exploited and no …
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The Python-based malware framework takes living-off-the-land tactics to a new heights of stealth, with a modular implant that steals credentials and achieves persistence.
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A previously unknown malware family dubbed SynkLoader is being distributed in Microsoft Teams phishing campaigns to steal credentials via a fake lock screen. [...]
agrupados por: campaign · malware
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Microsoft says ongoing issues causing games to crash or fail to launch after installing the August 2026 Windows updates may be caused by peripherals with RGB lighting. [...]
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On this week’s show Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:
Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 get nuked by the US government four days after launch “because security”
Why “guardrails” won’t keep the world safe from your AI doomsday machine
…
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While Microsoft continues working on Azure Linux 4.0 as its overhauled Linux distribution built atop Fedora, Azure Linux 3.0 remains the current stable production series. Released overnight was Azure Linux 3.0.20260809 and it comes with more than 233 security patches for recent CVEs in the AI era...
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SPONSORED FEATURE: Your M365 and Azure data might not be as safe as you think from ransomware; time for a reality check
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Consumer and work experiences converge, while a few features face the chop
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Copilot's gurning blob is leaving Voice for a new career in education
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On this week’s show special guest co-host Chris Krebs joins Patrick Gray and James Wilson to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:
Oopsie daisy! OpenAI agents went rogue and hacked Hugging Face
US and China trade AI model ban threats
Iran has been using SS7 queries to locate and…
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On this week’s show Patrick Gray, and James Wilson are joined by bearded man of leisure Adam Boileau to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
Accidental AI agent hacking sprees have the world’s media freaking out, but we think it’s all pretty funny
The bugpocalypse is so chaotic, M…
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Microsoft has disclosed that Storm-1175, a financially motivated threat actor linked to China, has deployed a previously undocumented ransomware strain called StormEncryptor.
The use of StormEncryptor marks a shift from the adversary's previous use of Medusa ransomware, the Microsoft Threat Intelli…
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Windows Plug and Play can be abused to fetch signed vendor software for an emulated USB device and execute privileged installation components that researchers chained to SYSTEM access on a fully updated Windows 11 machine.
The same PnP path can be triggered over Remote Desktop without physical hard…
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The ransomware group known as DeadLock has been observed using decentralized infrastructure to facilitate victim communications and data leak operations in a bid to improve operational resilience.
"Its recovery ecosystem combines the Session messaging network with blockchain-backed services that st…
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Security researchers found a way to enter Microsoft SharePoint servers as any user, including an administrator, with no valid account. A significant part of the work that found it was done through an AI agent.
The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-55040 (CVSS 9.1), affects SharePoint Server Subscription Ed…
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Microsoft released its monthly security updates on Tuesday, and one of the flaws it closed is already being used in attacks.
The bug sits in a core Windows kernel driver that handles network socket operations. An attacker with code already running on a machine can use it to escalate to SYSTEM. That…
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The security researcher going by the name Chaotic Eclipse (aka INFINITE NIGHTMARE, MSNightmare, and Nightmare-Eclipse) has released a proof-of-concept (PoC) for a new Microsoft zero-day called ShieldBreak.
The vulnerability, rooted in Microsoft Defender for Windows, demonstrates a patch bypass for …
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The North Korean threat actor known as Lazarus Group has been attributed to the zero-day exploitation of a newly patched security flaw impacting Microsoft Windows to deliver a never-before-seen backdoor targeting defense and aerospace companies across France, Germany, Brazil, and India.
The activit…
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Threat actors have begun to exploit a newly disclosed Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability following the release of a proof-of-concept (PoC) code.
The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-55040 (CVSS score: 9.1), which refers to a critical security feature bypass that stems from weak authentication.…
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The most concerning bug in the batch is CVE-2026-62878 (CVSS: 9.8), a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Windows DNS Server that requires no user interaction.
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Microsoft has released security patches to address a Windows zero-day vulnerability known as "LegacyHive," disclosed after the July 2026 Patch Tuesday. [...]
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Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant fixed in its record-smashing Patch Tuesday release last month. Microsoft attributed the burgeoning p…
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Microsoft today released updates to remedy at least 398 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including one weakness that is already being actively exploited and two others that were publicly detailed prior to today.
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The company produced 34 million metric tons of CO₂ equivalent last year, putting its 2030 carbon-negative pledge under pressure
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After years of touting ambitious climate goals, big tech companies are now facing new scrutiny over what they disclose about AI's environmental footprint.Why it matters: The AI boom is turning a handful of tech companies into defining players in the debate over electricity and water use. Their willi…
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The attackers call victims to direct them to phishing websites mirroring Microsoft Entra ID login pages.
The post Okta Warns of Vishing Attacks Targeting Microsoft 365 Customers appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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OpenAI's new family of models will continue to power Microsoft's suite of workplace and productivity apps.
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One in four long-form social media posts appear entirely AI-generated, with nearly half of those on Microsoft's and Elon's platforms involving AI in some form
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More patches mean more reasons to buy Redmond’s auto-patching tools
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Firm faces quandary of wanting to help the environment, but also wanting to force AI on everyone
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Microsoft says GigaWiper combines at least 3 malware families into one modular tool
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The long-rumored layoffs at Xbox have come and they are massive. We just recently discussed the mess that Microsoft’s Xbox division has become. An internal email that was sent to staff by CEO Asha Sharma laid out just how bad things were, essentially preparing the staff for the forthcoming staffing …
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Data centers are driving up the company’s use of electricity—and carbon pollution.
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A threat actor has been targeting organizations spanning multiple sectors with voice-based fake security requests that prompt Microsoft 365 users to enroll a new Entra passkey with an aim to carry out data extortion attacks.
The threat actor, tracked by Okta under the moniker O-UNC-066, has deploye…
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The researcher known as "Nightmare-Eclipse" published a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for the Windows Defender vulnerability in early June after dropping several other Microsoft zero-days.
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Organizations, and possibly ATMs, are at risk of compromise, thanks to holes in a Microsoft BitLocker security wrapper.
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Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-7-0/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48833715
Points: 691
# Comments: 288
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Data visualizations are the bridge between user and data.But building AI agents that can generate visualizations reliably can be very tricky:- simple chart specs can be reliable, but generated charts are often of low quality due to reliance on system defaults;
- complex chart specs with explicit de…
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Microsoft's latest environmental report shows the growing tension between its race to build AI infrastructure and its long-standing climate commitments.Why it matters: The report mirrors recent disclosures from Google and Amazon, whose emissions and resource use have also climbed alongside AI growth…
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The newest, unexpected addition to the Mesa codebase by Microsoft engineers is contributed accelerated AV1 video encoding on the GPU using a combination of DirectX 12 and the Hardware Media Foundation Transform (HMFT) support that is part of the Windows Media Foundation layer...
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The privilege escalation vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-50656 has been patched with a Microsoft Malware Protection Engine update.
The post Microsoft Patches Defender ‘RoguePlanet’ Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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Previously did it twice a year, so customers now have fewer chances to surf FX waves
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Nobody needs a simple web client for Exchange, do they?
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Weeks after the exploit code dropped, Redmond has finally ships a fix for the Defender zero-day
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With pricing in flux and new models available, here’s which Surface Laptop and Surface Pro to buy.
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On this week’s show special guest co-host Chris Wade, the founder of Corellium turned Cellebrite CTO, joins Patrick Gray and James Wilson to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news.
They cover:
Microsoft has repos owned, GitHub tokens popped, and a new 0day dropped on them
Meanwhile, researcher…
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U.S. prosecutors linked an alleged Scattered Spider hacker to a break-in at a luxury jewelry retailer using a persistent Windows device ID, according to a newly unsealed federal complaint.
Microsoft records tied that ID first to the account the attackers used to keep access during the May 2025 intr…
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A Microsoft 365 device code phishing campaign has been observed leveraging collaboration-themed lures to take control of victim accounts between the last week of June 2026 and into early July, per findings from ZeroBEC.
"The campaign did not depend on a fake Microsoft password page. It used a malic…
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A recent EvilTokens campaign targeting businesses across the US and Europe is exposing a new email security blind spot. This “ghost phishing” technique keeps the malicious page hidden until it decrypts and comes to life inside the victim’s browser.
For security leaders, the risk is clear: tradition…
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Microsoft has released security updates for a Defender vulnerability known as RoguePlanet, nearly a month after details of the flaw became public.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-50656 (CVSS score: 7.8), is a privilege escalation issue in the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine ("mpengine.dl…
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GitHub has officially announced the release of npm version 12 with install scripts disabled by default, along with deprecating granular access tokens (GATs) designed to bypass two-factor authentication (2FA).
The Microsoft-owned subsidiary noted that the following npm install behaviors that used to…
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Microsoft has taken apart a destructive Windows backdoor it calls GigaWiper. What stands out is how it is built: not one tool but three older destructive programs bolted into one, offered as commands the operator can choose from.
Each is a different way to break a machine: wipe the whole disk, over…
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Microsoft signed a malicious kernel driver, and now it's being used to kill security software in ransomware attacks.
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A threat actor has been targeting organizations across multiple sectors with voice-based fake security requests that ask Microsoft 365 users to enroll a new Entra passkey. [...]
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Microsoft has released a security patch to address a Defender zero-day vulnerability known as "RoguePlanet," disclosed after the June 2026 Patch Tuesday. [...]
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Microsoft has announced plans to disable Outlook Web Access (OWA) Light, the lightweight version of the Outlook Web App email client, in a future Exchange Server update. [...]
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A new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) operation called Forg365 focuses on stealing Microsoft 365 accounts by combining adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) and device code methods with AI-assisted lure generation. [...]
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Microsoft says Windows users should expect to see an increase in security updates as the company increasingly relies on artificial intelligence to discover vulnerabilities in its codebase. [...]
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Microsoft today released software updates to plug nearly 200 security holes across its Windows operating systems and supported software, a record number of fixes for the company's monthly Patch Tuesday cycle. Nearly three dozen of those bugs earned Microsoft's most dire "critical" rating, and exploi…
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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma said the division's business "is not healthy" and will cut roughly 20% of its staff through fiscal year 2027
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Article URL: https://github.com/iOfficeAI/OfficeCLI
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48807225
Points: 57
# Comments: 11
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With the AMD Ryzen AI Halo developer platform there is the option of ordering this Ryzen AI Max+ mini PC with either Microsoft Windows 11 or "Linux OS". When receiving a AMD Ryzen AI Halo review sample last month, I fully expected it to just be an Ubuntu LTS install with ROCm preloaded. I was quite …
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Microsoft cut around 4,800 roles, or 2.1% of its global workforce, on Monday — the latest in a series of layoffs that’s stoking fears of AI replacing jobs. The layoffs will hit Xbox and commercial sales the hardest.
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Xbox chief says company can't afford to mistake longevity for inevitability