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[Link] Researchers Find Vulnerability in Software Underlying Discord, Microsoft Teams, and Other Apps
Read: 12/8/2022 www.vice.com
In all these cases, the researchers submitted vulnerabilities to Electron to get them fixed, which earned them more than $10,000 in rewards. The bugs were fixed before the researchers published their research.
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[Link] New lawsuit calls Kotick’s handling of Activision-Microsoft merger “inexcusable”
Read: 6/5/2022 arstechnica.com
The Activision-Blizzard shareholders' response to a whirlwind of news over the past year—which include disturbing, company-wide allegations of sexual harassment and pay disparity, followed by a $68.
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[Link] Report: SEC investigating Activision Blizzard investors for insider trading
Read: 9/3/2022 arstechnica.com
The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating three investors for alleged massive insider trading just ahead of Microsoft's January announcement of merger plans with Activision Blizzard, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
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[Link] Microsoft rolls out revamped Notepad app to Windows 11 Insiders
Read: 9/12/2021 arstechnica.com
Microsoft is continuing to update and refine Windows 11 two months after its public release, and the Notepad app is the latest bit of the operating system to get some attention.
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[Link] Meet M6 — 10 Trillion Parameters at 1% GPT-3’s Energy Cost
Read: 14/11/2021 towardsdatascience.com
On June 25, Alibaba DAMO Academy (the R&D branch of Alibaba) announced they had built M6, a large multimodal, multitasking language model with 1 trillion parameters — already 5x GPT-3’s size, which serves as the standard to measure the rate of progress for large AI models.
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[Link] The latest Surface is a $250 laptop that takes a swing at cheap Chromebooks
Read: 10/11/2021 arstechnica.com
Microsoft's next Surface device is the company's latest and most direct attempt to compete with Chromebooks in schools. The $250 Surface Laptop SE is a low-end, 11.6-inch laptop made for basic browsing, document editing, and remote learning.
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[Link] Why I Use Microsoft Edge on Android
Read: 25/10/2021 www.howtogeek.com
Microsoft Edge started life on Windows 10, but it’s now available on several platforms, including Android. Chrome is the default browser on most Android devices, but I’m here to tell you Edge is just as good—if not better.
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[Link] Microsoft angers the .NET open source community with a controversial decision
Read: 25/10/2021 www.theverge.com
Microsoft has spent the past 10 years embracing open-source software and, at several points, even admitting it loves Linux and the open source community.
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[Link] Bill Gates reportedly advised to end inappropriate emails with female employee in 2008
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Bill Gates was allegedly advised in 2008 by executives at the company to halt inappropriate communication with a female employee, according to a new report.
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[Link] Discord funding round values it at an eye-popping $15 billion
Read: 16/9/2021 www.pcgamer.com
Discord is so hot right now.
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[Link] Ireland fails to enforce EU law against Big Tech
Read: 14/9/2021 arstechnica.com
Ireland is failing to apply the EU’s privacy laws to US Big Tech companies, with 98 percent of 164 significant complaints about privacy abuses still unresolved by its regulator.
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[Link] Microsoft Edge feature solves one of the most common browser problems
Read: 22/8/2021 www.techradar.com
Microsoft is reportedly working on a new feature in Microsoft Edge that will allow users of its browser to search through their currently opened tabs.
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[Link] New phishing campaign uses Morse code to bypass security controls
Read: 15/8/2021 www.itpro.co.uk
Hackers used Morse code to evade detection in a year-long phishing campaign, according to Microsoft researchers. Researchers said the campaign, first spotted in July 2020, targeted Office 365 users and attempted to get them to hand over credentials using targeted, invoice-themed XLS.
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[Link] People are chatting through your Microsoft Teams call? It's probably a good sign
Read: 15/8/2021 www.zdnet.com
If you've ever found yourself more interested in the chat than the presentation while on a Microsoft Teams video meeting, you're not alone. In fact, most of the people inside Microsoft are doing exactly the same thing, and they like it.
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[Link] A Microsoft researcher has harsh words for, oh, Microsoft technology
Read: 9/8/2021 www.zdnet.com
I don't know about this freedom of speech thing. Especially when it comes to companies. Employees can often seem like mouthpieces for the corporate cause, carefully sidestepping inconveniences such as truth.
[Link] All your DNS were belong to us: AWS and Google Cloud shut down spying vulnerability
Read: 9/8/2021 www.theregister.com
Until February this year, Amazon Route53's DNS service offered largely unappreciated network eavesdropping capabilities. And this undocumented spying option was also available at Google Cloud DNS and at least one other DNS-as-a-service provider.
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[Link] Bill Gates Is Very Sorry He Partied With Jeffrey Epstein
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
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[Link] How one game’s delisting pokes a hole in the Xbox Game Pass promise
Read: 31/7/2021 arstechnica.com
Microsoft has long boasted about the backward compatibility of its Xbox consoles, letting you play hundreds of past-gen games on newer systems like the Series X/S.
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[Link] Feds list the top 30 most exploited vulnerabilities. Many are years old
Read: 31/7/2021 arstechnica.com
Government officials in the US, UK, and Australia are urging public- and private-sector organizations to secure their networks by ensuring firewalls, VPNs, and other network-perimeter devices are patched against the most widespread exploits.
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[Link] Halo Infinite's first multiplayer technical preview starts tomorrow
Read: 31/7/2021 www.rockpapershotgun.com
With its launch planned for the end of this year, Halo Infinite is now just about to put some Spartan boots on the ground. As we found out last weekend, 343 Industries are planning a technical test for parts of Infinite's free-to-play multiplayer.
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[Link] Microsoft's new 'power app converging model' hits public preview with Custom Pages
Read: 30/7/2021 www.theregister.com
Microsoft's Custom Pages, an effort to converge its two different low-code Power App platforms, are now in public preview - though it is more hybrid than truly converged.
[Link] NPM is Now Providing Malware – or was until recently
Read: 30/7/2021 www.theregister.com
Another malicious library has been spotted in the JavaScript-oriented NPM registry, underscoring the continued fragility of today's software supply chain.
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[Link] Facebook and tech giants to target attacker manifestos, far-right militias in database
Read: 28/7/2021 www.reuters.com
July 26 (Reuters) - A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook (FB.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.
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[Link] Microsoft should just admit defeat and give Windows 10 product keys away for free
Read: 19/4/2021 www.techradar.com
When was the last time you had to enter in your Windows 10 product key? This thought struck me earlier this week when we were talking about building and upgrading PCs.
[Link] Pretending to be Pixar in 3D Movie Maker, Microsoft's weird 1995 animation studio for kids
Read: 9/4/2021 www.pcgamer.com
This article first appeared in PC Gamer magazine issue 354 in March 2021. Every month we run exclusive features exploring the world of PC gaming—from behind-the-scenes previews, to incredible community stories, to fascinating interviews, and more.
[Link] Users Upset as Raspberry Pi OS Now Pings a Microsoft Server During Updates
Read: 10/2/2021 www.pcmag.com
The change was made without warning and potentially allows Microsoft to identify Raspberry Pi users.