3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (537+ words) Nscale accounts for nearly two-thirds of the equity funding raised by UK datacenter infrastructure companies, according to a report from Tracxn. The market research firm identifies the rent-a-GPU operation as the only unicorn – a privately held company valued at more…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (470+ words) Fears of an AI takeover remain unfounded after Microsoft demonstrated that Copilot can sometimes struggle to remain upright, let alone march over the remnants of humanity. The copilot.microsoft.com website fell over for an hour and 40 minutes overnight, returning…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (615+ words) Microsoft has found another use for AI: providing an off-ramp for Salesforce customers. The software giant on Wednesday gave the world “Dynamics 365 Activate,” software that executive veep for Apps and Agents Jeff Teper described as “a comprehensive, AI-powered tool that…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (529+ words) Zero-day researcher Nightmare Eclipse, aka MSNightmare, published yet another Microsoft Defender proof-of-concept exploit for a zero-day dubbed ShieldCrash, which they claim will allow attackers to bypass the earlier ShieldBreak patch and read files as SYSTEM. “I might rework this later…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (518+ words) Office 2021 joins the October retirement list as customers weigh pricier alternatives Microsoft will retire Project Online and remove Publisher from Microsoft 365 over the coming weeks, while support for perpetual versions of Publisher and for Office 2021 will end shortly afterward. Publisher,…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (600+ words) A few weeks back we spotted Microsoft’s Exchange team admitting that AI has found so many bugs it hasn’t found time to deliver a Cumulative Update for the messaging server. And on Tuesday, the Microsoft Edge team revealed it’s also…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (491+ words) Paris-based AI darling Mistral has raised €3 billion in Series D funding, giving it a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion. That makes it a minnow compared with OpenAI, but Mistral says it is the largest equity fundraising round ever completed…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (625+ words) A Microsoft 365 phishing operation targeting hundreds of organizations captured thousands of passwords and session cookies, including hundreds of authenticated sessions that could be hijacked to bypass MFA, according to researchers who accessed the crooks' own admin panel. Security researchers at…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (589+ words) The European Commission (EC) may be laying the groundwork for an investigation into Oracle's software licensing practices, according to reports. The scrutiny follows the EC's investigation into fellow enterprise software vendor SAP, which ended with the Commission accepting legally binding…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (537+ words) Microsoft is retiring Word's Similarity Checker on October 3 and stripping the feature from Microsoft Editor. Other writing and editing tools, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, won't be affected. But if an organization uses Similarity Checker as part of its workflow, it's time…...