Enlarge / A photo of the Ottawa Food Bank warehouse. Ottawa Food Bank reader comments 80 with Late last week, MSN.com’s Microsoft Travel section posted an AI-generated article about the “cannot miss” attractions of Ottawa that includes the Ottawa Food Bank, a real charitable organization that feeds struggling families. In its recommendation text, Microsoft’s AI… Read More »
Rockwell Automation reader comments 19 with On Friday, Microsoft disclosed 15 high-severity vulnerabilities in a widely used collection of tools used to program operational devices inside industrial facilities such as plants for power generation, factory automation, energy automation, and process automation. The company warned that while exploiting the code-execution and denial-of-service vulnerabilities was difficult, it… Read More »
Enlarge / Building with Microsoft logo. Getty Images reader comments 8 with It’s looking more and more likely that a critical zero-day vulnerability that went unfixed for more than a month in Microsoft Exchange was the cause of one of the UK’s biggest hacks ever—the breach of the country’s Electoral Commission, which exposed data for… Read More »
reader comments 13 with Microsoft has once again come under blistering criticism for the security practices of Azure and its other cloud offerings, with the CEO of security firm Tenable saying Microsoft is “grossly irresponsible” and mired in a “culture of toxic obfuscation.” The comments from Amit Yoran, chairman and CEO of Tenable, come six… Read More »
reader comments 10 with The summer patch cycle shows no signs of slowing down, with tech giants Apple, Google, and Microsoft releasing multiple updates to fix flaws being used in real-life attacks. July also saw serious bugs squashed by enterprise software firms SAP, Citrix, and Oracle. Here’s everything you need to know about the major… Read More »
reader comments 39 with Hacking teams working for the Chinese government are intent on burrowing into the farthest reaches of US infrastructure and establishing permanent presences there if possible. In the past two years, they have scored some wins that could seriously threaten national security. If that wasn’t clear before, three reports released in the… Read More »
Enlarge / 30 minutes in near-boiling water, and those soldered chips come right off, leaving you with something that’s non-toxic, compostable, and looking like something from your grandparent’s attic. reader comments 50 with Right now, the destination for the circuit board inside a device you no longer need is almost certainly a gigantic shredder, and… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 47 with A US senator is calling on the Justice Department to hold Microsoft responsible for “negligent cybersecurity practices” that enabled Chinese espionage hackers to steal hundreds of thousands of emails from cloud customers, including officials in the US Departments of State and Commerce. “Holding Microsoft responsible for its negligence will… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 36 with It has been a tough year for PC companies and companies that make PC components. Companies like Intel, AMD, and Nvidia have all reported big drops in revenue from the hardware that they sell to consumers (though the hardware they sell to other businesses is often doing better). Microsoft… Read More »
Enlarge / The four companies say they launched the Frontier Model Forum to ensure “the safe and responsible development of frontier AI models.” Financial Times reader comments 16 with Four of the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence companies have formed a group to research increasingly powerful AI and establish best practices for controlling it, as… Read More »