Five tech giants are hiding $1.65tn in AI debt, using the trick that toppled Enron
Five tech giants are hiding $1.65tn in AI debt, using the trick that toppled Enron

Look at what Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle officially owe, and the numbers seem large but manageable. Look off the books, and a second, bigger pile of debt appears. A Nikkei study put that hidden figure at $1.65 trillion, up roughly eig…

Microsoft to fund Mistral’s European AI expansion in multibillion-dollar deal
Microsoft to fund Mistral’s European AI expansion in multibillion-dollar deal

Microsoft has agreed to bankroll a large slice of Mistral AI’s European build-out, extending a partnership that already binds the Paris lab to the American giant’s cloud. The two companies announced the expanded agreement on Tuesday, describing it as a…

Fig Expands Platform Across the Full SecOps Engineering Lifecycle, Making Resilience the Default
Fig Expands Platform Across the Full SecOps Engineering Lifecycle, Making Resilience the Default

Security operations environments are constantly evolving. New cloud services, data sources, automations, and detections are introduced on a regular basis, while upstream systems can change without warning. Although these updates are intended to improve…

LG’s monitors come with an unwanted addition for Windows: McAfee pop-up ads
LG’s monitors come with an unwanted addition for Windows: McAfee pop-up ads

A video from Gamers Nexus explains how, after connecting a new LG UltraGear monitor to a PC running Windows 11 for the first time, Windows Update is silently installing LG driver updates and the LG Monitor App Installer, without so much as a permission pop-up or notification. The app doesn’t appear to include special controls […]

OneDrive will block screenshots of sensitive documents, but only in Microsoft’s own browser.
OneDrive will block screenshots of sensitive documents, but only in Microsoft’s own browser.

Starting next month, OneDrive and SharePoint will block screen captures when enterprise users open certain sensitivity-labelled PDFs in Microsoft Edge. The restriction applies to documents carrying a Purview Information Protection label without the Cop…

Microsoft will stop syncing OneDrive on older Windows 10 versions next month
Microsoft will stop syncing OneDrive on older Windows 10 versions next month

Microsoft will end OneDrive synchronisation support for Windows 10 versions before 22H2 on August 15. After that date, users on older builds will receive no more sync app updates, bug fixes, or security patches. The service itself will not immediately …

Bethesda teases Fallout 5 soon after Xbox’s mass layoffs
Bethesda teases Fallout 5 soon after Xbox’s mass layoffs

Xbox is currently in a “reset” period that includes laying off around 3,200 employees over the next year, involving deep cuts at beloved studios like id Software and Obsidian Entertainment. Now, in an attempt to show that things are still running fine, the company has announced a slate of upcoming projects at Bethesda Game Studios […]

Even Microsoft couldn’t make Windows 11 work well on 8GB of RAM
Even Microsoft couldn’t make Windows 11 work well on 8GB of RAM

Last year, Microsoft’s 13-inch Surface Laptop quickly became one of my favorite thin-and-light Windows notebooks. At $900, it was easy to recommend to anyone wanting MacBook Air-like build quality and battery life on Windows – I even convinced my sister to buy one on sale. But that was last year. This year, thanks to RAMageddon, […]

Microsoft is rebuilding its security business around AI, and cutting hundreds
Microsoft is rebuilding its security business around AI, and cutting hundreds

Microsoft is the biggest seller of cybersecurity software on the planet. Now it is tearing that business up and rebuilding it around AI. The overhaul means more AI security tools, fewer traditional products, and merged engineering teams. It has already…

Microsoft’s record Patch Tuesday, and it says AI found the bugs
Microsoft’s record Patch Tuesday, and it says AI found the bugs

Microsoft has never shipped a bigger security update. Its July Patch Tuesday fixed a record haul of flaws, and the company says AI is why the count keeps climbing. The scale is hard to ignore. By Microsoft’s own count, the update patched 622 vulnerabil…