Microsoft’s ICC email block triggers Dutch concerns over dependence on U.S. tech by tanepiper

Microsoft’s recent decision to block access to the email account of International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan is raising urgent questions in the Netherlands about the country’s deep reliance on American technology companies, de Volkskrant reports. The move followed U.S. President Donald Trump’s sanctions against the ICC—an escalation triggered by arrest warrants targeting

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Microsoft’s plan to fix the web: letting every website run AI search for cheap by thm

“So the 10,000-foot-level view is that we’ve had three big revolutions in personal computing.” That’s how Ramanathan V. Guha, a technical fellow at Microsoft, begins his explanation of what I had thought was a relatively minor AI announcement coming at this year’s Build developer conference. But Guha continues to make his case that what he

ByHackTechMay 19, 20250Comments

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Microsoft’s “1‑bit” AI model runs on a CPU only, while matching larger systems by kordlessagain

Does size matter? Memory requirements are the most obvious advantage of reducing the complexity of a model’s internal weights. The BitNet b1.58 model can run using just 0.4GB of memory, compared to anywhere from 2 to 5GB for other open-weight models of roughly the same parameter size. But the simplified weighting system also leads to

ByHackTechApril 19, 20252Comments

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Running Microsoft’s first product on the Altair 8800, from paper tape [video] by ruik

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Microsoft’s next Sueface Go tablet is expected to have Intel N200 inside by PaulHoule

Disclosure: Some links on this page are monetized by the Skimlinks, Amazon, Rakuten Advertising, and eBay, affiliate programs. All prices are subject to change, and this article only reflects the prices available at time of publication.Rumor has it that Microsoft will unveil several new Surface products this fall, including new members of the Surface Laptop

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What Microsoft’s new AI demo for Minecraft means for gaming by alexrustic

Microsoft has shown off an internal demo that gives users the ability to control its popular Minecraft video game by telling the game what to do, instead of manually moving characters to build and dig, according to people familiar with the matter.The demo was made possible by cutting-edge AI, though it didn’t use Prometheus, the

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What to Make of Microsoft’s Year in Cybersecurity by CapitalistCartr

On Feb. 1, Microsoft announced a new cybersecurity offering for federal government customers called the Modern Log Management Program. The program includes a suite of Microsoft’s visibility and remediation tools, which pull diagnostic data from various Microsoft products so that customers gain more insight into what’s happening on their networks. The goal of the program,…

ByHackTechMarch 7, 20220Comments

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Microsoft’s HoloLens 3 proves it still doesn’t understand the consumer market by pjmlp

Source: Windows Central An explosive new report from Business Insider confirms everyone’s worst fear regarding HoloLens and Mixed Reality: Microsoft has no idea what it’s doing. The story, which relied on reports from “more than 20 current and former employees,” is a damming expose on the HoloLens division, headed by Microsoft technical fellow Alex Kipman.…

ByHackTechFebruary 3, 20220Comments

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What Microsoft’s Planned Acquisition Means by fortran77

Plus a look at actionable ways to stay on track with your financial goals for 2022. Motley Fool analyst Jason Moser talks about why the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard news signals a direct shot at Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:FB) and why Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) shareholders should be optimistic about the company’s gaming aspirations. He also examines shares of Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) and…

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