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Microsoft is shutting down Skype after more than 20 years of operation. This decision will affect millions of users worldwide who have been using this program for video calls, messaging, and file sharing for decades. Instead, the company is offering a transition to another product. Reasons for Discontinuing Skype This step is dictated by Microsoft’s […]
A new Pew Research Center study has found a significant decline in support for the TikTok ban among Americans. The trend is observed regardless of political views, with the most notable changes occurring among Republican Party supporters. This creates a new twist in the discussion about the future of the popular platform. Public Opinion and […]
A wave of technical failures swept from the United States to Asia today, July 19, after Microsoft reported a failure in its online services. This disrupted the work of airlines, banks, the London Stock Exchange, etc. McDonald’s Corp., United Airlines Holdings Inc. and LSE Group were among the largest companies that disclosed various problems with […]
On June 29, it became known that Russian hackers Midnight Blizzard had hacked into email correspondence between Microsoft Corp. and dozens of Texas government agencies. Bloomberg reports. The attackers gained access to the mail through a Microsoft hack disclosed in January, during which they stole emails from some of the company’s executives. Microsoft is alerting […]
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has announced a new line of Copilot Plus PC laptops equipped with built-in artificial intelligence and integrated AI features in the operating system. This was reported by The Verge. New AI capabilities are provided by a neural processor built into laptops. One of the key features will be Recall, which uses […]
Microsoft is working on a new language model of artificial intelligence called MAI-1, which could potentially compete with the most advanced models from Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI. This is the first time Microsoft has developed its own AI model of this scale after investing more than $10 billion in OpenAI. GPT-4 works not only in […]
Microsoft has banned US police departments from using Azure OpenAI Service for facial recognition, TechCrunch reports. The company has added a clause to the Azure OpenAI Service terms of use that explicitly prohibits integration with the Azure OpenAI Service for facial recognition by US police departments. The policy change comes a week after Axon, a […]
Microsoft will invest $1.7 billion over the next four years to develop cloud services and artificial intelligence in Indonesia. Investments include the construction of data centers. The company’s CEO Satya Nadella said this during a visit to Indonesia on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, Reuters reports. “The investment will bring the latest and greatest AI infrastructure […]
Microsoft continues to update Windows 11 with the latest features, such as Copilot, but with each update, some old features are becoming a thing of the past. The major 24H2 update in 2024 is expected to bring significant changes to the system, including the end of support for several familiar applications. With the 24H2 update […]
Microsoft has announced plans to invest $2.9 billion over the next two years to develop its hyperscale cloud computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Japan. This will be Microsoft’s largest investment in the country. The announcement came after a meeting in Washington, DC, between Microsoft President Brad Smith and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who […]