Monthly Archives: February 2024

Microsoft has improved Nearby Share transfer speed on Windows 11

Microsoft has released Windows 11 Builds 22621.3227 and 22631.3227 (KB5034848) to Insiders in the Release Preview Channel on Windows 11, version 22H2 (Build 22621) and version 23H2 (Build 22631), bringing several improvements and bug fixes. One notable change is an enhancement to Nearby Share, a feature allowing users to wirelessly transfer files between nearby devices. […]

Why is Microsoft investing $3.45 billion in Germany?

Microsoft has announced a €3.2 billion ($3.45 billion) investment in Germany over the next two years to expand its cloud and AI infrastructure and to upskill 1.2 million people in digital skills after recently announcing 2M trainees in India by 2025. The investment will see Microsoft: Microsoft President Brad Smith said the investment was aimed at helping German […]

U.S. State Government Network Breached via Former Employee’s Account

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has revealed that an unnamed state government organization’s network environment was compromised via an administrator account belonging to a former employee. “This allowed the threat actor to successfully authenticate to an internal virtual private network (VPN) access point,” the agency said in a joint advisory published

U.S. Government Disrupts Russian-Linked Botnet Engaged in Cyber Espionage

The U.S. government on Thursday said it disrupted a botnet comprising hundreds of small office and home office (SOHO) routers in the country that was put to use by the Russia-linked APT28 actor to conceal its malicious activities. “These crimes included vast spear-phishing and similar credential harvesting campaigns against targets of intelligence interest to the […]

The Total Economic Impact™ of the Microsoft commercial marketplace

In today’s fast-paced, AI-fueled business environment, organizations require a growing number of cloud solutions. In trying to meet this demand, software as a service (SaaS) sprawl can lead to wasted investments and cost overruns. Research by Forrester found that cloud marketplaces can minimize this challenge by helping organizations balance speed and agility.1 The Microsoft commercial […]

Cisco joins the list of tech companies announcing layoffs. Hashtag Trending, Friday Feb 16, 2024

Every once in a while, you have an interview that goes off in a totally different direction. That’s what happened this weekend.  My guest, Ed Wattel, an AI thought leader, came in to talk about elections and how we’ll deal with AI and deep fakes. And we ended up with a fascinating discussion on the […]

Forget Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) – the big impact is already here and it’s called AI agents

I watch a lot of YouTube – so you don’t have to. In this series I’ll bring you some of the best of what I’m watching, and sometimes, as in this post, I’ll provide my own commentary. YouTube is buzzing this week. Sam Altman is rumoured to be making a big announcement sometime soon. He […]