Monthly Archives: April 2024

U.S. Imposes Visa Restrictions on 13 Linked to Commercial Spyware Misuse

The U.S. Department of State on Monday said it’s taking steps to impose visa restrictions on 13 individuals who are allegedly involved in the development and sale of commercial spyware or who are immediately family members of those involved in such businesses. “These individuals have facilitated or derived financial benefit from the misuse of this technology, which

Microsoft introduces Content Credentials: receipts from content to reach the roots of misinformation

As 2024 ushers in a record-breaking year of elections worldwide, Microsoft is stepping up its fight against misinformation with expanded access to its Content Integrity tools. These tools can combat the spread of deceptive content, such as deepfakes created with artificial intelligence. Political campaigns, news organizations, and election officials can now use Content Credentials. These […]

Microsoft Sustainability Manager gets new AI-powered features

Microsoft Sustainability Manager is a cloud-based service that allows organizations to monitor and manage their environmental impact with unified data and actionable insights. Microsoft has both free and premium version of Sustainability Manager. The Premium version provides all the benefits of Microsoft Sustainability Manager free version plus added capabilities for value chain data management, reporting […]

Microsoft and Meta’s VR partnership expands to Xbox-branded headsets

Meta announced plans to open its Meta Horizon operating system, the software that powers its Quest headsets, to other hardware makers. This move is to create a larger ecosystem for mixed reality (MR) devices, similar to what exists for PCs and smartphones.  As part of this effort, Meta revealed that it is working with companies […]

Microsoft introduces Phi-3 family of models that outperform other models of its class

Back in December 2023, Microsoft released Phi-2 model with 2.7 billion parameters that delivered state-of-the-art performance among base language models with less than 13 billion parameters. In the past four months, several other models that got released outperformed Phi-2. Recently, Meta released Llama-3 family of models that outperformed all the previously released open-source models. Last […]

Fake files on Github might be malware – even from “Microsoft”

Security researchers have identified a vulnerability in GitHub’s comment file upload system that malicious actors are exploiting to spread malware. Here’s how it works: When a user uploads a file to a GitHub comment (even if the comment itself is never posted), a download link is automatically generated. This link includes the name of the repository and its owner, […]