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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, […]

Russia’s APT28 Exploited Windows Print Spooler Flaw to Deploy ‘GooseEgg’ Malware

The Russia-linked nation-state threat actor tracked as APT28 weaponized a security flaw in the Microsoft Windows Print Spooler component to deliver a previously unknown custom malware called GooseEgg. The post-compromise tool, which is said to have been used since at least June 2020 and possibly as early as April 2019, leveraged a now-patched flaw that allowed for

Reducing the environmental impact of Windows devices

We live in a world where technology is constantly evolving and improving our lives, and at the same time we need to be thoughtful and disciplined about minimizing the required resources and waste generated from these products. How can we balance the benefits of innovation with the environmental impact of our products? This fundamental question […]

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