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Microsoft reportedly ramps up AI efforts to compete with OpenAI

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Microsoft is accelerating its push to compete with OpenAI, its longtime collaborator, by developing its own powerful AI models and exploring alternatives to power products like Microsoft’s Copilot bot. Microsoft has developed its own AI “reasoning” models comparable to models like OpenAI’s o1 and o3-mini, the The Information reports. OpenAI is said to have refused […]

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As Skype shuts down, its legacy is end-to-end encryption for the masses

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In the early evening of March 5, 2012, in Cairo, Egyptian revolutionaries stormed the headquarters of the secret police called the State Security Investigations (SSI) service, a building known as “the capital of hell” because of its reputation as a place where ruthless officers tortured prisoners.  Inside, protesters found both intact and shredded documents, torture

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Report: OpenAI plans to shift compute needs from Microsoft to SoftBank

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OpenAI is forecasting a major shift in the next five years around who it gets most of its computing power from, The Information reported on Friday. By 2030, OpenAI expects to get three-quarters of its data center capacity from Stargate, a project that’s expected to be heavily financed by SoftBank, one of OpenAI’s newest financial

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Amazon, Microsoft, and Exxon want to make scandal-plagued carbon markets more trustworthy

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Amazon, Exxon, and Microsoft have joined a new task force to burnish the image of scandal-plagued voluntary carbon markets. The task force, organized by the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank, is hoping to improve credibility of voluntary carbon markets, studying the status quo and drafting “policy recommendations for how the federal government can promote fair,

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SGNL snags $30M for a new take on ID security based on zero-standing privileges

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Security experts often describe identity as the “new perimeter” in the world of security: in the world of cloud services where network assets and apps can range far and wide, the biggest vulnerabilities are often leaked and spoofed log-in credentials.  A startup called SGNL has built a new approach that it believes is better at

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Microsoft powers AI ambitions with 400 MW solar purchase

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Microsoft has added another 389 megawatts of renewable power to its portfolio as the tech giant scrambles to meet the power demands required to match its AI ambitions.  The additional renewable power spans three solar projects developed by EDP Renewables North America — two in southern Illinois and one outside Austin, Texas. Microsoft is buying

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Microsoft Copilot: Everything you need to know about Microsoft’s AI

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Copilot is Microsoft’s take on productivity-boosting generative AI, and it continues to grow and expand with Microsoft’s AI ambitions. Today, there are around a dozen Copilot-branded products powering various capabilities in Microsoft software and services, like summarizations in Microsoft Outlook and transcriptions in Microsoft Teams. That’s in addition to Microsoft-owned GitHub’s Copilot tool for generating

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HPE begins notifying data breach victims after Russian government hack

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise has begun notifying individuals whose personal information was stolen during a 2023 cyberattack, which the company blamed on Russian government hackers. HPE has so far notified more than a dozen individuals whose data was stolen in the cyberattack, according to TechCrunch’s review of breach notices filed with at least two U.S. state

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