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08 Oct

Microsoft’s ill-fated Surface Duo 2 foldable recieves one final security patch

stp2y0 CommentsNewsgear, microsoft, news, Panos Panay, Surface Duo

Pour one out for the Surface Duo 2. As , Microsoft has pushed out what will almost certainly go down as the device’s final software update, a security patch, ahead of its October 21 end-of-support date.When Microsoft debuted the Surface Duo 2 in October 2021, the company pledged to provide three years of software updates for the foldable. Since then, the company has released just one platform update for the Duo 2, upgrading it from Android 11 to Android 12L. By comparison, Surface Duo users were more fortunate. They got to see their devices make the jump from Android 10…

01 Oct

Microsoft’s AI Boss Wants Copilot to Bring ‘Emotional Support’ to Windows and Office

stp2y0 CommentsAIartificial intelligence, DeepMind, microsoft, office, windows

We don't save any of the material with Copilot Vision, so once you close the browser after your session, it all just disappears. It fully deletes. But I'm thinking about if and how to introduce it in the future, because a lot of people do want that experience. If you could just say, ‘What was that picture that I saw online the other day? What was that meme?’ I think we'll have to look into it one day.At the moment, though, the Copilot Vision tool is ephemeral. We'll sort of have to experiment over time and see what makes sense…

01 Oct

Microsoft’s Copilot AI Gets a Voice, Vision, and a ‘Hype Man’ Persona

stp2y0 CommentsRAG modelsartificial intelligence, microsoft, office, virtual assistant, windows

Microsoft deleted the over-eager office assistant Clippy some 17 years ago, but the vision for an friendly and optimistic AI helper has apparently found its way out of the Recycle Bin. The company is overhauling Copilot, the text-based artificial intelligence tool bundled with Windows and other software, with the addition of vision, voice, and the ability to solve more complex problems—along with a more “encouraging” personality.“We really are at this amazing kind of transition point,” says Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI. “AI companions now see what we see, hear what we hear, and speak in the same language that…

27 Sep

Microsoft explains how it’s tackling security and privacy for Recall

stp2y0 CommentsNewsAI PC, copilot, gear, microsoft, news, recall, security

The condemnation of Microsoft's Recall feature for Copilot+ AI PCs was swift and damning. While it's meant to let you find anything you've ever done on your PC, it also involves taking constant screenshots of your PC, and critics noticed that information wasn't being stored securely. Microsoft ended up delaying its rollout for Windows Insider beta testers, and in June it announced more stringent security measures: It's making Recall opt-in by default; it will require Windows Hello biometric authentication; and it will encrypt the screenshot database.Today, ahead of the impending launch of the next major Windows 11 launch in November,…

25 Sep

Google files EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft

stp2y0 CommentsNewsazure, european commission, gear, google, google cloud, microsoft, news

Google filed a complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission on Wednesday. In it, Google accused Microsoft of making it prohibitively expensive for cloud customers to move their work from Azure to other providers, like Google Cloud.Google claims Microsoft’s cloud licensing terms restrict European customers from switching to competing cloud platforms despite “no technical barriers to doing so.” In a blog post explaining its complaint, Google wrote that Microsoft’s practices have “significantly harmed European companies and governments,” costing European businesses €1 billion ($1.1 billion) annually, wasting taxpayer money and stifling competition.Amazon’s AWS leads Europe’s cloud market. Microsoft’s Azure is second,…

24 Sep

The AI Boom Is Raising Hopes of a Nuclear Comeback

stp2y0 CommentsRAG modelsAlphabet, artificial intelligence, energy, google, machine learning, microsoft, nuclear power, science

For five years, reactor one at Three Mile Island nuclear power station in Pennsylvania has lain dormant. Now, thanks to a deal with Microsoft, the reactor will start running again in 2028—this time to exclusively supply the tech firm with oodles of low-carbon electricity.It’s all part of an ongoing flirtation between Big Tech and nuclear power. In March, Amazon Web Services agreed to buy a data center powered by Susquehanna nuclear power station in Pennsylvania. At an event at Carnegie Mellon University on September 18, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai mentioned small modular nuclear reactors as one potential source of energy…

24 Sep

Getting to Know Copilot Pages

stp2y0 CommentsNewscoding, community, development, engineering, githubcopilot, inclusive, microsoft, software

Microsoft recently hosted an event featuring Satya Nadella and Jared Spataro. The event focused on the next phase of innovation for Microsoft 365 Copilot, called "Wave 2", here is the link to the video. One of the key announcements was BizChat and Copilot Pages. I'm really excited about these new tools! Copilot Pages introduces a smarter way to take notes, using the power of AI from Copilot. Let's explore what Copilot Pages is all about and look at some interesting use cases beyond what Microsoft shared. Copilot + Loop = Copilot Pages Copilot is an AI tool that helps answer…

19 Sep

Minecraft will no longer work on PSVR after March

stp2y0 CommentsNewsgames, gaming, microsoft, minecraft, news, playstation

Folks who like to escape to the block-filled, creeper-infested universe of in virtual reality soon won’t be able to do that on PlayStation VR. Developer Mojang is winding down support on that platform.“Our ability to support PlayStation VR has come to an end, and will no longer be in updates after March of 2025,” Mojang said in the latest , as spotted by Eurogamer. “You will no longer be able to use your PlayStation VR with Minecraft as it will no longer be supported in the latest updates.”Mojang as an update to the PS4 version of Minecraft — there hasn’t…

19 Sep

Palmer Luckey Is Bringing Anduril Smarts to Microsoft’s Military Headset

stp2y0 CommentsRAG modelsanduril, augmented reality, drones, microsoft, military, military tech

When Palmer Luckey was hacking together virtual reality headsets at his startup Oculus VR in the mid-2010s, he would sometimes imagine a future in which US soldiers used the technology to sharpen their battlefield senses.That vision is now virtually a reality after a deal that will bring software from his defense startup, Anduril, to a US Army head-mounted display developed by Microsoft.“The idea is to enhance soldiers,” Luckey tells WIRED over Zoom from his home in Newport Beach, California. “Their visual perception, audible perception—basically to give them all the vision that Superman has, and then some, and make them more…

18 Sep

Microsoft says Russian troll farms are targeting the Harris-Walz campaign

stp2y0 CommentsNewsgear, microsoft, news, politics, russia

Kremlin-affiliated Russian troll farms are running disinformation campaigns that aim to interfere with this year's US presidential elections, and according to Microsoft, they're focusing their efforts on discrediting Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. The company has published a new report detailing the movements of two troll farms being monitored by the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center.These Kremlin-backed actors apparently struggled to find the right approach shortly after President Biden stepped down as a candidate, but in late August and early September, one of them started circulating inauthentic videos that managed to generate millions of views. One video depicted a supposed attack…