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Microsoft announced it will begin reporting Azure cloud revenue every quarter, ending years of disclosing only growth percentages. The move accompanies a restructuring that reduces the company's operating segments from three to two, its first such change since 2015.
A retrospective on OpenBSD's history blog describes SMD (Storage Module Device) disks, a storage interface standardized in 1982 and revised in 1987, which powered high-capacity systems throughout the 1970s and 1980s. The piece details how Sun Microsystems used SMD disks paired with Xylogics controllers in its early high-end servers and workstations, noting the drives' massive size, weight, and power draw compared to later interfaces like ESDI and SCSI.
A threat actor dubbed Spring Ring is running voice-phishing campaigns against Microsoft Teams users, tricking victims into granting remote access to their sessions. Once inside, attackers use that foothold to deploy malware and attempt to seize control of broader organizational infrastructure.
Microsoft confirmed widespread degradation across its 365 suite, affecting Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, Copilot, and Universal Print, with users reporting failed emails, unloadable files, and print job errors. By September 3, Microsoft's status page listed all services as operational again, though Downdetector still showed hundreds of lingering Outlook complaints.
Microsoft confirmed widespread service degradation across its 365 suite, affecting Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, Copilot and Universal Print. Users reported problems sending or receiving emails, loading files, and accessing print jobs, though Microsoft says availability has largely stabilized above 99 percent.
Microsoft confirmed it is removing Cyberpunk 2077, Dead Cells, Frostpunk 2, Mullet Madjack and Superliminal from Xbox Game Pass on September 15. The company is adding replacement titles like Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, but critics argue the incoming lineup doesn't match the quality of what's leaving.
The piece critiques the romanticized idea of disappearing into private, isolated effort—'the Cave'—citing examples like Michael Phelps's Under Armour ad and personal wrestling experience. The author argues that smart devices, recommendation algorithms, and AI reinforce this isolation by feeding people what they already believe rather than challenging them.
Microsoft confirmed that starting in October 2026, memory integrity protection built on Virtualization-based Security will be switched on by default for eligible Windows 11 PCs. The feature runs Windows as a guest OS under Hyper-V to isolate the kernel from tampering, but Microsoft has previously acknowledged it can hurt gaming performance. Organizations will retain the ability to disable it, though the default posture is shifting toward security-first.
Microsoft Entra now fully supports passkeys as a passwordless authentication method, with both device-bound and synced passkey options reaching general availability. The guide explains how passkeys work using the WebAuthn standard, where a private key stays on the user's device or synced service while a public key is stored in Entra ID.
Michael Wisler, who became M&T Bank's chief information officer in 2018 after years at Capital One, has shifted the 170-year-old Buffalo-based bank away from outside tech contractors toward an in-house engineering team. The move aims to speed up how quickly the bank can adapt its systems to new technology and customer demands while building more resilient infrastructure.
The Commodore 64 debuted around September 1, 1982, offering 64 kilobytes of memory at a price under $600, undercutting every rival with similar capacity. Early manufacturing was based in Santa Clara before quality issues pushed Commodore to outsource production to Japan's Kentron, which was mass-producing units by January 1983. Within six months the machine had sold half a million units, and it went on to sell roughly 10.6 to 12.3 million units total, making it the best-selling computer model in history.
Pearl Abyss has launched a browser-based demo of Crimson Desert that runs entirely through Twitch's cloud streaming, letting players try the game for 20 minutes without downloading it. The demo works on any device with a web browser, though notably not on current game consoles, and coincides with the release of the Crimson Desert Enhanced update.