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Microsoft increases Zero Day Quest prize pool to $5 million

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-13 15:46:08

Microsoft will offer up to $5 million in bounty awards at this year's Zero Day Quest hacking contest, which the company describes as the "largest hacking event in history." Last year's Zero Day Quest has also generated significant participation from the security community, following Microsoft's offer of $4 million in rewards for vulnerabilities in cloud and AI products and platforms. After the November hacking competition concluded, Microsoft announced that it had paid $1.6 million, having rece

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Oxmiq Labs Inc.: Re-Architecting the GPU Stack: From Atoms to Agents

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 20:46:58

Campbell – CA. Oxmiq Labs Inc., the all-new GPU software and IP startup founded by one of the world’s top GPU architects and visionaries, Raja Koduri, emerges from stealth after two years of intensive IP development. Raja has assembled a world-class team of GPU and AI architects with over 500 years of combined experience, hundreds of patents, and a collective track record of generating more than $100B in revenue at prior companies. The Opportunity: Modern computing has fundamentally shifte

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Projects evaluated to see if they're as free and open source as advertised

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 18:26:23

Where Projects are Evaluated To see if they're as free and open source as advertised The software rights of users are continously (and often opaquely) being eroded by the desire of growth. This website aims to push back against that by bringing transparency to FOSS software users.

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Is It FOSS?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 00:26:23

Where Projects are Evaluated To see if they're as free and open source as advertised The software rights of users are continously (and often opaquely) being eroded by the desire of growth. This website aims to push back against that by bringing transparency to FOSS software users.

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Amazon’s best Kindles are cheaper than ever at Best Buy

theverge.com Sheena Vasani 2025-12-14 11:25:57

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A Kindle lets you carry an entire bookshelf while on the go, which is why almost every year we recommend the e-reader in our guides to the best back to school essentials. With a new semester just around the corner, it’s no surprise Best Buy is currently offering the latest versions of some of our favorite models at record low prices. You can, for example, pick up the ad-supported Kindle Paperwhite starting a

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Microsoft: Outdated Office apps lose access to voice features in January

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-15 02:05:30

Microsoft announced that the transcription, dictation, and read aloud features will stop working in older versions of Office 365 applications in late January 2026. Read aloud lets users hear documents and emails read back, transcription converts speech into text in real-time, and the dictation feature allows for voice-to-text input across Office applications. The company advised customers to update their Microsoft 365 Office apps to a version higher than 16.0.18827.20202 (released in early Jul

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Microsoft tops $4T in valuation: Great news for MSFT, not so great for workers

news.ycombinator.com More This Author 2025-12-15 06:11:36

If you own Microsoft stock, you’ve got to be happy. Microsoft’s latest financial results for the quarter ending June 30, 2025 were robust: Revenue reached $76.4 billion (up 18% year-over-year), with net income at $27.2 billion (up 24%). The primary driver was robust growth in Microsoft’s cloud and AI businesses. Azure’s revenue, which has finally been separated out in the financial reporting, now stands at $75 billion in annual revenue, representing a 34% surge for the year. Put it all togethe

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Lyft and Baidu Plan to Launch Robotaxis in Europe Next Year

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-15 10:09:00

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Microsoft’s unreleased Surface Duo foldable with Windows is on sale, but good luck trying to buy it

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-16 09:43:24

David Imel / Android Authority TL;DR An unreleased prototype of Microsoft’s dual-screen foldable phone, Surface Duo, was recently found listed online for sale. While Surface Duo ran on Android, the leaked prototype runs an unreleased version of the Windows Phone interface. Microsoft envisoned this as an intermediate between a regular phone and a Windows PC, but never realized due to the decline in Windows Phone’s popularity. Microsoft persistently dabbled with mobile phones for almost the en

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Ransomware gangs join attacks targeting Microsoft SharePoint servers

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-16 12:26:49

Ransomware gangs have recently joined ongoing attacks targeting a Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability chain, part of a broader exploitation campaign that has already led to the breach of at least 148 organizations worldwide. Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 have discovered a 4L4MD4R ransomware variant, based on open-source Mauri870 code, while analyzing incidents involving this SharePoint exploit chain (dubbed "ToolShell"). The ransomware was detected on July 27 after discove

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How Python grew from a language to a community

news.ycombinator.com David Cassel 2025-12-15 20:38:53

When it first launched in 1991, Python “wasn’t lucrative,” remembers long-time Python community organizer Paul Everitt (now a Python and web developer advocate at JetBrains). “But we believed in it. The passion was there — we were doing good in the world.” Yet surprisingly, Python traveled a bumpy early road on its way to becoming the world’s #1 most popular programming language, safely ensconced in the nonprofit Python Software Foundation that would help it grow through the years. It’s a stor

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SAP is acquiring SmartRecruiters

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-12-16 03:12:51

In Brief SAP announced Friday that it has reached an agreement to acquire recruiting software company SmartRecruiters. In a press release, the European software giant said that SmartRecruiters “powerful, user-friendly interfaces and seamless workflows” will complement SAP’s existing HR tools. Muhammad Alam, the SAP executive board member who leads product and engineering, said in a statement that with this acquisition, “Customers will be able to manage the entire candidate lifecycle — from so

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Microsoft is open sourcing Windows 11's UI framework

news.ycombinator.com Taras Buria 2025-12-15 22:52:40

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works Microsoft has plenty of open-source projects, and these days, the company is much more open to community contributions. Still, plenty of code remains closed-source, and the company constantly receives more requests to open it. One of them is WinUI, Windows 11's user interface framework. While Microsoft is not opening it fully yet, the company shared details about plans for the next six months,

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Microsoft is killing its failed ChromeOS competitor, Windows 11 SE

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-16 21:00:50

Microsoft is ending support for its ChromeOS competitor Windows 11 SE. The company will officially stop providing "software updates, technical assistance and security fixes" in October 2026, according to an updated support document spotted by NeoWin. When it was announced in 2021, Windows 11 SE was pitched as a simplified, lightweight version of Microsoft's operating system for the classroom. Chromebooks and ChromeOS devices are widely used in schools around the world, so it made sense that Mic

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Microsoft Needs to Make Affordable 5G Surface Laptops a Reality

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-12-17 21:20:14

Microsoft didn’t launch its 2025 lineup of Surface devices with a 5G option. Instead, it waited a few months for interest to die down enough to release its business-end version with a starting price nearly twice that of the one built for the average joe. It shows that if users want a laptop that can connect to the internet without relying on spotty public or Starbucks Wi-Fi, they need to pay through the nose. Hopefully Microsoft’s new tech will get cheaper later, though only if laptop makers rec

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After just five years, Microsoft will end support for low-cost Windows 11 SE

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-17 20:31:48

Microsoft says it plans to stop providing updates for Windows 11 SE, the special Windows 11 variant intended to compete with Google's ChromeOS in schools. The change was announced quietly via this Microsoft support document (spotted by the German-language site Dr. Windows), which says that Windows 11 SE will not be getting a version of this year's Windows 11 25H2 update. Security updates for Windows 11 SE will end in October of 2026, when Windows 11 24H2 stops receiving updates. "Support for Wi

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Microsoft kills Windows 11 SE, another in a long line of failed ChromeOS competitors

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-18 02:31:48

Microsoft says it plans to stop providing updates for Windows 11 SE, the special Windows 11 variant intended to compete with Google's ChromeOS in schools. The change was announced quietly via this Microsoft support document (spotted by the German-language site Dr. Windows), which says that Windows 11 SE will not be getting a version of this year's Windows 11 25H2 update. Security updates for Windows 11 SE will end in October of 2026, when Windows 11 24H2 stops receiving updates. "Support for Wi

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Microsoft is killing off Windows 11 SE, its Chrome OS competitor

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-12-18 11:22:53

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft is ending support for Windows 11 SE next year, five years after it launched the operating system on low-cost laptops that were designed to compete with Google Chromebooks. Windows 11 SE was only available on devices for education customers, such as schools, and it was supposed to

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Microsoft Authenticator won't manage your passwords anymore - or most passkeys

zdnet.com David Berlind 2025-12-19 00:02:54

D3Damon/Getty Images For most of this year, Microsoft has been warning users that they will no longer be able to use its Authenticator mobile application for user ID and password management. As reported by CNET on July 29, 2025, "In June, the company stopped letting users add passwords to Authenticator…. And starting Aug. 1, you'll no longer be able to use saved passwords." Also: How passkeys work: The complete guide to your inevitable passwordless future To me, the dire warnings of this pend

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Friday, Aug. 1

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-18 23:13:00

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The Kremlin’s Most Devious Hacking Group Is Using Russian ISPs to Plant Spyware

wired.com Andy Greenberg 2025-12-18 11:00:00

The Russian state hacker group known as Turla has carried out some of the most innovative hacking feats in the history of cyberespionage, hiding their malware's communications in satellite connections or hijacking other hackers' operations to cloak their own data extraction. When they're operating on their home turf, however, it turns out they've tried an equally remarkable, if more straightforward, approach: They appear to have used their control of Russia's internet service providers to direct

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Still Using Windows 10? Here’s How to Get Another Year of Updates for Free

wired.com Andrew Cunningham 2025-12-18 14:15:00

Officially, Microsoft will stop providing new security updates for Windows 10 PCs after October 14, 2025, a little over a decade after its initial release. It's a stick that Microsoft is using to push upgrades to the newer Windows 11, whether you install it on a PC you already have or buy a brand-new PC to meet Windows 11's system requirements. But if you can't or don't want to upgrade to Windows 11, Microsoft has made it reasonably simple to get an extra year of Extended Security Updates (ESUs

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 1, #312

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-19 10:00:06

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Microsoft catches Russian hackers targeting foreign embassies

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-19 11:43:51

Russian-state hackers are targeting foreign embassies in Moscow with custom malware that gets installed using adversary-in-the-middle attacks that operate at the ISP level, Microsoft warned Thursday. The campaign has been ongoing since last year. It leverages ISPs in that country, which are obligated to work on behalf of the Russian government. With the ability to control the ISP network, the threat group—which Microsoft tracks under the name Secret Blizzard—positions itself between a targeted

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Microsoft: Russian hackers use ISP access to hack embassies in AiTM attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-19 17:00:00

Microsoft warns that a cyber-espionage group linked to Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) is targeting diplomatic missions in Moscow using local internet service providers. The hacking group tracked by Microsoft as Secret Blizzard (also known as Turla, Waterbug, and Venomous Bear) has been observed exploiting its adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) position at the internet service provider (ISP) level to infect the systems of diplomatic missions with custom ApolloShadow malware. To do this, th

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Microsoft to disable Excel workbook links to blocked file types

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-20 02:26:25

Microsoft has announced that it will start disabling external workbook links to blocked file types by default between October 2025 and July 2026. After the rollout, Excel workbooks referencing blocked file types will display a #BLOCKED error or fail to refresh, eliminating security risks associated with accessing unsupported or high-risk file types, including, but not limited to, phishing attacks that utilize workbooks to redirect targets to malicious payloads. This change is being introduced

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Still Using Windows 10? Here's How to Get Another Year of Updates for Free

wired.com Andrew Cunningham 2025-12-20 02:15:00

Officially, Microsoft will stop providing new security updates for Windows 10 PCs after October 14, 2025, a little over a decade after its initial release. It's a stick that Microsoft is using to push upgrades to the newer Windows 11, whether you install it on a PC you already have or buy a brand-new PC to meet Windows 11's system requirements. But if you can't or don't want to upgrade to Windows 11, Microsoft has made it reasonably simple to get an extra year of Extended Security Updates (ESUs

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Microsoft now pays up to $40,000 for some .NET vulnerabilities

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-20 06:23:39

Microsoft has expanded its .NET bug bounty program and increased rewards to $40,000 for some .NET and ASP.NET Core vulnerabilities. Madeline Eckert, a senior program manager for Researcher Incentives and Bounty at Microsoft, stated that these changes aim to more accurately reflect the complexity involved in discovering and exploiting .NET vulnerabilities. "We're excited to announce significant updates to the Microsoft .NET Bounty Program. These changes expand the program's scope, simplify the

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Secure boot certificate rollover is real but probably won't hurt you

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 06:21:07

LWN wrote an article which opens with the assertion "Linux users who have Secure Boot enabled on their systems knowingly or unknowingly rely on a key from Microsoft that is set to expire in September". This is, depending on interpretation, either misleading or just plain wrong, but also there's not a good source of truth here, so.First, how does secure boot signing work? Every system that supports UEFI secure boot ships with a set of trusted certificates in a database called "db". Any binary sig

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The Kremlin's Most Devious Hacking Group Is Using Russian ISPs to Plant Spyware

wired.com Andy Greenberg 2025-12-20 11:00:00

The Russian state hacker group known as Turla has carried out some of the most innovative hacking feats in the history of cyberespionage, hiding their malware's communications in satellite connections or hijacking other hackers' operations to cloak their own data extraction. When they're operating on their home turf, however, it turns out they've tried an equally remarkable, if more straightforward, approach: They appear to have used their control of Russia's internet service providers to direct

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Microsoft increases Zero Day Quest prize pool to $5 million

Oxmiq Labs Inc.: Re-Architecting the GPU Stack: From Atoms to Agents

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Microsoft is killing its failed ChromeOS competitor, Windows 11 SE

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Microsoft is killing off Windows 11 SE, its Chrome OS competitor

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Microsoft now pays up to $40,000 for some .NET vulnerabilities

Secure boot certificate rollover is real but probably won't hurt you

The Kremlin's Most Devious Hacking Group Is Using Russian ISPs to Plant Spyware

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