GoKawiil - Latest Tech News & Aggregated Headlines

Nebius stock soars nearly 50% on Microsoft AI deal

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-10-02 13:02:19

Nebius, which was spun out from Russian internet giant Yandex, provides graphics processing units or GPUs for training artificial intelligence models. Shares of artificial intelligence infrastructure firm Nebius Group soared nearly 50% Tuesday, a day after the company disclosed a multi-billion-dollar deal with Microsoft . The Amsterdam-based firm announced it had struck a multi-year deal with Microsoft worth up to $19.4 billion to provide cloud computing power for AI workloads. Nebius, which w

Topics: ai billion deal microsoft nebius

Shop Amazon

Microsoft reportedly plans to start using Anthropic models to power some of Office 365's Copilot features

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-02 13:20:19

Microsoft reportedly plans to begin using Anthropic's latest Claude models to power some of the Copilot features in its Office 365 apps. In a report published Tuesday, The Information said the tech giant would announce the change "in the coming weeks." Microsoft currently relies on OpenAI's tech to power the majority of AI features found inside of Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint. As an outsider looking in, Microsoft's embrace of Anthropic's models would appear to signal a deepening split be

Topics: anthropic information microsoft models openai

Shop Amazon

Microsoft to lessen reliance on OpenAI by buying AI from rival Anthropic

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-10-02 13:11:30

Microsoft will pay to use Anthropic’s AI in Office 365 apps, The Information reports, citing two sources. The move means that Anthropic’s tech will help power new features in Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint alongside OpenAI’s, marking the end of Microsoft’s previous reliance solely on the ChatGPT-maker for its productivity suite. Microsoft’s move to diversify its AI partnerships comes amid a growing rift with OpenAI, which has pursued its own infrastructure projects as well as a and a pote

Topics: ai anthropic linkedin microsoft openai

Shop Amazon

Microsoft September 2025 Patch Tuesday fixes 81 flaws, two zero-days

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-03 01:43:33

Today is Microsoft's September 2025 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 81 flaws, including two publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities. This Patch Tuesday also fixes nine "Critical" vulnerabilities, five of which are remote code execution vulnerabilities, 1 is information disclosure, and 2 are elevation of privileges. The number of bugs in each vulnerability category is listed below: 41 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities 2 Security Feature Bypass Vulnerabilities 22 R

Topics: microsoft server smb updates vulnerabilities

Shop Amazon

Microsoft says employees will be expected in office three days a week

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-10-03 05:10:11

Microsoft said on Tuesday that employees will be expected to work in an office three days a week starting next year. Employees that work near Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Washington, or the Puget Sound area, will be required to be in the office three days a week, starting in February. After that, the policy will extend to other U.S. locations and then to international offices. The company is sending emails to employees who live within 50 miles of a Microsoft office around Puget Sound a

Topics: company employees microsoft office work

Shop Amazon

Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office

news.ycombinator.com Ashley Stewart 2025-10-03 05:31:17

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. One of Big Tech's last remaining RTO holdouts is officially sending employees back to the office. Microsoft is mandating employees work from offices at least three days a week, according to an internal email the company sent to staff on Tuesday. The mandate will happen in three phases, beginning at the end of February 2026, with Seattle-area employees who live within 50 miles of a Mic

Topics: employees microsoft office time work

Shop Amazon

Microsoft mandates a return to office

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-10-03 09:25:12

In the AI era, we are moving faster than ever, building world-class technology that changes how people live and work, and how organizations everywhere operate. If you reflect on our history, the most meaningful breakthroughs happen when we build on each other’s ideas together, in real time. We’ve looked at how our teams work best, and the data is clear: when people work together in person more often, they thrive — they are more energized, empowered, and they deliver stronger results. As we buil

Topics: best ll microsoft time work

Shop Amazon

Nebius shares soar 40% on Microsoft AI deal

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-10-03 17:54:09

Nebius, which was spun out from Russian internet giant Yandex, provides graphics processing units or GPUs for training artificial intelligence models. Artificial intelligence infrastructure firm Nebius Group soared in U.S. premarket trading on Tuesday, following the company's announcement of a multi-billion-dollar deal with Microsoft . Nebius' stock soared 40% Tuesday. The Amsterdam-based firm announced it had struck a multi-year deal with Microsoft worth $19.4 billion to provide cloud comput

Topics: ai billion deal microsoft nebius

Shop Amazon

Microsoft: Anti-spam bug blocks links in Exchange Online, Teams

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-03 17:40:58

Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that causes an anti-spam service to mistakenly block Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams users from opening URLs and quarantine some of their emails. In a service alert seen by BleepingComputer, the company stated that the issue is caused by the anti-spam engine incorrectly tagging URLs contained within other URLs as potentially malicious, which has also led to some emails being quarantined. The issues began impacting Exchange Online and Microsoft

Topics: emails exchange microsoft spam urls

Shop Amazon

Windows 11 SSD issues blamed on reviewers using ‘early versions of firmware’

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-10-04 03:27:59

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. Reports have been circulating for the past few weeks that recent Windows 11 updates (KB5063878 and KB5062660) were causing some SSDs using Phison controllers to fail. While plenty of YouTube and TikTok videos have blamed Microsoft for the issues, Phison has identified “early versions of fir

Topics: firmware microsoft phison ssd ssds

Shop Amazon

Xbox is coming to cars thanks to an LG and Microsoft partnership

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-10-04 04:00:00

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 and LG are partnering up to bring Xbox Cloud Gaming to internet-connected vehicles. A new Xbox app will soon be available on cars that use LG’s Automotive Content Platform (ACP), allowing Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers to access cloud versions of Xbox titles directly on in-ca

Topics: game lg microsoft new xbox

Shop Amazon

How to undo OneDrive Backup and restore your personal files to your Windows 11 PC

zdnet.com Ed Bott 2025-10-04 07:30:17

Suchitra Sangsuwan/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's Key Takeaways Microsoft is automatically turning on OneDrive Backup in new Windows 11 installations. Your files aren't stolen -- they've just been moved to a new folder and synced to the cloud. This article includes step-by-step instructions to turn off OneDrive Backup and reset your local folders. Microsoft is getting more aggressive about tying its flagship productivity products to t

Topics: backup files folder microsoft onedrive

Shop Amazon

Is OOXML Artifically Complex?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 14:07:00

Is OOXML Artifically Complex? A while ago, the official blog of LibreOffice published a provocative article: “An artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool.” Its target is Microsoft’s XML-based file formats — the Office Open XML (OOXML). The article alleges that, although Microsoft put its Office formats through standardization, the spec is engineered to be so complex that it obstructs interoperability with third-party software. Moreover, the complexity is allegedly gratuitous and disco

Topics: microsoft office ooxml text xml

Shop Amazon

World Nuclear Association Welcomes Microsoft Corporation as Newest Member

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 12:01:18

LONDON, UK –World Nuclear Association is proud to announce that Microsoft Corporation, one of the world's leading technology companies, has officially joined as our newest member. This landmark membership underscores the growing recognition of nuclear energy as an essential foundation for powering the digital economy and achieving ambitious climate goals. A Transformative Partnership for Clean Energy Leadership In order to meet growing electricity demand globally, the world not only needs to c

Topics: association energy microsoft nuclear world

Shop Amazon

Microsoft doubles down on small modular reactors and fusion energy

news.ycombinator.com Efosa Udinmwen 2025-10-04 20:16:39

Microsoft is chasing carbon-free energy while data demand keeps rising The World Nuclear Association gains unprecedented visibility through Microsoft’s membership Small modular reactors are being framed as digital infrastructure’s next foundation Microsoft has officially joined the World Nuclear Association (WNA), making it the first global technology company of its scale to do so. The announcement comes at a time when the nuclear industry is attempting to position itself as a necessary part

Topics: association energy microsoft nuclear world

Shop Amazon

Microsoft Promises Windows 10 Users Free Security Updates for a Year – but There Are Strings Attached

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-05 05:00:09

Microsoft is ready to leave Windows 10 behind, and security support is due to end in October. If you aren't ready to upgrade to Windows 11, all isn't lost. You can snag a one-year extended security update for $30, but there's also a free option you may not have heard about. All you need to do is enable cloud backup, and connect it with your OneDrive account. The ability to get free updates on Windows 10 is a pretty big deal because it is still the most widely used Windows OS, accounting for jus

Topics: 10 microsoft security updates windows

Shop Amazon

Copilot's new File Explorer tricks are serious OneDrive time-savers - how to try them

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-10-05 21:23:29

Screenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways You can access four new Copilot skills directly from File Explorer. You can summarize, ask questions, and compare up to five files. The process supports Microsoft 365 files, PDFs, and web files. Microsoft 365 users have long been able to turn to Copilot on the web to analyze and answer questions about their documents and other files. But now they can get help from Microsoft's AI di

Topics: copilot file files microsoft questions

Shop Amazon

Microsoft's cloud service restored after reports of cut cables in the Red Sea

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-06 08:23:12

Microsoft said its Azure cloud platform has returned to normal service after an incident of cut underwater cables that played out over Saturday. The tech giant reported "undersea fiber cuts" in the Red Sea on Saturday morning, which disrupted Azure service throughout the Middle East and led to potential "increased latency" for users. Microsoft said that the latency issue was resolved by Saturday evening and was able to reroute the Azure traffic through other paths. Microsoft didn't provide a re

Topics: azure cables microsoft service undersea

Shop Amazon

Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features

news.ycombinator.com Thomas Claburn 2025-10-06 00:44:07

Among the software developers who use Microsoft's GitHub, the most popular community discussion in the past 12 months has been a request for a way to block Copilot, the company's AI service, from generating issues and pull requests in code repositories. The second most popular discussion – where popularity is measured in upvotes – is a bug report that seeks a fix for the inability of users to disable Copilot code reviews. Both of these questions, the first opened in May and the second opened a

Topics: code copilot github microsoft said

Shop Amazon

Microsoft now enforces MFA on Azure Portal sign-ins for all tenants

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-07 01:32:05

Microsoft says it has been enforcing multifactor authentication (MFA) for Azure Portal sign-ins across all tenants since March 2025. The company's Azure MFA enforcement efforts were announced in May 2024 when Redmond began implementing mandatory MFA for all users signing into Azure to administer resources. One year ago, in August 2024, Microsoft also warned Entra global admins to enable MFA for their tenants by October 15, 2024, to ensure users don't lose access to admin portals. After comple

Topics: authentication azure mfa microsoft sign

Shop Amazon

The Lenovo Legion Go 2 will get Xbox-flavored Windows in spring 2026

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-10-07 13:54:30

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The just-fully-announced Legion Go 2 will be the first handheld outside of Asus that’s confirmed to get the new Xbox full-screen experience. Lenovo spokesperson Jeff Witt tells me buyers will be able to manually switch the handheld to Xbox FSE after it

Topics: ally asus handheld microsoft xbox

Shop Amazon

Microsoft gives US students a free year of Microsoft 365 Personal

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-07 21:31:03

Microsoft announced that starting this Thursday, all college students in the United States can get a free year of Microsoft 365 Personal. For everyone else, a yearly Microsoft 365 Personal subscription costs $99.99. It provides ransomware protection for photos and files stored on OneDrive, 1 TB of secure cloud storage, and can be used on up to five devices simultaneously. As Microsoft President Brad Smith also revealed yesterday, students who claim their free subscription can also receive a 50

Topics: 365 ai microsoft personal students

Shop Amazon

Microsoft Goes Back to BASIC, Open-Sources Bill Gates’ Code

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-08 05:15:46

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On Wednesday, the company announced that it would make the source code for Microsoft BASIC for the 6502 Version 1.1 publicly available and open-source. The code is now uploaded to GitHub under an MIT license (with a cheeky commit time stamp of “48 years ago”). Microsoft called the code—written by the com

Topics: basic code commodore company microsoft

Shop Amazon

Xbox engineer brings Windows Mixed Reality headsets back to life

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-10-08 13:28:48

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. Windows Mixed Reality headsets were left in a non-functional state last year, after Microsoft suddenly discontinued the platform with its 24H2 update to Windows 11. Now, an Xbox engineer at Microsoft is bringing these headsets back to life, thanks to a new driver that enables SteamVR suppor

Topics: driver microsoft mixed reality windows

Shop Amazon

Microsoft 365 Personal is now free for US college students for a year

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-10-08 14:14:40

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 giving away Microsoft 365 Personal subscriptions to all US college students. This subscription gives students free access to Microsoft’s Office apps and the Copilot AI assistant integration for a year, after which the students are eligible for a 50 percent discount to continue

Topics: 365 ai education microsoft students

Shop Amazon

OpenAI is building an AI jobs platform that could challenge Microsoft’s LinkedIn

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-10-08 15:38:11

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (L) attends a meeting of the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Education in the East Room of the White House on September 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. OpenAI has announced it is developing an AI-centered jobs platform as part of broader efforts to expand AI literacy, and as the company grows its consumer and business-facing AI applications. The ChatGPT maker's "OpenAI Jobs Platform" will utilize AI to help connect qualified job candidates to companies, whic

Topics: ai jobs microsoft openai platform

Shop Amazon

MS-BASIC 1.1 introduced programming to a generation - now you can download it for free

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-10-09 05:24:02

Doug Wilson/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. If, like my ZDNET colleague David Gerwitz and I, you were tinkering with computers in 1975, you badly wanted an MITS Altair 8080 computer, the first PC. To build software on it, most of us used Altair BASIC. A pair of

Topics: basic language microsoft ms software

Shop Amazon

Microsoft open-sources Bill Gates’ 6502 BASIC from 1978

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-09 16:56:13

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through custom adaptations. The company posted 6,955 lines of assembly language code to GitHub under an MIT license, allowing anyone to freely use, modify, and distribute the code that helped launch the personal computer revolution. "Rick Weiland and I (Bill Gates) wrote the 6502 BASIC," Gates commented on the

Topics: 6502 basic code commodore microsoft

Shop Amazon

Microsoft is about to shake up its Copilot pricing for businesses

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-10-09 21:00:00

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. It’s no secret that Microsoft has been struggling to sell its Copilot AI assistant to businesses. The steep pricing has put many businesses off paying extra for Microsoft’s AI services, especially when OpenAI’s ChatGPT has been gaining traction in the all-important enterprise market. Micros

Topics: 365 agents ai copilot microsoft

Shop Amazon

Microsoft open-sources its 6502 version of BASIC from 1976

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-10-10 21:18:23

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. After years of unofficial copies of Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC floating around on the internet, the software giant has released the code under an open-source license. 6502 BASIC was one of Microsoft’s first pieces of software, adapted in 1976 by Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates and early employee

Topics: 6502 basic commodore microsoft source

Shop Amazon

Latest Tech News

Nebius stock soars nearly 50% on Microsoft AI deal

Microsoft reportedly plans to start using Anthropic models to power some of Office 365's Copilot features

Microsoft to lessen reliance on OpenAI by buying AI from rival Anthropic

Microsoft September 2025 Patch Tuesday fixes 81 flaws, two zero-days

Microsoft says employees will be expected in office three days a week

Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office

Microsoft mandates a return to office

Nebius shares soar 40% on Microsoft AI deal

Microsoft: Anti-spam bug blocks links in Exchange Online, Teams

Windows 11 SSD issues blamed on reviewers using ‘early versions of firmware’

Xbox is coming to cars thanks to an LG and Microsoft partnership

How to undo OneDrive Backup and restore your personal files to your Windows 11 PC

Is OOXML Artifically Complex?

World Nuclear Association Welcomes Microsoft Corporation as Newest Member

Microsoft doubles down on small modular reactors and fusion energy

Microsoft Promises Windows 10 Users Free Security Updates for a Year – but There Are Strings Attached

Copilot's new File Explorer tricks are serious OneDrive time-savers - how to try them

Microsoft's cloud service restored after reports of cut cables in the Red Sea

Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features

Microsoft now enforces MFA on Azure Portal sign-ins for all tenants

The Lenovo Legion Go 2 will get Xbox-flavored Windows in spring 2026

Microsoft gives US students a free year of Microsoft 365 Personal

Microsoft Goes Back to BASIC, Open-Sources Bill Gates’ Code

Xbox engineer brings Windows Mixed Reality headsets back to life

Microsoft 365 Personal is now free for US college students for a year

OpenAI is building an AI jobs platform that could challenge Microsoft’s LinkedIn

MS-BASIC 1.1 introduced programming to a generation - now you can download it for free

Microsoft open-sources Bill Gates’ 6502 BASIC from 1978

Microsoft is about to shake up its Copilot pricing for businesses

Microsoft open-sources its 6502 version of BASIC from 1976

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising

Latest Tech News

Trending Topics

Hot Now

Popular

Emerging

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising