Published on: 2025-06-28 20:03:09
Microsoft’s annual Build conference didn’t go smoothly, thanks to disruptions by protests of the company’s ties to Israel. After one, a flustered Microsoft employee accidentally displayed confidential messages about Walmart’s AI expansion. Former Microsoft software engineers Hossam Nasr and Vaniya Agrawal interrupted a presentation on best security practices for AI as part of planned protests by No Azure for Apartheid, an organization denouncing Microsoft selling its products and services for u
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-03 16:14:35
Microsoft on Monday became one of the first hyperscalers to provide managed access to Grok, the AI model developed by billionaire Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI. Available through Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry platform, Grok — specifically Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini — will “have all the service-level agreements Azure customers expect from any Microsoft product,” says Microsoft. They’ll also be billed directly by Microsoft, as is the case with the other models hosted in Azure AI Foundry. When Musk anno
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is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. I reported in my Notepad newsletter earlier this month that Microsoft was getting ready to host Elon Musk’s Grok AI models, and now it’s official. At Microsoft’s Build developer conference today, the company confirmed it’s expanding its Azure AI Foundry models list to include Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini from xAI. “These models will have all the service level agreements (SLAs) Azure
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Fellow Microsoft workers and Microsoft leadership, By now you may have seen or heard of my disruption at the Microsoft Build keynote this morning. I have been working as a firmware engineer under Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure (AHSI) for the past 4 years. As a Microsoft worker - while I’ve had positive experiences here, working and learning with many incredible people - I can no longer stand by in silence as Microsoft continues to facilitate Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the Palestinia
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-03 16:00:00
Microsoft on Monday became one of the first hyperscalers to provide managed access to Grok, the AI model developed by billionaire Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI. Available through Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry platform, Grok — specifically Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini — will “have all the service-level agreements Azure customers expect from any Microsoft product,” says Microsoft. They’ll also be billed directly by Microsoft, as is the case with the other models hosted in Azure AI Foundry. When Musk anno
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-11 00:51:45
NurPhoto / Getty Images Would you believe Microsoft has announced a new Linux distribution service for its Azure cloud service? You should. For many years, the most popular operating system on Azure has not been Windows Server, it's been Linux. Last time I checked, in 2024, Azure Linux Platforms Group Program Manager Jack Aboutboul told me that 60% of Azure Marketplace offerings and more than 60% of virtual machine cores use Linux. Those figures mean it's sensible for Microsoft to make it easi
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Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, speaking on CNBC's "Squawk Box" outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22, 2025. Microsoft shares popped 7.6% Thursday after the software giant issued strong guidance and robust cloud growth drove a top- and bottom-line beat in the third quarter. Shares notched their best day since November 2022. Azure revenues topped estimates, growing 33% year over year. Microsoft attributed 16 points of that growth to artificial intelligence. Analys
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Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, speaking on CNBC's "Squawk Box" outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22, 2025. Microsoft shares popped 9% Thursday after the software giant issued strong guidance, and robust cloud growth drove a top-and-bottom line beat in the third quarter. Shares are on pace for their best day since March 2020. Azure revenues topped estimates, growing 33% year over year. Microsoft attributed 16 points of that growth to artificial intelligence. Ana
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Microsoft has announced that it will soon introduce paid subscriptions for Windows Server 2025 hotpatching, a service that enables admins to install security updates without restarting. The company urged admins to try hotpatching free of charge before it becomes generally available in July, when they'll have to pay for a subscription to test it. However, Redmond also warned those currently testing Windows Server 2025 hotpatching in preview to disenroll on or before June 30 so that they're not
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17 Mar 2023 [Edit: 17 Mar 2025 ] ⏱ 5 mn For a new project, I needed to use Keycloak as an Authentication Provider in a Spring Boot WebFlux application. Since the company I work for has a Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory), the ideal solution was to connect Entra ID as an Identity Provider in Keycloak using OpenID Connect. Despite the number of articles on the subject, it took me some time to find the correct configuration and discover certain tricks to finalize the setup. Her
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Experience the latest in AI innovation. Join Microsoft at the NVIDIA GTC AI Conference. Learn more and register. The critical moment of ChatGPT The release of ChatGPT by OpenAI in November 2022 marked another significant milestone in the evolution of AI. ChatGPT, a large language model capable of generating human-like text, demonstrated the potential of AI to understand and generate natural language. This capability opened up new possibilities for AI applications, from customer service to co
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Microsoft kicked five employees out of a town hall event yesterday because they were protesting the company’s contracts with the Israeli military. Microsoft is providing artificial intelligence models to the Israeli military to help them fight its wars in Gaza and Lebanon, a business move that’s seen as a moral stain on the company by some of its employees. On February 25, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was on hand at the company’s campus in Redmond, Washington to talk about new products. On the b
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Microsoft has fixed an issue that caused Entra ID DNS authentication failures when using the company's Seamless SSO and Microsoft Entra Connect Sync. In an update to its Azure status page, Microsoft says these problems were caused by a recent DNS change that triggered DNS resolution failures for the autologon.microsoftazuread.sso.com domain when customers tried to access Azure services between 17:18 UTC and 18:35 UTC on February 25, 2025. "What do we know so far? As part of a cleanup effort to
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