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Ryan Roslansky, the former LinkedIn CEO, announced on Thursday that he is leaving Microsoft at the end of the year, closing out nearly 18 years across LinkedIn and its parent company. He cited reluctance to relocate and work full-time, every day, from Microsoft's Washington office as a factor in his decision.
xAI has released Grok for Intune, a standalone version of its Grok AI assistant app designed for organizations using Microsoft Intune to manage devices. The app supports Intune Mobile Application Management, enforces company app protection policies, and requires sign-in with a work email. It is now available on the App Store and includes Grok's standard features like chat, image and video generation, voice mode, and live camera analysis.
Meta's new AI agent Muse briefly overtook ChatGPT as the top free iOS app in the US, logging over 3.4 million downloads in its first week. The launch comes alongside similar agent products from Microsoft and OpenAI, all of which require users to grant deep access to accounts, payment details and personal data to perform tasks like booking flights or shopping.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced in a Thursday memo that Ryan Roslansky, who led LinkedIn for six years, will leave the company at the end of 2026. Roslansky had joined LinkedIn in 2009 and became its CEO in 2020, overseeing membership growth from 700 million to 1.3 billion before taking on broader Microsoft 365 and Copilot leadership duties earlier this year. Dan Shapero, LinkedIn's former COO, already succeeded him as LinkedIn CEO.
Microsoft's 2026 Digital Defense Report states that threat actors are currently using AI to discover and exploit vulnerabilities faster than defenders can patch them. The company says AI has cut the typical gap between vulnerability discovery and weaponization to under 24 hours, while remediation remains slow due to weak testing infrastructure in many systems. Microsoft expects this imbalance to persist for several years before defenders catch up.
Symantec reports that the Warlock ransomware group, also tracked as Longlegs or Storm-2603, has recently focused attacks on organizations in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries. Over the past two months the group hit four high-value targets: a water utility, a telecom provider, a regional government body, and a university, gaining initial access via Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities including the ToolShell exploit chain.
New data shows U.S. tech sector layoff announcements rose in September, led by cuts at Uber Technologies, PayPal and Microsoft, even as overall U.S. layoff announcements declined for the month. Total tech industry job cuts for the year so far stand at 165,925.
Ryan Roslansky, who has led LinkedIn since 2020 and took on oversight of Microsoft 365's Copilot strategy last year, announced he is leaving the company. In an internal memo, he said the decision stemmed from a need to be based full-time in Redmond, while his family remains in the Bay Area. He credited CEO Satya Nadella and his teams for LinkedIn surpassing a billion members and nearly tripling its business during his tenure.
Satya Nadella presented a redesigned Copilot at an invite-only event for enterprise customers, describing it as an 'OS for work.' Microsoft has merged its consumer and enterprise Copilot apps into one interface, adding coding capabilities, an agent called Autopilot, and deeper Office integration, replacing the earlier consumer design shaped by Inflection AI's Pi assistant.
Microsoft has turned on its Windows settings backup and restore tool by default for Microsoft Entra-joined and Entra hybrid-joined enterprise devices upgraded to Windows 11 26H2, released September 29. The feature, previously opt-in since its 2024 unveiling and general availability in August 2025, now backs up settings and app lists automatically unless an admin has already configured the policy. Restore still requires explicit admin setup, and the default-on change excludes devices in DMA-regulated regions or sovereign/restricted cloud environments.
In an interview with The New York Times, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma stated plainly that 'Xbox is not for sale,' adding that Microsoft will pursue whatever partnerships or operating model changes are needed for long-term success. The comments follow a summer of heavy layoffs across Xbox, including the closure of Ninja Theory, the divestment of Double Fine, and the shutdown of Halo Studios with the franchise handed to Call of Duty's team.
Microsoft reports that attackers have been actively exploiting a critical unauthenticated command-injection vulnerability in the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, tracked as CVE-2026-73570, to access and exfiltrate email and credential data. Synacor patched the flaw on July 20 but did not publicly disclose it for over three weeks, and the Shadowserver Foundation found 274 compromised instances among roughly 10,000 servers still running the software. Microsoft observed attackers scanning for vulnerable servers, confirming exploitation, then deploying web shells, reverse shells, and persistence tools before accessing and archiving mailbox data for transfer.