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Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Exploits, Global Security News, Microsoft, Patch Tuesday, Ransomware, Research, security patch, Threats, vulnerabilities, zero days

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday closes 72 vulnerabilities, including 5 zero-days

Microsoft addressed 72 vulnerabilities affecting its core products and underlying systems, including five actively exploited zero-days across various Windows components, the company said in its latest security update Tuesday. “This is now the eight consecutive Patch Tuesday on which Microsoft has published zero-day vulnerabilities without evaluating any of them as critical severity at time of…

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise, Global Security News, Hardware, Microsoft, Microsoft Build

Microsoft Build 2025: What to expect, from Azure to Copilot upgrades

Microsoft is hosting its annual Build developer conference next week from May 19 to 22. The event is guaranteed to include announcements regarding new AI integrations, services, and apps, including for Windows. At last year’s Build, Microsoft announced an integration of Copilot into Microsoft Teams, Copilot+ AI-powered PCs, Windows Volumetric Apps for Meta Quest headsets,…

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Cybersecurity, Global Security News, Microsoft, OneDrive, privacy, SBN News, Security Bloggers Network

Microsoft Listens to Security Concerns and Delays New OneDrive Sync

  Misuse of the newly announced Microsoft OneDrive synchronization feature puts corporate security and personal privacy at serious risk in ways not likely understood by the users. Microsoft wants people to connect their personal OneDrive file share with their work systems, synchronizing potentially private files onto their enterprise managed PCs. The problem is having these…

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AI, deepseek, Global Security News, Microsoft

Microsoft employees are banned from using DeepSeek app, president says 

Microsoft employees aren’t allowed to use DeepSeek due to data security and propaganda concerns, Microsoft vice chairman and president Brad Smith said in a Senate hearing today. “At Microsoft we don’t allow our employees to use the DeepSeek app,” Smith said, referring to DeepSeek’s application service (which is available on both desktop and mobile.) Smith…

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AI, Global Security News, Microsoft, Phi

Microsoft’s most capable new Phi 4 AI model rivals the performance of far larger systems

Microsoft launched several new “open” AI models on Wednesday, the most capable of which is competitive with OpenAI’s o3-mini on at least one benchmark. All of the new pemissively licensed models — Phi 4 mini reasoning, Phi 4 reasoning, and Phi 4 reasoning plus — are “reasoning” models, meaning they’re able to spend more time…

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, compute, data centers, Enterprise, Global Security News, Microsoft

Microsoft expects some AI capacity constraints this quarter

Microsoft customers could encounter service disruptions when using AI services due to demand outpacing the company’s ability to bring data centers online, an executive warned during the company’s earnings call Microsoft’s EVP and CFO Amy Hood said during the company’s fiscal 2025 third-quarter earnings call Wednesday the company may face AI capacity constraints as early…

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AI, Global Security News, In Brief, llamacon, Microsoft

Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AI

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20%-30% of code inside the company’s repositories was “written by software” — meaning AI — during a fireside chat with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Meta’s LlamaCon conference on Tuesday. Nadella gave the figure after Zuckerberg asked roughly how much of Microsoft’s code is AI-generated today. The Microsoft CEO…

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AI, bitnet, Global Security News, Microsoft

Microsoft researchers say they’ve developed a hyper-efficient AI model that can run on CPUs

Microsoft researchers claim they’ve developed the largest-scale 1-bit AI model, also known as a “bitnet,” to date. Called BitNet b1.58 2B4T, it’s openly available under an MIT license and can run on CPUs, including Apple’s M2. Bitnets are essentially compressed models designed to run on lightweight hardware. In standard models, weights, the values that define…

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Asia Pacific, china, critical infrastructure, Geopolitics, Global Security News, Microsoft, National Security Agency, National Security Agency (NSA)

Chinese law enforcement places NSA operatives on wanted list over alleged cyberattacks

China stepped up its allegations of U.S. cyberattacks Tuesday, with local law enforcement saying they were investigating three National Security Agency operatives they had placed on a wanted list and a national official condemning the alleged attacks. State media outlet Xinhau advanced the claims in two stories, one detailing a hacking campaign during the Asian…

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, debugging, Global Security News, Microsoft, Research

AI models still struggle to debug software, Microsoft study shows

AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other top AI labs are increasingly being used to assist with programming tasks. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in October that 25% of new code at the company is generated by AI, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has expressed ambitions to widely deploy AI coding models within the social…

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, debugging, Global Security News, Microsoft, Research

AI models still struggle to debug software, Microsoft study shows

AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other top AI labs are increasingly being used to assist with programming tasks. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in October that 25% of new code at the company is generated by AI, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has expressed ambitions to widely deploy AI coding models within the social…

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, debugging, Global Security News, Microsoft, Research

AI models still struggle to debug software, Microsoft study shows

AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other top AI labs are increasingly being used to assist with programming tasks. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in October that 25% of new code at the company is generated by AI, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has expressed ambitions to widely deploy AI coding models within the social…

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Chris Goettl, CLFS, Common Log File System, CVE-2025-26671, CVE-2025-27480, CVE-2025-27482, CVE-2025-29824, Exploits, Global Security News, ivanti, Latest Warnings, Microsoft, Satnam Narang, Security Tools, The Coming Storm, Time to Patch, Windows, Windows Remote Desktop Services

Patch Tuesday, April 2025 Edition

Microsoft today released updates to plug at least 121 security holes in its Windows operating systems and software, including one vulnerability that is already being exploited in the wild. Eleven of those flaws earned Microsoft’s most-dire “critical” rating, meaning malware or malcontents could exploit them with little to no interaction from Windows users. The zero-day…

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Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Exploits, Global Security News, Microsoft, Patch Tuesday, Ransomware, Research, security patch, Threats, vulnerabilities, zero days

Microsoft patches zero-day actively exploited in string of ransomware attacks

Microsoft addressed 126 vulnerabilities affecting its systems and core products, including a zero-day in the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) that’s been actively exploited in a series of ransomware attacks, the company said in its latest security update Tuesday. A group Microsoft tracks as Storm-2460 has exploited CVE-2025-29824 to initiate ransomware attacks “against a…

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Copilot, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Microsoft

Microsoft reportedly fires staff whose protest interrupted its Copilot event

On Monday, Microsoft reportedly terminated the roles of two software engineers, Ibtihal Aboussad and Vaniya Agrawal, who protested the company’s reported dealings with the Israeli military during Microsoft’s Copilot and 50th anniversary event last week. According to an internal message viewed by CNBC, Microsoft wrote that Aboussad could have raised concerns “confidentially with your manager,…

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AI, Copilot, Gaming, Global Security News, Microsoft, quake ii, TC

Microsoft releases AI-generated Quake II demo, but admits ‘limitations’

Microsoft has released a browser-based, playable level of the classic video game Quake II. This functions as a tech demo for the gaming capabilities of Microsoft’s Copilot AI platform — though by the company’s own admission, the experience isn’t quite the same as playing a well-made game. You can try it out for yourself, using…

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Gaming, Global Security News, Media & Entertainment, Microsoft, Minecraft, Warner Bros

‘A Minecraft Movie’ is on-track for a $135M opening weekend

The big screen adaptation of video game mega-franchise Minecraft brought in $58 million on Friday, putting it on-track for a $135 million opening weekend domestically — or potentially even more. That would give “A Minecraft Movie” the biggest opening of the year, beating out “Captain America: Brave New World” (which earned $88.8 million during its…

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Global Security News, Government & Policy, Microsoft, protest

Protester interrupts Microsoft Copilot keynote, says company has ‘blood on its hands’

A protester interrupted Microsoft’s Copilot-focused keynote Friday afternoon, calling attention to the company’s reported dealings with the Israeli military. “Shame on you,” the protester said. “You claim that you care about using AI for good, but Microsoft sells AI weapons to the Israeli military […] All of Microsoft has blood on its hands.” Microsoft Head…

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AI, Apps, Copilot, Global Security News, Microsoft

Microsoft’s Copilot can now browse the web and perform actions for you

For its 50th birthday, Microsoft is teaching its AI-powered Copilot chatbot a few new tricks. Copilot can now take action on “most websites,” Microsoft says, enabling it to book tickets, reserve restaurants, and more. The bot has gained the ability to remember specific things about you, similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, like your favorite food and…

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AI, data center, Enterprise, Global Security News, Microsoft

Microsoft reportedly pulls back on its data center plans

Microsoft has pulled back on data center projects around the world, Bloomberg reports, suggesting that the company is wary of expanding its cloud computing infrastructure too rapidly. Microsoft has halted talks for or delayed development sites of data centers in the U.K., Australia, North Dakota, Wisconsin, and Illinois, per Bloomberg. A spokesperson told the publication…

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