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ChatGPT isn’t the only chatbot that’s gaining users

OpenAI’s ChatGPT may be the world’s most popular chatbot app. But rival services are gaining, according to data from analytics firms Similarweb and Sensor Tower. SimilarWeb, which estimates traffic to websites including chatbot web apps, has recorded healthy recent upticks in usage across bots like Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s OpenAI-powered Copilot. Gemini’s web traffic grew…

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Microsoft adds AI-powered deep research tools to Copilot

Microsoft is introducing a “deep research” AI-powered tool in Microsoft 365 Copilot, its AI chatbot app. There’s been a raft of deep research agents launched recently across chatbots, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and xAI’s Grok. Powering them are so-called reasoning AI models, which posses the ability to think through problems and fact-check themselves —…

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Microsoft is exploring a way to credit contributors to AI training data

Microsoft is launching a research project to estimate the influence of specific training examples on the text, images, and other types of media that generative AI models create. That’s per a job listing dating back to December that was recently recirculated on LinkedIn. According to the listing, which seeks a research intern, the project will…

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Nation-state groups hit hundreds of organizations with Microsoft Windows zero-day

Cybercriminals working on behalf of at least six nation-states are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Windows to commit espionage, steal data and cryptocurrency, according to Trend Micro researchers. The vulnerability, which Trend Micro tracks as ZDI-CAN-25373, allows attackers to execute hidden malicious commands due to the way Windows displays the contents of shortcut…

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Microsoft patches 57 vulnerabilities, including 6 zero-days

Microsoft patched 57 vulnerabilities affecting its foundational systems and core products, including six actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities, the company said in its latest security update Tuesday. Four of the six zero-days, which were all added to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s known exploited vulnerabilities catalog, are high-severity on the CVSS scale.  The software defects…

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In another chess move with Microsoft, OpenAI is pouring $12B into CoreWeave

In a grandmaster-level chess move, OpenAI has signed a five-year, $11.9 billion agreement with the GPU-heavy cloud service provider CoreWeave, according to Reuters, which cites people close to the deal. The deal involves OpenAI receiving $350 million worth of equity in CoreWeave, the sources told Reuters. The private placement is said to be separate from…

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Microsoft appears to be working on 3D gaming experiences for Copilot

Microsoft appears to be working on 3D gaming experiences for Copilot, its AI-powered chatbot platform, according to a new job listing. The listing, published this week, seeks a senior software engineer based in Beijing specializing in 3D rendering engines, particularly engines typically used to build web browser-based video games (Babylon.js, three.js, and Unity). “Are you…

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Microsoft reportedly ramps up AI efforts to compete with OpenAI

Microsoft is accelerating its push to compete with OpenAI, its longtime collaborator, by developing its own powerful AI models and exploring alternatives to power products like Microsoft’s Copilot bot. Microsoft has developed its own AI “reasoning” models comparable to models like OpenAI’s o1 and o3-mini, the The Information reports. OpenAI is said to have refused…

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Microsoft IDs developers behind alleged generative AI hacking-for-hire scheme

Microsoft has identified individuals from Iran, China, Vietnam and the United Kingdom as primary players in an alleged international scheme to hijack and sell Microsoft accounts that could bypass safety guidelines for generative AI tools. In December, Microsoft petitioned a Virginia court to seize infrastructure and software from 10 unnamed individuals who the company claims…

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Report: OpenAI plans to shift compute needs from Microsoft to SoftBank

OpenAI is forecasting a major shift in the next five years around who it gets most of its computing power from, The Information reported on Friday. By 2030, OpenAI expects to get three-quarters of its data center capacity from Stargate, a project that’s expected to be heavily financed by SoftBank, one of OpenAI’s newest financial…

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Got a Microsoft Teams invite? Storm-2372 gang exploit device codes in global phishing attacks

Security experts have warned that a cybercriminal group has been running a malicious and inventive phishing campaign since August 2024 to break into organizations across Europe, North America, Africa, and the Middle East. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

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Threat researchers spot ‘device code’ phishing attacks targeting Microsoft accounts

Microsoft threat researchers discovered a series of what they are calling “device code” phishing attacks that allowed a suspected Russia-aligned threat group to gain access to and steal data from critical infrastructure organizations, the company said in research released Thursday. The group, which Microsoft tracks as Storm-2372, has targeted governments, IT services and organizations operating…

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Microsoft Security Update Notification in February of High-Risk Vulnerabilities in Multiple Products

Overview On February 12, NSFOCUS CERT detected that Microsoft released a security update patch for February, which fixed 63 security issues involving widely used products such as Windows, Microsoft Office, Azure, Apps, and Microsoft Visual Studio, including high-risk vulnerabilities such as privilege escalation and remote code execution. Among the vulnerabilities fixed in Microsoft’s monthly update…

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Russian state threat group shifts focus to US, UK targets

A subgroup of Seashell Blizzard has shifted its focus to targets in the U.S., Canada, Australia and the U.K. within the past year, expanding the scope of its malicious activity, Microsoft’s threat intelligence team said in a report released Wednesday. The initial-access operation, which Microsoft tracks as the “BadPilot campaign,” has allowed the Russian state…

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SGNL snags $30M for a new take on ID security based on zero-standing privileges

Security experts often describe identity as the “new perimeter” in the world of security: in the world of cloud services where network assets and apps can range far and wide, the biggest vulnerabilities are often leaked and spoofed log-in credentials.  A startup called SGNL has built a new approach that it believes is better at…

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Microsoft fixes 63 vulnerabilities, including 2 zero-days

Microsoft patched 63 vulnerabilities affecting some of its underlying systems and core products, the company said in its latest security update Tuesday, including Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Windows CoreMessaging and Windows Storage. More than two-thirds of the vulnerabilities covered in the update are high-severity flaws on the CVSS scale. Vulnerabilities with high-severity base scores run…

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Microsoft powers AI ambitions with 400 MW solar purchase

Microsoft has added another 389 megawatts of renewable power to its portfolio as the tech giant scrambles to meet the power demands required to match its AI ambitions.  The additional renewable power spans three solar projects developed by EDP Renewables North America — two in southern Illinois and one outside Austin, Texas. Microsoft is buying…

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