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Microsoft Hires Meta’s Former Engineering Head Jay Parikh

November 1, 2024 admin

Microsoft Corp, which is struggling to bring data centers online fast enough to meet the demand for its artificial intelligence products, hired one of the engineering chiefs who kept Facebook’s infrastructure humming. Jay Parikh will join the senior leadership team and report to Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chief executive officer. “There are very few leaders in…

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Iran’s cyber attacks against Israel surged since Gaza war: report

October 16, 2024 admin

Iran launched numerous social media operations to destabilise Israel, Microsoft said in a report. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Israel has become the top target of Iranian cyber attacks since the start of the Gaza war last year, while Tehran had focused primarily on the United States before the conflict, Microsoft said on Tuesday. “Following the…

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Russian Propaganda Group Behind Fake Kamala Harris Hit-And-Run Story: Microsoft

September 18, 2024 admin

The fake video claims that Kamala Harris left a teen paralyzed in an alleged hit-and-run case in 2011 Washington: A false claim circulating on social media that Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris left a 13-year-old girl paralyzed after an alleged hit-and-run in San Francisco in 2011 is the work of a covert Russian disinformation operation,…

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Nvidia Discusses Joining OpenAI’s Latest Funding Round

August 30, 2024 admin

In Nvidia’s latest quarterly report, released on Wednesday, revenue more than doubled to $30 billion Nvidia Corp., the world’s biggest chipmaker, has discussed joining a funding round for OpenAI that would value the artificial intelligence startup at more than $100 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. also have…

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OpenAI In Talks To Raise Funding At Over $100 Billion Valuation, WSJ Reports

August 29, 2024 admin

OpenAI In Talks To Raise Funding At Over 0 Billion Valuation, WSJ Reports

OpenAI backer Microsoft is also expected to put in money. OpenAI, the startup behind the popular ChatGPT, is reportedly in discussions to raise billions of dollars in a new funding round that could see it valued at above $100 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The funding round is expected to be led…

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Weeks After “Blue Screen Of Death”, Cyberattack Causes New Microsoft Outage

August 1, 2024 admin

The July 19 outage impacted airlines across the world. Less than two weeks after global outage, dubbed as “blue screen of death”, Microsoft suffered another similar incident, which the company said was triggered by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) cyberattack. According to Forbes, the latest attack was reported by several users on Tuesday in…

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Microsoft, Indian Startup Develop Solution To Halve Water Use In Industries

July 30, 2024 admin

A FluxGen spokesperson said the project can be scaled nationally to solve India’s water issues. Microsoft and Indian startup FluxGen have come up with a software solution to reduce water usage and detect leaks and wastage as several regions in India grapple with their worst water crises in recorded history. In their pilot projects, the…

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Google, Microsoft, Infosys, IIM B and Indian AI startups form new major coalition for Responsible AI in India

July 22, 2024 admin

Representational image of the Indian flag | Photo Credit: AP The first major multi-stakeholder coalition in India focused on the responsible development and deployment of AI technology, the Coalition for Responsible Evolution of AI (CoRE-AI), was created this week, bringing together over 30 key stakeholders in the tech space with a focus on fostering innovation…

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The Microsoft Windows ‘Glitch’ Is Actually A Warning For Today’s Tech

July 20, 2024 admin

Imagine a scene from Neuromancer: hackers breaking in, causing chaos with every keystroke. Now, flash back to this Friday. That sci-fi scenario? It’s suddenly not so fictional. A botched software update has just thrown real life into disarray. Planes grounded, emergency lines jammed, and check-in counters swamped with long, snaking lines of frustrated travellers. The…

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All About The Cybersecurity Giant Behind Global IT Outage

July 20, 2024 admin

CrowdStrike was founded in 2011 by George Kurtz CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity company behind a massive global IT outage, is a leader in its sector, known for building software defenses for the cloud computing age and exposing Russian and North Korean threats. Based in Austin, Texas, the company was founded in 2011 by George Kurtz, Dmitri…

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