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Microsoft 365 hit by outage, preventing access to emails and files
An ongoing Microsoft outage is preventing enterprise customers from accessing email inboxes, files, meetings, and other Microsoft cloud…
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Italy investigates Activision Blizzard for pushing in-game purchases
Italy has launched two investigations into Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard, alleging the company has engaged in “misleading and aggressive”…
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Anthropic taps former Microsoft India MD to lead Bengaluru expansion
Anthropic has appointed Irina Ghose, a former Microsoft India managing director, to lead its India business as the…
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Microsoft taps India’s Varaha for durable carbon removal offtake
Microsoft has signed a deal with Indian startup Varaha to buy more than 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide…
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Microsoft announces glut of new data centers but says it won’t let your electricity bill go up
Although public backlash against data centers has been intense over the past twelve months, all of the tech…
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Microsoft’s Nadella wants us to stop thinking of AI as ‘slop’
A couple of weeks after Merriam-Webster named “slop” as its word of the year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella…
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The year data centers went from backend to center stage
There was a time when most Americans had little to no knowledge about their local data center. Long…
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Meta is pausing its dream of sharing Quest’s Horizon OS with third-party headset makers
Meta says that it has paused its program to share Meta Horizon OS, the mixed reality operating system…
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Microsoft buys 3.6M metric tons of carbon removal from bioenergy plant
Microsoft announced Thursday it would buy 3.6 million carbon removal credits from a biofuels plant in Louisiana owned…
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State attorneys general warn Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, and other AI giants to fix ‘delusional’ outputs
After a string of disturbing mental health incidents involving AI chatbots, a group of state attorneys general sent…