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The old Microsoft UEFI CA from 2011 has expired, but thanks to coordinated efforts by Debian and other distributions, new dual-signed shim binaries are being deployed to prevent boot failures.
A retrospective on the rise and fall of Visual Basic on Windows 3.1, exploring Bill Gates' ambition and Microsoft's dominance in the personal computing landscape.
The New York Times updated its copyright lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging that Microsoft built a supercomputer specifically designed to train AI on copyrighted works, including NYT articles, without permission.
A new analysis of five million Microsoft 365 Copilot conversations reveals how people actually use AI at work, presented by Scott Counts.
微软发布了Coreutils for Windows，为Windows提供原生Unix核心工具，使得Codex等工具可以在Windows上运行大多数Linux命令。
Microsoft open-sourced JARVIS, a system that uses a GPT controller to orchestrate hundreds of AI models from HuggingFace for multi-modal tasks.
Microsoft has extended the Windows 10 Extended Security Update (ESU) program by another year due to Windows 11's hardware requirements and AI-focused features slowing adoption, with Windows 10 still running on 26% of PCs.
The article discusses how ongoing component shortages and RAM price increases are leading to higher prices for new computers, tablets, and other hardware from companies like Valve, Microsoft, and Apple, making it a bad time for consumers to buy new tech.
Microsoft AI Frontiers introduces BenchPress, a method to predict benchmark scores without running the actual benchmarks, saving time and computation.
Microsoft is increasing Xbox console prices by $100-$150 starting August 1st, citing a component crisis and memory/storage price increases of over 2.5x.
Microsoft quietly extends Windows 10 support by one year, providing continued updates and security patches for users.
Researchers from MIT and Microsoft developed an intelligent system that automatically optimizes agentic workflows, reducing computational resources and energy usage while maintaining performance.
Microsoft has introduced more affordable 12-inch Surface Pro and 13-inch Surface Laptop models with 8GB of RAM instead of 16GB, starting at $849 and $949 respectively, but without support for Copilot Plus AI features.
A new peer-reviewed paper in Nature argues that Microsoft's claims of achieving a topological qubit with its Majorana 1 chip were not convincingly demonstrated, suggesting the observed signatures could be from quantum dots instead.
Microsoft AI Frontiers releases a family of browser agents that can fill forms and make reservations using pixel-to-action with observe-think-act loops. Available in 4B, 9B, and 27B parameter sizes for deployment on modest hardware.
A tweet sharing five free resources for learning agentic code, including the Microsoft AI Agents for Beginners course and the Hugging Face Agents Course.
A scientist published a peer-reviewed critique in Nature arguing that Microsoft's quantum computing breakthrough claims are invalid due to basic Python errors and omitted data, suggesting the company's topological quantum computer is far from realization.
Microsoft's NextLat paper proposes a self-supervised training method where transformers predict their next hidden state instead of just the next token, leading to more compact world models, better planning and reasoning, and up to 3.3x faster generation.
Microsoft has open-sourced Fast Context, a tool designed to accelerate context retrieval in AI applications.
A rumor suggests that major gaming publishers like Sony and Microsoft are planning mass layoffs and studio closures, with Bethesda, BioWare, and others named as potentially affected.