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A security researcher claims Microsoft built a backdoor into BitLocker and releases an exploit, raising concerns about encryption integrity.
Satya Nadella defines the new equation for the AI age as 'Tokens per Dollar per Watt,' emphasizing the importance of infrastructure.
Microsoft open-sourced GridSFM, an AI foundation model for power systems. It uses graph neural networks to approximate AC-OPF solving, is topology-agnostic, and can serve as a warm start for exact solvers achieving a 1.45x speedup, while also providing feasibility classification capabilities.
Microsoft open-sourced the VS Code extension AI Toolkit, which integrates model selection, Playground, Agent building, batch testing, and evaluation into one interface, simplifying AI Agent development process.
Microsoft is rebranding Xbox to all-caps XBOX, following a fan poll and as part of a broader 'return of Xbox' strategy.
A deterministic action-level attestation architecture for AI mediation was developed and validated in discussions with Microsoft's engineering team. The author seeks investors or partners for the software architecture.
Microsoft released Lens, a 3.8B parameter text-to-image model on Hugging Face, capable of efficient training and high-resolution generation up to 1440×1440.
Microsoft releases Lens, a 3.8B-parameter foundational text-to-image model with efficient training and fast high-resolution generation, featuring dense-caption pre-training and mixed-resolution learning.
Microsoft releases Lens, a 3.8B-parameter foundational text-to-image model designed for efficient training and fast high-resolution generation, achieving competitive quality with reduced compute.
Microsoft is quietly seeking to acquire or partner with AI startups like Inception and considered Cursor, as it builds redundancy beyond OpenAI after amending their exclusive contract.
Microsoft released Fara-7B, a 7 billion parameter agentic small language model for computer use, achieving state-of-the-art performance among models of its size and competitive with larger systems.
WinUI is a modern UI layer for Windows apps, part of the Windows App SDK, offering Fluent Design controls and styles for building performant applications on Windows 10 and later.
A security researcher released a zero-day exploit called YellowKey that bypasses Microsoft BitLocker encryption on Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022/2025, allowing full access to locked drives using a USB stick; the exploit appears to operate as a backdoor, with files disappearing after use.
An anonymous researcher released two Microsoft zero-day exploits, YellowKey (BitLocker bypass) and GreenPlasma (privilege escalation), after Patch Tuesday, posing serious security risks for organizations.
DeepSpeed is an open-source deep learning optimization library from Microsoft that enables efficient distributed training and inference of large-scale models with features like ZeRO, 3D parallelism, and Mixture-of-Experts.
Microsoft patched 137 vulnerabilities, with a notable high-severity privilege escalation fix in Azure AI Foundry highlighting security risks in the infrastructure layer of AI applications.
Microsoft and other tech giants release security patches for May 2026, with AI from Anthropic's Project Glasswing aiding vulnerability discovery, resulting in near-record numbers of fixes.
OpenAI and Microsoft have agreed to cap their future revenue-sharing arrangement at $38 billion, fundamentally restructuring the financial terms of their strategic partnership.
Microsoft researchers propose a biologically-inspired memory architecture for LLM agents that incorporates mechanisms like sleep-phase consolidation and interference-based forgetting to manage persistent memory efficiently.
Microsoft Israel's country manager has departed following an internal investigation into ethical violations and transparency concerns regarding the branch's cloud contracts with Israel's Ministry of Defense and military intelligence units.