Microsoft's new write-once storage medium is constructed from quartz glass, stores data using lasers, and uses machine learning algorithms for decoding.

Now we're typing with scan lines!

Microsoft originally sought to become a 'carbon neutral' company, meaning it could generate carbon emissions as long as it offset them through other means, but "in short, neutral is not enough to address the world's needs," says Microsoft President Brad Smith.

The books category has disappeared from the Microsoft Store and you'll no longer be able to access purchased or rented ebooks from July. Expect a full refund, though.

Microsoft will probably deliver critical patches after it ends Windows 7 support in January 2020. But it's not guaranteed, so users and organizations should upgrade to Windows 10 now.

The leading desktop operating system continues to improve, adding refinements, tool updates, new visuals, and more control over updates.

Microsoft hopes to improve its software through AI research while OpenAI can take full advantage of the Azure cloud.

Artificial intelligence consumes immense processing resources, so data centers have to be both more powerful and more energy efficient.

Microsoft realizes you can use the sea as a giant heatsink and save a small fortune in cooling costs.

This is to create, produce and distribute content via the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.

If you use Microsoft Teams for collaboration, you should use it for operational messages too. You can use SAS to automate tailored notices to your Teams Channel.

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He had highlighted how cricket had inculcated various attributes in him, right from teamwork to competing with passion.

Microsoft set to unveil details about Windows 10 that can adapt PC applications to mobile devices

Teams enables teachers and students to connect over video-enabled remote classrooms, offering a host of interactive and collabora-tive tools on one platform

Microsoft announced it has acquired Semantic Machines, a conversational AI startup providing chatbots and AI chat apps founded in 2014 having $20.9 million in funding from investors. The acquisition will help Microsoft catch up with Amazon Alexa, though the latter is more focused on enabling consumer applications of conversational AI.

Microsoft will use Semantic Machine’s acquisition to establish a conversational AI center of excellence in Berkeley to help it innovate in natural language interfaces.

Microsoft has been stepping up its products in conversational AI. It launched the digital assistant Cortana in 2015, as well as social chatbots like XiaoIce. The latest acquisition can help Microsoft beef up its ‘enterprise AI’ offerings.

As the use of NLP (natural language processing) increases in IoT products and services, more startups are getting traction from investors and established players. In June last year, Josh.ai, avoice-controlled home automation software has raised $8M.

Followed by it was SparkCognition that raised $32.5M Series B for its NLP-based threat intelligence platform.

It appears Microsoft’s acquisition of Semantic Machines was motivated by the latter’s strong AI team. The team includes technology entrepreneur Daniel Roth who sold his previous startups Voice Signal Technologies and Shaser BioScience for $300M and $100M respectively. Other team members include Stanford AI Professor Percy Liang, developer of Google Assistant Core AI technology and former Apple chief speech scientist Larry Gillick.

scrrun.dll on Microsoft Windows 10 suffers from file creation, folder creation, and folder deletion vulnerabilities.

Multiple Microsoft Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/2003 HTML Help file loading hijack vulnerabilities exist. Proof of concept included.

Microsoft Windows WizardOpium local privilege escalation exploit.

CoronaBlue aka SMBGhost proof of concept exploit for Microsoft Windows 10 (1903/1909) SMB version 3.1.1. This script connects to the target host, and compresses the authentication request with a bad offset field set in the transformation header, causing the decompresser to buffer overflow and crash the target.

Microsoft Windows SMB version 3.1.1 suffers from a code execution vulnerability.

Microsoft Windows 10 SMB version 3.1.1 SMBGhost local privilege escalation exploit.

The Windows "net use" network logon type-3 command does not prompt for authentication when the built-in Administrator account is enabled and both remote and originating systems suffer from password reuse. This also works as "standard" user but unfortunately we do not gain high integrity privileges. However, it opens the door and increases the attack surface if the box we laterally move to has other vulnerabilities present.

Microsoft Windows suffers from an NtFilterToken ParentTokenId incorrect setting that allows for elevation of privileges.

In Microsoft Windows, by using the poorly documented SE_SERVER_SECURITY Control flag it is possible to set an owner different to the caller, bypassing security checks.

This Metasploit module exploits a logic flaw due to how the lpApplicationName parameter is handled. When the lpApplicationName contains a space, the file name is ambiguous. Take this file path as example: C:program fileshello.exe; The Windows API will try to interpret this as two possible paths: C:program.exe, and C:program fileshello.exe, and then execute all of them. To some software developers, this is an unexpected behavior, which becomes a security problem if an attacker is able to place a malicious executable in one of these unexpected paths, sometimes escalate privileges if run as SYSTEM. Some software such as OpenVPN 2.1.1, OpenSSH Server 5, and others have the same problem.