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Microsoft has quietly added a formal, anonymous channel inside its employee Integrity Portal called Trusted Technology Review, a procedural change meant to give more direct lines for staff to raise ethical, legal, or human‑rights concerns about how Microsoft products and contracts are developed and deployed — and it arrives amid sustained internal and public scrutiny after investigative reporting alleged that Israeli military intelligence used Microsoft Azure at scale to process intercepted...

Microsoft’s customer‑facing apology and refund program over the Copilot rollout in Australia has not soothed the storm — it’s amplified it, uncovering operational glitches and fresh regulatory leverage for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) as the regulator presses ahead with Federal Court proceedings alleging millions were misled by how Microsoft presented subscription choices. Background Microsoft integrated its generative‑AI assistant Copilot into consumer...

The October robbery at the Louvre that stripped the Galerie d'Apollon of eight pieces of the French Crown Jewels — an audacious daylight heist carried out in under eight minutes — has produced an almost surreal postscript: according to investigative reporting, the museum's video-surveillance server once used the password "LOUVRE." Background / Overview The theft itself was textbook cinematic misdirection: a small crew dressed as construction workers drove a truck-mounted lift to a...

Lakeside Software has launched a new SysTrack Cloud region in Microsoft Azure’s India footprint, promising lower latency, stronger data residency controls, and simplified scaling for enterprises operating in India and nearby markets—and the move arrives at a moment when hyperscale cloud capacity, AI-readiness, and regulatory locality are rising to the top of IT procurement checklists. Background What Lakeside announced and why it matters On November 5, 2025, Lakeside Software announced...

Microsoft and Abu Dhabi’s G42 have committed to a 200-megawatt expansion of data‑center capacity in the United Arab Emirates — to be built and operated through G42’s Khazna Data Centers subsidiary — a move the partners say will come online in phases beginning before the end of 2026 and that sits inside Microsoft’s broader, $15.2 billion UAE investment program through 2029. Background Over the past two years the UAE has pursued an explicit strategy to become a regional and global hub for...

Pantone has quietly pushed one of the most ubiquitous tactile standards of design into the world of conversational AI: the new Pantone Palette Generator, a chat-driven assistant embedded in Pantone Connect that promises rapid, forecast‑backed color palettes powered by Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI stack. The feature launched in open beta on November 5, 2025 and is presented as a fusion of Pantone’s Color Institute research with retrieval‑augmented generation and agentic orchestration from...

Runtime errors are the class of software failures that show up after an app has launched — the program compiles correctly but trips over an unexpected condition while running, causing crashes, freezes, or odd behavior; this practical guide explains what runtime errors are, why they happen on Windows, and gives a prioritized, step‑by‑step toolkit to fix them fast and reliably for both end users and IT pros. Background Runtime errors sit between two familiar problem buckets: compile‑time...

Microsoft quietly pulled the plug on the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA), but that doesn’t mean Windows 11 users are bereft of Android apps — they aren’t tied to Google Play on the desktop the way they once were, and there are safe, practical paths to keep using Android utilities on a PC. The official deprecation of WSA and the Amazon Appstore on Windows (effective March 5, 2025) is the key change; it removes the simplest native route to run Android apps on Windows, but the two most...

Microsoft has pulled back the curtain on Known Issue Rollback (KIR), the behind-the-scenes mechanism that lets Windows selectively undo problematic non‑security changes delivered in updates—using runtime feature flags, Group Policy templates, and the Windows Update cloud to flip specific behaviors back to their prior state without uninstalling entire updates. Background Windows updates are a constant trade-off between delivering new fixes and avoiding regressions. Historically, when an...

Microsoft’s return to a recurring BitLocker recovery bug — one that can force affected PCs into the 48‑digit recovery screen after installing October cumulative updates — is more than a one‑off irritation; it’s a stark reminder that Windows update rollouts still face fragile interactions with pre‑boot security and platform power states. Background The October servicing wave released on October 14, 2025 included cumulative updates that, in a subset of installs, caused affected devices to boot...

Windows 11 makes keeping your system clock accurate easy: enable a single toggle in Settings and Windows will sync with internet time servers, automatically handle daylight‑saving adjustments, and—when necessary—let you force an immediate sync or change the time zone manually. The short how‑to in the supplied Windows Report tutorial walks readers through the essential steps (Settings → Time & Language → Date & Time → Set time automatically), offers optional troubleshooting (Sync now...

A Daily Mail screenshot of Elon Musk on the Joe Rogan Experience, fed into Microsoft Copilot with the prompt “what would Elon Musk look like without hair transplants or weight‑loss drugs,” produced an exaggerated, grotesque AI‑generated portrait — a small stunt that illuminates much larger questions about generative AI, media practice, health reporting, and the limits of reconstructive imagery. Background / Overview Elon Musk’s public appearance and physical history have repeatedly become...

Microsoft’s abrupt reshaping of Microsoft 365 subscription tiers — folding Copilot into consumer plans, raising renewal prices, and failing to clearly disclose a non‑AI “Classic” alternative — has sparked a regulatory showdown in Australia, a public apology from Microsoft and a refund offer to affected subscribers, while raising urgent questions about subscription UX, disclosure obligations and the monetisation of AI features in everyday software. Background / Overview Microsoft began...

In a month when Microsoft continued to expand Copilot’s reach, hardened Teams against a sophisticated supply‑chain campaign, and pushed new hybrid‑work automations into the client, the November Microsoft Teams conversation felt less like a monthly update and more like a strategic pivot: Teams is becoming simultaneously more collaborative, more integrated with AI, and more entangled in enterprise governance conversations. The highlights — a reported email‑to‑chat convenience that lowers the...

Infosys’ new AI Agent for the energy sector marks a concrete step from marketing talk to operational automation: the solution stitches together Infosys Topaz, Infosys Cobalt, and Microsoft’s Copilot Studio and Azure OpenAI Foundry models (including legacy ChatGPT‑4o capabilities) to convert field and engineering data into conversational, actionable insights aimed at improving safety, reducing non‑productive time (NPT), and speeding decisions on wells and assets. Background The energy...

Microsoft Copilot’s Week 10 card for the NFL — published as part of USA TODAY’s ongoing experiment — reads like a fast, tidy primer for bettors and casual readers: one-line winners, precise final scores, and a compact explanation for each pick. The experiment again showcased the assistant’s strength at generating readable narratives and consistent heuristics, but the project also reinforced the same, nagging editorial concerns: data freshness, overprecision, and the human work required to...

The quiet hum of massive data centers and the clang of severance notices now define Seattle’s tech landscape: while Amazon, Microsoft and other regional giants pour billions into artificial intelligence infrastructure, the same companies are simultaneously shrinking corporate workforces — a paradox that has left managers, engineers and entire neighborhoods grappling with optimism about new AI products and profound anxiety about careers, community stability and operational resilience...

SACHI’s announcement that it has partnered with Microsoft Azure to power its pixel‑streamed, Unreal Engine 5 worlds marks a bold attempt to merge AAA cloud streaming with Web3 tokenomics — a combination that promises instant, console‑quality play from any browser while tying in decentralized ownership and in‑game economies. The claim is simple and headline‑friendly: stream full Unreal Engine 5 experiences from the cloud (no downloads, no high‑end GPU required) and use $SACHI to access...

Nebius’s Token Factory is the latest, and arguably most calculated, salvo in the unfolding competition for enterprise AI inference: a single platform that promises freedom from hyperscaler lock‑in, turnkey production inference at scale, and the operational guarantees large customers demand — all delivered from a rapidly expanding “neocloud” that only months ago signed a multi‑billion dollar supply deal with Microsoft. Overview Nebius unveiled Nebius Token Factory as a production‑grade...

Microsoft Azure suffered a regional disruption on 5 November when a reported datacenter “thermal event” in its West Europe cloud region forced automated cooling and hardware-protection actions that took a subset of storage scale units offline and produced degraded performance across numerous services — an incident that underlines how physical datacenter events can cascade into broad cloud outages and why redundancy choices matter now more than ever. Background / Overview Microsoft’s West...