Microsoft has opened a formal, externally supervised review into allegations that its Azure cloud was used to store and process vast quantities of intercepted Palestinian communications — a probe that elevates a months‑long ethics and policy crisis inside the company into an urgent legal...
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Headline: When the Chamber Teaches AI: What Logansport’s Workshop Means for Small Businesses
Deck: On Aug. 15, 2025 the Logansport Cass County Chamber of Commerce packed a room for an introductory AI workshop. That turnout — and the questions that followed — shows small and medium businesses are...
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Microsoft has begun publicly testing a dramatic expansion of Copilot’s “vision” capabilities: a new Desktop Share mode that, when explicitly enabled by a user, lets Copilot Vision see and analyze an entire Windows desktop in real time. The feature is rolling out to Windows Insiders in markets...
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This week’s HR headlines lay bare a widening disconnect between how work gets done and how employers think it should be done: nearly half of employees report using banned AI tools to speed their tasks, the U.S. Department of Labor is offering $30 million in grants to push employer-led training...
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Cloud storage is convenient and often indispensable, but the recent run of high-profile account suspensions and provider errors makes one thing clear: putting all your important data into a single cloud vault is a recipe for avoidable heartbreak. Recent incidents involving locked OneDrive...
I nearly fell off my chair when I found screenshots of my ID cards pinned in Windows’ Clipboard history — and that moment is the exact reason I wiped my Clipboard history to protect my identity and sensitive work data. The fix itself is painfully simple (press Windows+V and use the Clear or...
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A Mission to Bring the Clean Energy Future
Subtitle: How a Microsoft Garage hackathon project — now a commercial workstream — is using generative AI to break permitting bottlenecks and accelerate the global energy transition
By: WindowsForum Staff Writer
Lede: A Microsoft Hackathon prototype...
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Microsoft has quietly begun embedding three new Microsoft 365 “companion” apps into the Windows 11 taskbar — Calendar, File Search, and People — small, focused helpers designed to pull calendar events, corporate files, and contact details one click away from the desktop and reduce time lost to...
Sure’s Channel Islands data-centre arm has added Microsoft’s Azure Stack Hub to its managed portfolio, giving local organisations the ability to run Azure-consistent infrastructure-as-a-service workloads inside on-island facilities while keeping data, compliance controls and support physically...
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iManage’s latest announcement tightens the scaffolding around AI for law firms: the company has added support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), upgraded its Insight+ search and knowledge-discovery engine, and expanded Ask iManage’s conversational and evidence features — all intended to let...
Dow’s security team has quietly rewritten the playbook for a 125‑year‑old materials science giant by folding generative AI into daily operations — not as a flashy headline, but as a force multiplier that shortens investigation times, elevates junior analysts, and reshapes incident response...
Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025 — but you do not have to be left scrambling on day one: there are short-term safety nets (Microsoft’s consumer ESU options), practical archiving steps (download and verify an official ISO now), and longer-term migration choices (upgrade to Windows...
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Microsoft’s countdown to the end of Windows 10 has moved from calendar reminder to courtroom headline, with a California plaintiff alleging that the company’s support wind‑down needlessly jeopardizes user data and is designed to push customers into an AI‑optimized hardware refresh—an accusation...
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ChatGPT-5 has arrived in Microsoft Copilot, promising a transformative leap in everyday productivity, workflow efficiency, and the boundaries of what generative AI can accomplish in Windows environments. This long-anticipated integration brings with it not only core improvements in language...
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Barracuda Networks has launched Entra ID Backup Premium, a cloud-based backup-and-recovery service that protects 13 critical Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) components and promises fast restoration beyond Microsoft’s native 30‑day recovery window, with centralized visibility and...
A new wave of reporting is forcing Microsoft’s relationship with Israel’s security apparatus into the harshest spotlight yet, after fresh investigations alleged that the company’s Azure cloud became a backbone for storing and analyzing intercepted Palestinian phone calls at massive scale—and...
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Microsoft has taken a major step forward in democratizing artificial intelligence for younger learners by announcing the general rollout of Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat for students aged 13 and up. This move marks a significant expansion of generative AI’s reach into K-12 educational environments...
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In an announcement that has quickly rippled throughout the IT world, Microsoft has disclosed CVE-2025-53787, an information disclosure vulnerability affecting the Microsoft 365 Copilot BizChat feature. This vulnerability opens a concerning chapter in the evolution of enterprise AI, as...
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A newly disclosed vulnerability—CVE-2025-53774—affecting Microsoft 365 Copilot BizChat has put sensitive business information at risk for organizations relying on Microsoft’s flagship AI-driven productivity suite. This security flaw enables unauthorized access to potentially confidential...
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