data security

Microsoft’s technical playground is bustling with whispers about the resurfacing of its controversial Recall feature—a tool that promises to revolutionize the way Windows 11 users interact with their digital past, but not without raising a storm of privacy and security debates. Initially...

Peering across the corporate landscape as of this week, you might be forgiven for thinking that armies of code-wielding, pixel-painting digital masterminds had replaced your average water-cooler huddles — and in some cases, you wouldn’t be entirely wrong. Microsoft, ever the persistent harbinger...

There’s a certain poetic irony in the fact that OAuth 2.0—a framework specifically engineered to keep our digital lives safe from password theft—is now being bent and twisted by Russian hackers to hijack entire Microsoft 365 accounts. If that isn’t progress in the field of offensive...

The heart of Microsoft’s digital transformation isn’t a fancy new chipset or some sort of quantum server humming mysteriously in a Redmond basement—it’s data, plain and simple, served neat or on the rocks with a generous twist of AI. For all the glitzy marketing around “the cloud” and “digital...

Canada, the land of maple syrup, hockey, and the world’s most coveted cache of health data, now finds itself staring down an unusual gauntlet: protecting the privacy and value of its public health records from potential American ambitions, particularly those emanating from the direction of...

“Data-driven conservation” might sound like a paradox to anyone who’s ever attended a Wildlife Trusts meeting fueled by strong tea and fraught debate over whether that newt was a great crested or just really enthusiastic. Yet here we stand, at the intersection of technology and toadstools, with...

Driving a herd of rarely observed data scientists into the wild sounds like the opening for an IT sitcom, but it’s actually the heart of a game-changing initiative: Simpson Associates has teamed up with The Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts (RSWT) for a bold data transformation adventure. The...

Something wickedly intelligent this way comes, and its name is Microsoft 365 Copilot’s new AI agents: Researcher and Analyst. Just when IT departments across the enterprise were wrapping their heads around AI’s impact on productivity, along comes another wave of features promising to make work...

In the rapidly evolving landscape of social media, privacy concerns are a major topic of discussion. Recently, X (formerly known as Twitter) has come under fire for its approach to user data privacy concerning the newly implemented Grok AI chatbot. In this article, we will explore the...

Fresh off the update assembly line and rolling into digital workplaces everywhere, Microsoft 365 Copilot is primed to change the way we search, analyze, and, frankly, fib about how much actual work we did today. Microsoft’s latest Copilot refresh isn’t just a couple of new paint strokes but a...

Buried somewhere between your fifth Teams call of the morning and that spreadsheet that’s been open longer than your last relationship, Microsoft has quietly dropped something that’s poised to change the rhythm of the daily grind: Copilot’s new enterprise search and “digital labor” upgrades—a...

If you’re anything like me, you’ve wasted more hours than you’d ever admit just searching for that one, elusive spreadsheet. The good news: Microsoft apparently hears our cries echoing from the cubicles of the world and has unleashed a formidable upgrade to Microsoft 365 Copilot—a bold...

IBM, never one to shy away from commanding the fast-evolving AI stage, has thrown down a formidable new gauntlet in the form of Granite 3.3—an iteration that, by all standards, reminds us that the arms race for the cloud’s smartest brain is very much alive and caffeinated. Less than a fiscal...

If you’ve ever been elbow-deep in spaghetti code, cursing the data gods for making even the simplest AI integrations feel like trying to plug a PS/2 mouse into a modern MacBook, then you might want to sit down (with a strong beverage): enter the Model Context Protocol, or MCP for short. It’s not...

When the dust of the great cloud migration settled post-pandemic, many Australian businesses were left squinting at their Microsoft 365 dashboards, wondering how their digital kingdom became a jungle of unkempt file trees and abandoned SharePoint sites. Enter iWorkplace Elements—a digital...

If there were ever a match made in enterprise software heaven, S&P Global and Microsoft 365 Copilot would be it—provided your idea of heaven involves endless spreadsheets, market volatility, and enough commodity data to make even the nerdiest analyst blush. Yes, S&P Global has just rolled out a...

There’s a revolution quietly scrubbing away at that most dreaded of emergency clinician chores: charting. If you’ve ever glimpsed a frazzled ER doc pounding away at a keyboard after a 12-hour shift, mumbling about “charting purgatory,” you’ll appreciate what Sayvant’s new Azure-powered...

What’s happening: AI developers are adopting a new standard called the Model Context Protocol (MCP), which makes it much easier for chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude to securely and efficiently access and interact with everyday apps and data sources. Why it matters: Faster, more direct AI...

The azure-blue ambitions of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030—dappled with digital dreams and a not-so-humble quest for global tech leadership—just picked up another high-octane digital ally. Microsoft and Databricks, two titans of the cloud and data galaxy, have announced an expansion of their...

The hum of anticipation in the Windows world rarely sounds as charged as when Microsoft resurrects a controversial feature, dusts it off, and declares it ready for prime time. With Windows 11’s Recall feature—Microsoft’s latest attempt to give your computer the memory of an elephant—controversy...