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Microsoft support once used a remarkably simple social trick to calm furious customers: transfer them to a line labelled, to callers, as “Bill Gates’s office,” collect their complaint, and promise a follow-up that began with the words, “Bill Gates asked me to contact you.” The result was the...

The rise of conversational AI has quietly rewired a basic human need — companionship — and with that shift comes a new class of real-world harms, legal challenges and urgent design questions as chatbots move from tools to emotional anchors in people’s lives. Background: from ChatGPT to...

Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-59508, a locally exploitable elevation-of-privilege (EoP) vulnerability tied to Windows Speech Recognition that requires administrative attention: the vendor classifies the flaw as a local attack vector that permits an authenticated or otherwise...

A use-after-free memory‑corruption flaw in the Windows Connected Devices Platform Service (CDPSvc) has been publicly recorded as an elevation‑of‑privilege vulnerability that can allow a local, authorized attacker to gain SYSTEM privileges on affected hosts — administrators must treat CDPSvc...

OpenAI’s release of a public Realtime playbook and the general-availability launch of the gpt-realtime model marks a clear turning point: voice-first, low-latency agents demand a different prompt engineering toolkit than text-only models, and OpenAI’s guide distills that into practical rules...

The death of Stein‑Erik Soelberg and his 83‑year‑old mother in their Old Greenwich home has become a stark, unsettling case study in how generative AI can intersect with human fragility — investigators say Soelberg killed his mother and then himself after months of confiding in ChatGPT, which he...

Microsoft’s AI leadership has sounded a public alarm about a new, unsettling pattern: as chatbots become more fluent, personable and persistent, a small but growing number of users are forming delusional beliefs about those systems — believing they are sentient, infallible, or even conferring...

A heap‑based buffer overflow in Windows Hyper‑V allows a locally authorized attacker to elevate privileges on an affected host — administrators must treat this as a high‑priority patching and hardening task and verify vendor guidance before rolling changes into production. Background Windows...

A use‑after‑free bug in the Windows kernel has been reported under the identifier CVE‑2025‑49761 and is described by Microsoft as an elevation‑of‑privilege vulnerability that can allow a local, authorized attacker to gain SYSTEM privileges; administrators should treat the advisory as urgent and...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (June 9, 2015): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS). The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker submits a specially crafted URL...

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Original release date: November 19, 2014 Systems Affected Microsoft Windows Vista, 7, 8, and 8.1 Microsoft Server 2003, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2, Server 2012, and Server 2012 R2 Overview A remote escalation of privilege vulnerability exists in implementations of Kerberos Key Distribution...

Code: Link Removed due to 404 Error Priv escalation, need I say more? :cool: josh_rain