End of support for Windows 10, Windows 8.1, and Windows 7 | October 2025 for Windows 10 (www.microsoft.com)
Threat actors misusing Quick Assist in social engineering attacks leading to ransomware (www.microsoft.com)
Introducing Microsoft Places: Using AI for flexible work | Microsoft 365 Blog (www.microsoft.com)
With AI already improving how you work, improving where you work is the next opportunity. Learn more about Microsoft Places—available today in public preview.
VASA-1: Lifelike Audio-Driven Talking Faces (www.microsoft.com)
Single portrait photo + speech audio = hyper-realistic talking face video with precise lip-audio sync, lifelike facial behavior, and naturalistic head movements, generated in real time.
Attackers exploiting new critical OpenMetadata vulnerabilities on Kubernetes clusters | Microsoft Security Blog (www.microsoft.com)
It’s from MS, but I’ll take anyways....
[PDF] Microsoft's research paper on "What Makes a Great Software Engineer" (www.microsoft.com)
Xbox Spring Sale 2024 now live (www.microsoft.com)
Nothing much for me, I wanted to finally pick up the DLCs for FH4, but those aren’t on sale, and I was also hoping for some OG/360 games to be on sale, but very few are…...
Garnet: A faster cache store drop in replacement for Redis (www.microsoft.com)
GitHub: github.com/microsoft/garnet...
Threat Actors Exploring Large Language Models for Cyberattacks, Microsoft and OpenAI Report (www.microsoft.com)
Summary...
Microsoft Mesh is generally available in Microsoft Teams | Microsoft 365 Blog (www.microsoft.com)
Microsoft Mesh is now generally available.
Phi-2: The surprising power of small language models (www.microsoft.com)
The Bosque Programming Language (www.microsoft.com)
Orca 2: Teaching Small Language Models How to Reason (www.microsoft.com)
Orca 2 released by Microsoft!...
Seeing AI (www.microsoft.com)
This is a mobile app created by Microsoft to help people who are blind or have low vision access objects and complete everyday tasks. Seeing AI uses a smartphone camera to read documents, currency, and products.
Microsoft Mesh enters preview in October, including a new Teams experience (www.microsoft.com)
Microsoft – Watch the September 21 event (www.microsoft.com)
Tune in for the Microsoft Event on September 21 at 1:00pm EDT to hear an announcement from Microsoft.
Advancing health at the speed of AI (www.microsoft.com)
Microsoft begins selling replacement parts for Xbox controllers (www.microsoft.com)
Introducing Microsoft Clipchamp: Unlock the power of video at work | Microsoft 365 Blog (www.microsoft.com)
Microsoft Clipchamp enterprise rolling out gradually
Expanding cloud logging to give customers deeper security visibility (www.microsoft.com)
In response to the increasing frequency and evolution of nation-state cyberthreats, Microsoft is taking additional steps to protect our customers and increase the secure-by-default baseline of our cloud platforms. These steps are the result of close coordination with commercial and government customers, and with the...
Analysis of Storm-0558 techniques for unauthorized email access | Microsoft Security Blog (www.microsoft.com)
Storm-0558 used forged authentication tokens to access user email from approximately 25 organizations, including government agencies and related consumer accounts in the public cloud...
The five-day job: A BlackByte ransomware intrusion case study (www.microsoft.com)
In a recent investigation by Microsoft Incident Response of a BlackByte 2.0 ransomware attack, we found that the threat actor progressed through the full attack chain, from initial access to impact, in less than five days, causing significant business disruption for the victim organization.
IoT devices and Linux-based systems targeted by OpenSSH trojan campaign | Microsoft Security Blog (www.microsoft.com)
Microsoft researchers have recently discovered an attack leveraging custom and open-source tools to target internet-facing Linux-based systems and IoT devices. The attack uses a patched version of OpenSSH to take control of impacted devices and install cryptomining malware....
Craft an Iron Sword: Dynamically Generating Interactive Game Characters by Prompting Large Language Models Tuned on Code (www.microsoft.com)
Here's some preliminary work from Microsoft from 2022 that incorporates OpenAI's Codex model to make NPCs that can interact with the player using natural language instructions. It works by defining an API of functions the bot can use, then having Codex generate function calls in response to the player's instructions....
Detecting and mitigating a multi-stage AiTM phishing and BEC campaign | Microsoft Security Blog (www.microsoft.com)
Microsoft researchers have discovered an emerging cluster of TTP's they have named Storm-1167 being used by an unknown threat actor to target banking and financial services institutions....
