Microsoft will acquire Activision Blizzard, the largest video games company in Europe and North America that launched hit titles like World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, and Overwatch, in a deal that values the embattled game developer at $68.7 billion.
Microsoft has reportedly hired a team of external lawyers to review the company’s sexual harassment policies, including the handling of allegations against company founder Bill Gates.
Microsoft has reportedly introduced a new feature in the latest version of its Word software that suggests more politically correct phrases and words, including the removal of offensive terms like “mankind.”
Microsoft recently released a temporary fix for its Exchange Server email platform due to a date validation error at the end of the year, reminiscent of the famous Y2K bug in the year 2000. The new bug, nicknamed “Y2K22,’ brought corporate email servers to their knees starting on New Year’s Day 2022.
Vice President Kamala Harris and the White House have announced that American corporations and other groups that have signed on to her “call to action” to stop the ongoing surge of migrants from Central America by pouring money into the Guatemalan, El Salvadoran, and Honduran economies.
Kamala Harris on Monday announced that American corporations and international organizations will invest $1.2 billion in Central America.
According to a recent analysis by Microsoft, hackers are extremely unlikely to attempt a “brute-force” attack user passwords longer than 10 characters. 77 percent of brute force hacking attempts were on passwords with seven or less characters, according to the study.
Google’s parent company Alphabet recently reached an astounding $2 trillion in market value for the first time this week. Google’s booming advertising business and stranglehold on internet searches have rocketed the company to all-time highs during the coronavirus pandemic.
Microsoft’s recent Ignite conference provided insight into the future of woke capitalism as presenters apologized for working in an office that is built on land previously controlled by Native Americans and introduced themselves by describing not only their pronouns, but their race and physical appearance.
Microsoft President Brad Smith recently told CNBC that efforts to build new climate tech remind him of the massive undertaking spearheaded by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 when he announced plans to land a man on the moon.
Yahoo, Inc. announced on Tuesday it has withdrawn its services from China, effective immediately – in fact, effective the previous day, November 1.
Russian-backed hackers reportedly targeted President Biden’s supply chain crisis as an opportunity to further derail the U.S. economy, Microsoft revealed Sunday. The White House has downplayed the attack on 609 companies 22,868 times as “unsophisticated.” A total of fourteen companies believe they have been hacked.
According to a recent report, executives at Microsoft were aware of company founder Bill Gates’ behavior with female employees and warned Gates to stop pestering one woman with flirtatious emails.
Microsoft-owned LinkedIn will create a new app called “InJobs” for the Chinese market, after it became embroiled in controversy by censoring the account of an Axios reporter for a profile containing “prohibited content” in the country.
Iranian hackers recently attempted to breach over 250 “Microsoft Office 365” accounts belonging to U.S. and Israeli government-linked defense tech firms, as well as companies tied to Persian Gulf ports of entry and Middle East-based maritime shipping, Microsoft reported Monday.
More than half of all cyberattacks observed by Microsoft over the past year originated in Russia, the U.S.-based multinational tech corporation said on Thursday in its latest Digital Defense Report.
LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned business and employment social media platform, has blocked the account of an Axios reporter in China because it contains alleged “prohibited content.”
NewsGuard, the establishment “news rating” project that claims to fight untrustworthy media outlets, continues to give its seal of approval to establishment media outlets, including the New York Times, that spread the hoax story that mounted border patrol agents used whips against Haitian migrants.
The FTC has alleged that hundreds of deals made by tech giants like Facebook and Google were not reviewed by merger watchdogs, fueling the companies’ unchecked growth. Events like gaining voting control of rivals, buying patents, and outright buyouts of small tech companies are a key part of the arsenal used by the largest Big Tech companies to maintain their stranglehold over the internet.
Joe Biden met with the CEOs of Kaiser Permanente, Walgreens, Walt Disney, Columbia Sportswear – who attended the meeting in-person – and the president of Microsoft, who joined virtually.
NewsGuard, the establishment “news rating” project that claims to fight untrustworthy media outlets, continues to give its seal of approval to Rolling Stone, a partisan leftist magazine that has repeatedly fallen for high profile hoaxes.
Google locked the email accounts of a number of former Afghanistan government leaders in order to prevent the Taliban from gaining their identities.
Microsoft has warned customers of its Azure cloud computing service that major vulnerabilities in the company’s systems have left user data completely exposed for the last two years. The CTO of the security company that discovered the massive flaw commented: “This is the worst cloud vulnerability you can imagine. This is the central database of Azure, and we were able to get access to any customer database that we wanted.”
Over one thousand web apps using Microsoft Power Apps have mistakenly exposed 38 million records online, including sensitive data relating to a number of coronavirus contact tracing platforms, vaccination registrations, job application portals, and employee databases. Wired reports that a thousand
The increasingly partisan, Trump-hating former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden still serves on the board of NewsGuard, the supposedly “neutral” project that claims to fight untrustworthy and “fake” news.
Corporate and political elites use “fact-checker” organizations such as NewsGuard to undermine dissident news media outlets, explained Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow and PragerU CEO Marissa Streit in a conversation about digital censorship streamed on Tuesday.
E-commerce giant Amazon has reportedly delayed the return of employees to its offices until January 2022 amidst ongoing worries about coronavirus variants. The company also announced it would not mandate vaccination for returning employees.
Appearing recently on The Morning Ritual with Garret Lewis, Republican Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters warned that Big Tech companies’ expanding their cooperation on “counterterrorism” efforts targeting domestic right-wing organizations is “obviously a ploy to target Republicans.”
Big Tech companies including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Reddit, Verizon, Airbnb, and Mailchimp will expand a project of collusion on “counterterrorism” efforts that target domestic right-wing organizations.
President Joe Biden’s White House on Monday publicly identified China as responsible for a series of cyberattacks across the world but did not announce any retaliatory actions.
Pelosi bought Amazon calls just before the Pentagon canceled a contract with Microsoft and started a new one that could benefit the company.
Microsoft has urged Windows users to immediately install a system update after security researchers found a serious vulnerability in the operating system. The “PrintNightmare” exploit could allow hackers to take control of your system without tricking you into downloading malware.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday called for an international effort to tackle “the biggest threat to global cybersecurity,” the United States.
The DOD announced it had canceled its multi-billion contract for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) Cloud.
Microsoft is reportedly warning Windows users about an unpatched critical flaw in the Windows Print Spooler service, dubbed “PrintNightmare.” The critical bug allows attackers to execute code with system-level privileges in Windows computers.
Federal law enforcement agencies secretly request the data of Microsoft customers thousands of times per year, according to the congressional testimony of Tom Burt, the company’s VP for customer security and trust.
A recent report from Business Insider alleges that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates was an office bully who pursued sexual affairs and that his wholesome public image was the result of an excellent PR team.
Recent reports claim that a second data breach at Microsoft-owned LinkedIn has exposed the personal data of 700 million users, which is more than 92 percent of the platform’s total 756 million users.
Scholars on the Microsoft-owned business networking platform LinkedIn are reportedly being censored in China without being informed why.
Privacy-focused web browser Brave has launched a beta version of its Brave search engine in an attempt to create a privacy-focused alternative to Google. Brave is basing its search engine on its own index of websites, unlike rival DuckDuckGo which is based on the Bing search index, making it vulnerable to Microsoft’s censorship efforts.
