Microsoft disabled 70+ of its repos on GitHub, including Azure-related tools like azure-functions-host, after hackers added credential-stealing malware to them
Microsoft has cut off access to dozens of its open source projects hosted on GitHub as it investigates how hackers apparently breached …
Researchers find packages in the @redhat-cloud-services npm namespace shipped malware that harvests credentials for GitHub Actions, AWS, GCP, Azure, and others
Several packages in the @redhat-cloud-services npm scope were found to carry malicious payloads that fire via a preinstall hook on every npm install.
Sources: OpenAI employees claim the DOD tested Microsoft's Azure version of OpenAI's models before OpenAI lifted its blanket ban on military use in January 2024
Sources allege the Defense Department experimented with Microsoft's version of OpenAI technology before the ChatGPT-maker lifted its prohibition on military applications.
Microsoft says it mitigated a 15.7 Tbps DDoS from the Aisuru botnet on a single Australian Azure endpoint in October, the largest cloud DDoS ever recorded
Last month, Azure stopped one of the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded … Mastodon: Rob Ricci / @ricci@discuss.systems : Azure: Our datacenters got DDoSed by 500k IP addresses — Everyone else: We ar...
Sources: Microsoft terminated Israel's Unit 8200 access to Azure, after an investigation found the tech was used for mass surveillance in Gaza and West Bank
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit's access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
Microsoft says internal and external reviews found no evidence the Israeli military used its tech to harm civilians in Gaza, after months of employee protests
blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue... Sam Biddle / @sambiddle.com : Microsoft Investigates Microsoft, Clears Microsoft of Wrongdoing blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue... @jaybut707 : The usual interpreta...
How Breeze Liu, an advocate for digital abuse victims, got Microsoft to scrub 142 nonconsensual explicit images of herself from Azure after months of struggle
Breeze Liu has been a prominent advocate for victims. But even she struggled to scrub nonconsensual intimate images and videos of herself from the web.
Yann LeCun says DeepSeek “profited from open research and open source” like Meta's Llama and is proof that open source models are surpassing proprietary ones
“Marc Andreessen, a co-inventor of the pioneering Mosaic web browser, co-founder of the Netscape browser company and current general partner at the famed Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) venture capital fir...
The US FTC releases a report saying Microsoft's $13B investment in OpenAI raises concerns that the company could extend its cloud computing dominance into AI
Microsoft-Open AI raises alarms Jon Keegan / Sherwood News : FTC report scrutinizes OpenAI and Anthropic's partnerships with cloud giants Grace Priscilla Teo / Tech in Asia : US warns of risks in Micr...