Anthropic plans to debut new rate limits for Claude Pro and Max on August 28, likely curbing <5% of users, saying some run Code “continuously in the background”
It's Bad Business Bluesky: Ed Zitron / @edzitron.com : That is not what is happening here, this is not Anthropic “doing the drug dealer model” — www.wheresyoured.at/anthropic- is... [embedded post]...
Microsoft says some users may be experiencing “multiple issues” with Microsoft Teams, and that it is applying “mitigations across the affected infrastructure”
Title: Some users may experience multiple issues with their Microsoft … Pranav Dixit / Business Today : Microsoft Teams suffers global outage, slowly recovers Tobias Mann / The Register : Snow day in ...
A profile of Discord, which lies at the center of the gaming world with 100M+ MAUs, as it pushes to turn into a communication tool for everyone, not just gamers
Most longtime Discord users have a similar origin story. They liked playing video games, and liked playing with their friends … Tweets: @kevinctofel , @panzer , @postimusmaximus , @aweary , @drorpole...
Source: Microsoft contractors vetting Skype audio worked from home in China with “no security measures”; company says it now uses secure facilities not in China
Exclusive: former Microsoft contractor says he was emailed login after minimal vetting
A look at the global trade in hacked links, where hackers compromise websites and charge to add links to sites to improve SEO
BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @buzzfeednews , @rosshudgens , and @dsottimano Tweets: @buzzfeednews : A family blogger discovered NSFW links in her older posts. Turns out someone hacked her site by finding ...
A look at the global trade in hacked links, where hackers compromise websites and charge to add links to sites to improve SEO
This August, Molly Stillman logged on to her lifestyle blog to update a few popular old posts, freshening them up so they would continue to attract traffic from Pinterest and search engines. Tweets: @...
Source and documents show Microsoft contractors are listening to some Skype calls made using the app's translation service
Contractors working for Microsoft are listening to personal conversations of Skype users conducted through the app's translation service, according to a cache of internal documents …
Microsoft says it fixed Skype security flaw allowing DLL hijacking in Oct. 2017 when it released version 8; vulnerability still in versions 7.40 and lower
Shaun Nichols / The Register :
Skype update installer found to be susceptible to DLL hijacking, potentially giving system-level privileges; Microsoft says fix will come when app is rewritten
so it won't bother. http://www.zdnet.com/...
Outlook, Skype, Xbox issues resolved, but OneDrive still experiencing problems after Microsoft services hit by account authentication issue earlier today
Microsoft is working on a fix Ashlee Kieler / Consumerist : Several Microsoft Services — Including Xbox Live, Outlook — Suffering Outages Samit Sarkar / Polygon : Xbox server issues affecting sign-in,...