Reeling from CrowdStrike-related outages, Delta has canceled 5,000+ flights, including 1,384 on Sunday and 700+ for Monday so far, according to FlightAware
Delta Air Lines (DAL.N) struggled to restore normal operations on Sunday after last week's crippling global cyber outage …
One defective CrowdStrike update for Windows breaking global systems resurfaces concerns about Microsoft's monopoly in government and enterprise IT systems
Microsoft estimates that CrowdStrike's update affected 8.5M Windows devices, or less than 1% of all Windows machines
On July 18, CrowdStrike, an independent cybersecurity company, released a software update that began impacting IT systems globally. Although this was not a Microsoft incident …
As Beeper Mini experiences an outage, Beeper CEO Eric Migicovsky says that “all data indicates” Apple found a way to cut off the app's ability to function
Was it too good to be true? Beeper, the startup that reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users …
Analysis: Google's C4 dataset, used to train LLMs like Meta's LLaMA, has troubling content from 4chan, Kiwi Farms, white supremacist site Stormfront, and more
AI chatbots have exploded in popularity over the past four months, stunning the public with their awesome abilities …
Microsoft announces Microsoft 365 Copilot, which will bring OpenAI's GPT-4 to Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, and its other Office apps in the coming months
here's how Sohini Bagchi / TechCircle : Microsoft adds next-gen AI to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more with Microsoft 365 Copilot Luke Jones / WinBuzzer : Microsoft 365 Copilot in...
Microsoft announces Microsoft 365 Copilot, which will bring OpenAI's GPT-4 to Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, and its other Office apps in the coming months
here's how Sohini Bagchi / TechCircle : Microsoft adds next-gen AI to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more with Microsoft 365 Copilot Luke Jones / WinBuzzer : Microsoft 365 Copilot in...
Microsoft announces Microsoft 365 Copilot, which will bring OpenAI's GPT-4 to Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, and its other Office apps in the coming months
here's how Sohini Bagchi / TechCircle : Microsoft adds next-gen AI to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more with Microsoft 365 Copilot Luke Jones / WinBuzzer : Microsoft 365 Copilot in...
Adobe plans to buy UI design and prototyping tool Figma for ~$20B, half cash and half stock; CEO Dylan Field will continue to lead Figma; ADBE closed down 16.8%
Today, we're announcing that Figma has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Adobe. TechCrunch : After the Figma-Adobe deal, which design startups are acquisition targets? Wa...
Adobe's Figma deal raises big questions about its M&A whack-a-mole strategy in response to free alternatives; the deal is 50x Figma's reported 2022 ARR of $400M
Bryce Elder / Financial Times : Tweets: @amaldorai , @workmj , @bitech , @ohmdee , and @hkanji Tweets: Amal Dorai / @amaldorai : I'm not surprised that Adobe is acquiring Figma fo...
GitHub CEO Nat Friedman is stepping down on November 15; Thomas Dohmke, who became chief product officer in August, will take over as CEO
GitHub CEO Nat Friedman is stepping down from his role on November 15 to become the Chairman Emeritus of the Microsoft-owned service.
Microsoft announces the Surface Adaptive Kit, with tactile labels for locating keycaps and ports, and device opener support, for laptop users with disabilities
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Microsoft says ByteDance has rejected its offer to take over TikTok's US operations, leaving Oracle as the only other known bidder
The move leaves Oracle as the sole known remaining bidder, as the clock ticks down on President Trump's executive order to block the app.
Source: Oracle has won the bidding for the US operations of TikTok as a “trusted tech partner”; the deal will likely not be structured as an outright sale
Deal, which is likely not to be structured as an outright sale, will face White House review
Sources: Microsoft is working on a Surface laptop with a 12.5" display, Core i5 processor, 4GB RAM, and 64GB storage to be priced between $500 and $600
Facebook's purchase of Giphy gives FB insight into how and where gifs are shared outside of its own apps, including device IDs and keystrokes in Giphy tools
GIPHY joins Facebook's data collection arsenal — Facebook announced on Friday that it will buy Giphy, a popular GIF search engine …
Facebook to buy Giphy, keep its branding, integrate with Instagram; sources say the deal is worth ~$400M, while Giphy was valued at ~$600M in its latest round
Facebook has agreed to buy Giphy, the popular platform of sharable animated images, Axios has learned from multiple sources.
Weather app Dark Sky says it's been acquired by Apple along with its team; the Android app is no longer available and the API will shutter on Dec. 31, 2021
In a big move to improve its weather app, Apple has purchased the highly popular iOS app Dark Sky.
Microsoft encourages Seattle area and Bay Area employees to work from home if possible through March 25 and asks sick employees to stay home
- People who can work from home in the two affected areas should do that, Microsoft said. — Microsoft said non-essential business travel …