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• The head of Microsoft AI has warned that without adequate safeguards, the development of AI could lead to the emergence of a new "silicon species" which competes with humans.

• In it, he criticised Anthropic for teaching its AI to have human-like qualities, a practice known as anthropomorphising, which he said made it seem as though Claude had its own desires, values and sense of self.

• Mustafa Suleyman said rival firm Anthropic is treating AI like it is human, an approach he called "misguided" which could create technology that humanity cannot control.

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  investing in enhancement projects that includes 400+ acres of woodland and pollinator prairie restoration

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• Now it plans to bring “nature-inspired solutions to restore and enhance natural ecosystems” to more than 20 sites in the US and Germany

• In its September announcement, Microsoft references successes it has had in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin

• investing in enhancement projects that includes 400+ acres of woodland and pollinator prairie restoration

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• Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and other Senate Democrats sent letters to the CEOs of Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft seeking information on tax subsidies for AI and data center development they say was authorized by the GOP-led "one big beautiful bill" act.

• Sen. Elizabeth Warren , D-Mass., led the letters, which were sent Sunday night and shared exclusively with CNBC, to the CEOs of the four companies asking for information on tax deductions they've claimed related to AI and data center development and on their lobbying efforts in the lead-up to the passage of the 2025 legislation, known more commonly as the "one big beautiful bill" act .

• They requested answers from each company by Oct. 12.

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• Data shows two-thirds of Microsoft's H-1B approvals went to people already working at the company.

• for every worker that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that worker with one and a half foreign indentured servants

• As the Trump administration announced Thursday that it suspended eight tech companies from sponsoring foreign workers for green cards, Vice President JD Vance singled out Microsoft , claiming it replaced the 6,000 workers it laid off in 2025 with people on H-1B work visas.

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  这是一款可选应用，用户可以自行选择下载和安装。它不会通过 Windows 或 Edge 进行分发，任何默认设置的更改都需要获得用户同意。

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• 针对近期推出的一款会将必应搜索和必应主页设置到电脑上所有浏览器中的新应用引发的争议，微软作出了回应。

• 这是一款可选应用，用户可以自行选择下载和安装。它不会通过 Windows 或 Edge 进行分发，任何默认设置的更改都需要获得用户同意。

• 完成安装并同意相关设置后，这款应用会在 Chrome、其他基于 Chromium 的浏览器（例如 Brave）以及 Firefox 中安装一个名为“Microsoft Bing Homepage & Search”的扩展程序。

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• The fine ends a more than six-year case, after Austrian nonprofit privacy rights organization Noyb filed the complaint against Xandr in January of 2020. The company, however, has three weeks to appeal.

• Norway's data protection authority, Datatilsynet, has fined Microsoft's advertising technology subsidiary Xandr 92 million Norwegian kroner (approximately $9.6 million) for unlawfully processing personal information associated with Grindr users.

• In what is known as the largest fine ever issued by the regulatory body, Microsoft's Xandr has been asked to pay 92 million NOK (approximately $9.6 million).

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  微软已知悉相关漏洞报告，正在积极调查这些声明的有效性与潜在适用性。

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• 微软已知悉相关漏洞报告，正在积极调查这些声明的有效性与潜在适用性。

• 就在微软修复 Defender 一个关键漏洞数周后，一名网络安全研究人员发布了疑似可绕过该补丁的攻击验证代码（PoC），攻击者一旦获得任意级别的系统访问权限，即可借此获得系统级控制权。

• 我已看到独立确认，ShieldBreak 确实有效，不过其利用方式与原始 RoguePlanet 漏洞有本质不同。

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  Through an investigation with Japan’s National Police Agency, it tracked scam activity back to a marketplace called YAM Store and a pair of phishing kits, CoGUI and Iron Man

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  Microsoft says it disabled over 20,000 accounts connected to YAM Store and blocked over 100,000 web domains being used for impersonation and fraud.

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  With health sector cybersecurity non-profit Health-ISAC, Microsoft also seized and redirected web domains that were powering all three platforms.

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• Microsoft says it disabled over 20,000 accounts connected to YAM Store and blocked over 100,000 web domains being used for impersonation and fraud.

• With health sector cybersecurity non-profit Health-ISAC, Microsoft also seized and redirected web domains that were powering all three platforms.

• Through an investigation with Japan’s National Police Agency, it tracked scam activity back to a marketplace called YAM Store and a pair of phishing kits, CoGUI and Iron Man

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  eMudhra has said its infrastructure was not compromised and no data was breached. It also clarified that its Indian Digital Signature Certificate and eSign businesses, which operate on separate infrastructure, were unaffected.

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• eMudhra has said its infrastructure was not compromised and no data was breached. It also clarified that its Indian Digital Signature Certificate and eSign businesses, which operate on separate infrastructure, were unaffected.

• In its responses to Mozilla, the company acknowledged human errors during the key-generation process, saying “there were human errors in multiple steps of the process”.

• Google, Mozilla, Apple and Microsoft took steps to block the affected certificates.

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• A report released Oct. 9 after a nearly yearlong inquiry by Democratic U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Chris Van Hollen and Richard Blumenthal said companies accepted paying for infrastructure dedicated to their sites but opposed requirements to cover the full cost of wider grid improvements tied to their facilities.

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• A report published on Tuesday (3 November) by global consumer group Ekō found Microsoft to be hosting key components of Al Munasseq in data centres in Ireland, effectively enabling what is feared to be mass surveillance.

• Microsoft software plays a key part in running an app used by Israel to control Palestinian mobility in the occupied territories, a new report found.

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  Microsoft has also agreed to provide clear and timely information on price hikes, and help inactive Xbox customers end their subscriptions if required and claim a pro-rata refund, the CMA said.

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• That would help gamers avoid paying for services they no longer use.

• The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it had secured undertakings from the U.S. tech giant to inform customers upfront about auto-renewals for Xbox Live Gold and Game Pass subscriptions.

• Microsoft has also agreed to provide clear and timely information on price hikes, and help inactive Xbox customers end their subscriptions if required and claim a pro-rata refund, the CMA said.

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  Microsoft has also agreed to contact inactive customers to remind them how to stop payments and provide clearer notifications about future price hikes.

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  Additionally, existing customers on recurring one-year subscriptions will be given an option to end their contracts and claim pro-rata refunds.

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• Additionally, existing customers on recurring one-year subscriptions will be given an option to end their contracts and claim pro-rata refunds.

• Microsoft will begin offering more information to customers about how it automatically renews Xbox online gaming subscriptions in Britain, the UK's competition watchdog said on Wednesday.

• The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) secured undertakings from Microsoft for the U.S. tech giant to tell customers upfront about auto-renewals for Xbox Live Gold and Game Pass subscriptions that start at 7 pounds ($9.50) a month.

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• Arigna's new case, over the '835 patent, has been assigned to District Judge Alan D. Albright. 2/10, Western District of Texas.

• Arigna Technology Limited, one of several plaintiffs associated with Dublin-based patent monetization firm Atlantic IP, has filed a single complaint against Alphabet (Google), Apple, Lenovo, Microsoft, OnePlus, Samsung, and TCL (6:22-cv-00151) in the Western District of Texas.

• infringement accusations in Arigna's complaint target various devices and computers (e.g., desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones) of the defendants over their alleged incorporation of the Qualcomm QET4100 and/or QET5100-series envelope tracking modules.

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  The board announced that Microsoft would hire a third-party law firm to conduct a review

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• The board announced that Microsoft would hire a third-party law firm to conduct a review

• Microsoft will review of its policies regarding sexual harassment and gender discrimination, as well as publicly releasing the results of investigations into allegations involving members of the board of directors and senior leadership, including Bill Gates, the company announced Thursday.

• The report follows a shareholder directive passed last year. The resolution called for a report on the effectiveness of the company's workplace sexual-harassment policies in light of claims of sexual harassment, including allegations that Gates sought inappropriate relationships with employees.

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  responded quickly, removed the access, and secured the device.

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• Microsoft later said that the group had compromised its own employee accounts and taken software instructions governing how Microsoft verifies user identities.

• The threat actor, which Microsoft identified as Nobelium, “used this information in some cases to launch highly-targeted attacks as part of their broader campaign.”

• responded quickly, removed the access, and secured the device.

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• File-hosting service provider Nextcloud, backed by 29 other European companies, has filed a complaint with the European Union and German antitrust authorities against Microsoft for what it’s calling anti-competitive behavior related to the OneDrive cloud storage offering.

• In the complaint, Germany-based Nextcloud told the European Commission (EC) that Microsoft is aggressively bundling its OneDrive cloud, Teams, and other services with Windows 10 and 11.

• 当地时间11月29日，云存储公司Nextcloud与其他30多家欧洲软件、云计算公司组成了名为“公平竞争环境联盟”，针对微软当下将其云存储服务OneDrive、协作办公软件Teams和其他服务与Windows 10和Windows 11捆绑销售的行为正式向欧盟委员会提起起诉。

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  We are aware and are working on a fix to evolve and adjust our content moderation.

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• We are aware and are working on a fix to evolve and adjust our content moderation.

• Microsoft is reportedly working on fixing a word filter in Forza Horizon 5, following the discovery that some names are being deemed as "inappropriate."