Microsoft Teams addresses issues amidst mega global outage | Deets inside
Technology | January 27, 2024 12:06 ISTMicrosoft Teams faced a major outage affecting users worldwide, with disruptions in logging in, missing messages, and delays.
Microsoft Teams faced a major outage affecting users worldwide, with disruptions in logging in, missing messages, and delays.
Microsoft is cutting 1,900 jobs at Activision Blizzard and Xbox, around 8 per cent of its gaming division, following the recent acquisition, with Activision Blizzard's President also deciding to leave.
Microsoft Translator now supports Chhattisgarhi and Manipuri languages, adding to its existing list of 20 Indian languages, covering over 95 per cent of the country's population.
Users will need to click the downward arrow next to the 'Camera' button or the 'Mic' button on the Meeting toolbar during a meeting, and then click either the More Video Options link or the More Audio Options which are linked at the bottom of the menu to open the side panel.
The new GenAI team will reportedly be led by Microsoft corporate vice president Misha Bilenko, and will be part of the Azure cloud unit. The company has further moved several senior AI developers from its research group to the new GenAI team.
"The Copilot key joins the Windows key as a core part of the PC keyboard and when pressed, the new key will invoke the Copilot in Windows experience to make it seamless to engage Copilot in your day-to-day."
Microsoft is offering a free AI-powered Reading Coach app to help learners improve reading skills with personalised practice sessions.
Researchers conducted searches on Google and Bing for 36 renowned female celebrities, utilizing a combination of their names and the term "deepfakes." Upon examination, it was found that, for 34 queries on Google and 35 on Bing, the top search results included links to deepfake videos.
Copilot for Microsoft 365 is now generally available for small businesses with Microsoft 365 Business Premium and Business Standard Customers can purchase between one and 299 seats for $30 per person per month.
Apple is trading at a forward PE of 28, well above its average of 19 over the past 10 years, according to LSEG data. Microsoft is trading around 31 times forward earnings, above its 10-year average of 24.
LimeChat's collaboration with Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service has fueled to empower every business to achieve more with AI as they are working together to bring a new AI chatbot for the e-commerce support.
The Copilot key houses the AI-powered chatbot which will be strategically positioned to the right of the space bar on Windows 11 keyboards. This innovative feature aims at enhancing user interactions with Copilot, offering AI-driven answers which are close to the capabilities of ChatGPT.
Microsoft has disabled its ms-appinstaller URI scheme, which is commonly known as App Installer, due to observed misuse by threat actors for distributing malware. Microsoft Threat Intelligence has been monitoring such activities since mid-November 2023.
Users generated more than 1.8 billion generative AI images, which are surpassing the combined collection of the Louvre and Metropolitan Museum by around 1800 times. Furthermore, when it comes to cybersecurity, Microsoft Edge has reportedly succeeded in thwarting over 127 million phishing attacks.
As mentioned in the report, the observed activity includes spoofing legitimate applications, luring users into installing malicious MSIX packages posing as legitimate applications, and evading detections on the initial installation files.
The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming their AI models copied Times content, harming their relationship with readers and causing revenue loss.
The Copilot app for Android will provide chatbot capabilities, with image generation through DALL-E 3, and the ability to draft text for documents and emails. It further includes free access to OpenAI's latest GPT-4 model.
Microsoft's decision to end support for Windows 10 by October 2025 could result in a significant increase in electronic waste, with an estimated 240 million personal computers becoming obsolete.
Microsoft has also announced many features which will be added to its Copilot service very soon, including OpenAI’s latest models. The tech giant said that Copilot will soon get support for GPT-4 Turbo, along with an updated DALL-E 3 model.
Microsoft further stated: “Our line of work with the Phi models aims to answer this question by training SLMs that achieve performance on par with models of much higher scale (yet still far from the frontier models).”
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