Update Windows 11 Now: Major Notepad Flaw Fixed

Nehal Malik / iphoneincanada - If you’re running Windows 11, it’s time to hit that update button. Microsoft has patched a high-severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the Windows 11 Notepad app that could allow attackers to silently execute malicious files through special…

#ai #cybersecurity #software #infosec #windows #microsoft #genai #patching #updates #bugs

Windows 11 Notepad Flaw Let Files Execute Silently via Markdown Links https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/02/12/2111243/windows-11-notepad-flaw-let-files-execute-silently-via-markdown-links?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

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Windows 11 Notepad Flaw Let Files Execute Silently via Markdown Links

22 days / slashdot / msmash

Update Windows 11 Now: Major Notepad Flaw Fixed

22 days / iphoneincanada / Nehal Malik

Check for Windows 11 updates. Microsoft just patched a major Notepad vulnerability.

22 days / mashable

Unwanted AI upgrade to Windows Notepad created a serious security flaw

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Microsoft's Notepad Got Pwned (They Added AI To It, So...)

22 days / reddit / /u/gdelacalle

"Windows 11 26H1" is a special version of Windows exclusively for new Arm PCs

Andrew Cunningham / arstechnica - Arm PCs have enjoyed special treatment from Microsoft for the past two years.

#software #hardware #windows #microsoft #cpus #performance #technology #snapdragon #operatingsystems #arm

"Windows 11 26H1" is a special version of Windows exclusively for new Arm PCs

23 days / arstechnica / Andrew Cunningham

Microsoft confirms Windows 11 26H1 will be for Arm devices only at launch — Snapdragon X2-powered devices officially shipping with 26H1

23 days / tomshardware

Microsoft rolls out Windows 11 26H1, but you can't have it

23 days / theregister / Richard Speed

Microsoft is Refreshing Secure Boot Certificates on Millions of Windows PCs

techpowerup - On your Windows PC, the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware has a Secure Boot Certificate that mandates only verified software starts the boot-up sequence. Microsoft is preparing to refresh these certificates, and the company announced t…

#cybersecurity #hardware #infosec #windows #microsoft #technology #patching #updates #operatingsystems

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this win 11 is just a fucking nightmare a fucking nightmare now al of us with this hardware will be garbage this is too expensive fuck you over to non windows we shall all go arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

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Microsoft releases Windows 10 KB5075912 extended security update

24 days / bleepingcomputer / Lawrence Abrams

Windows' original Secure Boot certificates expire in June—here's what you need to do

24 days / arstechnica / Andrew Cunningham

Microsoft Begins the First-Ever Secure Boot Certificate Swap Across Windows Ecosystem

24 days / slashdot / msmash

Microsoft is Refreshing Secure Boot Certificates on Millions of Windows PCs

24 days / techpowerup

Microsoft to Roll Out New Secure Boot Certificates to Keep Old Windows PCs Secure

24 days / thurrott / Laurent Giret

Microsoft will start refreshing Secure Boot certificates in March for Windows 11 and Windows 10 ESU users

24 days / engadget / Devindra Hardawar

Microsoft rolls out new Secure Boot certificates before June expiration

24 days / bleepingcomputer / Sergiu Gatlan

Microsoft is refreshing Secure Boot certificates to plug security holes before they happen — if you bought a PC last year, you should be set

24 days / tomshardware

Microsoft is keeping Secure Boot alive with Windows updates

24 days / theverge / Jess Weatherbed

OpenAI Launches Frontier to Manage AI Agents From Rival Vendors in One System

Harkaram Grewal / implicator - OpenAI launched Frontier, a platform that manages AI agents from Google, Anthropic, and Microsoft alongside its own. No pricing disclosed. Uber, State Farm, and Intuit among first customers.

#ai #cloud #enterprise #google #anthropic #microsoft #openai #genai #api #developertools

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Frontier Platform Launch & Features

AI companies want you to stop chatting with bots and start managing them

29 days / arstechnica / Benj Edwards

OpenAI introduces Frontier agent management platform and new GPT-5.3-Codex model

29 days / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher

OpenAI Unfurls Frontier Platform to Transform AI Agents into Digital Co-Workers

29 days / techstrong / Jon Swartz

OpenAI launches a way for enterprises to build and manage AI agents

29 days / techcrunch / Rebecca Szkutak

OpenAI's Frontier gives AI agents employee-like identities, shared context, and enterprise permissions

29 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

OpenAI Targets Enterprise Market With New AI Agent Platform

29 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

OpenAI Launches Frontier to Manage AI Agents From Rival Vendors in One System

29 days / implicator / Harkaram Grewal

OpenAI launches Frontier for building and managing AI agents

29 days / techzine / Berry Zwets

OpenAI Frontier

29 days / ycombinator

OpenAI launches new enterprise platform in bid to win more business customers

29 days / cnbc

OpenAI Frontier is a single platform to control your AI agents

29 days / theverge / Robert Hart

OpenAI Unveils Frontier, a Product for Building ‘AI Co-Workers’

29 days / wsj / Belle Lin

Windows 11 gets built-in Sysmon for security detection

Berry Zwets / techzine - Microsoft is bringing Sysmon functionality to Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025 as standard. The security tool, formerly part of Sysinternals, will be integrated into the operating system itself. Microsoft announced in November 2025 that Sysmon functiona…

#cybersecurity #devops #enterprise #infosec #windows #microsoft #patching #updates #operatingsystems

Microsoft Adds Sysmon To Windows https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/02/05/0023249/microsoft-adds-sysmon-to-windows?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

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Microsoft Adds Sysmon To Windows

4 wks / slashdot / msmash

Windows 11 gets built-in Sysmon for security detection

4 wks / techzine / Berry Zwets

Microsoft actually does something useful, adds Sysmon to Windows

4 wks / theregister / Richard Speed

Microsoft rolls out native Sysmon monitoring in Windows 11

4 wks / bleepingcomputer / Sergiu Gatlan

AMD’s Semi-Custom SoC That’ll Power the Next-Gen Xbox is “Progressing Well to Support a Launch in 2027,” Says AMD CEO

David Carcasole / wccftech - The next-gen Xbox console from Microsoft, which we know will be powered by a semi-custom SoC currently in development from AMD, is "progressing well to support a launch in 2027," said AMD's chief executive officer, Dr. Lisa Siu, during the company's 2025 …

#hardware #gaming #semiconductors #chips #microsoft #gpu #cpus #amd #xbox #videogames

Microsoft’s Next-Gen Xbox May Launch in 2027, Says AMD

4 wks / thurrott / Laurent Giret

AMD CEO Suggests Next Xbox Console May Launch in 2027

4 wks / iphoneincanada / Steve Vegvari

AMD chief hints a new Xbox console might land in 2027

4 wks / digitaltrends

AMD Hints the Next-Gen Xbox Console Could Launch Next Year

4 wks / slashdot / msmash

Lisa Su: Next-gen Xbox targeting 2027 launch with AMD silicon

4 wks / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

AMD suggests the next-gen Xbox will arrive in 2027

4 wks / engadget / Mariella Moon

AMD’s Semi-Custom SoC That’ll Power the Next-Gen Xbox is “Progressing Well to Support a Launch in 2027,” Says AMD CEO

4 wks / wccftech / David Carcasole

Tom's Hardware: "AMD reveals next-gen Xbox could launch in 2027 — CEO says semi-custom SoC ready to 'support launch in 2027'"

4 wks / reddit / /u/Dakhil

AMD hints Microsoft could launch its next-gen Xbox in 2027

4 wks / theverge / Tom Warren

AMD reveals next-gen Xbox could launch in 2027 — CEO says semi-custom SoC ready to 'support launch in 2027'

4 wks / tomshardware

Microsoft stock plunges 10% as its worst day in years sees a $357 billion market cap wipeout

Quartz Staff / qz - Along with a brutal day for software stocks, Microsoft's wipeout helped drag down the tech-heavy Nasdaq about 0.7% for the day

#cloud #software #saas #microsoft #stockmarket #earnings #business #azure

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Cloud challenges: slow growth and capacity

Microsoft (MSFT) Stock: Why Shares Dropped 10% After Earnings Beat

5 wks / parameter / Trader Edge

MSFT Shares Fall as Cloud Growth Falls Short of Investor Expectations

5 wks / parameter / Maxwell Mutuma

Comparative AI investments: Microsoft vs Meta

The new math defining AI winners and losers

5 wks / axios / Madison Mills

Why investors are suddenly nervous about Microsoft and newly confident in Meta

5 wks / fastcompany / Taylor Hatmaker

Sharp selloffs and market cap wipeouts

Microsoft tumbled 10% in a day and isn’t recovering premarket. Here’s why

5 wks / reddit / /u/Logical_Welder3467

Microsoft tumbled 10% in a day and isn't recovering premarket. Here's why

5 wks / cnbc

Microsoft’s $357 Billion Rout Is Worst Since Deepseek Hit Nvidia

5 wks / reddit / /u/MoralLogs

Tech stocks fall on AI spending jitters

5 wks / semafor / J.D. Capelouto

Microsoft Earnings Prompt Tech Stock Selloff

5 wks / wsj / Xavier Martinez

Microsoft shares have biggest single-day drop since March 2020

5 wks / sherwood / Jon Keegan

Microsoft stock plunges 10% as its worst day in years sees a $357 billion market cap wipeout

5 wks / qz / Quartz Staff

Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020

5 wks / cnbc

Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020

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Uh, is this bad? Because it seems kinda bad.

5 wks / bsky / @langdongrant.bsky.social / langdongrant.bsky.social

Announcing that I’m throwing my hat into the ring as the next CEO of Microsoft. I’ll only take a 6 figure salary, no more layoffs, no more funding OpenAI, remove Copilot from PCs, option to buy software again, trim down windows, and focus on creating sof

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OpenAI is about to raise $60 billion

Berry Zwets / techzine - Nvidia, Amazon, and Microsoft are in talks to invest up to $60 billion in OpenAI. Nvidia is negotiating for up to $30 billion, Microsoft for less than $10 billion, and newcomer Amazon for possibly more than $20 billion. This is according to The Informatio…

#ai #vc #nvidia #amazon #microsoft #openai #genai #business #technology #softbank

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Infrastructure Expansion

Nvidia wins approval for Taiwan headquarters to secure AI chip supply

5 wks / scmp

Massive Funding Rounds

OpenAI’s too-big-to-fail fundraising

5 wks / ft

Tech Giants Circle OpenAI in Funding Round That Could Top $100 Billion

5 wks / decrypt / Jason Nelson

Amazon in Talks to Invest Up to $50 Billion in OpenAI

5 wks / reddit / /u/i-drake

Amazon Eyes $50 Billion OpenAI Stake

5 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

Amazon (AMZN) Stock: Eyes Massive $50B Bet on ChatGPT Maker OpenAI

5 wks / parameter / Yasmin Werner

Amazon is reportedly in talks to invest $50B in OpenAI

5 wks / techcrunch / Lucas Ropek

Amazon could invest up to $50 billion in OpenAI in coming weeks, source says

5 wks / cnbc

WSJ: Amazon considering $50 billion investment in OpenAI

5 wks / sherwood / Rani Molla

OpenAI in Talks to Raise as Much as $100 Billion

5 wks / nytimes / Cade Metz and Karen Weise

Amazon in Talks to Invest Up to $50 Billion in OpenAI

5 wks / wsj / Jessica Toonkel

Tech Titans Circle OpenAI in Potential $100 Billion Funding Mega-Deal

5 wks / techstrong / Jon Swartz

OpenAI Eyes $60 Billion Investment from Nvidia, Microsoft, and Amazon

5 wks / iphoneincanada / Usman Qureshi

OpenAI Courts Tech Giants for $100 Billion Funding Round

5 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

SoftBank Eyes New $30B OpenAI Investment After Last $41B Commitment

5 wks / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Nvidia, Microsoft, and Amazon reportedly in talks to invest up to $60 billion in OpenAI

5 wks / sherwood / Claire Yubin Oh

Nvidia, Amazon, and Microsoft could invest up to $60 billion in OpenAI

5 wks / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Microsoft reports $7.6 billion net income gain from OpenAI investment

5 wks / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

OpenAI is about to raise $60 billion

5 wks / techzine / Berry Zwets

OpenAI’s $100B raise: SoftBank in talks for $30B follow-on

5 wks / techfundingnews / Vignesh R

Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon in Talks to Invest Up to $60 Billion in OpenAI

5 wks / reddit / /u/Logical_Welder3467

OpenAI in talks to raise $40bn in investments from Nvidia, Amazon and Microsoft

5 wks / ft

Other Perspectives

The Anyone-But-Google AI Alliance

5 wks / spyglass / M.G. Siegler

AI’s innocence lost: How capital will force us to get real about value

5 wks / sifted

ChatGPT Leads Consumer AI Use as OpenAI Pushes New Paid Tiers

5 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

Political Oversight

Sen. Warren pushes Altman for guarantee OpenAI isn’t seeking government bailout

5 wks / theverge / Robert Hart

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OpenAI Wants Your Money. All of It.

5 wks / implicator / Marcus Schuler

OpenAI Preps Fourth-Quarter IPO and Builds Out Finance Team

5 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

Amazon in talks to invest $50 billion in OpenAI, expand ties

5 wks / techxplore

Amazon in talks to invest $50 billion in OpenAI’s new funding round

5 wks / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

If a deal materializes, it would mean Amazon is backing competing startups in the race for AI supremacy.

5 wks / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

always fun to see my little nietzsche jokes make it into a letter from a senator www.theverge.com/news/869983/...

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(PR) Microsoft Announces Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2026 Results

techpowerup - Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended December 31, 2025, as compared to the corresponding period of last fiscal year:Revenue was $81.3 billion and increased 17% (up 15% in constant currency)Operating income was $38.3 …

#ai #cloud #saas #microsoft #genai #stockmarket #earnings #business #datacenter #azure

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AI & Cloud Investment Milestones

Microsoft Cloud Hits $50B Milestone as OpenAI Drives Growth

5 wks / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Microsoft, Meta report AI-driven growth

5 wks / semafor / Tom Chivers

Microsoft’s AI Growth Drives Both Revenue and Massive Capital Expenditure

5 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

Microsoft Continues to Spend Big on A.I. While Profit Jumps 60 Percent

5 wks / nytimes / Natallie Rocha

Earnings Highlights

(PR) Microsoft Announces Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2026 Results

5 wks / techpowerup

Microsoft’s latest earnings show how high the AI bar has risen

5 wks / qz / Shannon Carroll

Microsoft’s Earnings Surge, Elevated by Cloud Business

5 wks / wsj / Sebastian Herrera

Microsoft Revenues Up 17 Percent to $81.3 Billion

5 wks / thurrott / Paul Thurrott

Microsoft profits jump as AI services demand boosts cloud sales

5 wks / ft

Microsoft reports strong cloud earnings in Q2 as gaming declines

5 wks / theverge / Tom Warren

Microsoft earnings: Cloud growth and capex numbers in focus for Q2

5 wks / cnbc

Gaming and Hardware Decline

Microsoft Reports a 9% Overall Drop in Xbox Revenue for Q2/FY26, Hardware Down 32%

5 wks / wccftech / David Carcasole

Investor Concerns

Microsoft (MSFT) Stock: Why Beating Estimates Wasn’t Enough For Wall Street

5 wks / parameter / Trader Edge

Microsoft just delivered a big blow to Michael Burry’s AI bear case

5 wks / sherwood / Luke Kawa

Microsoft’s AI offensive clashes with investors’ patience

5 wks / techzine / Mels Dees

Microsoft investors sweat cloud giant's OpenAI exposure

5 wks / theregister / Tobias Mann

Microsoft’s stock declines after Azure cloud growth dips below 40%

5 wks / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

Microsoft beats Q2 earnings and revenue, but stock falls on ballooning capex

5 wks / sherwood / Jon Keegan

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Microsoft Q2 2026 - Gaming revenue down 9% - Xbox content + services revenue down 5% - Hardware revenue down 32% YoY www.theverge.com/news/869493/...

5 wks / bsky / @knoebel.bsky.social / knoebel.bsky.social

France to ban officials from US video tools including Zoom, Teams

Émile Marzolf / politico - The government wants staff to shun Silicon Valley and shift to its home-grown Visio platform instead.

#cybersecurity #cloud #techpolicy #enterprise #microsoft #government #apps #europe #encryption #digitalprivacy

France goes all-in on its strategy to ditch US vendors for domestic alternatives as part of its strategy to regain digital sovereignty and security.

5 wks / bsky / @siliconrepublic.bsky.social / siliconrepublic.bsky.social

France Replaces Microsoft Teams & Zoom with Sovereign Platform

5 wks / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

France moves government departments off Zoom, MS Teams onto homegrown Visio

5 wks / siliconrepublic / Ann O’Dea

France to ban officials from using American video conference tools including Zoom and Teams.

5 wks / bsky / @anderspucknielsen.dk / anderspucknielsen.dk

A good start. The data of European individuals, businesses and governments are not safe in the hands of US platforms and data storage. The EU must also act, urgently. www.politico.eu/article/fran...

5 wks / bsky / @margaretmorgan.bsky.social / margaretmorgan.bsky.social

#France to ban officials from #US video tools including Zoom, Teams ✍️ Émile Marzolf The government wants staff to shun Silicon Valley and shift to its home-grown Visio platform instead. www.politico.eu/article/fran...

5 wks / bsky / @eugenemcparland.bsky.social / eugenemcparland.bsky.social

Jesses. In der bayrischen Staatskanzlei geht jetzt die blanke Angst um.

5 wks / bsky / @darkfloppy1.bsky.social / darkfloppy1.bsky.social

Zoom Is the First Casualty in France's War on American Big Tech

5 wks / reddit / /u/Well_Socialized

Zoom Is the First Casualty in France’s War on American Big Tech

5 wks / gizmodo / Ece Yildirim

The French government is ditching Zoom and Microsoft Teams for a home-grown alternative

5 wks / engadget / Kris Holt

France To Ditch US Platforms Microsoft Teams, Zoom For 'Sovereign Platform' Amid Security Concerns

5 wks / slashdot / msmash

France to ban officials from US video tools including Zoom, Teams

5 wks / politico / Émile Marzolf

Microsoft built a 750W AI chip to challenge Nvidia's dominance, claims 3x performance gains over Amazon

techspot - Microsoft recently announced Maia 200, a new AI accelerator specifically designed for inference workloads. According to Redmond, Maia 200 can deliver "dramatic" improvements for AI applications and is already deployed in select US data centers on the Azur…

#ai #cloud #hardware #semiconductors #ml #nvidia #microsoft #gpu #deeptech #azure

Microsoft built a 750W AI chip to challenge Nvidia's dominance, claims 3x performance gains over Amazon

5 wks / techspot

Microsoft Ramps Up AI Chip Race With Google and Amazon

5 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

Microsoft Challenges NVIDIA Supremacy with Maia 200 AI Chip

5 wks / techstrong / Jon Swartz

AI Chips: Microsoft’s Maia 200 Claims 3x Performance of Amazon Trainium Chips

5 wks / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Microsoft unveils new proprietary AI chip Maia 200

Berry Zwets / techzine - Microsoft introduces Maia 200, an AI chip that the company claims is significantly faster than competing products. The accelerator is specifically designed to run large AI models and offers 30 percent better performance per dollar. The chip is manufacture…

#ai #cloud #hardware #ml #chips #tsmc #microsoft #datacenter #azure #semiconductor

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Business strategy and supply chain moves

One-Minute Daily AI News 1/26/2026

5 wks / reddit / /u/Excellent-Target-847

SK hynix becomes sole supplier of HBM for Microsoft AI chips: sources

5 wks / co / Kang Yoon-seung

Microsoft Introduces Maia 200, Its Most Powerful AI Chip Yet

5 wks / eweek / Aminu Abdullahi

Microsoft reveals second generation of its AI chip in effort to bolster cloud business

5 wks / cnbc

Microsoft vs Rivals: Head-to-head comparisons

Microsoft's Latest AI Chip Claims Performance Edge Over Amazon and Google

5 wks / slashdot / BeauHD

Microsoft's Maia 200 promises Blackwell levels of performance for two-thirds the power

5 wks / theregister / Tobias Mann

Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) Stock: Maia 200 Takes on Nvidia A New AI Chip War Begins

5 wks / parameter / Yasmin Werner

Microsoft introduces newest in-house AI chip — Maia 200 is faster than other bespoke Nvidia competitors, built on TSMC 3nm with 216GB of HBM3e

5 wks / tomshardware

Microsoft's Maia 200 AI chip claims performance lead over Amazon and Google

5 wks / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Microsoft’s latest AI chip goes head-to-head with Amazon and Google

5 wks / theverge / Tom Warren

Technical specs and performance details

Microsoft unveils Maia 200 chip to supercharge AI inference

5 wks / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Microsoft’s next-gen Maia 200 chip promises massive performance boost for AI workloads

5 wks / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

Microsoft Announces its Maia 200 AI Accelerator for Datacenters

5 wks / thurrott / Paul Thurrott

(PR) Microsoft Introduces Its Newest AI Accelerator: Maia 200

5 wks / techpowerup

Microsoft unveils new proprietary AI chip Maia 200

5 wks / techzine / Berry Zwets

Maia 200: The AI accelerator built for inference - The Official Microsoft Blog

5 wks / reddit / /u/YourMomTheRedditor

Microsoft announces powerful new chip for AI inference

5 wks / techcrunch / Lucas Ropek

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Microsoft’s latest AI chip goes head-to-head with Amazon and Google www.theverge.com/news/867670/...

5 wks / bsky / @theverge.com / theverge.com

Microsoft has announced the launch of its latest chip, the Maia 200, which the company describes as a silicon workhorse designed for scaling AI inference.

5 wks / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Windows 11’s Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse — Microsoft says some PCs might not boot

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#software #windows #microsoft #technology #repair #patching #updates #bugs #operatingsystems

This Windows 11 Update Could Seriously Screw Up Your PC

5 wks / slashgear

Microsoft has released an emergency Windows 11 update to fix crashing apps

5 wks / digitaltrends

Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse

5 wks / ycombinator

Some PCs can't boot after latest Windows 11 security update, no fix in sight —mostly affects 24H2 and 25H2 versions

5 wks / tomshardware

Microsoft probes Windows 11 boot failures tied to January security updates

5 wks / theregister / Carly Page

Microsoft’s first Windows 11 update of 2026 has been a mess

5 wks / theverge / Tom Warren

Microsoft releases emergency fix to Windows users to fix Outlook issues

5 wks / betanews / Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson

Microsoft issues cumulative fix for disastrous January security update

5 wks / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

Microsoft is investigating UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME error in Windows 11

5 wks / betanews / Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson

Windows 11’s Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse — Microsoft says some PCs might not boot

5 wks / reddit / /u/lurker_bee

Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update

5 wks / ycombinator

Microsoft Reportedly Turned Over BitLocker Encryption Keys to the FBI

Bruce Gil / gizmodo - Microsoft claims it receives about 20 requests for BitLocker keys a year.

#cybersecurity #dataprivacy #techpolicy #microsoft #government #us #law #encryption #operatingsystems #digitalprivacy

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Comparative Privacy Narratives

Microsoft Gave The FBI BitLocker Encryption Keys, Breaking from Apple Privacy Stance

6 wks / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Encryption Policy & Privacy Debate

MS confirms it will give the FBI your Windows PC data encryption key if asked

5 wks / ycombinator

Microsoft confirms it will give the FBI your Windows PC data encryption key if asked — you can thank Windows 11's forced online accounts for that

6 wks / reddit / /u/ZacB_

Surrender as a service: Microsoft unlocks BitLocker for feds

6 wks / theregister / Thomas Claburn

Microsoft Gave FBI Keys To Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw

6 wks / reddit / /u/blixt141

FBI Key Releases

Microsoft gave customers' BitLocker encryption keys to the FBI — Redmond confirms that it provides recovery keys to government agencies with valid legal orders

5 wks / tomshardware

Microsoft Gave FBI a Set of BitLocker Encryption Keys To Unlock Suspects' Laptops

6 wks / slashdot / BeauHD

Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops

6 wks / reddit / /u/rkhunter_

Microsoft Reportedly Turned Over BitLocker Encryption Keys to the FBI

6 wks / gizmodo / Bruce Gil

Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops

6 wks / ycombinator

Other Developments

DOGE May Have Misused Social Security Data, DOJ Admits

5 wks / wired / Maddy Varner, Andy Greenberg, Andrew Couts

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Microsoft has confirmed it will hand over BitLocker encryption recovery keys to the FBI. You definitely should not be accepting Microsoft’s default of storing BitLocker keys in the cloud when signing into Windows with an MS account www.theverge.com/news/8

5 wks / bsky / @tomwarren.co.uk / tomwarren.co.uk

Microsoft handed the government encryption keys for customer data

5 wks / theverge / Terrence O’Brien

Microsoft Reportedly Turned Over BitLocker Encryption Keys to the FBI

6 wks / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

Foreign governments should be wary of U.S. technology companies. gizmodo.com/microsoft-re...

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Microsoft 365 Outlook down: Microsoft breaks silence on outage

mashable - Microsoft is sharing updates on the Microsoft 365 outage that took down Outlook and other services on Thursday, Jan. 22.

#cloud #saas #enterprise #microsoft #business #azure #productivity #updates #microsoft365 #office

Microsoft confirmed today that Outlook mobile may crash or freeze when launched on iPad devices due to a coding error.

6 wks / bsky / @bleepingcomputer.com / bleepingcomputer.com

Microsoft: Outlook for iOS crashes, freezes due to coding error

6 wks / bleepingcomputer / Sergiu Gatlan

Microsoft 365 outage drags on for nearly 10 hours during bad night for North American infra

6 wks / theregister / Richard Speed

'Is Microsoft Down?' Outlook and Teams Go Dark in Widespread Outage

6 wks / cnet / Gael Cooper

"An ongoing Microsoft outage is preventing enterprise customers from accessing email inboxes, files, meetings, and other Microsoft cloud services." techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/m...

6 wks / bsky / @socialmedialab.ca / socialmedialab.ca

man i hate outages. www.cnbc.com/2026/01/22/m... but they make me so compassionate about what people are going through in Ukraine and Iran and more with everything from war to dictators suppressing or breaking their internet, electrical, etc. systems.

6 wks / bsky / @lorak.bsky.social / lorak.bsky.social

Microsoft 365 outage cause revealed

6 wks / mashable

Microsoft 365 Outlook down: Microsoft breaks silence on outage

6 wks / mashable

Microsoft 365 outage: Outlook is down. What we know.

6 wks / mashable

Microsoft 365 hit by outage, preventing access to emails and files

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Microsoft working to fix Outlook email issues

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Forza Horizon 6 launches in May

Jay Peters / theverge - Forza Horizon 6 will launch on Xbox Series X / S and PC on May 19th, Xbox and developer Playground Games announced during Thursday's Developer Direct showcase. If you preorder the Premium Edition, you can play starting May 15th. The game will come to PS5 …

#gaming #microsoft #entertainment #cars #xbox #videogames

Your next road trip is booked: Forza Horizon 6 comes this May

6 wks / digitaltrends

(PR) Playground Games Discusses the Creation of Forza Horizon 6's Setting in Japan

6 wks / techpowerup

Multiplayer Pottery Party-Brawler, Kiln, is the Xbox Developer Direct 2026 Secret Game and Double Fine’s Next Title

6 wks / wccftech / David Carcasole

“A World Where Every Road Leads to Discovery”: Forza Horizon 6 Arrives on PC, Xbox Series in May 2026, PS5 “Later This Year”

6 wks / wccftech / David Carcasole

Forza Horizon 6 will hit Xbox Series X/S and PC on May 19

6 wks / engadget / Kris Holt

Forza Horizon 6 launches in May

6 wks / theverge / Jay Peters

Microsoft updates Notepad and Paint with more AI features

Sergiu Gatlan / bleepingcomputer - Microsoft is rolling out new artificial intelligence features with the latest updates to the Notepad and Paint apps for Windows 11 Insiders. [...]

#ai #windows #microsoft #genai #apps #creativity #ux #productivity #updates

Microsoft updates Notepad and Paint with more AI features

6 wks / bleepingcomputer / Sergiu Gatlan

Microsoft Updates Notepad with Markdown Support and AI Features for Paint

6 wks / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Notepad will now tell you all the ways Microsoft has enshittified it

6 wks / theregister / Richard Speed

Microsoft's Xbox Cloud Gaming May Soon Let You Stream Your Own Games for Free - If You Watch Ads

msmash / slashdot - Microsoft appears to be preparing an ad-supported tier for Xbox Cloud Gaming that would let players stream games they've purchased digitally without needing a Game Pass subscription, according to a Windows Central report citing sources familiar with the p…

#cloud #gaming #microsoft #streaming #azure #xbox #ads #advertising

Microsoft’s free Xbox Cloud Gaming is coming soon with ads. Loading screens have appeared for feature inside the Xbox PC app. Details

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Microsoft’s free Xbox Cloud Gaming is coming soon with ads

6 wks / theverge / Tom Warren

Xbox Cloud Gaming Launching Ad-supported Tier in 2026 for Digital Game Owners

6 wks / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Xbox Cloud Gaming to debut ad tier later this year: report

6 wks / mobilesyrup / Bradly Shankar

Microsoft's Xbox Cloud Gaming May Soon Let You Stream Your Own Games for Free - If You Watch Ads

6 wks / slashdot / msmash

Xbox Cloud Gaming Advert-supported Product Tier Could be Announced Soon

6 wks / techpowerup

Reports of ad-supported Xbox game streams show Microsoft's lack of imagination

6 wks / arstechnica / Kyle Orland

Xbox Cloud Gaming Appears to Be Readying Ad-Supported Tier

6 wks / thurrott / Laurent Giret

Xbox is preparing to bring ads to cloud gaming

6 wks / mashable

Microsoft Forced to Issue Emergency Out-of-Band Windows Update

EditorDavid / slashdot - The senior editor at the blog Windows Central decries two serious Windows issues "that were not spotted by Microsoft during testing, and are so severe that the company has now issued an emergency fix to address the problems."Microsoft's first update for W…

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Black screens and Outlook glitches disrupt desktops

Windows 11 January 2026 Update Triggers Black Screens, Outlook Failures, and Emergency Patches

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Shutdown woes, remote logins fail across updates

Emergency Windows 11 Updates Are Out to Address Shutdown and Remote Connection Issues

6 wks / thurrott / Laurent Giret

Microsoft pushes out emergency fixes for Windows shutdown bug and more

6 wks / betanews / Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson

Windows 11 shutdown bug forces Microsoft into out-of-band damage control

6 wks / theregister / Carly Page

Some Windows 11 PCs can’t shut down after latest update

6 wks / mashable

A Windows 11 update broke shutdowns, here’s what you should do

6 wks / digitaltrends

PCs Refuse to Shut Down After Microsoft Patch: Security Update Ironically Breaks Basic Functionality

6 wks / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Windows 11 refuses to shut down after update

6 wks / techzine / Laura Herijgers

Microsoft pushes emergency OOB update to fix Windows 11 restart loop

6 wks / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

Microsoft issues emergency fix after a security update left some Windows 11 devices unable to shut down

6 wks / reddit / /u/dapperlemon

Microsoft Forced to Issue Emergency Out-of-Band Windows Update

6 wks / slashdot / EditorDavid

Microsoft issues emergency fix after a security update left some Windows 11 devices unable to shut down

6 wks / engadget / Jackson Chen

Microsoft releases OOB Windows updates to fix shutdown, Cloud PC bugs

6 wks / bleepingcomputer / Lawrence Abrams

Microsoft’s first Windows 11 update of 2026 stopped some computers from shuting down

6 wks / theverge / Terrence O’Brien

Microsoft forced to issue emergency out of band updates for Windows 11 after latest security patches broke PC shutdowns and sign-ins

6 wks / reddit / /u/rkhunter_

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Microsoft has released multiple emergency, out-of-band updates for Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server to fix two issues caused by the January Patch Tuesday updates.

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Musk's $134 Billion OpenAI Lawsuit Is About Control, Not Cash

Marcus Schuler / implicator - The world's richest man wants $134 billion from OpenAI for a $38 million donation. The math is absurd. That's the point. As trial approaches, unsealed documents reveal both sides have something to hide.