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Google implements new enhanced security features for users
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Google, Open AI others to watermark AI content for safety

The White House has accepted voluntary agreements from leading AI startups, including OpenAI, Alphabet, and Meta Platforms, to implement safety safeguards such as watermarking AI-generated content. Microsoft, together with Anthropic, Inflection, Amazon, and OpenAI, made a commitment to rigorously test systems before making them available as well as to share knowledge about ways to lower […]

UK regulator okays Microsoft’s acquisition of ‘call of duty’
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FTC withdraws merger-activision deal against Microsoft

The US Federal Trade Commission has withdrawn its case seeking to block Microsoft’s colossal $69 billion takeover of gaming giant Activision. The agency had been pursuing a two-pronged approach to halt the proposed acquisition, but its efforts hit roadblocks at every turn. Last week, the district court denied the FTC’s request for a preliminary injunction, […]

Microsoft launches Bing Chat Enterprise
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Microsoft launches Bing Chat Enterprise

Microsoft has launched Bing Chat Enterprise, a version of Bing Chat with business-focused data privacy and governance controls “We’ve heard from many corporate customers who are excited to empower their organizations with powerful new AI tools but are concerned that their companies’ data will not be protected,” Frank X. Shaw, Microsoft’s chief communications officer, wrote […]

Microsoft signs deal to keep Call of Duty on Playstation
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Microsoft signs deal to keep Call of Duty on Playstation

Microsoft has revealed that it and Sony have announced that it retains Call of Duty on PlayStation. The head of Xbox, Phil Spencer made the announcement on Sunday. In an effort to refute speculations that it may make Call of Duty an Xbox/PC exclusive after acquiring publisher Activision Blizzard, Microsoft already secured a similar agreement […]

Microsoft proposes relocation of Chinese staff over US-China tensions
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Microsoft discloses Chinese hackers exploited flaw in system

Microsoft has disclosed that Chinese hackers stole emails from clients including government agencies by exploiting a flaw in its system. The tech giant said that Chinese hackers were able to carry out their cyberespionage campaign because to “a validation error in Microsoft code” in a blog post that was published on Friday. The blog offered […]

Chinese hackers hack US Commerce chief's emails
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Chinese hackers hack US Commerce chief’s emails

Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, Gina Raimondo, has become one of several high-ranking Americans whose emails were compromised earlier this year by hackers that Microsoft claims is located in China. In a meeting with Wang Yi on Thursday in Jakarta, Secretary of State Antony Blinken made it clear that any action that targets […]

US, China demand pushes oil prices beyond $83pb
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Why Microsoft claimed China hacked US government emails

Microsoft has reported that hackers based in China have gotten access to the email accounts of about 25 organizations, including governmental organizations. According to BBC, The software giant has not specified the locations of the government organizations. The secretary of commerce, Gina Raimondo, was reportedly one of those affected by the breach. According to a US Department […]

Amazon, Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft meet EU over gatekeeper status
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Amazon, Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft meet EU over gatekeeper status

Alex Omenye Alphabet’s Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft have alerted the European Commission that they qualify as gatekeepers, according to EU industry director Thierry Breton. Under the new EU IT regulations, companies with a market capitalization of 75 billion euros and more than 45 million monthly active users are regarded as gatekeepers offering a […]

Russia-sponsored hackers attack Microsoft systems again - Company
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US fines Microsoft $20m over child data privacy

Officials have stated that Microsoft would pay $20 million to resolve government claims that it unlawfully obtained personal data from children. who signed up on its Xbox video game console. The Punch reported that according to the Federal Trade Commission, between 2015 and 2020, Microsoft allegedly acquired and stored personal information from children under the age […]

Microsoft proposes relocation of Chinese staff over US-China tensions
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Microsoft launches first data center in Poland

Microsoft on Wednesday announced the opening of its latest reliable cloud region in Poland, which is the first of its kind in Central and Eastern Europe. This was disclosed in a statement titled “Microsoft launches its first datacenter region in Poland, bringing new opportunities to develop the digital economy” on the company’s website According to […]

Microsoft proposes relocation of Chinese staff over US-China tensions
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AI gets attention of top tech execs – Report

The chief executives of tech giants, Google and Microsoft have since Monday continually mentioned the trending  hyped technology, AI, which has just recently gained more attention than before. According to the transcript from the conference reviewed by Reuters, the tech executives repeated phrases like “AI,” “generative AI,” or “machine learning” for about two to six […]

FG halts planned 5% tax on GSM calls, SMS
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ABC, Microsoft seek data protection bill passage

The American Business Council and American multinational technology corporation, Microsoft Corporation have sought the quick passage of the data protection bill. They made the plea at the workshop on cross-border data flows and their impacts on the Nigerian economy. The event was jointly organised by ABC and Microsoft. Cross-border data protection laws are made to […]