Microsoft extorts users for $30 if they do not want to move to Windows 11 for another year.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-wants-30-if-you-want-to-delay-windows-11-switch/

#microsoft #windows10 #windows11 #win11

#Google against #Microsoft 🤣

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/28/microsoft-calls-out-google-for-shadow-campaigns-in-europe-in-cloud.html

#news #economy #politics

Microsoft says Google is running 'shadow campaigns' in Europe to influence regulators

Microsoft suggested Google has a pattern of funding organizations with the mission of discrediting the software company with regulators.

^{Jordan Novet (CNBC)}

Using #Azure services? I hope you didn’t need those security logs because #Microsoft lost them.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-warns-it-lost-some-customers-security-logs-for-a-month/

#infosec #security #cybersecurity

Stop Using Windows

#Microsoft #Windows
RT: https://noauthority.social/users/Dan_Ramos/statuses/113368869442507069

Dan Ramos 🇵🇹🇺🇸 :verified: (@Dan_Ramos@noauthority.social)

Attached: 1 image Stop using Windows, people. 🤣

^NAS

If you want some help deciding how to stop using Microsoft Windows, there are many people on the #fediverse and #nostr who would be happy to give you advice.

I recommend Linux Mint.

Also, I refurbished and sell computers with the option of having Linux pre-installed. Can ship anywhere in the United States.

Feel free to DM me if you have any questions.

#Microsoft #Windows #Linux #LinuxMint

This is too scary, just in time for Halloween. Too bad it is for real...

Records everything you do and click on websites that have this enabled.

https://clarity.microsoft.com

#microsoft #clarity #privacy

Microsoft Clarity - Free Heatmaps & Session Recordings

Clarity is a free user behavior analytics tool that helps you understand how users are interacting with your website through session replays and heatmaps.

^{Microsoft Clarity}

I dunno about this one #Microsoft. Call of Duty is not a game that I would subscribe to #GamePass for. Call of Duty is a game that I play for a long while. And if you look at my Xbox, PSN and Steam playtimes, I sink a lot of time into this game.

My guess is that other Call of Duty players are the same. This is a game that people play without switching to a different game for long periods of time. This is not a game to bet GamePass on.

The economics don’t work either. $20/mon for GamePass subscription or flat payment of $70? Call of Duty is very consistent with a release per year. If I subscribed to GamePass for a year, it’s $240 vs $70 flat payment to own the game.

GamePass is an all you can eat buffet of gaming. It works for testing games and/or playing smaller games. Big releases like Call of Duty, maybe not.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/call-of-duty-microsoft-video-game-pass-streaming-service-fa115141

#gaming #videogames #CallOfDuty

#Microsoft pays $10 million to kill human #journalism

Source: https://www.engadget.com/ai/openai-and-microsoft-are-funding-10-million-in-grants-for-ai-powered-journalism-193042213.html

#ai #technology #news #future #finance #economy #jobs #work #Problem #Press #information #money #humanity #change

#Microsoft tells #customers it lost log data for key #security products

Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-tells-customers-it-lost-log-data-key-security-products-2024-10

Between September 2 and September 19, "a bug in one of Microsoft's internal monitoring agents resulted in a malfunction in some of the agents when uploading log data to our internal logging platform," Microsoft wrote in the #customer notification.

There's no evidence of cyberattacks stemming from this incident.

#cloud #fail #cybersecurity #news #service #problem #wndows #software #economy

Microsoft tells customers it lost log data for key security products

Microsoft told customers that a software bug caused inconsistent collection of log data for key cloud services.

^{Ashley Stewart (Insider)}

“Businesses often monetize through data collection, leading to privacy compromises. However, it’s possible to build AI systems that prioritize user privacy, but these would likely require different business models—perhaps focusing on subscription fees or donations rather than data exploitation.

So, the privacy trade-off is more about choices in the current economic landscape than a fundamental requirement.”

– Microsoft Copilot

#AI #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming #microsoft #copilot

Microsoft: Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2024
Microsoft has a 114 page PDF report covering the evolving cyber threat landscape: threat actors and their motivations, nation state threats, ransomware, fraud, identity and social engineering, and DDoS attacks. There's also Microsoft-specific recommendations as part of Secure Future Initiative. Of course, no annual threat intel report would be complete without artificial intelligence ✨. From AI-enabled cyber attacks to influence operations, and god forbid using AI for cybersecurity. There's a section on how governments and industry are approaching and advancing global AI security. This report also includes perspectives from different countries.

#microsoft #securefutureinitiative #AI #cyberespionage #ransomware #digitaldefensereport #threatintel #cybersecurity #infosec #cyberthreatintelligence #CTI

Oh, this? Just Microsoft Copilot bullshitting about how to get started with Kitten¹.

(Hint: there is no `kitten init` command and you do not `npm install kitten`. In fact, kitten is a completely different npm module and isn’t, but could very well have been, malware.)

¹ https://kitten.small-web.org

#AI #LLM #microsoft #copilot #kitten #bullshit #hallucination

DATA VAMPIRES is a special four-part series digging into the costs of hyperscale data centers and why tech billionaires are desperate to build so many more.

In Part 1, we explore where “the cloud” came from and how it expands the power of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/241_data_vampires_going_hyperscale_episode_1

#tech #ai #datacenters #microsoft #amazon #google #techwontsaveus

#WTF is #Asphalt8 (Airborne) and why must #Microsoft stop an #Upgrade for this #game?

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-warns-of-windows-11-24h2-gaming-performance-issues/

"After installing #Windows 11, version #24H2, you might face issues with Asphalt 8 (Airborne). The game might stop responding with an exception while you are using or exiting it, and you will have to restart the game to recover from the exception," Microsoft said.

#software #bug #gaming #gamer #windows #windows11 #fail #news

Yet another technology that was hyped as changing everything is now being quietly discontinued:

"Microsoft has confirmed it's discontinuing its HoloLens line of mixed reality headsets, with production now ceased and software support on HoloLens 2 ending in December 2027."

https://www.eurogamer.net/microsofts-hololens-mixed-reality-headset-officially-being-discontinued

#Microsoft #HoloLens #AR #AugmentedReality #MixedReality

Microsoft's HoloLens mixed reality headset officially being discontinued

Microsoft has confirmed it's discontinuing its HoloLens line of mixed reality headsets, with production now ceased and …

^{Matt Wales (Eurogamer.net)}