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Microsoft confirms auth issues affecting Microsoft 365 users
Microsoft is investigating an ongoing incident that is causing users to experience errors with some Microsoft 365 authentication features. As the company revealed earlier today in an incident alert published in the admin center, users may experience errors during self-service password resets and when viewing or registering authentication methods in MySignIns, while admins may be unable to add multi-factor authentication (MFA) sign-in methods to some…
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Global cloud spending might be booming, but AWS is trailing Microsoft and Google
Global cloud infrastructure spending is booming, according to new research from Canalys, reaching $90.9 billion in the first quarter of 2025. The spending surge marks a 21% year-on-year increase, the consultancy found, with widespread AI adoption programs playing a key role in recent growth. “Large-scale investment in both cloud and AI infrastructure remains a defining theme of the market in…
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Password-spraying attacks target 80,000 Microsoft Entra ID accounts
Hackers have been using the TeamFiltration pentesting framework to target more than 80,000 Microsoft Entra ID accounts at hundreds of organizations worldwide. The campaign started last December and has successfully hijacked multiple accounts, say researchers at cybersecurity company Proofpoint, who attribute the activity to a threat actor called UNK_SneakyStrike. According to the researchers, the peak of the campaign happened on January…
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First-ever zero-click attack targets Microsoft 365 Copilot
“This is sheer weaponization of AI’s core strength, contextual understanding, against itself,” said Abhishek Anant Garg, an analyst at QKS Group. “Enterprise security struggles because it’s built for malicious code, not language that looks harmless but acts like a weapon.” This kind of vulnerability represents a significant threat, warned Nader Henein, VP Analyst at Gartner. “Given the complexity of AI…
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What is Relight in Microsoft Photos, and how to use it? AI image editing feature for Windows 11 explained.
Relight in the Photos app uses AI-powered lighting controls to correct poorly lit portraits by adding and positioning up to three customizable light sources, adjusting color, brightness, focus, and intensity on the fly. The feature offers quick-access presets like Golden Hour for warm, natural light or Cyberpunk for dramatic neon tones, and you can effortlessly apply creative lighting effects without…
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Microsoft Excel Essential Skills Test
Whether you’ve landed a job interview for a role that requires fundamental Microsoft Excel skills or you’re looking to solve a real-world problem, take the How-To Geek Beginner Excel Test to double-check that you know the nuts and bolts of the popular spreadsheet software. This is the first of a three-part series. The second (intermediate) and third (advanced) will be…
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Is Microsoft really axing Windows 10? Here’s what you need to know – Computerworld
The Windows 10 PCs getting left behind Let’s consider things from Microsoft’s perspective: Windows 10 was released on July 29, 2015, which means the operating system has had just over a decade of support. That same year, Google released the Nexus 6P with Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Google stopped supporting both the Nexus 6P and that version of Android back in…
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Microsoft and Asus announce two Xbox Ally handhelds with new Xbox full-screen experience
Microsoft and Asus have been working together over the past year to create not one, but two new ROG Xbox Ally handhelds. Both of these Xbox Ally devices, part of the Project Kennan effort I reported on earlier this year, include a new full-screen Xbox experience on Windows that’s designed to be more handheld-friendly and hide away the complexity of…
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ROG Xbox Ally: Everything we know about the two new gaming handhelds from Microsoft and Asus
Hot on the heels of the Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox is joining the handheld party with the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X. You may also know this as the Asus ROG Ally 2 or Project Kennan, and Microsoft took the chance at the Xbox Games Showcase to show it off ahead of its fall 2025 launch (price…
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This is how Microsoft is combining Windows and Xbox for handheld PCs
Microsoft and Asus have just announced two ROG Xbox Ally devices that include a new full-screen Xbox experience for handhelds. After promising to combine “the best of Xbox and Windows together” for handhelds earlier this year, Microsoft is now revealing exactly how it is overhauling the Xbox app, Game Bar, and Windows itself to better compete with SteamOS. Microsoft has…
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