Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses(bleepingcomputer.com)

464 points by speckx 11 months ago | 291 comments

News report that Microsoft Azure mitigated a record 15.72 Tbps DDoS attack from the Aisuru botnet using about 500,000 IP addresses.

Introducing Copilot+ PCs(blogs.microsoft.com)

329 points by skilled 2 years ago | 460 comments

Official Microsoft Blog post from May 20, 2024 by Yusuf Mehdi announcing Copilot+ PCs, a new category of AI-focused Windows PCs.

Excel Labs, a Microsoft Garage Project(appsource.microsoft.com)

76 points by wlkr 3 years ago | 30 comments

Microsoft Office renamed to "Microsoft 365 Copilot app"(office.com)

64 points by LeoPanthera 9 months ago | 45 comments

Our commitment to Windows quality(blogs.windows.com)

567 points by hadrien01 7 months ago | 1034 comments

A Windows Insider blog post by Pavan Davuluri at Microsoft about the company's commitment to improving Windows quality.

Regular expression functions in Excel(insider.microsoft365.com)

123 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 84 comments

Phi-4: Microsoft's Newest Small Language Model Specializing in Complex Reasoning(techcommunity.microsoft.com)

399 points by lappa 1 year ago | 136 comments

Microsoft AI Platform Blog post announcing Phi-4, a small language model specializing in complex reasoning.

DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database(nikolasgoebel.com)

353 points by tosh 2 years ago | 115 comments

A blog post by Nikolas Göbel discussing how DuckDB can act as a database without storing data itself, querying external data sources directly.

Backups Aren't Simple(filipovski.net)

318 points by afilipovski 1 month ago | 190 comments

Personal blog post by Aleksandar Filipovski arguing that backups are more complex than they seem, starting from a family story of losing photos to a reformatted drive.

Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas(arstechnica.com)

365 points by OptionOfT 10 months ago | 263 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that Microsoft cut its AI product sales growth targets after salespeople missed quotas amid weak enterprise demand for AI agents.

I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records(blog.faav.net)

287 points by luispa 28 days ago | 120 comments

A security researcher's blog post describing a Microsoft internal analytics service flaw where unchecked token signatures allowed admin access to query 17.3 trillion records.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.