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Inside Microsoft's 'Most-Wanted' Campaign to Poach Meta AI Stars with Million-Dollar Packages
Microsoft has escalated the artificial intelligence talent war into a multimillion-dollar bidding battle, deploying an internal "most-wanted" spreadsheet, a proprietary compensation modeler, and...
Arkane Union Demands Microsoft Cut Israeli Military Cloud Ties, Citing 'Genocide' Complicity
Unionized workers at Arkane Studios, the Microsoft-owned game developer behind titles like Deathloop and Dishonored, issued a blistering public demand this week: parent company Microsoft must...
CVE-2025-53723: Hyper‑V Truncation Bug Hands Local Attackers SYSTEM Control
Microsoft has published an advisory for a new elevation‑of‑privilege vulnerability in Windows Hyper‑V that could allow an authorized attacker on an affected host to escalate privileges and take...
Patch Now: Windows CDPSvc Use-After-Free Bug (CVE-2025-48000) Grants Attackers SYSTEM Privileges
A use-after-free vulnerability in the Windows Connected Devices Platform Service (CDPSvc) lets any local authenticated attacker gain full SYSTEM control—and the fix landed in Microsoft’s July...
CVE-2025-50171: Critical RDP Flaw Allows Spoofing—Patch Now, Warns Microsoft
Microsoft has published details of a new vulnerability in its Remote Desktop Services that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to perform spoofing attacks over a network. Tracked as...
Visio Under Fire: Microsoft Releases Patch for Use-After-Free Vulnerability CVE-2025-53730
Microsoft has disclosed a new use-after-free vulnerability in Visio, tracked as CVE-2025-53730, that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code locally when a user opens a maliciously crafted...
GitHub CEO Exits as Microsoft Folds Platform into CoreAI, Heightening Developer Concerns
Thomas Dohmke, the chief executive who steered GitHub through its AI-powered renaissance, announced his resignation on August 11, 2025, setting off a seismic restructuring that will dissolve the...
Microsoft Drives GitHub Deeper Into AI Unit After CEO Resigns, Raising Governance Concerns
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke is stepping down, and instead of appointing a new leader, Microsoft will fold the code-hosting platform more directly into its CoreAI division, ending the relative...
Microsoft’s Actual FY2024 Earnings: $171B Gross Profit, Not $52B — Here’s What Changes
An automated competitor analysis from Benzinga recently painted a misleading picture of Microsoft’s financial might, understating the company’s gross profit by over $118 billion and its EBITDA by...
Aramco AI Blitz Exposes Carbon Accounting Gap as Ex-Microsoft Staff Demand Transparency
As Saudi Aramco throws a supercomputer fueled by Nvidia GPUs at the problem of finding oil faster and cheaper, a cadre of former Microsoft staff are demanding that the company—and all cloud...
Market’s AI Obsession Faces a Reckoning as NVIDIA’s Customer Risk and Tesla’s Slump Expose Fault Lines
NVIDIA’s latest quarterly results delivered staggering data center revenue growth, but the fine print revealed a fragile foundation: just a handful of cloud giants accounted for an outsized share...
Microsoft Pulls the Plug on Windows 11 23H2: Consumer Deadline Looms November 11, 2025
Microsoft has drawn a hard line in the sand: Windows 11 version 23H2 will stop receiving security patches and quality updates for Home and Pro editions on November 11, 2025. The announcement,...