Regulatory Compliance
The latest Regulatory Compliance coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Microsoft Picks Marvell’s LiquidSecurity PCIe HSMs to Power Azure Cloud HSM, Delivering Hyperscale-Grade Cryptography
Microsoft has selected Marvell’s LiquidSecurity hardware security modules (HSMs) as a underpinning for Azure Cloud HSM, the companies announced August 18, 2025. The deal extends an existing...
Microsoft Taps Marvell's LiquidSecurity FIPS 140-3 Level 3 PCIe HSMs to Power Azure Cloud HSM
Microsoft has selected Marvell's LiquidSecurity family of hardware security modules to anchor its Azure Cloud HSM service, extending a years-long collaboration that already underpins Azure Key Vault...
Microsoft Copilot Actions Spark New Era of Hyperautomation with AI Agents
Microsoft has quietly reshaped the automation landscape with the introduction of Copilot Actions, a set of AI-driven capabilities designed to eliminate repetitive drudgery across its Office suite....
Microsoft Opens External Investigation into Claims Azure Stored Millions of Intercepted Palestinian Calls
Microsoft has formally commissioned an external investigation after a series of investigative reports alleged that Israel’s elite signals intelligence unit, Unit 8200, used Microsoft Azure to...
HGF’s Microsoft Fabric Gamble: How One IP Firm Is Navigating the P-SKU Sunset and Building a Governed Data Estate
HGF, one of Europe’s largest intellectual property firms, has engaged Simpson Associates to modernize its entire data estate on Microsoft Fabric and deploy Power BI dashboards—a move that will...
Microsoft Issues 60-Day Ultimatum: Windows 10 22H2 Dies October 14, Consumer ESU Brings One-Time Lifeline
Microsoft has drawn a bright red line on the calendar: October 14, 2025. That’s the day Windows 10 version 22H2 — still running on hundreds of millions of devices — stops receiving security...
45% of Employees Use Banned AI Tools: A Coordinated HR-IT Playbook to Reclaim Control
Forty-five percent. That’s the share of workers who, by their own admission, have used unapproved artificial intelligence tools on the job, according to multiple industry surveys. It’s a...
Leading GenAI Browser Assistants Found Hoovering Up Social Security Numbers, Medical Data Without Consent
A sweeping new audit of the most popular generative AI browser assistants reveals that several widely used extensions silently capture and transmit highly sensitive information from ordinary web...
Fundamental Research Labs Lands $33M for AI Spreadsheet Agent Shortcut That Beats Human Analysts
Fundamental Research Labs, an MIT spin-out that originally built AI agents to play Minecraft, has raised $33 million in Series A funding to scale its autonomous spreadsheet agent, Shortcut. The tool...
JSON-Driven AI Video Meets Microsoft Copilot: The New Playbook for Finance
A fresh wave of free, JSON-driven AI video tools is quietly rewriting the rules of content production in financial services—and Microsoft has planted its flag firmly in the middle of the shift....
Microsoft’s AI Permitting Tool Escapes the Garage to Slash Clean Energy Red Tape
A prototype that began life inside a Microsoft hackathon is now a full-fledged commercial workstream, targeting one of the clean energy transition’s most stubborn bottlenecks: the painfully slow,...
Microsoft Unveils Copilot Studio Consumption Meter: $0.01/Message, Graph Grounding at 30 Messages, and Mandatory DLP Updates
Starting January 2025, Microsoft flipped the switch on a consumption-based billing model for Copilot Studio agents, charging $0.01 per message while weighting different actions dramatically—up to...