Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg:
As the US and allies try to sanction Evil Corp., the UK NCA says the ransomware gang conducted cyberattacks and espionage ops on NATO allies on Kremlin orders — – Evil Corp. cybercrime crew conducted espionage on NATO members — UK, US and Australia issued sanctions against alleged hackers
Microsoft’s new Windows 11 update adds generative AI-based fill and erase options to Paint and up to 8x picture resolution upscaling to Photos, for Copilot+ PCs (Devindra Hardawar/Engadget)
Devindra Hardawar / Engadget:
Microsoft’s new Windows 11 update adds generative AI-based fill and erase options to Paint and up to 8x picture resolution upscaling to Photos, for Copilot+ PCs — It starts rolling out today, and Copilot+ PC owners can test new features soon. — Now that we’re a few years …
Microsoft unveils Copilot Vision, which analyzes text and images on webpages, Think Deeper, which reasons through more complex problems, Copilot Voice, and more (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Microsoft unveils Copilot Vision, which analyzes text and images on webpages, Think Deeper, which reasons through more complex problems, Copilot Voice, and more — A week after announcing a wave of updates for its enterprise suite of Copilot AI-powered products, Microsoft is launching …
Microsoft is discontinuing HoloLens 2, with no replacement, and will only push “updates to address critical security issues and software regressions” until 2028 (David Heaney/UploadVR)
David Heaney / UploadVR:
Microsoft is discontinuing HoloLens 2, with no replacement, and will only push “updates to address critical security issues and software regressions” until 2028 — HoloLens 2 production has ended. — Microsoft confirmed to UploadVR that it told its customers and partners …
Microsoft to pay pubs for content used by Copilot Daily, a new assistant providing a spoken summary of current events, signs up Reuters, FT, Axel Springer, more (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Microsoft to pay pubs for content used by Copilot Daily, a new assistant providing a spoken summary of current events, signs up Reuters, FT, Axel Springer, more — Microsoft is going to pay publishers for content that will appear in Copilot Daily, a new feature of its Copilot AI-powered, cross-platform assistant.
Microsoft will start rolling out Click to Do, similar to Google’s Circle to Search, and AI-enhanced search features for Windows on Copilot+ PCs next month (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft will start rolling out Click to Do, similar to Google’s Circle to Search, and AI-enhanced search features for Windows on Copilot+ PCs next month — Microsoft is using AI models to greatly improve Windows search on its new Copilot Plus PCs, including the addition of a new Click …
Microsoft begins rolling out Bing Generative Search, its answer to Google’s AI Overviews, to users in the US (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Microsoft begins rolling out Bing Generative Search, its answer to Google’s AI Overviews, to users in the US — Microsoft has launched its answer to Google’s AI-powered search experiences: Bing Generative Search. — On the heels of a pilot in July, Bing Generative Search …
Google announces new Chromebook models with Samsung and Lenovo, and adds AI features to ChromeOS; Samsung’s Galaxy Chromebook Plus gets a new Quick Insert key (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google announces new Chromebook models with Samsung and Lenovo, and adds AI features to ChromeOS; Samsung’s Galaxy Chromebook Plus gets a new Quick Insert key — Google is announcing new Chromebook models today with Samsung and Lenovo. With Samsung’s Galaxy Chromebook Plus model in particular …
Sonos CEO Patrick Spence announces a plan to understand its software and corporate culture missteps and rebuild trust with customers, after the app debacle (Chris Welch/The Verge)
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Sonos CEO Patrick Spence announces a plan to understand its software and corporate culture missteps and rebuild trust with customers, after the app debacle — The Sonos app debacle will go down as an all-time tech industry blunder, but now the company is taking steps to turn the page.
Cloud backup startup Eon, founded in January 2024, emerges from stealth with a Sequoia-led $20M seed, a $30M Series A, a $77M Series B, and a $750M valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Cloud backup startup Eon, founded in January 2024, emerges from stealth with a Sequoia-led $20M seed, a $30M Series A, a $77M Series B, and a $750M valuation — A team of founders who sold their last company to Amazon to build a new business within AWS is setting out to reinvent the tricky business …