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 (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)

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 …

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 …

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 …