Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft unveils the $349 Windows 365 Link, a mini PC companion for its Windows 365 cloud service that runs a small Windows-based OS, shipping in April 2025 — Microsoft is planning to launch a new purpose-built miniature PC for its Windows 365 cloud service next year.
Microsoft plans to bring the “full capabilities” of Windows 11 to the Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S in December in public preview (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Microsoft plans to bring the “full capabilities” of Windows 11 to the Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S in December in public preview — If Windows in mixed reality sounds like your idea of a good time, rejoice. Microsoft said on Tuesday at Microsoft Ignite 2024 it’s bringing the …
Microsoft announces Zero Day Quest, a new Black Hat-like hacking event that it says will be the largest of its kind, at its Redmond headquarters in 2025 (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft announces Zero Day Quest, a new Black Hat-like hacking event that it says will be the largest of its kind, at its Redmond headquarters in 2025 — Microsoft is creating an in-person hacking event, Zero Day Quest, which it says will be the largest of its kind.
Microsoft and Atom Computing plan to ship quantum computers with 1,000+ physical qubits to enterprises in 2025 and detail a 24 entangled logical qubits record (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Microsoft and Atom Computing plan to ship quantum computers with 1,000+ physical qubits to enterprises in 2025 and detail a 24 entangled logical qubits record — Quantum computing is getting there. After years of slow but steady development to create a useful quantum computer …
Microsoft unveils new custom chips: the Azure Boost DPU, its first data processing unit, and the Azure Integrated HSM, a new in-house cloud security chip (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Microsoft unveils new custom chips: the Azure Boost DPU, its first data processing unit, and the Azure Integrated HSM, a new in-house cloud security chip — Microsoft on Tuesday revealed new custom chips aimed at powering workloads on its Azure cloud and bolstering security …
Microsoft unveils a new AI interpreter in Teams that can simulate voices and offer near-real-time voice interpretation in nine languages, launching in preview (Danielle Abril/Washington Post)
Danielle Abril / Washington Post:
Microsoft unveils a new AI interpreter in Teams that can simulate voices and offer near-real-time voice interpretation in nine languages, launching in preview — A new AI-powered interpreter is expected to simulate speakers’ voices in different languages during Microsoft Teams meetings.
Instagram says it is testing letting users reset the algorithmic suggestions that power Feed, Reels, and Explore, and the update “will soon roll out globally” (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
Karissa Bell / Engadget:
Instagram says it is testing letting users reset the algorithmic suggestions that power Feed, Reels, and Explore, and the update “will soon roll out globally” — The app will offer users a chance for a “fresh start” with the algorithm. — If your Instagram recommendations …
The UK CMA clears Google’s partnership with Anthropic, finding that Google has not gained “material influence” over the AI startup, following a formal probe (Upmanyu Trivedi/Bloomberg)
Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg:
The UK CMA clears Google’s partnership with Anthropic, finding that Google has not gained “material influence” over the AI startup, following a formal probe — – Google pledged to invest $2 billion into the startup last year — Investment in Anthropic avoids full blown CMA investigation
Sources: US officials are racing to deliver billions in CHIPS Act funding to Intel and others before Biden leaves office; nearly $30B is tied up in negotiations (Asa Fitch/Wall Street Journal)
Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: US officials are racing to deliver billions in CHIPS Act funding to Intel and others before Biden leaves office; nearly $30B is tied up in negotiations — Government officials and chip makers like Intel are in talks over billions of dollars aimed at growing domestic manufacturing
Super Micro hires BDO USA as its new independent auditor and files a plan to come into compliance with Nasdaq listing requirements; SMCI jumps 29%+ pre-market (Carmen Reinicke/Bloomberg)
Carmen Reinicke / Bloomberg:
Super Micro hires BDO USA as its new independent auditor and files a plan to come into compliance with Nasdaq listing requirements; SMCI jumps 29%+ pre-market — – The company filed a plan to stay listed on the Nasdaq — Super Micro said it appointed a new auditor in press release