Tag: Microsoft
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Slashdot: Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills
Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/02/14/2320203/microsoft-study-finds-relying-on-ai-kills-your-critical-thinking-skills Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: A recent study by Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University highlights the negative impact of reliance on AI tools on critical thinking skills among knowledge workers. As confidence in AI’s capabilities…
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Microsoft Security Blog: Securing DeepSeek and other AI systems with Microsoft Security
Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/02/13/securing-deepseek-and-other-ai-systems-with-microsoft-security/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Securing DeepSeek and other AI systems with Microsoft Security Feedly Summary: Microsoft Security provides cyberthreat protection, posture management, data security, compliance and governance, and AI safety, to secure AI applications that you build and use. These capabilities can also be used to secure and govern AI apps…
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The Register: US lawmakers press Trump admin to oppose UK’s order for Apple iCloud backdoor
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/13/us_demand_uk_apple_backdoor_close/ Source: The Register Title: US lawmakers press Trump admin to oppose UK’s order for Apple iCloud backdoor Feedly Summary: Senator, Congressman tell DNI to threaten infosec agreements if Blighty won’t back down US lawmakers want newly confirmed Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to back up her tough talk on backdoors. They’re…
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The Register: The Feds want developers to stop coding ‘unforgivable’ buffer overflow vulns
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/13/fbi_cisa_unforgivable_buffer_overflow/ Source: The Register Title: The Feds want developers to stop coding ‘unforgivable’ buffer overflow vulns Feedly Summary: FBI, CISA harrumph at Microsoft and VMware in call for coders to quit baking avoidable defects into stuff US authorities have labelled buffer overflow vulnerabilities “unforgivable defects”, pointed to the presence of the holes in…
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Slashdot: AI Summaries Turn Real News Into Nonsense, BBC Finds
Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/02/12/2139233/ai-summaries-turn-real-news-into-nonsense-bbc-finds?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Summaries Turn Real News Into Nonsense, BBC Finds Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The BBC study reveals that AI news summarization tools, including prominent models from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google, frequently generate inaccurate or misleading summaries, with 51% of responses showing significant issues. The study…
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Microsoft Security Blog: The BadPilot campaign: Seashell Blizzard subgroup conducts multiyear global access operation
Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/02/12/the-badpilot-campaign-seashell-blizzard-subgroup-conducts-multiyear-global-access-operation/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: The BadPilot campaign: Seashell Blizzard subgroup conducts multiyear global access operation Feedly Summary: Microsoft is publishing for the first time our research into a subgroup within the Russian state actor Seashell Blizzard and its multiyear initial access operation, tracked by Microsoft Threat Intelligence as the “BadPilot campaign”.…
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The Register: Russia’s Sandworm caught snarfing credentials, data from American and Brit orgs
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/russias_sandworm_caught_stealing_credentials/ Source: The Register Title: Russia’s Sandworm caught snarfing credentials, data from American and Brit orgs Feedly Summary: ‘Near-global’ initial access campaign active since 2021 An initial-access subgroup of Russia’s Sandworm last year wriggled its way into networks within the US, UK, Canada and Australia, stealing credentials and data from “a limited number…